Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] than [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this is more surely an argument for adequate preparation than for a refusal to appear . |
| 2 | The election of Keir Hardie in 1892 owed more to historical contingency than to a heightened class consciousness among the electorate . |
| 3 | By the end of the eighteenth century , the Sussex yeoman had become less of a symbol of traditional English independence than of a recalcitrant inbred backwardness , perverse in his outlook . |
| 4 | The children 's loss but the fault lay more with the SCO 's insensitivity to a cultural difference than to a lack of religious awareness . |
| 5 | The occurrence of wet and dry days is thus not random — there is a persistence effect such that a wet day is more likely to be followed by another wet day than by a dry day , and vice-versa . |
| 6 | Here she was prompted less by social conscience than by a delight in drama . |
| 7 | The risk of infection and disease is greater for an old person than for a normal , healthy adult , as warnings on food safety show . |
| 8 | If the latter , we 're a lot better off with a restrained government than with a rampant one . |
| 9 | And although Mr Kohl promises that Germany will eventually amend its constitution and shoulder its proper military responsibilities in the world , he would prefer to sell that to his own people as a pro-European gesture than as a pro-American one . |
| 10 | ( Thus a German worker in an advanced capitalist society has more in common with a British worker than with a German industrialist . ) |
| 11 | It was an establishment that placed more emphasis on public speaking than on a knowledge of the classics , and the course was shorter and more intensive than anything comparable in Holland . |
| 12 | It concluded with the comment that ISC was ‘ more akin to a high-risk venture capital play moving between rounds of post-launch financing than as a stable company in conventional trading circumstances ’ . |
| 13 | Finding herself jobless and with little to do , she drew upon her past experience of life in the Mediterranean and began compiling recipes ‘ less with any thought of future publication than as a personal antidote to the bleak conditions and acute food shortages of immediate post-war England ’ . |
| 14 | when you start learning a language you are constantly collecting new words , so even if you have a computer and intend to use it for producing a dictionary you may still wish to have your vocabulary in a more accessible form than on a computer disk , at least for the first few months . |
| 15 | Opposition to development from lower income groups is more likely to be motivated by anger at the focus on up-market housing than by a desire to preserve a golden past which they are well aware has never existed . |
| 16 | This is the distortion of perception referred to by Bruch , but I must add that in my case I see it less as a longstanding perceptual difficulty than as a consequence of my general state of confusion as to my self-image . |
| 17 | ( The cogs must fit the sinker posts which are closer together on a fine gauge than on a standard of course . ) |
| 18 | It was seen more as a patriotic form of national self-expression than as a pro-nazi organization and hence was not closed down in September 1939 when war was declared . |
| 19 | It could be argued that this is far more likely to occur to a self-regulatory body than to a statutory body . |
| 20 | Inspired by his study of Milan Cathedral , his models are not domestic but ecclesiastical — ‘ pretty near like the churches , you know , ’ as one character remarks — and his transformation , like Walpole 's , seems to consist less in an alteration of domestic concept than in a face-lift to its exterior and interior . |
| 21 | The provision of water may well be easier and shelter in foul weather more readily available somewhere in a large area than in a small paddock or strip . |
| 22 | It was found that detection latencies were generally longer when the change in ear of presentation took place during presentation of a subordinate clause than during a main clause . |
| 23 | It may be easier for an authoritarian regime than for a democratic one to carry out economic restructuring ; Chile did it , Peru hopes to . |
| 24 | The reaction was not against passionate expression of beliefs or against an audience 's supporting a speaker : it was against excessive displays and rhetoric more appropriate to a political rally than to a religious meeting . |
| 25 | Now , in retrospect , she could see that marriage to him would have been a ghastly mistake , and that her reaction to discovering that he had been seeing other women while he had been engaged to her had had far more to do with wounded pride than with a wounded heart . |
| 26 | Well , of course there 's Rick there , but more as a discreet colouration than as a basic tone . |
| 27 | Unsuccessful searches will always be faster in a multi-way tree than in a binary search tree , which suits our purpose as the majority of strings being searched for will not be in the word list . |
| 28 | Statistics suggest that you have 25 per cent more chance of having an accident in a black car than in a yellow or brown one . |
| 29 | First , workers as the majority group in the electorate might rationally choose to maintain capitalism , not because they are duped by the dominant ideology but because their individual interests are better met under redistributive capitalism than through a painful transition to socialism , which could only conceivably deliver net benefits in the very long run . |
| 30 | An elderly verger once confided to me that he felt happier at a good funeral than at a wedding . |