Example sentences of "of the [adj] [noun] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | THERE is perhaps no more potent or dramatic symbol of the Industrial Revolution than the railways . |
| 2 | Thus , cast in bronze , we have an Industrial Elephant , with a factory chimney , belching smoke , on its back , which would seem to be more to do with the advent of the Industrial Revolution than a comment on the British Raj . |
| 3 | Who is this strategy not fair and reasonable , reflecting political maturity and a finer sense of the political art than other communities have managed to achieve ? |
| 4 | Medics were the true friends of the labouring classes , for they knew more about the genesis of poverty and the needs of the working man than any other groups in the community . |
| 5 | In the early twentieth century small business people ( the self-employed and shopkeepers ) made up a greater proportion of the working population than they did by 1971 . |
| 6 | On the whole , though , he was a happier member of the working class than my mother . |
| 7 | The treatment of anaemia is more concerned with the uptake of the co-ential vitamin than what it does when it gets to it 's site of action . |
| 8 | And I wonder if it seems to be that they prefer you come out of the upper drawer than come up with your brilliant A levels or whatever . |
| 9 | As the events which followed the Warsaw coup illustrated , circumstances required " the Russian bear " to spend more time mauling the non-Russian inhabitants of the Russian Empire than attacking non-Russians abroad . |
| 10 | In fact these forms provide particularly striking examples of the process of struggle — crossing the lines of development of media , content and practice , and relating them to the positions of different groups — which is a more accurate picture of the general history than any simple structure of antitheses . |
| 11 | Two main conclusions can be drawn : the lower socio-economic groups , both males and females , make less use of the general practitioners than the higher socio-economic groups , bearing in mind the need for such services . |
| 12 | Indeed he considers a prudent man more safe with many of the black tribes than without their protection . |
| 13 | Education is no less and no more a part of the real world than any other activity , just as mountains are as characteristic of the physical world as are plains , lakes and deserts . |
| 14 | While not necessarily dealing with the most important , nor the most contentious , matters , the criminal justice legislation , by virtue of its comprehensiveness and regularity , suggests more of a systematic approach to keeping in good repair the administration of justice and the working of the penal system than can be substantiated by events . |
| 15 | Similarly , the description of the conventions regarding the form of language to be used are to be interpreted more as a parody and critique of the rival Academy than as evidence of what members of the Royal Society really did . |
| 16 | A green object is perceived as green because it is more reflective in the green region of the visible spectrum than in the blue or red regions . |
| 17 | The plaintiffs ' underlying complaint seems to be that C.M.C. borrowed more than it needed and spent more of the borrowed money than it could afford to spend , with the result that there was a loss for which the plaintiffs have been held personally liable as guarantors . |
| 18 | In Angola the support for Jonas Savimbi 's UNITA has been stronger amongst the Ovimbundu people of the central plateau than amongst the rest of the population . |
| 19 | erm I 'm very much aware that the challenges are ahead of us , both in terms of erm dealing with a difficult financial situation , which has been the pattern now for three or four years , but also in entering certain fields and approaches to arts activity that perhaps require more of the central staff than previously . |
| 20 | It says more about the concept of the European Community than any amount of leaflets and party political broadcasts can . ’ |
| 21 | Now , our visual arts policy could be summed up as follows : It 's our main concern to bring about a social financial climate more conducive to the health of the visual arts than that which we find ourselves in at present . |
| 22 | Women use more of the standard variants than men of the same social class . |
| 23 | Now modal tag is one for seeking agreement whereas an effective tag is one that shows concern to the addressee and according to this study , if you looked and the sheer number of tags , women did use more tags than men , but in actual fact women used a higher proportion of the effective tags than men did . |
| 24 | They suggested perhaps that more remained of the pre-1979 order than Thatcherite zealots had imagined . |
| 25 | Voters indicated they were more interested in Mr Brazauskas ' competence in trying to drag the country out of the economic morass than in his political past . |
| 26 | Nothing could be further removed from the graceful garden-tombs of the Great Moguls than this warrior 's memorial , as narrowly militaristic as theirs were elegant and sophisticated . |
| 27 | In a relatively focused community such as Ballymacarrett , therefore , we observe much greater regularity in the patterning of the variable elements than we do in less focused communities , and we may further suggest that the variants used in such a focused community develop a clear and consistent pattern in their social functions . |
| 28 | We might go on to say that not only in the medieval period with its plainsong , but also today , the Church owes more to the prayer and music of the religious orders than it will ever appreciate . |
| 29 | Even if it had , the selfhood would be in the replicas of the gene scattered over different bodies ; that the gene , analogous though it is to species rather than to individual , has to be taken as the unit , is precisely because it is more useful for explanation to speak of the selfish gene than of the altruistic replica . |
| 30 | There is more to the story of the golden calf than the features we have already mentioned . |