Example sentences of "[noun sg] than of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is more a battle of style and speed than of brawn or luck . |
| 2 | Its companions emerged and approached the small fire , but stayed warily at a distance , more afraid of the flame than of the humans who had kindled it , Tallis decided . |
| 3 | Even the innocent bystander suspects that such claims contain more of wishful thinking than of substance , but he rarely realises how hard licensed dealers are . |
| 4 | Monteverdi 's Vespers were of course quite exceptional , yet common Venetian and North Italian practices were better adapted to the expression of human emotion than of transcendental faith . |
| 5 | The choice of that training is often more a question of guidance than of selection . |
| 6 | Furthermore , even if a surplus of wool was produced , there was perhaps more hope of selling it to the developing cloth industry than of disposing of grain which was not required , as a demand for clothing can be more flexible than one for food when men have additional purchasing power ( 59 ; 62 ) . |
| 7 | But its characteristics were more at the level of perception than of narrative : peripheral vision ; proximity to the image ; and massive amplification of sound . |
| 8 | Conversely , these paradoxes may prove to be matters more of perception than of reality . |
| 9 | So Naomi shepherds her elsewhere , to an earnest , ageing liberal , whose crisply greying beard speaks less of Torah scholarship than of Sitting Down against the Vietnam War in Grosvenor Square . |
| 10 | In addition the Senior Common Room prided itself on its Extraordinary Members , opening its doors to leading figures in the arts and industry , and in this way created the atmosphere , less of an educational institution than of one of London 's most interesting private clubs . |
| 11 | For a time we small cadets guarded railway bridges , with empty carbines , but were more frightened of the dark than of possible German invaders . |
| 12 | Perhaps because they were the first in the field , or more probably for deeply rooted socio-political reasons , the classicists have never been seriously challenged — theories have come and theories have gone but the belief in the control function of management has remained — even more so at the level of practice than of theory , although at that level , some insights can be gained . |
| 13 | A ‘ practitioner ’ view was also identified which was pragmatic , accepting elements of both the major value positions outlined here but being more aware of the need for different approaches in different individual cases , and more concerned about matters of detailed practice than of principle ( though this may mean simply that values and principles were not made explicit ) . |
| 14 | One party would be returned to office with an overall majority and implement its manifesto program , a program neither known nor supported by most electors and one drawn up on the basis more of party dogma than of a dispassionate and well-informed analysis of Britain 's problems . |
| 15 | Louisa was left feeling that she had been appointed audience to a play of the wife 's devising , one in which the heroine 's suffering was the principal theme and which might , indeed , have been moving had not the sense of theatre been so pronounced , and had the script been less expressive of a plaintive heart than of its tribulations . |
| 16 | Yet , given their potential influence , few outstanding sportsmen have used their position to challenge the notion of the legitimacy of sport as a way out and a method of social mobility , and few have pointed out that blacks ' continued domination of sport is more a reflection of limitations in other areas of a society permeated with racism than of blacks ' talent . |
| 17 | The type of household lived in is better considered a consequence of the stage they have reached in their life course than of their age per se ( Dale 1987 ) . |
| 18 | Connolly 's observation is often taken to confirm him as a better judge of literature than of politics , but in many ways he was remarkably prescient : Home was indeed ‘ honourably ineligible ’ for the new age which was dawning in the Tory party . |
| 19 | You may also expect more love and support than of late . |
| 20 | But the role and powers proposed are less those of an ombudsman than of a commissar . |
| 21 | The company was less a victim of the recession than of the peace dividend , having geared up for military orders which failed to materialise . |
| 22 | Alice never spoke of him except casually but on the few occasions , like last night 's dinner party , when she had seen them together they seemed to have the intuitive mutual awareness , an instinctive response to the other 's needs , more typical of a long-standing successful marriage than of an apparently casual fraternal relationship . |
| 23 | Being middle class was becoming more a matter of consumption than of belief . |
| 24 | The issue however is less one of autarchy than of encouraging self-help and mutual support and providing mechanisms of help — financial , educational , technological — which recognise this aim . |
| 25 | He is , then , perhaps less guilty of apparent error than of apparent inconsistency . |
| 26 | They concluded that the wary response is more characteristic of the social circumstance than of the individual 's level of development . |
| 27 | Its body was covered with a rough hair plagued with small ticks , and the skin was hardened with the scales of a fish , but its human parts were more like those of a sickly angel than of a man , for its hands were tense and agile , its eyes large and gloomy , and on its shoulder-blades it had the scarred-over and calloused stumps of powerful wings which must have been chopped off by a woodman 's axe . |
| 28 | The actual work of most councils continued to look more like the product of incremental growth and fragmented decision-making than of corporate policy-making . |
| 29 | Any competent bush mouse , not to mention man or elephant , can step aside and contemplate the whole grass-roots frenzy at leisure , an object less of menace than of strangeness and wonder , the culmination of an evolutionary story as different from that of mammals as it is possible to conceive in this world . |
| 30 | By the end of the eighteenth century , the Sussex yeoman had become less of a symbol of traditional English independence than of a recalcitrant inbred backwardness , perverse in his outlook . |