Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problems the fathers faced were more related to the nature and person of Christ and his relationship to the triune Godhead than the meaning of the cross . |
| 2 | During 1990 the government attempted to deal with the economic consequences of massive Soviet immigration , which presented a more serious threat to the Israeli economy than the Gulf crisis . |
| 3 | According to Labour 's own figures , in 1987 the Transport and General Workers Union gave more money to the Labour party than the whole of industry gave to the Tory party , and it gets votes for it , even on the leadership of the party . |
| 4 | More of a knock at the back door than a storming of the castle gate perhaps , but something is going right for Jon Solly . |
| 5 | Although the country 's economy suffered intolerable strains as a result of the war , hardship was much greater in the public domain than the private . |
| 6 | Far more AB ( upper middle class ) people read the Daily Mirror than The Times or Guardian even though they were a tiny proportion of the total Mirror readership . |
| 7 | The ‘ enlightened classes ’ failed to appear and respond to a creed forged in their supposed interests : the propaganda of luces could no more create in Spain a bourgeoisie in the French image than the propaganda of free trade , half a century later , could create an English middle class . |
| 8 | A leading physicist , Professor Freeman Dyson , has put forward the possibility that the depletion of oxygen in the oceans presents an even more serious threat to the global ecology than the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere . |
| 9 | … the position of upper-class housewife may be much more highly valued in the overall structure than the position of lower-class housewife . |
| 10 | In essence it becomes a matrix of connected businesses that normally have much weaker direction from the corporate centre than a Stage 2 company . |
| 11 | That is why it is so terrible that what we offer , by and large , is a limited liability Christianity which is little more than a modern social convenience and more convenient to the white man than the black . |
| 12 | The recurrent descriptions of bishops restoring their cities may be inspired more by notions of the ideal bishop than the reality of an individual 's activities . |
| 13 | But no sooner had she switched on the electric kettle than the phone began to ring . |
| 14 | It is often more difficult to assess the " shape " of the receiving organisation than the shape of what is being received . |
| 15 | ‘ This would be more beneficial to the company and to the national economy than the audit . ’ |
| 16 | That too is a problem , but I must say that we were much better prepared for the Inter-Continental Cup than a couple of other tournaments — that only makes our failure to qualify more disappointing . |
| 17 | Grain has always been important as an indicator of national well-being and prosperity , with bulging granaries more important to security in the long term than the missile silos which often share the same farmlands . |
| 18 | Anxiety here was generated by the fact that William was a Calvinist , hardly more attractive as head of the Anglican Church than a Catholic . |
| 19 | In reality , however , it might be easier to find the £12,230 capital to finance the outdoor venture than the £88,000 for the alternative indoor housing . |
| 20 | As we have seen , the result was the emergence of social groupings resembling more the rigid hierarchy of the primal horde than the fluid community of the hunting band . |
| 21 | The Board of Admiralty had been well aware since 1955 that the US Navy 's Polaris-armed submarines might become the capital ships of the future , and might prove to be more invulnerable as mobile launch platforms for the nuclear deterrent than the US Air Force 's Skybolt , if it too was successfully developed . |
| 22 | The group in the Smoking Room that afternoon resembled rather more the Angry Brigade than the Gang of Five . |
| 23 | Thus , cast in bronze , we have an Industrial Elephant , with a factory chimney , belching smoke , on its back , which would seem to be more to do with the advent of the Industrial Revolution than a comment on the British Raj . |
| 24 | THERE is perhaps no more potent or dramatic symbol of the Industrial Revolution than the railways . |
| 25 | In both cases the proportion is closer to the optimal proportion than the output to the optimal output . |
| 26 | A graph ( Figure ) of the corresponding readings shows that the sensitivity is greatest in the middle of the view field , and less on the lefthand side than the right . |
| 27 | Few could have been less suited for the military life than the historian Edward Gibbon who , as he admitted in his Autobiography , ‘ never handled a gun … seldom mounted a horse ’ but , living with his father , a country gentleman , at Buriton , near Petersfield , he felt obliged to apply for a commission as a captain in the South battalion of the Hampshire militia , 476 strong , of which his father became major and a local nobleman , ‘ after a prolix and passionate contest ’ with the Lord Lieutenant , lieut. -colonel . |
| 28 | There is more to the story of the golden calf than the features we have already mentioned . |
| 29 | Both Walter Hilton and Dame Julian insist that God is transcendent and can not be described or grasped by the human mind , but they belong more to the Western tradition than the author of The Cloud of Unknowing . |
| 30 | At the weekend , after a day spent watching the company rehearse , the former professional ballet dancer described its performance as having ‘ more to do with the pelvic thrust than an arabesque ’ . |