Example sentences of "[art] [adj] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , after a certain point , education becomes more a form of consumption for the individual than a form of investment for increasing his earnings further . |
| 2 | The worst of the slimy pools of sweated and casual poverty were more likely to be filled by the native than the immigrant . |
| 3 | A brief account of Bourdieu 's notion of ‘ habitus ’ provides an example of how we might assimilate the apparent paradox of an external physical world which is nevertheless in a more immediate relationship with the unconscious than the world of articulate symbolism . |
| 4 | When some of us are small we hear a great deal of criticism , more of the negative than the positive . |
| 5 | It is true that lengthy and detailed scrutiny takes place in a Standing Committee off the floor of the House , but even then it is typically the special interest groups , briefing Opposition spokesmen and Government backbenchers alike , which provide more of the dynamic than the representation of constituents ' views . |
| 6 | One profession which sees more of the bereaved than the rest of us are undertakers . |
| 7 | Pipkin and Blackberry were waking , more at the stamping than the voice , which was thin and novel , not striking through their sleep to any deep instinct . |
| 8 | The comparison of the scores of positivity for each RIBA 2 peptide showed significantly higher values in the cryptogenic than the autoimmune group only for c33c and c22–3 ( p<0.05 and p<0.001 , respectively ) . |
| 9 | I suppose this is more of a forewarning than a request for permission , as I was going to send them this week anyway . |
| 10 | The masquerade of camp becomes less a self-concealment than a kind of attack , and untruth a virtue : many a young man , says Wilde , ‘ starts with the natural gift of exaggeration which , if encouraged could flourish . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's always nice to get on the scoresheet , but I really do see myself more as a goal-maker than a goalscorer . |
| 12 | Even so , a sense of vocation is noticeable among most field officers , even many of the older ones : pollution control is still conceived of and practised more as a calling than a job . |
| 13 | I told him last week that he looked more like a German than a Frenchman and he became very cross . ’ |
| 14 | As he dismounted he looked at me over the saddle and there Was that tell-nothing expression , looking at me no different than the Way he had looked at Lamarr Dean the moment before he broke a Whisky glass against his mouth . |
| 15 | Their obsession with gathering may , at first glance , seem no different than the fanaticism of collectors of rare books or woodblock prints . |
| 16 | Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Schools is more of a lap-dog than a rottweiler . |
| 17 | Mm my feet are sweating now , but , she seems to have a bug in there or summat , cos it 's more like a burning than a sweat , it |
| 18 | Betty thought he looked more like a gipsy than a minister — ; a good gypsy . |
| 19 | She could be described as prejudiced but she can no more be called a racist than a rape victim who hates men can be called sexist . |
| 20 | It is more of a cabal than a cabinet , more of a permanent diplomatic conference than a senate . |
| 21 | For all the earthy language and talk of struggles to come , it sounded more like community singing in a bomb-shelter than a call to arms . |
| 22 | In the last interview he gave to a French journalist before the war began , Ho , in envisaging the way in which ‘ at all costs war must be averted ’ , seemed to accept independence within the French Union ; although unless this was based on a total misunderstanding of the nature of the French Union , which also seems unlikely , this was probably more of a smoke-screen than a smoke-signal . |
| 23 | More of a revolutionary than a reformer . ’ |
| 24 | It has now been addressed with elegant passion by no more subversive a revolutionary than the president of Assurances Generales de France , Michel Albert . |
| 25 | I am going to offer , more as a case-study than a prescription , my own thoughts about what education ought to be , and what kind of ‘ schooling ’ would be an appropriate channel for its delivery . |
| 26 | She had soaked the leather to bend and shape it into the form of a small shoe , but her hands were sore and her back ached and she wondered briefly if there might be an easier way of making a living than the trade her father had chosen for her . |
| 27 | Rose blooms take a variety of different forms , best summarized as ( a ) single , with a single circlet of five petals , ( b ) double , with anything from 10 to 30 petals , ( c ) semi-double , with up to 15 petals but opening more like a single than a double , and ( d ) the old favourite quartered rose , with its many petals curled into four ‘ quarters ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ Rather be a tart than a Gallegan . ’ |
| 29 | It was some player indeed who could unleash a power-drive with a ball that was more like a cannon-ball than a football ! |
| 30 | Everyone seems to agree that it is easier to translate a novel than a poem : that one may appreciate the greatness of Dostoevsky in translation in a way that is not possible ( say ) of Pushkin . |