Example sentences of "[art] [adj] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More striking by the 1820s than the continuity of the theme of the incompatibility of slavery with a true moral and religious order was the much fuller expression than at the end of the eighteenth century of the precepts of economic liberalism as part of the antislavery appeal ; abolitionists now clearly departed from mercantilist policy assumptions . |
| 2 | In other words , after a certain point , education becomes more a form of consumption for the individual than a form of investment for increasing his earnings further . |
| 3 | The worst of the slimy pools of sweated and casual poverty were more likely to be filled by the native than the immigrant . |
| 4 | Because of inflation , real food prices in the great majority of Latin American countries were higher at the end of the 1970s than the beginning . |
| 5 | A brief account of Bourdieu 's notion of ‘ habitus ’ provides an example of how we might assimilate the apparent paradox of an external physical world which is nevertheless in a more immediate relationship with the unconscious than the world of articulate symbolism . |
| 6 | When some of us are small we hear a great deal of criticism , more of the negative than the positive . |
| 7 | It is true that lengthy and detailed scrutiny takes place in a Standing Committee off the floor of the House , but even then it is typically the special interest groups , briefing Opposition spokesmen and Government backbenchers alike , which provide more of the dynamic than the representation of constituents ' views . |
| 8 | One profession which sees more of the bereaved than the rest of us are undertakers . |
| 9 | Pipkin and Blackberry were waking , more at the stamping than the voice , which was thin and novel , not striking through their sleep to any deep instinct . |
| 10 | The comparison of the scores of positivity for each RIBA 2 peptide showed significantly higher values in the cryptogenic than the autoimmune group only for c33c and c22–3 ( p<0.05 and p<0.001 , respectively ) . |
| 11 | Thus , even if we look strictly inside the built-up urban area , conventional town planning has become much less relevant in the 1980s than the growth of crime and the condition of existing property for increasingly large sections of the community . |
| 12 | His first excursion from the house took him no farther than the garden . |
| 13 | I suppose this is more of a forewarning than a request for permission , as I was going to send them this week anyway . |
| 14 | The masquerade of camp becomes less a self-concealment than a kind of attack , and untruth a virtue : many a young man , says Wilde , ‘ starts with the natural gift of exaggeration which , if encouraged could flourish . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's always nice to get on the scoresheet , but I really do see myself more as a goal-maker than a goalscorer . |
| 16 | Even so , a sense of vocation is noticeable among most field officers , even many of the older ones : pollution control is still conceived of and practised more as a calling than a job . |
| 17 | It is Easter weekend in Paris and , while his wife is away , middle-aged Jacques ( Stephen Moore ) brings home Julie , a sexy little bimbo played by Leslie Ash in a mini-skirt that is no broader than a cummerbund . |
| 18 | Elsewhere , I would recommend Ride 's brave stab at ‘ The Model ’ and Vic Reeves ' ‘ Vienna ’ is certainly no sillier than the original . |
| 19 | I told him last week that he looked more like a German than a Frenchman and he became very cross . ’ |
| 20 | As he dismounted he looked at me over the saddle and there Was that tell-nothing expression , looking at me no different than the Way he had looked at Lamarr Dean the moment before he broke a Whisky glass against his mouth . |
| 21 | Their obsession with gathering may , at first glance , seem no different than the fanaticism of collectors of rare books or woodblock prints . |
| 22 | Orcs vary in height and their physical appearance more than humans — some are no taller than a man but most are substantially larger and the biggest Orcs stand well over seven feet tall . |
| 23 | For a moment he knelt beside the boy , looking down at him ; again , as in the dream — the reality of it no clearer than the vision he had had . |
| 24 | Hell , under all that gook on his eyelids , he was probably no blinder than a hawk . |
| 25 | A tiny black wallet no bigger than a child 's hand . |
| 26 | Well it , I mean let's face it it is n't gon na be no bigger than a clock is it ? |
| 27 | That evening in their room a low table no bigger than a music stool was set with food . |
| 28 | Little Billy shifted his position and placed one eye right up against the square hole that was no bigger than a postage stamp . |
| 29 | Under her left breast , whose pale skin was only just beginning to give up its bloom to death , was a tiny , dark-red blob , no bigger than a sand flea . |
| 30 | ‘ And so will her son , though he 's no bigger than a rabbit . ’ |