Example sentences of "[noun] than [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As yet Asturian industry could not absorb the surplus population : hazel nuts were a more important export than coal . |
| 32 | Naturally , steel is heavier and liable to rust but , at the same time , it is often more study than wood and locking devices are less likely to slip than those on wooded easels . |
| 33 | Naturally , steel is heavier and liable to rust but , at the same time , it is often more study than wood and locking devices are less likely to slip than those on wooded easels . |
| 34 | In Liverpool , where I grew up in the early 1960s , one could no more not have an interest in football than fly to the moon . |
| 35 | Having passed from the Mediterranean to the Indus without attracting the attention of a single government official , Battuta , like so many subsequent travellers , crossed the Indian frontier only to find himself caught up in an impenetrable web of bureaucracy : no sooner had they set foot on the east bank of the Indus than intelligence officials ‘ wrote to Delhi informing the king of our arrival and giving him all the details concerning us . ’ |
| 36 | In a crossed comparison , Child 's B and C class patients without oesophageal varices had substantially higher laminin concentrations than Child 's A class patients with such varices with a p value close to the level of significance ( p=0.068 ) despite the low number of patients that fulfilled these requirements . |
| 37 | Equally , a significantly higher concentration of plasminogen activator inhibitor-2 in malignant ascites confirms previous work , but as it is a weaker inhibitor of tissue plasminogen activator and is present in much lower concentrations than plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 , it probably plays only a small part in the overall inhibition of fibrinolytic activity . |
| 38 | Students appear to acquire more in the way of fluency than accuracy : |
| 39 | The addition of Macintosh applications is also likely to make the IBM 's RISC System/6000 a likely upgrade path for Macintosh users looking for more powerful servers than Apple can offer . |
| 40 | Surprisingly , in the last decades is that literary studies , perhaps especially classical studies , which may seem to be at the other extreme of the academic spectrum from the sciences , have shown themselves more self confident in the use of computers than history has done , even though history is closer to the social sciences which have for long been acclimatized to quantification and computerization . |
| 41 | Mass anxiety is never without political consequences , and in a totalitarian society there is no more radical emotion than disbelief . |
| 42 | For the first time , traces of a stronger emotion than dislike appeared on Johnny 's face . |
| 43 | ‘ You 're more bear than squirrel today . |
| 44 | Due to the constant shortages the money economy has been transformed into a barter economy with cigarettes and alcohol being better currencies than paper money . |
| 45 | The predominant conventions of the adventure story , the victory of good over evil and the happy ending , have led to a subtle demotion of the genre from the highest ranks of literature on the grounds that its main aim is a contrived entertainment ; for experience suggests , often though not invariably , that the challenge of adventure is more likely to meet with disaster and defeat than survival and triumph . |
| 46 | ‘ Yes , but I 'm a better witness than Curren on the stand . |
| 47 | There were fightmarks on her flat face , and she had a figure that owed more to steroids and implants than nature . |
| 48 | For some individuals , affirmative action may still do more good than harm . |
| 49 | That may mean no more than that such a scheme may do more good than harm and that it would do more good than the obvious alternatives . |
| 50 | On looking back , I now realise that corporal punishment , if administered justly and wisely , does more good than harm . |
| 51 | In 1936 , Bertrand Russell , after rehearsing the expected consequences of a new war , posed the question : ‘ Can we imagine any great modern war which would do more good than harm ? ’ |
| 52 | Who , today , believes that a nuclear war would do more good than harm ? |
| 53 | To meet this point I think one must say that Bentham 's view was , in effect , that a right action must not only do more good than harm , but must also be such that neither the particular good it does , nor any other comparable good which might have substituted for it , could have been achieved at less cost in terms of harm done . |
| 54 | We shall then be in a much better position to state when and where screening does more good than harm . |
| 55 | There seems no prospect that screening for osteoporosis will meet the basic requirements for a screening programme — namely , that those offered screening must be better off as a result , that overall the screening programme must do more good than harm , and that screening must represent a better use of health care resources than other competing demands . |
| 56 | It 's only recently that they 've been doing more good than harm and it 's therefore ironic that people have tended to give so much publicity in the last twenty or thirty years to the things that have gone wrong , to the disasters which sometimes do happen with medicines , because really medicines now , as compared with thirty or forty years ago , are doing a tremendous amount of good . |
| 57 | He said too much time was spent at watering places … ‘ when frequently the waters do less good than dissipation do ( does ) injury . ’ |
| 58 | There is nothing in the long run that is more damaging to investment than inflation . |
| 59 | Of course they represent a greater investment than PC cards . |
| 60 | However , handwriting recognition has attracted far less research investment than speech , possibly due to the less ’ glamorous ’ image it possesses . |