Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [prep] [noun] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | His voice was impressive , the accent almost a drawl , ‘ My own view would be that the notion of sacrilege belongs rather to superstition than religion in our age . ’ |
| 2 | But the disparity lies less in tone than in technique : like rather a lot of modern movies , Bye Bye Blues lacks the capacity to formulate its material rather than just present it to the audience and leave them to do the rest . |
| 3 | ‘ They break the rules because Bawden cares less for rules than for the things he has to say about the feel of a summer morning , the watery sunshine of an April afternoon , or the flurry of a February snowstorm . ’ |
| 4 | Your Aunt Emily lives more in society than we do . |
| 5 | Mr Smith assures us that this ‘ strength ’ is because the Labour Party owes more to Methodism than to Marxism . |
| 6 | To talk of policy in matters of care except in the context of available resources and timescales for action owes more to theology than to the purposeful delivery of a caring service . |
| 7 | NO BRITISH sport owes more to television than athletics . |
| 8 | The most striking Iraqi achievement so far has been the saving of its air force , a feat that owes more to engineering than combat . |
| 9 | Triticale looks more like wheat than its other parent , rye . |
| 10 | This is known as a tree diagram ( although it looks more like roots than branches ) . |
| 11 | The magnetopause is closest to Jupiter on the sunward side but never lies closer to Jupiter than about twice the distance of the orbit of the outermost Galilean satellite . |
| 12 | Accreditation is then perceived as a safety net , but here again consultant appointment depends less on accreditation than on possession of the required skills and training . |
| 13 | Unlike all other HIS products , sucralose is derived from sugar — so it tastes more like sugar than any other sweetener . |
| 14 | The tarot cards he uses are used in many parts of the world to play card games , where their association with ‘ fortune ’ refers more to luck than knowledge . |
| 15 | A local council can spend more than its total guideline if it finances more from sales than the government assumes . |
| 16 | Sound travels better in water than in air , and as the fish 's body contains a high proportion of water within it , the sound waves penetrate the skull and reach the semicircular canals without the aid of the special passage needed by vertebrates that live in air . |
| 17 | The article continues : ’ Sports bodies are denied resources by government , which takes more from sport than it ever gives back . |
| 18 | In this and other ways Monet upheld and renewed the Northern landscape tradition which relies less on theory than individual experience . |
| 19 | Leaving behind low living standards and poor conditions in work and study seems more like rejection than adaptation . |
| 20 | There might be a faint possibility that it is being bound , although this applies more to periodicals than to textbooks . |
| 21 | These influences have also been likened to the forces effected by a millenarian journey to a new faith ( Jacobi 1967 ) , for they are compelled by an integration of the ego and the unconscious into a vision which demands more from society than the ‘ acceptable satisfactions ’ . |
| 22 | If its dramatic focus seems different , it is because Carlo Rizzi 's tempi are rather faster than those adopted by Clive Timms ; the action progresses less with inexorability than by abrupt shifts of mood . |
| 23 | See if he feels more like talking than last time . ’ |
| 24 | According to the wily anglophile Right-winger William Safire , the ‘ British election means more to America than usual ’ this time because the parallels are even sharper . |
| 25 | He seeks less of his own company and moves more towards others than away from them . |
| 26 | over the past 10 years and that this country now exports more per head than even the Japanese ? |
| 27 | Denis Smith says there 's nothing he likes better in life than winning football matches and victory tomorrow will delight him |
| 28 | Has the Minister accepted the argument which was put strongly to him and to which he listened carefully that day , that it makes no sense for Northumberland to be forced by Government spending restrictions to cut £3.5 million from its education budget when it spends less per pupil than most other authorities ? |
| 29 | An attractive but slow-growing species which does better in emerse than submerse conditions . |
| 30 | It spends more on housing than all other cities in America combined . |