Example sentences of "[art] [det] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other three more closely fit the latter than the former model : Mrs Mitchell 's daughter wanted her mother admitted permanently to the local psychiatric hospital ( knowing that she would not be eligible for residential care because of the severity of her condition ) ; but she also added — ‘ not that I do n't want her at home too — I love my mother — it 's just that the strain is too much for me ’ . |
| 2 | There may be more scope for a GIS approach in the latter than in the former situations . |
| 3 | Obviously the ratio of direct to indirect work varies with different occupations but , in nearly all , practitioners find that they spend more time on the latter than they think is appropriate . |
| 4 | The Edinburgh Evening News picked up the point during the dispute and commented that " the old story of the men 's dislike to machinery appears in this dispute just as it was with the engineers " , 25 Whatever the reason or reasons , the men 's unwillingness to handle the machines led directly to the situation of the late 1900s in which Edinburgh master printers were trying to counter the threat of London and southern firms by combining both the employment of women and the use of machines , thus posing a double threat of a new kind to the male compositor , and inspiring a more determined resistance from the latter than had been seen during the previous thirty-odd years . |
| 5 | Nelson 's experience was of an organisation that had its regular human share of good soldiers , time-servers , wasters , whiners , climbers , saints , piss-heads and heroes ; and when the pressure was on , probably more of the latter than it was fair to expect . |
| 6 | But it may be a lot more useful for the latter than the former . |
| 7 | K-9 ( 12 ) , which stars James Belushi , hints at the less than glittering screen career that might have awaited his elder brother , had he lived . |
| 8 | Part of the problem was the less than perfect relationship between the Air Ministry and BOAC , which would have to operate the new aircraft . |
| 9 | Frustrated by the less than flattering interpretation of biographer Robert Gittings , who presented Hardy as a reclusive , grumpy sort , Dr James Gibson is to publish a more generous account next spring . |
| 10 | The principal obstacles to its success were : the economic climate in which the Geddes Report emphasized the low priority of education when financial restraint was inevitable ; the less than enthusiastic response from numerous LEAs in submitting their schemes ( they were allowed to proceed at their own pace without a universal appointed day ) ; the beginning of opposition from the National Union of Teachers and the labour movement in favour of ‘ Secondary Education for All ’ and a school-leaving age of 15 ; and , perhaps most significantly , the opposition of large sections of industry , including the Federation of British Industries . |
| 11 | But at the same time , Renault — no doubt conditioned by the less than sparkling sales performance of the R25 P is n't setting its sights too high . |
| 12 | Not only that , but there are at least half-a-dozen versions vying for pole position at present , to which this new recording from Tadaaki Otaki and the BBC Welsh can safely be added ( the halfstar is only dropped , incidentally , for the less than ideal internal clarity and rhythmic definition of the recording , which is otherwise tonally pleasing and possesses a warm ambience ideal for this particular work 's lush textures ) . |
| 13 | Although heavy feeders such as groupers and lionfish , among the predators ; and porcupinefish or triggerfish , the Billy Bunters of the omnivores , are able to tolerate the less than perfect conditions that they product , other more delicate species will not succeed . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh dear ’ — to express dismay at the less than gentlemanly antics of players . |
| 15 | The problem always is to identify myths that support a mature life from those which distort the quality of living and mobilise only the less than adult , managerial capacities and capabilities of individuals in their work roles . |
| 16 | He knew that a conspiracy ( exposed with the maximum publicity ) to murder the king and Parliament in one horrific holocaust would cause public opinion to recoil into solid support for the less than popular James I and himself . |
| 17 | The brainchild of rotund , drawling comedienne Roseanne Arnold ( née Barr ) , it dragged television into the less than perfect mid-western world of ( cor ! ) working class folk . |
| 18 | O'Rourke 's voice was unruffled as ever , unmoved by the less than flattering reference to the Sixth Fleet , from which he was on temporary loan . |
| 19 | The general election of that year was boycotted by Mosley , using the less than inspiring slogan of ‘ Fascism next time ’ as the rationale for his decision . |
| 20 | There were murmurs from the platform when the less than pristine replacement set arrived — but NSE 's Great Eastern operations manager Dave Sargent said he was confident the units would prove popular with travellers . |
| 21 | We can accept the less than perfect aspects of a friend — it 's their lack of perfection which makes them endearing , because it lets us have a fault or two ourselves . |
| 22 | The back of a head pushed one of them aside and pressed so close into her face that hair came into her mouth , she could smell the less than clean hair and see the beads of dandruff . |
| 23 | Furthermore , the t-test takes into account background variation , unlike the percentage measures — which partially explains the less than total symmetry between the two measures of performance . |
| 24 | Lifelessness can also result from the less than satisfactory effect of the full ensemble of most electronic instruments . |
| 25 | Every time the animal steps down it received a mild electric shock ( yet another of the less than pleasant learning tasks which experimental psychology finds it necessary to employ ) . |
| 26 | At the same time he thought it desirable to submit to them a brief record of his work ( Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers , 1899 , pp. 3–11 ) , in view of what were in his opinion the less than adequate references to it in the 1899 James Forrest lecture on ‘ Magnetism ’ by J. A. Ewing [ q.v. ] , in the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers ( vol. cxxxviii , pp. 289–311 ) . |
| 27 | It is available now , but has not had the take up that Windows has enjoyed — one cynical comment has it that of the less than half million copies actually in use , the better part were given away — and yet it is a very capable operating system with some excellent features . |
| 28 | In the less than half light Owen saw that Georgiades had come out on to the gallery . |
| 29 | He looked at the copper bosom covers she had to wear as a belly dancer — and then at the less than fully-endowed nature of Miss Harris 's bust and said cuttingly , ‘ Which way up are they supposed to go ? ’ |
| 30 | But those in the field , the front line could not continue without the less than glamorous work that has to be carried out back here in H Q. They also serve , who work in our offices , collect our money , keep our accounts make sure the administration is working well . |