Example sentences of "than [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The touch judges ' flags were on the pitch more often than off it in a game I saw recently here ( in Eastern Province , South Africa ) .
2 Visitors are often tempted to spend more hours on the water than off it , its appeal here is so magnetic .
3 She could be quite fiery , was wary of journalists , had the touch of insecurity that so many successful broadcasters possess , and was probably more relaxed on screen than off .
4 We 'll get better copies off the headed paper , than off the shiny .
5 ‘ It is more difficult to be precise about this than about the earlier phases , partly because the pictures are rarer and less accessible , and have not been adequately photographed , partly because it includes considerable variations . ’
6 This , I would argue , though not all would agree , may tell us something interesting about the way the brain compartmentalizes different aspects of visual processing and it may tell us that subjects are more conservative about admitting to seeing a very degraded image than about trying to move their eyes to it , but it sheds little light on the actual experiences the patients are having when we show them a light .
7 Saad 's family rushed to try and have their revenge on the witness who had announced the news like someone possessed , and who cared less about Saad 's death than about convincing the whole community of what he had seen in the hut that burning noonday .
8 What Butler says of this account — namely that it ‘ tells us more about the fantasies that a fearful heterosexual culture produces to defend against its own homosexual possibilities , than about lesbian experience itself ’ ( Gender Trouble , 86 — 7 ) — might also be said more generally of the way homosexuality is conceptualized in sexual difference theory .
9 Having made his point so tellingly , Mr Foot makes no sweeping claims about his compilation , writing simply : ‘ This is a book about war , more than about art … it is meant to contribute to the history of war , rather than to art history . ’
10 Many of them care less about the exchange rate than about what is shown on the chart on the right .
11 Probably , such gestures say more about the Chinese people 's view of their own government than about their solidarity with Kuwait .
12 The governments going to Washington next month understand that ; and in working out what to sign up for , they will know more about the likely costs of taking action than about the benefits .
13 The three offences seem to provide a ‘ ladder ’ but , once again , the distinctions between them vary considerably , with section 23 being more concerned about the result than about D's fault .
14 The designs or inscriptions of ancient and medieval coins generally tell us rather less about their dates than about their mints .
15 To Wilson , they all seemed to be in a fever and like any good nurse she waited anxiously for the point of crisis , more concerned about the fate of Mrs Browning than about that of Italy .
16 History in this case was the product of a specialized group ; and the arguments about the quality of the product were about its beauty , metre , wit , rather than about its truth , typicality and meaning .
17 Besides , socialism was , in my mind at least , associated with the sharing of resources and pleasures , rather than about Byzantine state bureaucracies .
18 All the same , I feel that the myth-making tells us more about Hughes than about Shakespeare .
19 Thus wild plants are probably lucky to turn more than about one per cent of the solar energy that bathes them , into organic molecules ; and even agricultural crops , bred for efficiency and well fed , are unlikely to get above five per cent .
20 One may say that to be an authority on a certain matter is to be an authority about what to believe rather than about what to do .
21 Thus although it may be quite safe to sow grasses and clovers on dry soils in the regions of low rainfall in the South and East of England in August , and in exceptional years even later , in regions of high rainfall such as prevail in Wales and most of the North and West of England it is likely to be somewhat risky to defer sowing later than about the middle of June .
22 The third term reforms to local government , the ‘ inner-city ’ policies , were much less about doing good for the poor and arresting decline and decay than about undermining Labour 's power bases .
23 But here I am Elsie spending more time writing about a fish than about people .
24 The scoria from a typical Strombolian eruption consists of loose , rubbly material , with a wide range in size of the constituent fragments , but with only a small proportion less than about one millimetre in size .
25 He felt more uneasy about this than about borrowing cars , but considered that the reason he wanted the money for was worthy : not as if it was coke or ciggies or similar self-indulgence .
26 Perhaps because of their colouring , and also because of their romantic associations with decorative herds roaming half-wild across extensive parklands on gentlemen 's estates in days gone by , there have been more imaginative theories about the origins and development of the two colour-pointed breeds , especially the White Park , than about any other breed in Britain .
27 It was that point in the morning when people usually began to think about the soup and potatoes that were expected shortly , rather than about the books they were reading .
28 Some part of the variation between action and control groups at first referral is also probably due to the slightly greater difficulty in the collection of data about control sample clients than about those in the action sample , where the development officers were engaged in detailed meetings about clients ' circumstances with service-providers of all kinds .
29 At the time of the so-called race riots , Shanti and her friends were discussing the events in Manchester , and agreeing that the whole sad business had been more about unemployment than about race .
30 It might be argued that the National Curriculum is more of a challenge to thinking about time than about anything else .
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