Example sentences of "of [noun] than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It arose from some very good scientific research into smells that animals like and there 's no animal with a better sense of smell than a dog . |
| 2 | By its insistence on the generalized imminence of revolution — more an article of faith than a result of pragmatic observation — the Comintern was at least partly responsible for the Nghe-Tinh disaster . |
| 3 | There can be no greater cause of friction than a fund raising event losing money and having to be rescued by hard earned funds from other sources . |
| 4 | 2. can it offer an adequate , and perhaps more than adequate explanation of the phenomenon of existence than a denial of the existence of God can ? |
| 5 | Would this not indicate a greater love of dogma than a love of man ? |
| 6 | Indeed , it is often the ability of management to agree the deal with much less protection in the way of warranties than a trade purchaser would accept that helps management to win the deal from the vendor . |
| 7 | Those who argue that rape should be viewed as more a crime of violence than a crime of sex might also prefer the scope of rape to be confined in this way . |
| 8 | Yet there could be no more symbolic act of defiance than a currency with a separate exchange rate against the rouble . |
| 9 | Induction , on the other hand , seems more like a form of inference than a form of knowledge . |
| 10 | At least it was some other form of transport than a horse . |
| 11 | No sooner had Mr Mason joined the group of guests than a servant entered to announce the arrival of an old gipsy woman , who was supposed to be a skilled fortune-teller . |
| 12 | The last of the Blackadder adventures says more about the reality of war than a host of documentaries . |
| 13 | Obviously , a child returning from school to find his own study quarters where he has books at his disposal and sympathetic parents who can offer cogent remarks on his work and broaden his outlook with lively , stimulating conversation , will be able to get more out of education than a child who , when doing his homework , has to share the kitchen table with plates , cutlery and cruet as well as the pet cat and having to contend with ‘ Crossroads ’ as the main intellectual challenge of the evening . |
| 14 | This talk of the ‘ common spiritual etymon [ i.e. origin ] , the psychological root ’ of stylistic forms sounds more like my definition of the stylistics of manner than a view of style as representation . |
| 15 | Unskilled trainees will require a great deal of supervision and so efficient management will call for a smaller span of control than a situation where the employees are experienced . |
| 16 | It all came back to that greatest of Italian national defects , which is less an attitude of xenophobia than a reflection of its people 's belief that Italy is God 's country and Italians God 's chosen . |
| 17 | There is , however , obviously a great deal more to the history of Siberia than a catalogue of criminality and cold . |
| 18 | The Gardon was so full of silt ( plus the occasional dead sheep or cow ) that looking down from the third floor of the Pont du Gard it looked more like a flow of molasses than a river . |
| 19 | Behind him Hrun screamed , but it sounded more like a bellow of rage than a cry of pain . |
| 20 | Because of this , Figure 4 looks more like a pedigree of species than a pedigree of individuals , but the principle is the same . |
| 21 | Even though a patient aged 80 years will usually face a higher operative mortality and a shorter expectation of life than a patient aged 40 years , it does not follow that surgery is not worthwhile for the 80 year old . |
| 22 | Hinduism is followed by 85 per cent of India 's population and is more a way of life than a religion . |
| 23 | The action of a single tyrant may be more potent to inflict suffering on the continent of Europe than a combination of less powerful persons . ’ |
| 24 | He has not acknowledged that more people are now moving out of unemployment than a year ago . |
| 25 | And it 's less an explicit critique of men than a consensus shared between women — they share it as much with their grandmothers as with women 's liberation . |
| 26 | Better an ounce of prevention than a pound of cure ! |
| 27 | For him it now became less a place of protest than a refuge for failures , free-loaders and misfits . |