Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] than [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remembered the dagger thrown during the banquet and decided it would be safer to return through the crowded town than venture into the marshy wooded countryside . |
| 2 | The conclusion from all these studies , that processing of Kanji is less dependent on the integrity of the left hemisphere than processing of Kana , is supported by electrophysiological findings ( Hink , Kaga and Suzuki , 1980 ) and by results obtained with three patients who sustained partial commissurotomy in the course of removal of pineal gland tumours ( Sugishita , Iwata , Toyokura , Yoshioka and Yamada , 1978 ) . |
| 3 | Further , although incorrectly terminated , the input impedance of a section terminated with resistance is much closer to the characteristic impedance than resistance . |
| 4 | Britain may not need to flaunt nationalism in the way characteristic of the United States but its education system can no more ignore the task of sustaining the national identity than education systems in any other nation-state . |
| 5 | Yet during his day he featured as a significant Afro-Asian leader , a ‘ charismatic ’ personality like Nehru who made a far greater impact on the international scene than Nu with his disarming frankness and humility . |
| 6 | The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society , a British group , now hopes to demonstrate to the Japanese that whale-watching is more profitable in the long run than whaling . |
| 7 | This approach is typified by Mackay , who has argued that because injury reduction was more realistic in the short term than accident prevention , one should think of the front end of a car ‘ primarily as a structure with which to hit a pedestrian ’ . |
| 8 | Then when we have a difficult relationship at home or work it 's easier to blame the other person than look at what we did . |
| 9 | Equally , there was more behind the successful launching of the SR party at the beginning of the new century than nostalgia for the romantic populism of a bygone age . |
| 10 | Benjamin 's allusions in this passage are not just to the dominance of image and sensation and the devaluation of meaning in surrealism , not just to its characteristic patterning by eruptions of the primary process into consciousness , but also and especially to surrealism 's unconditional refusal to consider art as of a different order than life . |
| 11 | Benjamin 's allusions in this passage are , not just to the dominance of the figural and the devaluation of meaning in surrealism , not just to its characteristic patterning by eruptions of the primary process into consciousness , but also and especially to surrealism 's unconditional refusal to consider art as of a different order than life . |
| 12 | If art is no longer to be considered as of a different order than life , then the idea of aesthetic avant-gardes is questioned . |
| 13 | Images , she notes , are signifiers of a different order than language . |
| 14 | I offer a different perspective than prayer . ’ |
| 15 | You do in account management is a different discipline than field sales . |
| 16 | There is a general perception that operating leases , where leased assets are not capitalised by the lessee , reduce borrowing capacity to a lesser extent than bank borrowing . |
| 17 | A report on women 's work during World War I made the point that women 's employment might be a lesser evil than poverty . |
| 18 | 4 It 's easier to get forgiveness for a poor decision than permission for a good one . |
| 19 | ‘ Being so close to Merseyside is a disadvantage , because a lot of Liverpool lads would rather stay in their area where there 's such a good standard than travel into Wales . ’ |
| 20 | On the whole the ‘ human potential ’ therapies require less of a time-and-attendance commitment than psychoanalysis , and there are more opportunities for group workshops . |
| 21 | Turbocharged engines generally produce more power and torque for a given capacity than non-turbo-charged ( naturally-aspirated ) engines , and have better specific fuel consumption ( fuel used per kW/hr ) . |
| 22 | The significance of the concept of the linguistic variable is that it allows quantitative statements to be made about language use , so that Speaker A might be said to use more or less of a particular variant than speaker B , rather than categorically to use it or not to use it . |
| 23 | There is no experience of division or isolation because true love has no other motive than love , and the beloved is all that initially concerns us . |
| 24 | He makes it clear that he believes ‘ that there are higher civilizations and lower ones ’ ; the notion of Empire is ‘ not necessarily an ignoble one ’ when it is founded on ‘ the notion of extending law , justice , humanity and civilization — with no other interest than glory , and no other motive than a sense of vocation ’ . |
| 25 | The sex in porn is a particular kind of sex , that which the prostitute symbolises : sex outside marriage or the bounds of romantic love ; sex as a transaction ; sex with no other context than desire or reward . |
| 26 | Many of the local scallop divers in the Poole area swear by these computers , if for no other reason than reliability and price — and this type of diver is notoriously difficult to please . |
| 27 | ‘ . It is easier and quicker to edit words in an existing layout than type in afresh . |