Example sentences of "than [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than about the working of the place cos . |
| 2 | I knew Flora cared no more about my opinions than about the opinions of the rather derelict Arabs , drinking Coca-Cola at the bar — probably a good deal less , in fact , since theirs would be useful copy for her — but she was kind enough to pretend that she did , drew me out and flattered me until I felt witty and successful and told outrageous stories about people we knew . |
| 3 | That tells me much more about the behaviour of Oppositions than about the behaviour of Governments . |
| 4 | The critics were more enthusiastic about Dustin 's performance as the eccentric clerk than about the play , which limped through eleven performances , although it and Dustin won Obie awards — off-Broadway 's equivalent of the Tony . |
| 5 | I even knew a chap in hospital once who was more concerned about his totally symptomless brain tumour than about the lobar pneumonia from which he was cheerfully recovering . |
| 6 | The governments going to Washington next month understand that ; and in working out what to sign up for , they will know more about the likely costs of taking action than about the benefits . |
| 7 | The preferences of individual students may be determined in whole or part by the collective feeling about the teacher rather than about the subject itself . |
| 8 | This curious list , published in the Guardian last November , perhaps said more about Sister Wendy 's concern for poetic painterliness than about the state of women 's creativity , yet is does highlight the growing regard in which Roxy Walsh 's work is held . |
| 9 | Thus although it may be quite safe to sow grasses and clovers on dry soils in the regions of low rainfall in the South and East of England in August , and in exceptional years even later , in regions of high rainfall such as prevail in Wales and most of the North and West of England it is likely to be somewhat risky to defer sowing later than about the middle of June . |
| 10 | Obviously this may tell you more about me than about the works themselves . |
| 11 | The authorities were more worried about this group than about the NL and only one document about it his so far been released , despite the fact that it was successfully infiltrated by several agents . |
| 12 | I 'd talked myself into caring more for some worn-out principle than about the reality of what was happening to us . |
| 13 | It was that point in the morning when people usually began to think about the soup and potatoes that were expected shortly , rather than about the books they were reading . |
| 14 | ‘ Karen was telling me you are writing about the workforce rather than about the plant 's operational side . |
| 15 | Their farms were usually small , often less than a hundred acres , and we know much less about them than about the gentry . |
| 16 | It was easier for this head to talk about methods of producing unity than about the ideals behind it . |
| 17 | The silly , extravagant , strange or ludicrous sound of an idea sometimes tells us more about ourselves , about our prejudices and resistance to change , than about the truth contained in the idea itself . ’ |
| 18 | Other infantrymen were irked by the impersonal casualness with which the heavy gunners crews emerged from their comfortable shelters to fire at targets they could not see , ‘ appearing to be much less concerned than about the soup or the bucket of wine which had just been brought ’ |
| 19 | One wonders whether it does not say more about the worker than about the client . |
| 20 | But Henry was more concerned about the political repercussions of the advances he was making on the Continent than about the troubles of the church of Canterbury . |
| 21 | Other than as the objects of an occasional bout of jungle fever , other than to provide local colour or to lend some touch of verisimilitude or to supply a needed moral gesture , humour , or bit of pathos , blacks made no appearance at all . |
| 22 | It is less , however , as an authoritative survey of 20th century design than as the opportunity to counter the notion of a monolithic and omniscient museological history that this new gallery represents a tantalising prospect for the future . |
| 23 | In this way particularization is viewed as operating in the service of categorization , rather than as the counterpart , which provides the possibility of negation . |
| 24 | 2.17 This exercise has been described in a different way by Lord Diplock in Mallett v McMonagle [ 1970 ] AC 166 at p174 : The purpose of an award of damages under the Fatal Accidents Act is to provide the widow and other dependants of the deceased with a capital sum , which , with prudent management , will be sufficient to supply them with material benefits of the same standards and duration as would have been provided for them out of the earnings of the deceased had he not been killed by the tortious act of the defendant , credit being given for the value of any material benefits which will accrue to them ( otherwise than as the fruits of insurance ) as a result of his death . |
| 25 | Clearly Adalard 's influence was great ( Nithard was not alone in identifying Ermentrude as " Adalard 's niece " rather than as the daughter of Count Odo of Orléans , Adalard 's brother-in-law , though an obvious reason could have been that Odo had died eight years before , perhaps leaving Ermentrude in her uncle 's care ) . |
| 26 | The Victorian historian Macaulay may well have been right when he stated that the Cornish , ‘ … a fierce , bold and athletic race , among whom there was a stronger provincial feeling than in any other part of the realm ’ , were not so much concerned with the matter of religious principle on which Bishop Trelawney had made his stand ; Trelawney was ‘ … reverenced less as a ruler of the Church than as the head of an honourable house and the heir , through twenty descents , of ancestors who had been of great note before the Normans had set foot on English ground ’ . |
| 27 | James Wood , Director of the Art Institute of Chicago , conveyed a suspicion held by most high-level museum administrators : ‘ I would assume that these exhibitions have been tailored more as events than as the kind of exhibitions that are being sought after by the major museums ’ . |
| 28 | They reckoned that they had already entered into their reign with Christ : they were already rich already filled with the powers of the Age to Come ( 1 Cor 4:8 ) Paul comes down immediately like a ton of bricks on this attitude which regards the Spirit as a medium of religious experience or an embodiment of supernatural power , rather than as the vocation to and equipment for the role of the Servant . |
| 29 | He had returned to Poland on Jan. 4 to answer the charge , and on Jan. 7 it was reported that a lesser charge was being substituted because prosecutors had ruled that Tyminski had attacked Mazowiecki as a rival candidate rather than as the holder of state office . |
| 30 | Perhaps all judges do accept the authority of the Constitution as a matter of convention rather than as the upshot of sound political theory . |