Example sentences of "[verb] than on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The smooth finish means clothes are less likely to snag than on ordinary basketwork . |
| 2 | Auguste had persuaded his pupils that , having missed a lesson this morning owing to the inquest , this afternoon would prove an ideal time to instruct than on the magnificence of the St Pierre or John Dory . |
| 3 | Remember these routes are all on limestone , which rarely gives good routes at less than VS , but a line of bolts , ending at a firmly anchored chain , up dry and solid rock , means that a much bolder approach can be adopted than on the polished , easier routes of Stoney or the vertical scree of Swanage . |
| 4 | Agreement on that process was more difficult to reach than on the technology , according to one of the six . |
| 5 | What better place to start than on our own doorstep , with the world famous collections of the Barber Institute ? |
| 6 | While more REM sleep is taken than on control nights in absolute terms , this is not because of any increase in REM sleep as a percentage of total sleep . |
| 7 | At least when you 're knitting on the bigger gauges you have fewer rows to knit than on a fine or standard gauge . |
| 8 | Sectors like computers are as sensitive to product cycles as to economic cycles , and investment in the medium term is likely to concentrate more on adapting than on building production capacity . |
| 9 | This makes the lock much stiffer to operate than on the earlier types of glider . |
| 10 | As argued elsewhere ( Tomkins , 1987 ) , both Mrs Thatcher in moving to a more competitive economy in the United Kingdom and President Kennedy in declaring that the United States would put a man on the moon established very strong ideologies based more on fundamental beliefs as to what was required than on extensive rational analysis , and they both achieved considerable change . |
| 11 | perceptions of newspaper bias depended more on the partisanship of the paper being read than on the partisanship of the reader who read it . |
| 12 | perceptions of newspaper bias depended more , however , on the partisanship of the paper being read than on the partisanship of the reader who read it . |