Example sentences of "of [noun] than a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By its insistence on the generalized imminence of revolution — more an article of faith than a result of pragmatic observation — the Comintern was at least partly responsible for the Nghe-Tinh disaster . |
| 2 | 2. can it offer an adequate , and perhaps more than adequate explanation of the phenomenon of existence than a denial of the existence of God can ? |
| 3 | Would this not indicate a greater love of dogma than a love of man ? |
| 4 | Those who argue that rape should be viewed as more a crime of violence than a crime of sex might also prefer the scope of rape to be confined in this way . |
| 5 | Yet there could be no more symbolic act of defiance than a currency with a separate exchange rate against the rouble . |
| 6 | Induction , on the other hand , seems more like a form of inference than a form of knowledge . |
| 7 | The last of the Blackadder adventures says more about the reality of war than a host of documentaries . |
| 8 | This talk of the ‘ common spiritual etymon [ i.e. origin ] , the psychological root ’ of stylistic forms sounds more like my definition of the stylistics of manner than a view of style as representation . |
| 9 | It all came back to that greatest of Italian national defects , which is less an attitude of xenophobia than a reflection of its people 's belief that Italy is God 's country and Italians God 's chosen . |
| 10 | There is , however , obviously a great deal more to the history of Siberia than a catalogue of criminality and cold . |
| 11 | Behind him Hrun screamed , but it sounded more like a bellow of rage than a cry of pain . |
| 12 | Because of this , Figure 4 looks more like a pedigree of species than a pedigree of individuals , but the principle is the same . |
| 13 | Even though a patient aged 80 years will usually face a higher operative mortality and a shorter expectation of life than a patient aged 40 years , it does not follow that surgery is not worthwhile for the 80 year old . |
| 14 | The action of a single tyrant may be more potent to inflict suffering on the continent of Europe than a combination of less powerful persons . ’ |
| 15 | Better an ounce of prevention than a pound of cure ! |
| 16 | For him it now became less a place of protest than a refuge for failures , free-loaders and misfits . |