Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [noun] than " in BNC.

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1 When such a person breaches his fiduciary relationship , he may be treated more properly as a tipper than a tippee .
2 R&D consortia which include films that produce different products using the same basic technological knowledge may also be able to segment user markets , price discriminating more effectively as a group than they are able to do when they act independently and earning a higher return on their R&D activities .
3 Better for a horse than for a man , ’ said Mrs Yaxlee with relish .
4 Bacon did not want to teach but liked the studio that was offered him , and so replaced Minton , less as a tutor than as an honorary visitor .
5 It was an inglorious episode in English history , little remembered since , and regarded at the time less as a disgrace than as a deliverance .
6 We are now supposed to understand Enterprise Solutions less as a show than as a high-level executive meeting that might pass for a meeting of the Unix War College .
7 Each of the questions above is worth exploring , especially because final paragraphs and sentences often fall into one of a number of largely unsatisfactory idioms , each with its own way of dealing with ending less as an opportunity than as an escape .
8 ‘ I travel in comfort , ’ he adds to explain why he finds it less of a hassle than many businessmen .
9 Composite bodies can be fabricated in fewer , larger components , and that makes curing time less of a drawback than it appears .
10 Innominate Crack and Kern Knotts Crack are both 4c , though the first is the harder overall and more suited to the modern climber , being less of a squirm than the other .
11 For Mill 's view is that coercion is now less of a worry than people voting on their class interest or their personal interest .
12 Wordsworth 's ‘ retirement ’ to the Lakes begins to look less like a retreat than a strategic withdrawal to ensure survival .
13 Except that even with costume and make-up the star had looked less like a pirate than Nathan Bryce did at this moment .
14 He thought it appeared less like a college than a ‘ set of separate departments ’ .
15 Less like an aircraft than a kettle ,
16 I do n't know any advanced skiers who ski better with a brace than before their injury , so do n't push your luck .
17 According to Barry Morris , Blackpool 's tourism boss : ‘ People are not prepared to accept less in a B&B than they have at home .
18 Because her life is a little more vividly described than his , Mia 's character exists less in a vacuum than Dustin 's , and as a result her performance is more satisfactory .
19 In fact , it appears to have been due less to a plot than to a calculation that she could not win in a second ballot .
20 Most surveys show that a basket of food still costs a bit less at a supermarket than it does at an independent grocer 's ; but The Economist did not find that this week .
21 Bacon and bread can be eaten more easily as a sandwich than as separate items .
22 It is slightly easier to feed paper one-handed into a word-processor than a typewriter .
23 She generally fills her supermarket trolley more fully when she shops just before a meal than if she shops shortly after one , when her hunger is fully satisfied .
24 Despite a couple of fine LPs , among them ‘ The Most Of ’ , Edwards clicked more as a writer than a singer , and in 1966 he gave two songs to the Spencer Davis Group , ‘ Keep On Running ’ and ‘ Somebody Help Me ’ , both of which hit Number One .
25 Paul Gascoigne , having pulled both Bobby Robson and Graham Taylor from the flames , looked like still being viewed by the head man more as a fireman than a suitable chief executive for England Football Club Limited .
26 They were very relaxed and Skip conveys the feeling that they were treating it more as a cruise than a race .
27 Stealing had come more as a necessity than anything else .
28 Ironically , the specialties business , which ICI unanimously wants to retain , sees its connection with ICI more as a hindrance than a help .
29 ‘ Mind you , I 'm regarded more as a provider than a goalscorer and I have n't done too badly in that department over the last couple of years . ’
30 Now , I treat athletics more as a hobby than I used to . ’
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