Example sentences of "[pers pn] than [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Responding to the Handsworth events Douglas Hurd was moved to argue forcibly that such events were senseless and reflected more on those who participated in them than on the society in which they took place : ‘ The sound which law abiding people in Handsworth heard on Monday night , the echoes of which I picked up on Tuesday , was not a cry for help but a cry for loot ’ ( Financial Times , 13 September 1985 ) . |
| 2 | Such manoeuvring , though , is symptomatic of the distrust which they face , and reflects less on them than on the dominant culture of the age . |
| 3 | Since they were provided to enable the binder to collect the various gatherings or sections in the right order before putting the covers round , much more care was exercised with them than with the page numbering . |
| 4 | In the London suburb where I live we see plenty of foxes , and I feel far greater affection for them than for the local cats or dogs . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , and their cats will be looked after too — one only hopes Daisy wo n't put in more food for them than for the humans . ’ |
| 6 | Because they appear reasonably proficient , the instructors tend to give less practice to them than to the other students . |
| 7 | The giant predators that walked on their hind legs ( Tyrannosaurus , Allosaurus and other theropods ) share structures of the hip bones with the sauropods that show they are more closely related to them than to the rest of the dinosaurs . |
| 8 | He had uttered more words of advice to them than to the girl he was meant to be treating . |
| 9 | Authority were more likely to listen to them than to the DoH . ’ |
| 10 | When asked whether he would support a constitutional change in Scotland if he did not have proportional representation , he said no ; so he makes it clear that he gives higher priority to the self-interest of the Liberal Democrats and a voting system that would help them than to the issue of principle on Scotland 's constitutional future . |
| 11 | Their farms were usually small , often less than a hundred acres , and we know much less about them than about the gentry . |
| 12 | Maintenance of the driver and command files for the process is very much the LIFESPAN Manager 's responsibility , and what better way to keep track of them than inside the process to which they refer . |
| 13 | Doubtless some protestant paramilitaries — though there have been fewer religious persons among them than in the case of the provisionals — hold to similar religious understandings of the necessity of violence under certain circumstances . |
| 14 | More Welsh homes — 72 per cent — are owned by those who live in them than in the United Kingdom as a whole . |
| 15 | My missionary vocation landed me with the task , the experience probably did more for me than for the fifty to one hundred loyal missionary supporters who attended . |
| 16 | Obviously this may tell you more about me than about the works themselves . |
| 17 | I see no more in you than in the ordinary |
| 18 | From what I could see in the mirror he looked more interested in you than in the bureau . ’ |
| 19 | I ca n't think why she stays because he 's no easier on her than on the rest of us . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Why are you not acting ? ’ he asked her abruptly ; more interested by far in her than in the genteel maunderings on stage . |
| 21 | I fear the world invisible is more visible to him than to the rest of us . |
| 22 | As a consequence she may be more likely to mate with him than with a male who is less explicit about his state . |
| 23 | Sarin did n't want to tell me , then he said I 'd know soon enough , and better from him than over the radio . |
| 24 | If this is the right Elizabeth , can we come much closer to him than through the loved child christened at Stratford ‘ Elizabeth , daughter of John Hall , gentleman ’ and her Bible , so tenderly inscribed by her husband ? |
| 25 | So the shock he felt now was fuelled more by the power of the deceit worked upon him than by the sex of the deceiver . |
| 26 | Anselm was to learn too late that a landowner had more to fear from grasping tenants beneath him than from the king above . |
| 27 | However , Mungo was less interested in him than in the background shapes . |
| 28 | And because a bored person has more time to think about himself and his problems , those physical results of stress may well progress more rapidly in him than in the person whose mind is always on other things . |
| 29 | That he could not command the bench of bishops into a unified stance on political affairs reflects less upon him than upon the variety of episcopal origins and experience : royal clerks may have been increasing among the bishops , but it is a mistake to regard them as if they were all identical in background and outlook . |
| 30 | One may deal briefly with Molla Arab 's supposed first period of office as Mufti , simply saying that there appears to be no more evidence for it than for the rest of Katib Celebi 's construction of the facts concerning the history of the office in the early years , which is not , however , to say that the statement ( or the construction , for that matter ) may be dismissed entirely ( cf. below , n. 166 , for example ) . |