Example sentences of "[noun] than [verb] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Underlying the Unionist acceptance of coalition in 1918 was a darker attitude to the future than appeared in the coalition programme . |
| 2 | He commented on the results : Even God came out of the thing with a more credible characterization than offered in the original … |
| 3 | More people were put to death in Ireland than died in the French revolutionary Terror of the time . |
| 4 | The regional materials of each area , once so varied , began their slow demise as bricks , for instance , became cheaper to import from the Midlands than to bake in the village kiln . |
| 5 | In absolute terms , there were three extra households for every extra member of the population over this period , generating a very much higher level of new housing need than reflected in the overall population figures . |
| 6 | Even capacity expansion co-operation has been carried out in such a way as to allow substantial continued internal competition and even greater market share changes than occurred in the United States . |
| 7 | For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness . ’ |
| 8 | Britain is in between with more constraints upon the media than happens in the USA , but more press reponing than in many Scandinavian countries . |
| 9 | After all there must be something more to life than sleeping in a garden shed and having no money and nobody who cared twopence whether you were alive or dead ( not after the competition , anyway — Nutty at least needed him till then ) but what it was Nails could not fathom . |
| 10 | An external observer at rest who detects the flash at the moment that it reaches the roof would see it Doppler shifted to a lower frequency than observed in the source frame . |
| 11 | And she said and she said thank you she said , Miss Anderson she said she ought to have more sense than come in a thing like that she said to the officers . |
| 12 | Abstract internationalism had a strong role to play in rationalizing much more sinister forces than appeared in the rhetoric of Petrograd . |
| 13 | It is always easier to create in a cavern than concoct in a corner . |
| 14 | In the Whirlwind , the chances are you 'll feel much more comfortable doing the ski bars in Aviemore than walking in the hills , or even down the high street at home . |
| 15 | Hetherington ( 1979 ) found that if marital separation led to a cessation of hostilities and conflict , this seemed somewhat less damaging for children than remaining in a discordant , unhappy , but intact home . |
| 16 | Trading abroad as an importer or exporter can be highly profitable , but it often involves a greater degree of risk than operating in the home market . |
| 17 | It seemed a better idea than sitting in the village street for three hours . |
| 18 | Whether it 's the Police Band or one from a nearby mill town , there are fewer nicer ways to end a summer day in Leeds than to sit in a deckchair at sunset , listening to the haunting sound of the trumpets and trombones . |