Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun sg] than [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one extreme are those who would say that Protestantism was more propitious for science than Catholicism only in the sense that it was less obstructive . |
| 2 | This can be clearly seen at St Oswald 's in Gloucester , where the many phases of development are more clear in elevation than plan , and where , ironically , the earliest masonry is up above arches put in at a later date . |
| 3 | Of course Lang 's movie was far more interested in psychology than sociology but there were other differences too : Fury was a one-off movie whereas the more pedestrian and less ambitious Black Legion was part of a continuing Hollywood tradition . |
| 4 | The Baltoro comes in a variety of single colours , aiming for a market more interested in function than fashion . |
| 5 | I did n't eat meat and I was more interested in ornithology than football . ’ |
| 6 | The report clearly stresses that the catering industry is more interested in quality than price . |
| 7 | Also , due in part to increasing media attention , delinquent-prone youths who are more interested in fighting than football see the terrace ‘ ends ’ as places to maintain and improve tough reputations . |
| 8 | He seems more interested in fishing than football . |
| 9 | Document preparation systems based on mark-up ( such as LaTeX ) , while making explicit the crucial distinction between logical and physical structures of a document , are difficult for beginners to use , and provoke the frequent cry from those more interested in use than principle of ‘ why use this , it 's so much easier using [ my favourite word processor ] ’ . |
| 10 | Master and dame then went off to pass time with a neighbour , while the young people sit and talk happily around a good coal fire : " More free from care than knight or squire " . |
| 11 | The Germans , too , began with tariffs more favourable to farming than industry , and it took the McKinley tariff in the U.S.A. and the enormous Russian protective duties to convert the German rulers to protection for their manufacturers . |
| 12 | a widening range of stylistic features more characteristic of writing than speech ; |
| 13 | In the 1980 series of Reith Lectures on BBC radio , Ian Kennedy , a Reader in Law , argued that the disciplinary procedures of the medical profession are more concerned with etiquette than competence . |
| 14 | In his autobiography , he explains that this was a play ‘ more concerned with philosophy than drama ’ . |
| 15 | He was more concerned with prevention than repression ; and in any case by the time he wrote it had been shown that repression could be safely left in the hands of the Romans . |
| 16 | The French farmer in the uplands is also more concerned with product quality ( e. g. of milk to produce cheeses ) than his Welsh counterpart in particular who is generally much more concerned with quantity than quality , an attitude probably encouraged by the UK 's HLCA system . |
| 17 | As has been mentioned , medicine has traditionally been more concerned with treatment than prevention . |
| 18 | ‘ It protects its own , can not bring itself to admit mistakes , so that many of its practitioners seem more concerned with process than justice . |
| 19 | Nothing is more important in life than life itself . |
| 20 | Aeroplanes used to h made of wood and gliders still are ; wooden ships are supposed to be more robust in ice than steel ones . |
| 21 | There is nothing in the long run that is more damaging to investment than inflation . |
| 22 | It was supposed to be a paragon of democracy in an Arab world more familiar with dictatorship than freedom . |
| 23 | Oxygen is much less soluble in water than carbon dioxide and in order for fish life to be sustained it must be replenished as fast as it is used up . |
| 24 | Surely the microcomputer will go the way of all such gimmicks , that is , embraced with enthusiasm by teachers if not by pupils , only to prove more revolutionary in theory than practice ? |
| 25 | Sir Robin Day : an interviewer more susceptible to flattery than battery |
| 26 | Although progastrin derived peptides were more abundant in tumour than control extracts , there were nevertheless detectable amounts of activity in all normal samples using assays with LW60 , and in a high proportion of assays of normal samples using antibody L2 . |
| 27 | Peter Maisey of Cosham , Hants , has a more friendly approach , since he believes ‘ a dog bounding towards you is probably more intent on play than dinner . |
| 28 | Secondly , we need outcome measures for assessing new implants that are more sensitive to failure than revision . |