Example sentences of "than with " in BNC.
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| 1 | The visibility , lower than that of the drier climate of many parts of China , has caused the artist in Japan to be more concerned with the strength of outline than with the subtleties of depth sought for by his Chinese neighbour . |
| 2 | The reason is that with Van Gogh art and life are not merely conditioned by each other to a greater degree than with any other artist , but actually merge with each other . |
| 3 | He went over the Tay to Aberfeldy more to keep Flemyng quiet than with any hope of working . |
| 4 | As Leonard commented in Police Gazette , ‘ I 'd rather sleep with ashes than with priestly wisdom , ’ which has even more point when we understand that the ashes referred to are those of the victims of the Holocaust . |
| 5 | Its relatively light weight ( 1.9kg/4lb ) makes drilling above shoulder height a lot less tiring than with the normal electropneumatic hammer drills which you may hire . |
| 6 | There is no simple answer with Dostoevsky any more than with Dickens . |
| 7 | Finally , for Megill , the artist-philosophers are more concerned with interpreting reality as an aesthetic phenomenon than with traditional truth-telling . |
| 8 | Discussing a book on Dostoevsky , he remarks that while the author has much of interest to say about The Idiot ‘ she does not quite persuade one that it comes off , indeed she does not really try , because like many scholars today she is more concerned with showing how the thing works than with judging if it works well . ’ |
| 9 | In such cases failure is even more painful than with a home student , and one has heard rumours of failed candidates having to return several years of fees to their government , and suffering even worse penalties . |
| 10 | Novels , for instance , have less in common with lyric poetry than with other forms of extended narrative , such as historiography , biography , autobiography — a genre of which there have been some interesting studies lately — or even some kinds of essay . |
| 11 | The masterly masculinity of ‘ cuff ’ may be thought to belong with Dryden 's conception of the grand style more than with Virgil 's . |
| 12 | For Tate 's very distinguished criticism , then and afterwards , was always more concerned with the socio-cultural conditions for poetry than with poetry itself . |
| 13 | But Mr Parkinson was more concerned with getting a cheer at a party conference than with implementing the policies the country needed , he said .. |
| 14 | The postwar generation , unschooled in the brutality of hardships of war and reconstruction , compares its lot with that of West Germans , with double their standard of living , rather than with their neighbours to the East , to whom the mountains of sausages and pigs ' trotters in butchers ' shops would seem like a dream come true . |
| 15 | ‘ Actors say working with me is far more exhausting than with other directors , ’ he says , grinning . |
| 16 | He 's got a very good serve , but the percentage of points he makes from the baseline is better than with the volley . |
| 17 | Or to use another of Mr Airlie 's sayings : ‘ You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar ’ . |
| 18 | She now thought that the Church was under attack from a Vatican more concerned with power and control than with the good of the people . |
| 19 | Makarenko had better relations with the local secret police than with any other official authority . |
| 20 | Steel himself was a noted tactician , more concerned with manoeuvre than with policy-making , a style appropriate for the parliamentary situation . |
| 21 | She herself , though a product of Oxford University , identified with wealth-producers and businessmen rather than with academics and intellectuals . |
| 22 | She agreed with the Bishop of Lincoln rather than with the students of Lincoln , for she thought him a disaster in the pulpit ; blinking , and articulating his words with difficulty , and often using the peculiar phrase ‘ paradoxic ally speaking ’ . |
| 23 | This convergence may have less to do with ideology than with political ‘ learning ’ and having to cope with unanticipated events . |
| 24 | The King hoped next to see Baldwin , but the Conservative leader could not be found : he was , ironically , lunching with Geoffrey Dawson , the editor of The Times , and discussing Cabinet appointments — something he found easier to do with Dawson than with his party colleagues . |
| 25 | John Winant , the US ambassador in Britain , wrote on 28 February that this reflected Britain 's concern with security rather than with ‘ commercial enterprise ’ ; ‘ It also reflects the British apprehension that they may be swamped competitively by US aviation and their consequent desire to guarantee themselves a percentage , even though small , of the available business . ’ |
| 26 | Articulate middle-class women in the nineteenth century were certainly more concerned with gaining increased autonomy and control — over children and property — within marriage , than with access to divorce . |
| 27 | The importance which Engels attributed to this came entirely from his anthropological sources and really reflects an old-fashioned type of archaeology obsessed with material remains rather than with the general way of life . |
| 28 | The reason why they turned to anthropology and history had more to do with their analysis of capitalism than with a concern with pre-capitalist societies for themselves . |
| 29 | As the blower is engine-driven , boost is always on hand , so response is much faster than with a turbocharger . |
| 30 | But she said that almost as if it were expected of her rather than with conviction — and the family knew it . |