Example sentences of "[noun] than [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because those planning a service probably give greater weight to the words than to the music , the Commission believes that those texts which promote ancient truths in a readily-understood manner and in good , or at least passable , poetry are the ones which ought to be used . |
| 2 | All these senses are much easier to satisfy in the paddocked horse than in the stabled horse . |
| 3 | Moreover , if the Moon was already in synchronous rotation around the Earth , and if there was more spare material between the Earth and the Moon than beyond the Moon , then the rather greater number of large basins on the near side than on the far side can be explained . |
| 4 | Why is this not an explanation of the lunar crust being thicker on one side than on the other ? |
| 5 | If the magnetic field happens to be larger at one side than at the other side , then the beam will be deflected towards the weaker field which makes the field even weaker , etc. , leading to the so-called kink instability ( Fig. 3.3(b) ) . |
| 6 | Once the light had been turned out again , slowly , inch by inch , Charlie continued his crab-like advance , now more fearful of a stray bullet from his own side than from the enemy 's . |
| 7 | But Henry was more concerned about the political repercussions of the advances he was making on the Continent than about the troubles of the church of Canterbury . |
| 8 | This is a trading practice ( more common on the Continent than in the United Kingdom ) whereby a trader organises a coach or boat trip and then during the trip gets the travellers to buy or offer to buy goods or services . |
| 9 | Its companions emerged and approached the small fire , but stayed warily at a distance , more afraid of the flame than of the humans who had kindled it , Tallis decided . |
| 10 | Suppose that in the future it becomes possible to predict others ' behaviour more efficiently by observation and computation than by the always hazardous venture of trying to fathom the mysteries of the human heart . |
| 11 | Even so , while being ahead of his time and younger than his age , the form of theatre he produced remains rooted in the past , owing infinitely more to Victorian and Edwardian styles than to the mainstream of 20th-century modernism . |
| 12 | And as a Warsaw Pact leader they know him more intimately in the Kremlin than in the West . |
| 13 | Although , by definition an entertainment industry , the BBC 's status was more in common with a Civil Service Department than with the opportunistic realms of Theatre and Film . |
| 14 | Because the interest is added to the loan from the outset , you will pay off more interest in the early months than in the later ones . |
| 15 | Strangely , the school probably now has firmer links , and certainly greater knowledge , of the tropics and hygiene than in the pioneering days of Ronald Ross and Patrick Manson 80 or more years ago . |
| 16 | The Channel Islands are physically much closer to the French coast than to the English and the island breeds have a certain affinity with the breeds of Brittany and Normandy . |
| 17 | Child care policy and practice in the United Kingdom , Flanders , and the Netherlands appear to be converging towards family and community-oriented services , although the pace of change seems to be slower in Flanders than in the other two countries . |
| 18 | While O'Neill would have shared some of those views , he was more concerned with the future than with the past and he deliberately set about ending Ulster 's ‘ petty apartheid ’ by visiting Catholic schools ( no previous Ulster premier had ever set foot in one ) , being photographed talking to priests and nuns , and meeting a cardinal . |
| 19 | Instead of the Michels notion of a radical movement being compromised by a leadership more interested in its own future than in the goals of the movement , a more fruitful theme from the social movements literature is Smelser 's distinction between various ‘ means ’ . |
| 20 | Fears were thus expressed that , while the ratio of all dependents to the total population might be no greater in the immediate future than in the past , the cost per dependent had grown and would continue to grow . |
| 21 | Many more people in the future than in the past will benefit from the kind of economic support which people give to their relatives through post mortem transfers . |
| 22 | There will also be , as certainly we can tell , more very old people in the future than in the past , something also clear from table 5.4 . |
| 23 | You talked a lot about computers being more friendly in the future than in the past . |
| 24 | Groupe Speciale Mobile communication in France is more expensive and has achieved less penetration than in Germany , and cellular overall has much less penetration than in the UK . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh my boy , my boy , home at last ! ’ cried Mrs Clare , who at that moment cared no more for Angel 's lack of religion than for the dust on his clothes . |
| 26 | In my view , to have 32 seeds , even in the men 's singles where there is far greater depth of talent than among the women , can not possibly be justified . |
| 27 | Even very rough comparisons show how , in other economies , investment in company securities forms a much higher proportion of personal wealth-holding than in the UK [ Caves and Krause , 1980 ; HMSO , 1980 ] . |
| 28 | Is it any better to act for the National Rifle Association than for the Cote d'Azur Development Agency , to take one name from his appendix ? |
| 29 | Of course , while the wider range of lenders and mortgage products mean that borrowers can end up with a better deal than in the past , it also means spending more time and effort choosing the best mortgage for your particular circumstances . |
| 30 | Italy has at the moment no Bruce Chatwin or Paul Theroux , and the history of Italian travel-writing belongs more to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries than to the nineteenth or twentieth , but it is possible to discern an interest in the imaginative and expressive possibilities of travel-writing in the work of some contemporaries who are not travel-writers as such . |