Example sentences of "[art] [adj] than [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think the purpose is more to encourage the faithful than to change minds or hearts . |
| 2 | In part , this was because of the spread of liberal ideas and institutions since 1815 ; governments were tending to be less the oppressors of the governed than identified with them , though this process had still far to go in 1880 . |
| 3 | But McGrath , who has had eight operations on his knees , revealed this could be his swansong , saying : ‘ I will decide at the end of the season , but I 'd rather quit at the top than drop down to a lower level , and the knees cause me a lot of pain . |
| 4 | Command of these rules and conventions is more likely to increase the freedom of the individual than diminish it . |
| 5 | The fact was , the Rector had no sense of priorities — he would be happier washing the feet of the poor than ordering a dignified social life such as a woman in Mrs Frere 's position had the right to expect . |
| 6 | The Edinburgh Evening News picked up the point during the dispute and commented that " the old story of the men 's dislike to machinery appears in this dispute just as it was with the engineers " , 25 Whatever the reason or reasons , the men 's unwillingness to handle the machines led directly to the situation of the late 1900s in which Edinburgh master printers were trying to counter the threat of London and southern firms by combining both the employment of women and the use of machines , thus posing a double threat of a new kind to the male compositor , and inspiring a more determined resistance from the latter than had been seen during the previous thirty-odd years . |
| 7 | He would rather fight in the open than wait to murder the other when he falls asleep , but is so much the weaker that to fight without an advantage would amount to suicide . |
| 8 | It will be in the female 's best interests to lay just four eggs and rear all the young than to lay seven eggs and produce a brood of weaklings . |
| 9 | When the same species was found occupying two separate territories , it made more sense to work out how it could have migrated from one to the other than to assume that it had been created independently in each area . |
| 10 | A number than went for him and it was then Mr Johnson brandished a kitchen knife . |
| 11 | It 's no stranger than joining the army and coming home on your first leave with a moustache . |
| 12 | It 's no dearer than going to the Ritz , it 's just the journey |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd sooner be a crisp than survive . |
| 14 | Escaping from the quire was no easier than getting into it . |
| 15 | A nearby resident said : ‘ I think it 's terrible — no better than listening with an ear to a keyhole . ’ |
| 16 | A seasoned assessor will soon spot someone who is not taking an active and full part in the activity and it will be regarded as no better than trying to force your way on to the centre stage . |
| 17 | It was a three-eight Webley revolver , which Mallachy derided as an infamously inefficient piece , issued for God knows how long to British Army officers , and policemen , and other types who knew no better than to accept it as their side-arm . |
| 18 | What is quite clear is that any success will rest on the basic sciences of virology and molecular biology , and that , without research into obscure aspects of these subjects the direct hunt for new cures would be no better than shooting in the dark with unfamiliar weapons at an undefined target . |
| 19 | But when MacDonald saw the King again at 10.20 p.m. , to report that he ‘ had no alternative than to tender the resignation of the Cabinet ’ , the King ‘ impressed on the Prime Minister that he was the only man to lead the country through this crisis and hoped he would reconsider the situation . |
| 20 | Nineteen days after the Sunday when he was deemed to have no alternative than to resign in ignominy his leadership was more secure than at any time since the 1929 election . |
| 21 | Brakeman for Great Britain Two , Edd helped the team to a better than expected thirteenth place after the first two of the four runs . |
| 22 | That 48½inch long weapon , described by some as a monstrosity and others as an affront to decency and the Royal and Ancient game , has , according to Sam , done no less than salvage his entire career . |
| 23 | Florian stopped his theatrically narrow-eyed scrutiny of Maria and grinned at Luke , who must have been telling the truth because he was all attention , no less than riveted . |
| 24 | ‘ A very big ‘ oh ’ , ’ Ven murmured , and , seeming to take it favourably that she was not snatching her hands out of his clasp , ‘ What is happening to me , can I think , when I , who value my privacy and do not need an intrusive journalist in my home , find that I have done no less than invite you to my home for dinner ? ’ |
| 25 | Its purpose Augean — no less than to perform an act of reparation for the sins of students everywhere . |
| 26 | After early work on the design and building of hostels for the Ministry of Supply , Holford was recruited to the Reconstruction Group to serve Lord Reith at the Ministry of Works ; his job , together with that of a team assembled under him and a career civil servant , H.L.G. Vincent , was no less than to secure an immediate strengthening of the planning system and the encouragement of planning work in local authorities . |
| 27 | The paucity of available evidence concerning the foundation of the institution and the activities of the early Muftis means that one can hope to do no more than to draw reasonable inferences from the little evidence that does exist ; and some of what can be said about these problems involves a projection backward from the activities of later Muftis and will therefore be considered in greater detail in later sections . |
| 28 | The sun was shining at two thousand feet , but it did no more than lacquer the fog . |
| 29 | I agree with it in its entirety and would , in the ordinary way , be content to do no more than express my concurrence both in the reasoning and in the result . |
| 30 | To argue now for its prioritization means no more than demanding as much attention be given to it as there is to street crimes . |