Example sentences of "[art] [adj] than of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Higher percentages of the elderly than of the general adult population live in accommodation built before 1919 that is often poorly maintained . |
| 2 | At first , the chicks ate more of the aposematic than of the cryptic crumbs . |
| 3 | It follows , as some studies have revealed , that improvements in the environmental conditions that represent life hazards have a more favourable impact on survival chances of infants and children of the uneducated than of educated mothers , who are better able to neutralize the effects of adverse circumstances . |
| 4 | Surely it is better to speak ill of the dead than of the living . |
| 5 | Interrogatories and document requests are staples of international commercial litigation , no less than of other suits , yet a rule of exclusivity would subordinate the court 's supervision of even the most routine of these pre-trial proceedings to the actions or , equally , to the inactions of foreign judicial authorities . |
| 6 | Since the lands of the Templars in England were worth nearly £3000 annually , the reluctance of Edward II , no less than of Edward III , to surrender them needs no great explanation . |