Example sentences of "than [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are more stories about immigration and the alleged evasion of immigration control than about other aspects of race relations , with the possible exception of the recent riots which the media often interpret as caused by ‘ racial ’ tension . |
| 2 | Why should the great mass of believing Christians in fact know less about the figure they worship than about historical figures of far less relevance ? |
| 3 | Elements of the page are described by their mathematical form instead of as a series of dots , typefaces are stored mathematically rather than as digitised characters . |
| 4 | Bishops were involved in other law suits , but more often than not this was as unofficial peacemakers , following the gospel injunction , rather than as official justices . |
| 5 | Indeed , Silicon Graphics is understood to have added an instruction to the Mips architecture for TFP , allowing multiplication and addition functions to be performed in a single batch rather than as separate operations , speeding floating point throughput . |
| 6 | It would make life a lot simpler to do these alterations when the words exist as digits in a computer 's memory , rather than as solid chunks of metal in the composing room . |
| 7 | Bad though they were , dramatic cyclical slumps in the developed countries now looked less like proofs of economic breakdown than as temporary interruptions of growth . |
| 8 | Why should a mixed bag of businesses perform better under the direction of a headquarters team , rather than as individual firms responding to external commercial pressures ? |
| 9 | An explanation for this negative attitude towards the union lies in the way the women identified themselves in terms of their domestic lives rather than as paid workers . |
| 10 | Best bought when in growth , rather than as dry bulbs ( corms ) . |
| 11 | But other shocks to the system followed in quick succession : a new language and culture ; the insensitivity , not always unintentional , of foster parents , teachers and hostel administrators ; the cruelty of other children ( and some adults ) who equated all things German with Nazism ; the coming-to-terms with the long-term or permanent loss of family and friends who had been left behind , and the awareness that refugees could not expect to be treated other than as second-class citizens — to mention only the common causes of illness and depression . |
| 12 | Many are fast-moving and able to avoid trawl nets , but less adept at avoiding penguins and seals ; most of the smaller species are better known from the stomach contents of predators than as independent catches . |
| 13 | First , all of these works follow the perspective outlined in The German Ideology and look at human societies as systems organizing production and reproduction rather than as institutional structures . |
| 14 | Complaints have been made in the past that the trustees are all too often content to act as passive recipients of their remuneration rather than as active watchdogs . |
| 15 | The popularity of the drama as a genre which participated in English or , more accurately , within London life of the period in ways other than as literary texts has become critically more significant during the past decade with the increased emphasis on literature 's cultural contexts . |
| 16 | ‘ A superordinate grouping in which it is explicitly stated that all members share a single attribute was , however , much more likely when linguistic predicates were formed as complete sentences with copula [ ‘ they are round ’ ] than as incomplete sentences without . |
| 17 | This attitude may have the effect of blunting the critical edge of press coverage , by encouraging court reporters to perceive themselves as part and parcel of the court process , rather than as objective critics of its workings . |
| 18 | These supposedly extreme propositions are much better understood as provocative statements of a political position than as semantic claims . |
| 19 | He also stresses that the new female values encouraged marriage for love rather than for prudential considerations , and maintains that women 's increasing search for sexual fulfilment pushed up the general fertility rate of lower-class marriages in the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | The loss of key staff can be expensive in other ways too — their contracts may well provide for more costly redundancy provisions than for junior employees . |
| 21 | This reality creates very different culture problems for North American managers in , say , California , than for Japanese managers in Tokyo facing an essentially homogeneous workforce . |
| 22 | Charge transfer transitions are less important for the f-block elements than for d-block elements , mainly because they are less likely to form complexes with ligands having suitable donor orbitals . |
| 23 | However , the sex of the fetus will be known in numerous situations of antenatal diagnosis other than for sex-linked diseases , and it now seems that some women seek abortions merely because they are dissatisfied with the sex of the fetus . |
| 24 | Mr Lang claimed that Scottish spending per head ‘ was a substantially higher average figure than for equivalent services in England ’ . |
| 25 | Michael Jones says : ‘ Brittany is particularly rich in manor houses — thousands survive and the serious study of them is much less advanced than for equivalent buildings in England . |
| 26 | An even bigger problem for Germany than for other countries |
| 27 | The light , strongly-bonded carbon atoms can vibrate at unusually high frequencies , so the frequency of the radiation absorbed is very much higher for diamond than for other materials . |
| 28 | As we have already seen , it is more difficult to agree a common vision for the development of mental health services than for other services because of the differing philosophies with which people approach individuals ' rights to refuse treatment and to take personal risks . |
| 29 | Although social workers were trained in dealing with stress , said Mr Gower , the whole subject of removing children from their parents was no less emotive for them than for other members of the community . |
| 30 | The Matchplay 's unique ‘ needlepunch ’ construction gives surface texture which , claims Anglian and Midland , makes sand infilling much easier than for other products . |