Example sentences of "[noun sg] than the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A much closer contest than the scoreline suggests was effectively settled during two crucial first half minutes when Sheron , City 's unheralded striker , made two crucial interventions — one in each goalmouth . |
| 2 | This is the main purpose of this last part of Losing Out , and the proposals are broached in such a way as to appeal to a wider section of the electorate than the underclass alone . |
| 3 | First I believe if we are going to seek a broader approach to the problems of law and order , I feel we need a broader electorate than the existing members of a police authority . |
| 4 | What was needed was a new system of dégorgement , able to cope with far greater capacity levels at a significantly higher speed than the traditional à la volèe process . |
| 5 | Iron from ferrous sulphate , for example , is more available to the horse than the iron in ferrous carbonate . |
| 6 | Inside , the glovebox lid did n't fit properly , with a much bigger gap on one side than the other . |
| 7 | For the most part , however , the solution will lie more on the managers ' side than the shareholders ' : the managers need to be given incentives that make them less likely to make the colossal errors of the 1960s . |
| 8 | If , in such a movement , the head meets a brighter light on one side than the other , the animal turns away from the brighter side . |
| 9 | Since the awareness from which we recoil is constantly being forced on us by pain or misfortune , no doubt many or most people can take every opportunity they have to avoid the unpleasant without being in any danger of becoming more aware of the bright side than the dark . |
| 10 | If they compress more on one side than the other , try differentiated densities , which are firmer and less likely to compress . |
| 11 | Often it was not , and the grass verge was very much wider on one side than the other . |
| 12 | A graph ( Figure ) of the corresponding readings shows that the sensitivity is greatest in the middle of the view field , and less on the lefthand side than the right . |
| 13 | Not level , the dining room one was two inches shorter one side than the other , the tie-backs |
| 14 | He 's got one side than the other you know . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm Ron Barton and I 'll have you know that I am the Roving Correspondent of the True Brit , the newspaper with an even bigger circulation than the Sun , and I never laid a finger on , or up , the lady . |
| 16 | Because of the pressure on Drigg this was the most urgent requirement , and it was hoped that it would attract less opposition than the Billingham mine . |
| 17 | Recollettas our Spanish investment paid off handsomely , profits more than doubled and Marker is er , the seven day a week sports paper , is now the er second biggest paper in Spain and has a higher readership than the first paper . |
| 18 | ichter et al , in their large study of oesophageal manometry in 95 volunteers , showed that age had no effect on lower oesophageal sphincter but older volunteers had higher amplidues and longer durations of contraction in the distal oesophagus than the younger ones . |
| 19 | The bases have more give and spring than the traditional rigid type and are also adjustable , so you can firm up certain parts of the bed . |
| 20 | But this woman has some of both of these feelings , as well as more fear than the others , and even the fear excites her . |
| 21 | Indeed in the middle of the twentieth century it can be said that the majority of the world 's population lives under systems of government where the government itself and particularly the executive government are of more importance and are treated with more respect or fear than the Constitution . |
| 22 | More is involved in the denial of prejudice than the rebuttal of actual criticisms , which might be made by specific others . |
| 23 | The report was , however , critical of the CCB , stating that there were strong suspicions that its operatives had been involved in " more crimes of violence than the evidence shows " . |
| 24 | Figure 6a illustrates such a mitotic cell in which the normal X is inactive and is seen as being shorter than normal ( the X is normally the fifth longest chromosome ) and darker staining than the other chromosomes . |
| 25 | If anything , he handled this crisis with more aplomb than the earlier one . |
| 26 | Sterling is even closer to its intervention level against the peseta than the escudo and market rumours of a lira devaluation mean that the Italians , the Portuguese and the Spanish pose a more immediate threat to the pound than the identity of the next British Chancellor . |
| 27 | The female adopts a more passive role in conception than the male , and physiologically she has less to do . |
| 28 | If , as some Israeli ‘ moderates ’ argue , terrorism always was a marginal question , it is certainly infinitely less serious for Israel 's future than the mass popular unrest of the Intifada , but by continuing to lump everything they can — such as children throwing stones — under its general rubric , the ‘ extremists ’ seek to ‘ de-legitimise ’ the Intifada , and evade any necessity for looking at its real causes . |
| 29 | But that act has more to do with the future than the present , as chapter 23 will make abundantly clear . |
| 30 | On the other hand , the historian of political philosophy J. G. Gunnell has argued that , although the Hebrews were more oriented towards the future than the Greeks , who tended to look more towards the past , ‘ the concept of linear progression is a rationalization of the Hebrew experience of temporality ’ . |