Example sentences of "than with [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the Town and Country Planning Act of 1947 the granting of planning permission for rural housing has arguably been concerned with the visual quality of the countryside rather than with alleviating problems of housing need . |
| 2 | He 's a very bright man , Michael Howard , but it 's quite clear that he 's much more concerned with grabbing the headlines and finding scapegoats , than with taking action through law that will actually improve the chance , both of preventing crime and of detecting crime , and then even more so , deterring people from re-offending , and it 's most distressing to see that when research showed that a particular non-custodial method of punishment is effective in perhaps fifty or seventy or eighty percent of cases , whereas prison is not , he goes for prison , he goes for picking on squatters , he goes for picking on the defendants right to silence so that we can see more people like er , jailed when they were innocent . |
| 3 | The emphasis was thus on using firms for the development of a local area and for its people — rather than with using people for the development of private firms in an area . |
| 4 | Indeed , the leadership of the Communist party were more concerned with opposing fascism abroad , recruiting for the Spanish Civil War and developing trade union activity and housing associations than with fighting Mosley on the streets . |
| 5 | It was noted in Chapter I that attempts in the early nineteenth century to put Beccaria 's classical programme into practice encountered severe difficulties : the desire to make punishment solely concerned with effective deterrence , rather than with equating suffering with desert , proved to be unacceptable on the grounds of its retributive injustice . |