Example sentences of "[adj] than with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | More and more members of the American foreign service were coming to question the belief , strongly held at the end of the war , that the USSR was more likely to be caught up in rivalry with the British than with the United States . |
| 2 | But what of Mr Major 's claim that Mr Ashdown has more in common with Labour than with the Tories and could be the Trojan horse with which Mr Kinnock bursts through the wrought-iron gates into Downing Street ? |
| 3 | The clarification of water by means of sedimentation becomes more complex with the use of dosing methods and upward-flow tanks , but , with analytical checks on the treatment the results can be much more consistent than with the simpler settlement in mill lodges , and there need be no interruption in supply caused by variations in the raw water or the need for cleaning out tanks . |
| 4 | The philanthropist Albany in Fanny Burney 's Cecilia ( 1782 ) is regarded even by his creator as ‘ partially deranged ’ , and in any case spends less time with the authentic poor than with the middle-class Belfield , fallen on evil days . |
| 5 | Many innovations have more to do with changes in the value systems of the individuals concerned than with the acquisition of wholly new skills . |
| 6 | Nowhere is this more evident than with the acquisition of companies . |
| 7 | Adjustment of prescribing data with the Newcastle prescribing index was more accurate than with the prescribing unit for practices with a skewed age and sex demography . |
| 8 | Its relatively light weight ( 1.9kg/4lb ) makes drilling above shoulder height a lot less tiring than with the normal electropneumatic hammer drills which you may hire . |
| 9 | No person was to be present at an operation other than with the consent of the surgeon who was performing it . |