Example sentences of "with the [noun] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | He feels more affinity with the Beltex than the French Texel and says the word ‘ Beltex ’ has been conjured up by UK interests . |
| 2 | More popular with the public than with his party , Mr Rocard would make a strong Socialist candidate for president . |
| 3 | He seems to have enjoyed greater success with the public than he did at home , however . |
| 4 | She did n't seem interested ; she had been ill while he was away , and spent most of the day in her chair , listening to the radio , more involved with the programmes than in what he was doing . |
| 5 | Old residents say they have more in common with the latinos than with the ultra-rich who have taken over their valley . |
| 6 | However , the DUP still enjoys better relationships with the paramilitaries than does the Official Unionist Party . |
| 7 | Merely refusing to shop in Smiths , gives us even less of a voice with the stocklists than previously . |
| 8 | Indeed , if taken at their face value , these measures suggest that Reagan was less successful in his dealings with the legislature than almost any other modern president . |
| 9 | But as historians they were more concerned with the past than the present , so they only gradually came to realize that the two were in many ways inseparable : both that remembering itself could be a help to the present lives of those telling their story , and also that the memory could be profoundly shaped by subsequent experience and this needed to be known to interpret it more effectively . |
| 10 | It is easier , in some ways , to labour with the past than the present . |
| 11 | A young child faced with a row of cups and a pile of saucers might have no other way of finding whether he has enough saucers to put with the cups than to match them as far as possible , one-to-one . |
| 12 | Light reds , such as Beaujolais , have less contact with the skins than tannic reds , like Bordeaux . |
| 13 | In other words , they felt more confident about their capacity to deal with the tsar than at any point since the end of the 1820s . |
| 14 | Of the many reasons for adopting the concept of emancipation with land , none weighed more strongly with the tsar than the advice of a proven traditionalist and long-term friend . |
| 15 | In New Zealand , music groups seem to get on better with the incumbent than many an organist . |
| 16 | There was public and media speculation that the real purpose of the ANC 's letter was to rally its supporters in the townships , and to fend off criticism that it attached more importance to pressing on with constitutional negotiations with the government than to defending its own people . |
| 17 | Green realized he was better with the pencil than writing but made his excuse ‘ were his information for the satisfaction of an individual only , he would prefer the former as a vehicle for information , but to give to the public a numerous series of explanations all cloathed in bodily forms ; besides time and other minor considerations , it is necessary to consult the copper smith , the printer , and the paper merchant . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ There are a lot more youngsters with the problem than I thought there were . |
| 19 | He doubts ‘ whether the significance which the certainty of the law has for the smooth and efficient working of economic life can be exaggerated ’ and suggests that ‘ there is probably no single factor which has contributed to the greater prosperity of the Western world compared with the Orient than the relative certainty of the law which in the West had early been achieved ’ . |
| 20 | That Elizabeth needed careful handling is shown in a letter to Burghley from Henry Savile , who wanted Burghley 's help in a suit because his commendation , coming in cold blood and sober judgement , would weigh more heavily with the Queen than ‘ all the affectionate speech ’ of the Earl of Essex . |
| 21 | On the contrary , the TEI community is a particularly demanding one : the purpose of research is to discover solutions to problems that have not yet been posed , and any scheme designed to support research must therefore place more emphasis on flexibility and extensibility to cope with the unforeseen than on highly optimized solutions to well understood problems . |
| 22 | Mansell had taken pole — a record 14th in a season — but Senna 's stunning lap , good enough for the front row , while perhaps having more to do with the driver than the car , revealed that McLaren was closer than usual this year to Williams . |
| 23 | But when the chips are down and he 's feeling blue , Charlie sees himself as ‘ The Maryhill Hermit ’ , a victim of his public image , and a man who would rather have a quiet night with the wife than a night out with the wild bunch . |
| 24 | Perhaps the concept has come to be more closely associated with the Conservatives than the other major parties . |
| 25 | Thus it is likely to work much better with the OED than with shorter dictionaries ’ . |
| 26 | Politically orthodox Bulgaria may have more or an interest in good trading relations with the West than was once the case ; but would she alter anything by way of political character , or even policy , to this end ? |
| 27 | Murdock stayed in Cornwall for about 19 years and got on much better with the miners than Watt had done . |
| 28 | Delisting would do Jardine Matheson no good in Hong Kong ( though it would certainly do less harm if it were attributed to a row with the regulators than , say , to lack of faith in the future of the place ) . |
| 29 | The exercise also helped to make crystal clear that the sympathies of the city officials lay more with the tannery than with their electorate . |
| 30 | This was a prevalent interpretation within the EEC , and one which was reinforced by the tone of the debate in the British House of Commons upon the Stockholm Convention , in which most speakers concentrated more upon the relationship with the EEC than upon the organisation and aims of EFTA . |