Example sentences of "than [art] [noun sg] with " in BNC.

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1 Born outside the pompous circumstance of the court , she was relaxed and convivial and far less snobbish than most of the Shahs family. , Through the sixties she began to emerge as a warmhearted , rather cultured figure who was much easier with her role than the Shah with his .
2 Unlike the sample as a whole , for whom the proportion with " stop-gap " first jobs was higher than the proportion with temporary first jobs , for those initially becoming unemployed as a result of the ending of a temporary job it was lower ( 38 per cent ) .
3 To his right wing the Zoo stretched away in the distance ; Three Island Pond he recognized as a paler shape than the rest with lights on the paths around to mark it out ; the Cages were in front of it with several Men around them .
4 However , when these differences were revealed it was difficult to know which side feared cancelling the project most — ironically it might be the donor with its vested interest in a cumulative increase in annual disbursements , rather than the government with several hundred projects of which at least a half could be in the same state .
5 Nothing had done more to encourage this belief than the Church with its ecclesiastical calendar and regulations concerning what could or could not be done on specific days .
6 And the wealthiest woman in the country , shipping heiress CHRISTINE GOULANDRIS , is almost three times richer than the monarch with a fortune of £290 million .
7 While I had liked the Colonello very much , because of his courteous way of talking to me , I never really took to Camino — who seemed more English than the English with his stiff upper lip — although subsequently he behaved very well .
8 It is expressed without superfluity by the conditional with " if " rather than the conditional with " since " .
9 The kitchen door was much younger than the cottage with two frosted glass panels in the top half .
10 I think it right to bear in mind the evidence of Mr a solicitor now specializing in re-habilitation work who is himself alas wheelchair bound , erm , he has directly relevant experience and he expressed the view that er two ramps leading up to the vehicle from the rear could be unsafe and were in his view generally less satisfactory than the platform with which the conversion equips the Nissan Serena , in those circumstances it seems to me I really have no choice but to er adopt the alternative of the conversion and er there is an agreed figure of thirty nine thousand , eight hundred and sixty six pounds in relation to that .
11 And this is more than the ambition with which I began , and more than my son 's inheritance .
12 The cancer subgroup , even those with very early tumours , had significantly lower cholesterol values than the group with polyps alone .
13 How indeed , when Almsmead was so much better in every way than this creaking old hall and the Goldsboroughs ' possibly valuable but , in her view , horribly antique furniture which had come with it , held together , she often thought , by little more than the beeswax with which it was polished .
14 Dean Jones lost no time in demonstrating his ability to hit the ball hard and often on his competitive debut for Durham , but the boundaries he scattered around and beyond the ropes during their Sunday League win over Lancashire were no more impressive than the speed with which he hurtled the singles and made ones into twos .
15 Seb should have been overjoyed at the news that Anna was not to marry the educated young gipsy , but he knew that unless Boz explained it to her — preferably in a more diplomatic way than the manner with which he had just broken the news to Seb — she would be devastated .
16 Caretaker manager Malcolm Crosby expects a tougher game against bottom-of-the-table Plymouth at Roker Park tonight than the clash with runaway Second Division leaders Ipswich Town .
17 It is this too which causes me personally to be deeply resentful of the practice so prevalent in the mass of fiscal and planning legislation of relegating provisions of real substance to Schedules which are sometimes cross-referenced between one another , so that construing the statute becomes a sort of verbal jigsaw puzzle that can only be solved by laying out numerous copies of the Act open at different pages or by the judicious use of more fingers than the number with which nature has been pleased to endow us .
18 Moses , who is far more sophisticated than the shepherd with his naive faith , asks , " And does God drink it ? "
19 So a thirty year old service might be entirely different than a person with ten years service deferring his pension .
20 After all , what could be better than a get-together with local musicians , listening to your favourite gear played how it should be played , and the all-important bottle of Carlsberg !
21 ‘ I have promised to take big fights all over the country and they come no bigger than a bout with a world title at stake , ’ Hearn said .
22 Indeed , the over spill factor had a longer history than a concern with post-coal industrial restructuring , since the plans of the 1940s and early 1950s had assumed stable employment in coal .
23 The opposition though feels nothing more than a tickle with a feather boa , obviously a pink one .
24 Much better than a line-out with them throwing-in on half-way .
25 Whereas the parachute keeps the cable under tension as it drops , if there is a cross wind it tends to drift much more than a rope with no chute .
26 It can perform any action other than a communication with the terminated process ( which clearly can not agree to any communication ) .
27 The one on the left was half open , revealing a narrow kitchen , little more than a passage with a sink and draining board under a window at the far end , a cooker , refrigerator , a small table and a wooden chair on one side and on the other a laminated work-surface with cupboards and drawers below and a run of shelves above .
28 ENGLAND fly-half Rob Andrew is returning to Wasps after playing less than a year with French club Toulouse .
29 In The Godfather , Don Corleone says : ‘ A lawyer with a briefcase can rob more money in a week than a man with a gun can take in a year . ’
30 I can not imagine that , as Sir Russell was granted that post , he is regarded as anything other than a man with eminently good sense .
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