Example sentences of "more [prep] [adj] than [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That struggle was still concerned more with European than with colonial questions . |
| 2 | more in 1990-91 than in the previous year . |
| 3 | Reserve backing for the dollar deteriorated more in 1970 than during the previous decade . |
| 4 | But in my own brief experience of compiling papers on behalf of the institute I found far more in common than in conflict . |
| 5 | In effect males usually invest more in mating than in rearing but under certain circumstances must assist in rearing to ensure the survival of their offspring . |
| 6 | The Miller knows himself : He recognizes too how it is that that his tale may offend the Reeve , and responds to the Reeve in conciliatory terms : Most pertinently , he eschews the generalization of the fabliau image of the world : The Reeve , too , in his Prologue , speaks more in relative than in absolute terms . |
| 7 | The prostrate form of Calluna recorded from Hirta , St Kilda ( McVean 1961 ) , may be linked more to salt-burn than to altitudinal descent of the montane growth form . |
| 8 | At the outset it should be stressed that Mosley 's mode of reasoning owed far more to continental than to British tradition , to a synthesis of ideas rather than empiricism . |
| 9 | The idea that Christianity can only do justice to its beliefs by means of apparent contradictions ( the notion of ‘ paradox ’ ) owes more to Pascal than to any other religious thinker . |
| 10 | The translated version conforms more to Arabic than to English norms of cohesion . |
| 11 | The fourth principle is that ‘ personal data held for any purpose or purposes shall be adequate , relevant and not excessive in relation to that purpose or those purposes ’ — and there is more to this than at first meets the eye . |
| 12 | Why they came into existence , whether those about which one has information represent the now-visible signs of a systematic attempt by the Ottomans to provide in the provinces muftis of a high standard , appointed by the central government , or whether , on the other hand , they came into existence in a more haphazard way , more by individual than by systematic " governmental " initiative , is difficult to say . |
| 13 | The Report , echoing the research of the previous decade and the confidence of Crowther , asserted that the ‘ Newsom Children ’ ( as they were conveniently but inelegantly called ) were held back more by social than by genetic factors . |