Example sentences of "from [noun] than [adv] " in BNC.

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1 First , in the sense that unlike words or utterances , images signify iconically , i.e. through resemblance , and hence are less different from referents than properly linguistic signifiers .
2 Jinny rattled on , less from politeness than just to try and cover the terrible , wooden silence .
3 You know it 's much better watching this from home than here !
4 At some maintenance depots the establishment of specific sub-sector pools led to significant improvements to reliability , even though in many cases the locomotives concerned were travelling further from home than ever before .
5 Ross 's complaint was that astronomy was more in need of confirmation from Scripture than vice-versa .
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