Example sentences of "[vb pp] than [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the most significant of these changes occurred more in the institutions and managerial frameworks in which ‘ art ’ was produced and consumed than in the studios . |
| 2 | Seldom has the conflict over what a river means to different people been more dramatically highlighted than in the case of the river Stour at Flatford Mill . |
| 3 | This need can not be better filled than by the Citizens Advice Bureaux . ’ |
| 4 | Will my hon. Friend suggest that hospitals in the Sheffield health authority area considering trust status should visit the Walsall trust hospital in the west midlands , where they will discover that in the first three months of this year 1,100 more patients were treated than in the year before — a 13 per cent . |
| 5 | Although experience is central to construct theory , in Kellian terms , this is measured less by actual experience undergone than by the level of investment made in the actual revision of a construct system . |
| 6 | This is relativity with a vengeance , and many of us have felt than in a case like this the scales that Eliot measures by are not so much sliding as slithering . |
| 7 | The richness of personal awareness of God in the Old Testament is hardly better seen than through the wealth of metaphors for the God who was known and loved in daily life : |
| 8 | Appreciation by the children of such history , craftsmanship and skill was no where more obviously shown than in the canteen where balloons , strawberry tarts and fizzy drinks made a fitting end to a successful visit . |
| 9 | Nowhere was this cock-eyed way of running a world more poignantly overlooked than in the Band Aid , Live Aid efforts to help the hungry . |
| 10 | My main complaint concerning students of modern sediments is that they pay more attention to the question of how sediments are deposited than to the question as to whether or not they stay there . |
| 11 | This is nowhere better exemplified than in the treatment that some consultants in the NHS offered those who had to visit them as out-patients . |
| 12 | Nowhere is this better exemplified than by the rape of Jackie Berkley by police officers at Moss Side police station , and the shooting of Cherry Groce in Brixton and Cynthia Jarrett in Tottenham during police raids on their homes . |
| 13 | Nowhere is this better exemplified than by the way in which Ireland ( Eire and Ulster ) takes to the rugby field as one team . |
| 14 | Nowhere is this tension better demonstrated than in the provision of the British system of social services . |
| 15 | On the one hand , private enterprise is presented as efficient , cost-effective and competitive while public provision is shown as wasteful , inefficient , and concerned more with the interests of the workers involved than with the consumers of the service . |
| 16 | Particularly when contrasted with the grindingly abrasive and ultimately polishing actions of ice , sea , wind and rain : nowhere better illustrated than in the works of Henry Moore . |
| 17 | This is nowhere better illustrated than in the case we used for our basic illustration of good design itself — echolocation . |
| 18 | These skills are perhaps no better illustrated than by the finds from the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo . |
| 19 | It has become clear that the anti-vivisection movement is now far better organised and directed than in the past . |
| 20 | Much has been written about Griffith and his contribution to the movies but the ingredients that made up his genius have never been better identified than in the review Heywood Broun wrote of Intolerance when it appeared in 1916 . |
| 21 | Where else therefore could a small scholarship be more usefully bestowed than in a manner which would , as Kinnoull indicated , ‘ much oblige Lady Findlater , & many other friends ’ , while conferring a favour upon a grateful man ? |
| 22 | This would be a severe difficulty in the United Kingdom , where a larger proportion of the population would be excluded than in the United States ; indeed the method is probably suitable only in countries where a very substantial number of people own telephones . |
| 23 | Their crowded funerals have been dignified by ceremony proper to their public status and success , but few personal tributes were more poignantly expressed than by the posies of primroses picked by children of the unemployed at the Docklands settlement where Mrs Melville Wills had worked to within a few days of her death at the age of 73 in 1936 . |
| 24 | The fond feelings of the Indian people for the Cobra are perhaps nowhere better expressed than in the words of Sarojini Naidu , an Indian poetess . |
| 25 | perceptions of newspaper bias depended more on the partisanship of the paper being read than on the partisanship of the reader who read it . |
| 26 | perceptions of newspaper bias depended more , however , on the partisanship of the paper being read than on the partisanship of the reader who read it . |