Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] than [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But surprisingly perhaps , it was not the major influence on David Steel 's image ; and David Owen 's image was influenced more by Labour partisanship than by Alliance partisanship : the hostility of Labour partisans towards Owen exceeded even the affection of Alliance partisans for him ( Table 8.3 ) . |
| 2 | Even the innocent bystander suspects that such claims contain more of wishful thinking than of substance , but he rarely realises how hard licensed dealers are . |
| 3 | The assumption that all past societies were well adapted to their environments — noble savages in the garden of Eden — owes more to late 20th century wishful thinking than to reality . |
| 4 | But as Weber is more concerned with explaining the meaning of social action than with analysis of political power ( though he is also interested in power ) , his concept of ‘ elite ’ is altogether broader ? more analytical and more flexible than either Wright Mills 's or Mosca 's . |
| 5 | A ‘ practitioner ’ view was also identified which was pragmatic , accepting elements of both the major value positions outlined here but being more aware of the need for different approaches in different individual cases , and more concerned about matters of detailed practice than of principle ( though this may mean simply that values and principles were not made explicit ) . |
| 6 | The consumer-oriented image has been enhanced by stylish new brochures and a credit card ordering system — devices that owe more to the commercial sector than to industry . |
| 7 | Late twentieth-century work design owes more to scientific management than to Herzberg or Emery . |
| 8 | Moreover , there are already other pressures towards monthly budgeting ( such as monthly rent or fuel payments ) ; these pressures are likely to set up more financial strain for people who get their pay weekly and spend it on a weekly basis than for people who get paid monthly . |
| 9 | More resources are devoted to aspects of fiscal welfare than to cash benefits or service delivery and they are allocated in ways that pervert what individual service policies are seeking to achieve . |
| 10 | So , for example , whereas in France or Italy modernity — which enjoys greater popular usage than in Great Britain — tends to mean ‘ these modern times in which we live ’ , and in Germany modernity means both modern and fashionable , Americans identify modernity as a description of life in advanced industrial societies . |
| 11 | Although progress was somewhat faster on privately-owned land than on allotment land , crop yields on the latter rose between 1861 and 1910 by almost 50 per cent . |
| 12 | The words come easier from Porfiry who speaks for public justice than from Sonya on whom falls the main and mystic burden of creative , regenerative suffering . |
| 13 | The economic circumstances of both parties seem to offer another important explanation of why it is more common for people to share a home with relatives at some points of historical time than at others . |
| 14 | The Home Office say it 's better to keep prisoners in an old gaol than in police cells . |
| 15 | He cites ‘ the interest of scholarship and fair-mindedness ’ , which are as it happens rather grand terms , but is it not rather a matter of free speech than of insinuation or imprecation ? |
| 16 | ‘ A trusted cashier committing embezzlement , a minister who evades payment of his taxes , a teacher making sexual advances towards minors and a civil servant who accepts bribes have a fear of detection which is more closely linked with the dread of public scandal and subsequent social ruin than with apprehensions of legal punishment . ’ |
| 17 | Larionov had in 1911 invented Rayonism , a movement which had a strong abstract bias , although it was closer in many ways to contemporary Futurism than to Cubism . |
| 18 | She prayed , and took up vegetarianism , more as an extra religion than as part of the war effort ; after a while she made herself go back to the hospital , and eventually she found Higher Mathematics . |
| 19 | Since most foreigners know only of the Phoenix King and the pre-eminence of Eataine they tend to assume that Ulthuan is a far more homogeneous bloc than in fact it is . |
| 20 | In these situations shortages have a much more serious effect than in unit mass-production . |
| 21 | James Longden , who was Governor from 1878 to 1883 , thought that ‘ the number of lashes allowed is positively inhuman ’ , and that ‘ the physical condition of most natives makes this a more serious punishment than in England . ’ |
| 22 | Further , women were penalised because their pension was calculated at a less favourable rate than for men on account of their longer life expectancy . |
| 23 | If India 's government is persuaded that warming will produce better and more reliable monsoons , then it might decide that the interests of its burgeoning population would be better served by global warming than by attempts to hold it in check . |
| 24 | Soderstrom has been , in her distinguished career , much more than an operetta singer , but her virtues , solid attack , excellent diction , and a clear , fine voice appealing more through its silvery edge than through depth or human vulnerability , are essentially charming rather than thought-provoking . |
| 25 | An interesting possibility is that , with a wider tropical belt than at present , one might expect an equatorial hyper-tropical belt around the equator , with minimum temperatures not known in modern seas . |
| 26 | Some individuals are not at all photogenic and really do look much better in real life than in pictures . |
| 27 | Modernism had had no truck with narrative momentum ; and Eliot 's Post-war plays , which began with The Cocktail Party ( 1950 ) , were always more compelling as moral analysis than as plot . |
| 28 | The genesis of this particular definition , which we might call ‘ the military Pacific ’ , has more to do with American imperial history than with logic . |
| 29 | This hypothesis predicts that children will perform worse on tasks which require them to make use of information about temporal order than on tasks which allow them to make use of information about causal direction . |
| 30 | For the 11 latitude bands considered , per capital GNP is more closely correlated with mean annual temperature than with latitude per se . |