Example sentences of "of [noun] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonconformists were slower to attempt some degree of unity than the Church of England , which began the Lambeth Conferences in 1867 . |
| 2 | Even with such adjustments the proportion may vary between the two approaches if local authority expenditure contains a different proportion of taxes than the GNP as a whole . |
| 3 | Yesterday Dr Morris said : ‘ The latest work will be a follow-up to an earlier study that showed how the community 's health was 30pc worse in some parts of Sunderland than the country as a whole , and 30pc worse again in parts of Middlesbrough . |
| 4 | However , this is n't likely to occur within the National Parks and although , as Table 8.2 shows , they have a higher percentage of woodland than the rest of the uplands , voluntary agreements to limit any further afforestation will reduce their relative share . |
| 5 | However , those less interested in the in-fighting in the House of Windsor than the environment will have noticed that Sarah Ferguson did one thing RIGHT . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This is a much lower threshold of liability than the notion of violence that underlay the common law concept . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I want more emphasis on the fear of deterrents than the fear of crime , ’ he said . |
| 11 | The level of the basic state pension is close to the level of Income Support , and pensioners with no other source of income than the state pension are also likely to be in receipt of means-tested benefits . |
| 12 | Roxburgh 's observation that high expectation can be dangerous might have carried more weight were it not for the fact that nobody appears to have a loftier opinion of Ferguson than the 21-year-old himself . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | As in the UK , outside organisers sponsor special research projects that need bigger wodges of money than the university can provide . |
| 15 | Possibly the direct effects of war on the Flemish cloth towns , which suffered from the campaigns , may have been a further benefit to English producers ; indeed this may have been a more important factor in the decline of Flanders than the tariff protection enjoyed by England , because the Dutch cloth industry , which used English wool , also developed at this time at the expense of the Flemish . |
| 16 | Didier Pironi , who was one of the brightest ones , had said , ‘ Driving is more a state of mind than the use of intelligence . |
| 17 | Playing an investment banker , something which perhaps requires greater suspension of disbelief than the film 's vision of the spirit world , Swayze gets to make all his crowd-pleasing moves in a novel setting . |
| 18 | Would this not indicate a greater love of dogma than a love of man ? |
| 19 | When discussing Dennett and Sloman below , I shall argue that the opacity of one level of programming language to another is a better preliminary model of consciousness than the inaccessibility of the contents of one module from another . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The report was , however , critical of the CCB , stating that there were strong suspicions that its operatives had been involved in " more crimes of violence than the evidence shows " . |
| 23 | The Moving Picture World described how ‘ the nickel palace of amusement made its appearance with no greater blare of trumpets than the noise of its phonograph horn and the throaty persuasions of its barker ’ and ‘ how these came unobtrusively in the still of the night ’ . |
| 24 | More is involved in the denial of prejudice than the rebuttal of actual criticisms , which might be made by specific others . |
| 25 | It is a truism that the executive search consultant hired has a stronger influence on the person eventually put on the short list of candidates than the client . |
| 26 | We live in an age of media saturation where the attention span bestowed on images and voices on the screen may be far greater during the years of maturation than the time and attention given to more traditional bulwarks of a civilised society . |
| 27 | He said the Budget was anti-poor and anti-Scottish because it cost 30 per cent more to heat homes in some parts of Scotland than the south-east of England . |
| 28 | Sexual selection only operates because individuals of one sex contribute more to the production of offspring than the other . |
| 29 | The '90s have not started well for Wales 's native cattle breed , but the halving of the Royal Welsh Black entries to 41 had more to do with the recession and choice of judge than the breed 's current popularity . |
| 30 | Chroniclers and poets in their embittered criticism of papal initiatives for peace were scarcely less vehement than the lords and commons in parliament , and when at last , in 1378 , an Italian pope was elected , an Englishman at Rome rejoiced because ‘ Previous popes and their cardinals had been greater enemies of the kingdom of England than the king of France himself . ’ |