Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] than either " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Labour party first committed itself to abolition of the House of Lords in 1910 , yet it has done less to diminish the power of hereditary peers than either the Liberals or Conservatives . |
| 2 | A characteristically political perspective would argue for a more articulated view of the complexity of centre-periphery relationships than either pluralism or Marxism can provide but would also warn against imposition of a single political model such as corporatism . |
| 3 | The evidence in rats that morphine 3-glucuronide may antagonise the analgesic actions of morphine is unsubstantiated and is hard to explain given that morphine 3-glucuronide has a much lower binding affinity for opioid receptors than either morphine or the active morphine metabolite , morphine 6-glucuronide . |
| 4 | It is a peculiar text to publish in a catalogue which will have greater circulation and sell in larger quantities than either Sylvester 's monograph or the catalogue raisonné . |
| 5 | This is , of course , a far more optimistic view of the location and nature of power in capitalist society than either of the elite or Marxist theories which we have outlined . |
| 6 | Women in second marriages are more likely to have had an affair than those in their first , and women who work full-time are , it seems , more prone to extra-curricular passions than either part-time workers or housewives . |
| 7 | Now there is more to this passage than either the story that it heralds , poignant and memorable though that is , or the condescending tone of the last sentence , for the innocence Davin embodies brings to Stephen as a brute fact from the real world the missing half of a truth which Stephen has known but so far been unable to admit even to himself , and which will go on mattering to Joyce for many years . |
| 8 | Grudgers came to dominate the population because they passed on more genes to future generations than either Suckers ( who helped others indiscriminately , and were exploited ) or Cheats ( who tried ruthlessly to exploit everybody and ended up doing each other down ) . |
| 9 | He admired recent Greek Revival buildings in St Petersburg , Berlin , Trieste , London , and Cambridge , but reserved his greatest praise for Paris , where ‘ grecian architecture triumphs ’ and which is consequently ‘ a better school for young architects than either Rome or Venice ’ . |