Example sentences of "with [adj] than [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That struggle was still concerned more with European than with colonial questions . |
| 2 | But what of Mr Major 's claim that Mr Ashdown has more in common with Labour than with the Tories and could be the Trojan horse with which Mr Kinnock bursts through the wrought-iron gates into Downing Street ? |
| 3 | Subsidiarity is an old doctrine from German Catholic social philosophy and has far more to do with this than with constitutional theory . |
| 4 | One of the many major problems for this idea is that Broca 's aphasics usually show better performance with content than with function words even when the task is reading aloud single words : the patient given tie , and , the and ant to read aloud might well succeed with tie and ant but not with and or the . |
| 5 | Teacher-initiated collaboration was more often associated with individual than with shared tasks . |
| 6 | The results for patients suspected of having diabetic gastroparesis — more patients with rapid than with slow emptying — might seem surprising but illustrates an important consideration that is too easily overlooked . |
| 7 | At Ruskington the inadequacies of the data make it difficult to draw firm conclusions , although there appears to be a smaller proportion of graves with amber than at Sleaford . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Up to of soil per year were lost from these plots , which compares with less than per year from undisturbed forest . |
| 10 | His pattern of personal leadership , as revealed by the Cabinet committees he chose to chair himself , reinforces the standard interpretation of him as a man more at ease with overseas than with domestic policy . |
| 11 | She was only joining in for the sake of the others because Murder in the Dark is more fun with five than with four . |
| 12 | Cartwright and O'Brien found that doctors spent more time and discussed more problems with middle-class than with working-class patients . |
| 13 | No correspondence or enquiries can be dealt with other than in accordance with the tender conditions . |
| 14 | However , H 2 was metabolized at lower concentrations with Fe(III) than with sulphate ( b ) . |
| 15 | Ionization from orbitals with d character is normally supposed to be stronger in spectra excited with He(II) than with He(I) radiation . |
| 16 | The trouble is that too many people in the Labour party are more concerned with scaring than with caring . |
| 17 | However , given simply worded questions on computation , and time to complete their working , most of the lowest attaining pupils had no more difficulty with written than with orally presented questions . |