Example sentences of "[adj] in [noun sg] than [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Baltoro comes in a variety of single colours , aiming for a market more interested in function than fashion . |
| 4 | I did n't eat meat and I was more interested in ornithology than football . ’ |
| 5 | The report clearly stresses that the catering industry is more interested in quality than price . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He seems more interested in fishing than football . |
| 8 | 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 ] ’ . |
| 9 | Nothing is more important in life than life itself . |
| 10 | Aeroplanes used to h made of wood and gliders still are ; wooden ships are supposed to be more robust in ice than steel ones . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | 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 . |