Example sentences of "[adj] in [noun sg] than [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , the distinction between health and social care is proving much less clear in practice than in concept , and long running boundary disputes between agencies could erupt unless the problem is considered specifically in joint planning forums . |
| 2 | IG Metall , which represents the striking workers , is more interested in principle than in money . |
| 3 | They , the true defenders of orthodoxy , were being pushed aside by unscrupulous and ambitious young men who were more interested in power than in principle . |
| 4 | This pattern holds for nitrate , which accounts for most of the nitrogen in the bay , and especially for nitrogen from ammonia , which , though a small part of the total , is far more prevalent in rainwater than in run-off . |
| 5 | This makes very good sense , for in the wild there is much less food available during the winter , and the plants which can be found are less nutritious in winter than in summer . |
| 6 | The idea of devoting one 's career to helping the other fellow on his way , rejoicing , may be ennobling but it is sometimes more evident in theory than in practice . |
| 7 | The role of the friendly critic was another area which was more complicated in reality than in theory . |
| 8 | However , the evidence also suggests that information spillovers are more important in research than in development , and that a firm has to do quite a lot of its own R&D , if it is to be able to absorb information spillovers effectively . |
| 9 | Phenol is more soluble in alkali than in water . |
| 10 | The choice between these two often depends on the type of experiment ; more successful techniques for velocity measurement have been developed for air than for water , whilst flow visualization is generally more successful in water than in air . |
| 11 | The 91 patients in Soutar & Wilson 's study were asked their opinion about the effect of noise on sleep and of the 28 who admitted that sleep was more difficult in hospital than at home , only 9 said it was because of the noise . |
| 12 | And one which found that its ambitious expansion plans were rather more difficult in practice than on paper . |