Example sentences of "of [noun] than [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first navigation of the Straits of Magellan was a far more difficult problem of seamanship than crossing the Atlantic … |
| 2 | These , with automatic fire-alarms going off inexplicably , account for a far higher percentage of calls than do fires . |
| 3 | As stated earlier , less attention has been paid to the factors that determine the readability of illustrations than has been given to the readability of text . |
| 4 | Rather to present the appearance of resignation than to accept it . |
| 5 | Business hospitality When business is done and the meeting concluded , nothing revives the hardworking executive like a glass of Scotch … and when it 's time to seal the deal with valued clients , there is no more fitting toast nor better appreciated mark of esteem than to offer the noble spirit . |
| 6 | Although there are no minority reports , a peer who has reservations about the conclusions of a report is not bound in debate by collective responsibility , and debates , which , of course , are for the whole House , often show more diversity of views than does the report . |
| 7 | There are few more cost-effective ways to invest relatively small sums of money than reinstating the support funding for tourism . |
| 8 | Thus , when his secretary of the treasury ventured on one occasion to suggest that colonial rule was more efficient than the successor regimes in the newly independent states , the president brusquely retorted that it was his " personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than accept the political domination of another government even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living " . |
| 9 | Now , would n't it be possible to imagine someone who maintained both that motor cars were on our list of things that enhanced the quality of life and that travelling by motor car frequently took more time and demanded a greater outlay of labour than using various other means of transport ? |
| 10 | * I always think that it is better to make a fresh pot of tea than to top up the old pot . |
| 11 | It was the Bioscope 's view that for the person ‘ in search of different phases of human nature there is no better place to find objects of study than to visit a bioscope show ’ . |
| 12 | Steamers could carry larger volumes of cargo than sailing vessels and do it more frequently and regularly . |
| 13 | I think our figure gives a rather more measure of flexibility than does that of the County Council . |
| 14 | To Great Britain and Austria-Hungary it was more important to check the expansion of Russia than to win territory . |
| 15 | Exposed ( high energy ) beaches seem to have more gentle slopes for a given grain size of sediment than do protected ( low energy ) beaches . |
| 16 | Partly as a result of this , it has been found that digestion in falcons causes greater modification of bones than has been found in owl prey assemblages ( Yalden & Yalden , 1985 ) . |
| 17 | Though open opposition , as the ‘ White Rose ’ showed , was futile against the might of the Gestapo and resistance groups were necessarily compelled to continue their work in secrecy and isolation , their hostility to the Nazi regime was now far less out of touch with the climate of opinion than had been the case even a few months earlier , before Stalingrad . |
| 18 | Possible complications and side-effects are ignored or minimised in a target-oriented programme because it is more important to add to the numbers of acceptors than to help women make an informed choice about contraception . |
| 19 | However one interprets the data , there is , therefore , good evidence that the working class have more frequent contact with a wider range of kin than do the professional and managerial class . |
| 20 | Representing as they have done the interests of a high-seas trading nation ( Britain still exports more per head of population than does Japan ) , British post-war leaders of all political persuasions , from Nye Bevan to Margaret Thatcher , have largely based their economic policies on the need to expand trade . |
| 21 | Thus , London and other large cities have higher rates of crime per 100,000 of population than do smaller and medium-sized towns . |
| 22 | I am less concerned to focus on the psychopathology of individuals than to point to a collective , cultural condition ‘ and the tendencies of people who make it up ’ ( May , 1969 ) . |
| 23 | Perhaps they should spend more time concentrating on protecting interests of workers than promoting constitutional debate within the Party . |
| 24 | But the warnings of Lord Brightman seem to have been made more to discourage even the modest number of applications than to respond to excessive use . |
| 25 | Addington 's form of income tax introduced the novel principle of deduction at source , which enabled much better anticipation of outcome than had Pitt 's own assessments . |
| 26 | Better to have lain in the marshes of Halling than to end one 's time in a cardboard box in a steel locker with a fake ! |
| 27 | In pollution control work , however , there is none of the sacredness of the policing of the traditional code ( Lemert , 1972 ; Manning , 1977 ) , and it is more difficult to dramatize the threat of pollution than to portray the symbolic assaults on the community from criminals , addicts , vandals , and other sinister figures on the fringes of the moral order ( Manning , 1980 ) , notwithstanding the missionary zeal of some proponents of regulatory reform in the USA . |
| 28 | It would seem likely that more people get themselves killed out of pride than sacrifice themselves for any moral end . |
| 29 | It was characterized by a determined display of party unity , although this was tempered with a greater degree of realism than had been apparent in 1988 . |
| 30 | The efforts of Anthony Thompson and his friends , including contingents of willing helpers provided by the St Bede 's Link with Romania , have gone a long way towards enabling Lotsi to achieve his goal and the project has now reached the stage where it will benefit from a greater degree of organisation than has been necessary so far . |