Example sentences of "than with a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most crucially , the report still viewed unemployment as something requiring periodic relief rather than with a sense of understanding of how relief and cure were bound up together . |
| 2 | The common English proverb " Early to bed and early to rise , makes a man healthy , wealthy and wise " is less concerned with self-denial than with a prescription for regular habits . |
| 3 | The reason why they turned to anthropology and history had more to do with their analysis of capitalism than with a concern with pre-capitalist societies for themselves . |
| 4 | There is no better way , young or old , to enjoy the festive side of Christmas than with a visit to the pantomime . |
| 5 | And after a long day 's walking , what better way to end it than with a glass of cider in one of St Ives ' treasures — The Three Ferrets . |
| 6 | Dealing otherwise than with a view to making a profit or avoiding a loss |
| 7 | The most important defence is trading other than with a view to making a profit or avoiding a loss . |
| 8 | Section 4(1) ( c ) provides : ( c ) ( i ) that the only supply of the product to another by the person proceeded against was otherwise than in the course of a business of that person 's ; and ( c ) ( ii ) that section 2(2) above does not apply to that person or applies to him by virtue of things done otherwise than with a view to profit … |
| 9 | By the time English had situated itself as a centre of learning and teaching at all universities in the early 1930s , its ethos and evaluative criteria were those associated with a masculine profession , rather than with a programme of national cultural intervention . |
| 10 | For some , entering the market as consumers had more to do with necessity than with a growth in personal income . |
| 11 | Mrs Hill was a small , plump , middle-aged woman , with fine frizzy hair which she encased in a fine frizzy hair net ; she always wore a purple and blue flowered pinny , a garment more in keeping with an aunt or a cleaner than with a lover of science . |
| 12 | Once he was in power , this alternative view would argue , his policies were more consistent with a belief that it was still feasible to salvage some kind of organic link between France and Algeria than with a belief in the inevitability of complete rupture . |