Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [adj] than [art] " in BNC.

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1 He wrote : ‘ If someone has just stepped out of your life you 'll be better reaching for this single than a bottle , razor blade or handkerchief . ’
2 His eyes were open , but his face was such a fearful mask of blood , foam , vomit and earth that he looked more like some demon-creature than a rabbit .
3 A dissection of the relationship between employment , means of production and output does not , of course , explain the boom in any other than a purely statistical sense .
4 Before the Russian revolution of October ( November ) 1917 , very few Marxists were prepared to talk or write , in any other than the most general terms , on what the outline of a future socialist society would be like , or discuss the nature of the transition period to such a society .
5 The most modest proposal would be to place a cash limit on all the non-structural tax allowances ( that is , on all other than the personal allowances ) and to couple this policy to a commitment to use the increase in tax revenue which results to reducing the rate of tax and increasing child benefit .
6 The Government had forced itself into a corner for no reason at all other than the Prime Minister 's stubbornness .
7 This side of the argument concerning the freedom of the press in Africa is rarely put by those other than the governments concerned .
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