Example sentences of "than with [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years as Japanese competition penetrates ever deeper , Western media coverage of Japan has been much more concerned with economics and trade than with conflict inside Japan . |
| 2 | Because much of a dolphin 's life is spent beyond the range of human observation , such basic characteristics as reproductive rates and life expectancy are much harder to measure than with birds and land mammals . |
| 3 | They may be associated with some features of society more than with others . |
| 4 | The sort of standardisation described above can happen however the delivery of care is organised , but it is perhaps more likely to occur with some ways of delivering care , or delivery systems than with others . |
| 5 | In between were those heads who dealt much more effectively and constructively with some staff than with others . |
| 6 | No doubt the material culture of the Russians was more highly developed than that of most Siberian peoples , in so far as they built log houses with wooden floors , windows and stoves ; wore clothing made of textiles woven from linen , hemp or wool ; used steam-baths ; were able to shoot game ( and people ) more efficiently with bullets than with arrows ; used vessels made of ceramics or metal ; provided themselves with grain and vegetables where natural conditions permitted , and so on . |
| 7 | Where the victim is under the age of 13 , it will often be desirable to prosecute the defendant with having unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl of that age rather than with rape . |
| 8 | For teachers who feel more comfortable with one-to-one meetings than with groups , various kinds of counselling can be sought , and again it may be possible to organize this so that unsympathetic colleagues or superiors do not find out . |
| 9 | On the contrary , many in the popular movement believe that Fatah has more interest , as one activist put it , in hospitals than in mobile health clinics , in bureaucracy than in local control , and in co-operation with the economic and political notables than with grass-roots movements . |
| 10 | Everywhere there was a new spirit of intellectual enquiry , a spirit that was to be associated not with the old monasteries but with new centres of learning and of study in the towns and connected more with secular masters than with monks . |
| 11 | Venturing out with a small baby is actually easier than with toddlers , who want to crawl , explore and get up to mischief . |
| 12 | Hence bureaucracies are more concerned with levels of activities ( e.g. hospital beds per thousand population , teacher-pupil ratios , expenditure on school books , expenditure on welfare provision , numbers of missiles and infantry divisions , the size of police forces or standards of accommodation in prisons ) , than with output , or rather outcomes , such as health standards , educational standards , defence capability or public safety . |
| 13 | Prorenin concentration increased proportionally less than active renin concentration with enalapril than with hydrochlorthiazide , which suggests that juxtaglomerular cell stimulation with enalapril was ineffective . |
| 14 | The success of the one-off rally prolonged the life of the movement and although it kept its basically evangelical outlook for a couple of years , Roy Wallis suggests that the likes of Peter Hill began to be replaced by a leadership that was ‘ more directly concerned with the civic-political aspects of moral reform , rather than with evangelism . ’ |
| 15 | Or to use another of Mr Airlie 's sayings : ‘ You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar ’ . |
| 16 | The trouble is that too many people in the Labour party are more concerned with scaring than with caring . |
| 17 | In this connection Kant is somewhat notorious for sometimes seeming to think it better to help those in need out of a sheer sense of duty , without feeling any sympathy for them , than with feelings of loving kindness . |
| 18 | At least two felt much more confident working with stock than with crops . |
| 19 | Within this overall picture of general satisfaction , it should be noted that — among the main types of credit — fewer people were very satisfied with HP arrangements than with credit cards , shop accounts and mail order ; money loans fell between the two . |
| 20 | Parents were often in the foreground of the picture but their relationship with teachers rather than with governors themselves was not often highlighted . |
| 21 | Mothers tend to be less indulgent and more demanding with daughters at this age than with sons , and fathers to be similarly favourably inclined towards their daughters . |
| 22 | However , there is general agreement that using Creole is more appropriate with " friends " than with members of the older generation . |
| 23 | The next stage may be more concerned with reorganisation than with ideology . |
| 24 | As might be expected , repeated use is far more common with credit cards and mail order than with HP and money loans . |
| 25 | In Britain , for the Irish entering in search of a new life , Liverpool and London stations were their gateways to the streets more often paved with misery than with gold . |
| 26 | It 's all to do with revenge and punishment rather than with forgiveness . |
| 27 | When it comes to choosing cavalry you have fewer options than with infantry but you are still spoiled for choice compared to most armies . |
| 28 | There was evidence that pupils had more experience with skills than with work which might probe their understanding . |
| 29 | For Tate 's very distinguished criticism , then and afterwards , was always more concerned with the socio-cultural conditions for poetry than with poetry itself . |
| 30 | Crocodiles are also capable of some slight degree of regeneration after losing a tail-tip , but the process is far less efficient than with lizards . |