Example sentences of "than [pers pn] [is] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story of the Polgars is therefore much more one of educational techniques , a unique and deliberate experiment in environmental conditioning , than it is of chess . |
| 2 | This is less a matter of mass versus elite culture than it is of controlled laboratory situations : what is so highly specialised as to seem aberrant and uncharacteristic in the ( world ) of daily life … can often yield crucial information about the properties of an object of study whose familiar everyday forms obscure it . |
| 3 | It is much more a question of knowledge and awareness of which foods to eat and which to avoid than it is of following blindly someone else 's strict regime . |
| 4 | Because the proportion in such care rises with increasing age , the survey is more representative of those in the late 60s and early 70s than it is of the over-75s . |
| 5 | The assumption is that it is much more difficult to assess the work of a public manager than it is of a private sector counterpart . |
| 6 | Any kind of first occasion always seems more difficult than subsequent occasions and this is no less true of a change in an electoral system than it is of any other kind of change . |
| 7 | He 's not taking any more notice of her than he is of me . |
| 8 | Have n't you noticed yet that Thorfinn is prouder of being Earl of Orkney than he is of ruling Scotia ? |