Example sentences of "than of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is intended to be a contribution to the history of style rather than of individual artists . |
| 2 | It holds more true of some of us than of others , that in the struggle to make it new we are writing the same book all our lives ; and with Dostoevsky this truth is very true . |
| 3 | The challenge to one 's premisses and assumptions will be made and has to be faced , though one might prefer to reply in terms of ‘ principles ’ rather than of ‘ theory ’ . |
| 4 | Yet one suspects that his real significance is less that of a prophet of European disintegration than of a poet of the American Puritan temperament . |
| 5 | More likely , they said , was that China would continue to modernise its economy , so that by 1997 the situation would be more one of China 's adjusting to Hong Kong , than of Hong Kong 's trimming itself to China . |
| 6 | He unnerves and often offends colleagues on the Legislative Council , many of whom believe their institution is safer in the hands of appointees and amateurs than of populists . |
| 7 | Branagh , too , talks like a winner , and Henry V offers him better than any other play in the repertoire what might be called a yuppie dynamic , a mythology of success and self-definition rather than of struggle . |
| 8 | ‘ Henry V offers ( Branagh ) , better than any other play in the repertoire , what might be called a yuppie dynamic , a mythology of success and self-definition rather than of struggle … |
| 9 | Where care is provided , it is far more often in the form of advice than of assistance with physical care . |
| 10 | Just in case you fail to deduce , for example , that war is more a matter of narcissistic games-playing than of honour for the play 's young soldiers , they helpfully tote around personal full-length mirrors in the court scenes . |
| 11 | It is perhaps significant that there appeared to be more choice of newspaper than of television news . |
| 12 | John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger was presented in a new production in 1989 as a study of a failed marriage rather than of the playwright 's early ideological concerns . |
| 13 | His mature face was more likely to remind the observer of Friar Tuck 's jollity than of Lord Brougham 's long pointed nose . |
| 14 | The close links between the Fabians and Milner 's kindergarten on the one hand , and the personal link in Chamberlain 's own career between radical reform and tariff imperialism — he wanted the Conservative Party to hypothecate the financial yield of the preferential tariff to providing old age pensions — are reminders that at the beginning of the century ‘ social imperialism ’ did not sound the paradox it does today , and that the forefathers of modern British Socialism are to be found in larger numbers in the ranks of the imperialists than of the Little Englanders . |
| 15 | Elsewhere , he criticizes Mannheim 's definition of charismatic education in the consideration of the awakening of religious feeling ; since it seems neither to include the whole of the education of so-called ‘ primitive races ’ any more than of the higher races in their religious stage . |
| 16 | The ending of what amounted to class segregation was less a matter of the democratic spirit of professionals finally asserting itself than of the decline of the amateur . |
| 17 | Being middle class was becoming more a matter of consumption than of belief . |
| 18 | The results are due to a regular structuring of an individual 's life-style ; they are a reflection of the regularity of our habits rather than of some body clock . |
| 19 | The old party leader with the enigmatic smile is 67 and has become a person of greater symbolic significance than of real political potential . |
| 20 | The old party leader with the enigmatic smile is 67 and has become a person of greater symbolic significance than of real political potential . |
| 21 | The veterans are pleased , but accept that the newcomers are coming here less out of choice than of necessity . |
| 22 | This was to be achieved through fascination with base material ( excrement , big toes , freaks , anything that highminded principles and good taste decreed lowly ) ; through an obsessional interest in ritual and religiosity , a pagan celebration of the moment rather than investment in a scheme of forward planning and providence , a pagan worship of the icon-in-all-its-materiality rather than of the Essence . |
| 23 | The houses and cottages are of brick or half-timbered , and it has more of a feel of the Midlands than of what we imagine as Gloucestershire . |
| 24 | Its tallness , reminiscent of a town house , tells more of Shropshire and Wales than of Herefordshire . |
| 25 | Though two of the G7 countries — Britain and America — now appear to be in recession , the likeliest outlook for the world in 1991 is a tolerable mixture of slower growth and lower inflation than of late , with a brighter year to follow in 1992 . |
| 26 | Most people have a far better idea of the value of their house than of their annual income tax . |
| 27 | In Germany interest groups like to present their views as the product of exhaustive research rather than of a distinctive philosophy . |
| 28 | At one point he talks of the extension over time of ‘ a personality ’ rather than of ‘ a person ’ , and might have said that , even if the general knew what he did as a boy , it could be nothing to him , no part of his adult conception of himself , and so not a matter for guilt or blame . |
| 29 | Moreover , just as the connection between certain looks and shame is one which we learn solely by experience , ‘ without which … we should no more have taken blushing for a sign of shame than of gladness ’ , so is the connection between certain visual experiences , and distance and size . |
| 30 | The Gothic imagination dwelt on the mystery , and found it more productive of nightmares than of dreams of paradise . |