Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges
J. B. Greenough, G. L. Kittredge, A. A. Howard, Benj. L. D'Ooge, Ed.

1. “ est mōs hominum, ut nōlint eundem plūribus rēbus excellere ” (Brut. 84) , it is the way of men to be unwilling for one man to excel in several things.

[*] a. A result clause, with or without ut , frequently follows quam after a comparative (but see § 583. c):—

1. “Canachī sīgna rigidiōra sunt quam ut imitentur vēritātem ” (Brut. 70) , the statues of Canachus are too stiff to represent nature (stiffer than that they should).
2. “perpessus est omnia potius quam indicāret ” (Tusc. 2.52) , he endured all rather than betray, etc. [Regularly without ut except in Livy.]

[*] b. The phrase tantum abest, it is so far [from being the case], regularly takes two clauses of result with ut : one is substantive, the subject of abest; the other is adverbial, correlative with tantum :—

1. “tantum abest ut nostra mīrēmur, ut ūsque eō difficilēs ac mōrōsī sīmus, ut nōbīs nōn satis faciat ipse Dēmosthenēs ” (Or. 104) , so far from admiring my own works, I am difficult and captious to that degree that not Demosthenes himself satisfies me. [Here the first ut-clause is the subject of abest (§ 569. 2); the second, a result clause after tantum (§ 537); and the third, after ūsque eō .]

[*] c. Rarely, a thought or an idea is considered as a result, and is expressed by the subjunctive with ut instead of the accusative and infinitive (§ 580). In this case a demonstrative usually precedes:

1. “praeclārum illud est, ut eōs ... amēmus ” (Tusc. 3.73) , this is a noble thing, that we should love, etc.
2. “vērī simile nōn est ut ille antepōneret ” (Verr. 4.11) , it is not likely that he preferred.

For Relative Clauses with quīn after verbs of hindering etc., see § 558.