Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun] 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 | The action for malicious falsehood is much less favourable to plaintiffs than defamation . |
13 | In that case , pragmatics would be a field more akin to sociolinguistics than semantics . |
14 | a widening range of stylistic features more characteristic of writing than speech ; |
15 | The TV crews are today scheduled to move into the town more famous for fish than football , and begin the invasion of a club arguably best known for achieving the record Scottish Cup result , the 36-0 defeat of Bon Accord in 1885 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | In his autobiography , he explains that this was a play ‘ more concerned with philosophy than drama ’ . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | As has been mentioned , medicine has traditionally been more concerned with treatment than prevention . |
21 | ‘ It protects its own , can not bring itself to admit mistakes , so that many of its practitioners seem more concerned with process than justice . |
22 | Nothing is more important in life than life itself . |
23 | Aeroplanes used to h made of wood and gliders still are ; wooden ships are supposed to be more robust in ice than steel ones . |
24 | There is nothing in the long run that is more damaging to investment than inflation . |
25 | However , market research showed that the range of products available from a supplier was much less important to customers than performance , reliability and customer support . |
26 | The sugar industry has campaigned to separate sugar from medical conditions other than tooth decay , and has suggested that natural sugars , carbohydrates and frequency of consumption are more important to cavities than sugar itself . |
27 | Perhaps it 's fair to say that magic was more important to Rupert than science . |
28 | as if referring to very different events now taking place in eastern Europe , many jackets were criss-crossed with heavy webbing belts , more reminiscent of aid-workers than vampire attire . |
29 | It was supposed to be a paragon of democracy in an Arab world more familiar with dictatorship than freedom . |
30 | 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 . |