Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twins , being of identical ages , are usually even better matched on environmental variables during upbringing than are siblings . |
| 2 | In addition , the number of people involved — usually as few as two , three or four adults with pupils at a ratio around 6 to 1 — provides a more manageable unit for change than special schools of at least twice that size . |
| 3 | Psychological and cultural differences were still thought to be grounded in biology ; indeed , Geddes and Thompson believed sex differences to be physiologically based , which held out even less possibility for change than did Spencer 's explanation based on evolution . |
| 4 | The companies and the workforces that came out of it we were far leaner , more committed , and more aware of the need for change than their predecessors had ever been . |
| 5 | For primary schools the review is also more of a whole-school effort , is more thorough and more useful in terms of producing proposals for change than middle schools and secondary schools ( the least ) . |
| 6 | My Lords , this case raises the important question whether the governors of a voluntary aided school which is over-subscribed ( i.e. has more candidates for admission than it can accommodate ) is entitled to operate an admissions policy which gives preference to children of a particular religious persuasion notwithstanding the statutory provisions which give parents a right to send their children to the school of their choice . |
| 7 | It is common ground that in the year starting September 1991 the school had more applicants for admission than it could accommodate without prejudicing the provision of efficient education . |
| 8 | They value their architects more for their business demeanours than for their designs , and choose them from a limited number of established companies , more valued for reliability than originality . |
| 9 | The physical differences between the two classes are related to the fact that ingrown meanders are able to perform much more lateral erosion during incision than are intrenched meanders . |
| 10 | This effect is doubtless less for victor than for vanquished , but the victor will not be spared it . |
| 11 | We do n't require much more energy for cooking than we ever have , because our demand for cooking is essentially determined by how much we can eat . |
| 12 | As Appendix II , and indeed the main survey results , make clear , it is not necessarily low income which makes credit at the same time both an obvious refuge and an unduly heavy burden — though in the main survey we found that in general people on low incomes were more likely to say that they were worried about money than people on high incomes . |
| 13 | And people who had bought their most recent non-routine purchase on credit — especially on HP or mail order — tended to worry more about money than people who had bought for cash . |
| 14 | While the familial basis of women 's oppression remains for all classes , upper class women have more chance for freedom than their working-class sisters who suffer a double oppression . |
| 15 | We get a lot more requests for funding than we can fund , and we have to develop priorities . |
| 16 | It could then be argued that ventriloquy is a better metaphor for fiction than criticism , because in criticism there are object texts which are not voiceless . |
| 17 | ‘ And I bet I 've absorbed more about seamanship than you would have about cooking . ’ |
| 18 | Most of them have managed their own homes and catered for their families efficiently for many years , and even elderly men know a little more about cooking than their fathers did . |
| 19 | Species and genetic change , fixation of atmospheric N 2 , and nitrogen deposition may have facilitated plant response to CO 2 in the past when concentrations rose more slowly or with a greater relaxation time between change than today , but data are lacking . |
| 20 | Gina was anorexically thin , more through meanness than design ; she only ate when other people provided . |
| 21 | Meat is better value for money than ten years ago , according to Meat and Livestock Commission research . |
| 22 | According to Meat and Livestock Commission statistics meat is better value for money than ever |
| 23 | Meat is better value for money than ever — MLC |
| 24 | SunSoft claims it is offering better value for money than its nearest competitor Univel Inc which just dropped the price of its UnixWare client to $250 anticipating predatory pricing by Microsoft Corp on Windows NT . |
| 25 | SunSoft claims it is offering better value for money than its nearest competitor Univel Inc which just dropped the price of its UnixWare client to $250 anticipating predatory pricing by Microsoft on Windows NT ( UX No 428 ) . |
| 26 | A crucial Keynesian assumption is that if holders of speculative money balances decide to hold their wealth in some other form , they are likely to purchase financial assets since these are taken to be closer substitutes for money than other types of assets . |
| 27 | It is first necessary to recognize that some financial assets are closer substitutes for money than other financial assets , and so are the more likely to be immediately affected by a change in the money supply . |
| 28 | Community care services in this area offer much better value for money than the traditional NHS approach . |
| 29 | Certainly better value for money than donkey Deano . |
| 30 | The laboratory where the scanning equipment was developed was visited today by a Government Minister , who said the pictures were better value for money than sending astronauts into space . |