Example sentences of "than [noun sg] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fermented from the clear , uncoloured juice of the black grape , Pinot Noir Champagnes have a deeper hue of gold than blanc de blancs Champagnes ( which can sometimes be almost water-white ) . |
| 2 | Fiber channel proponents claim the low-latency technology is probably faster and more cost-effective than challenger FDDI . |
| 3 | " It would be incorrect " , noted Nizan , " to think that this decision in any way heralds a spectacular reversal in the policy of the USSR … continuity is the essential characteristic of Soviet foreign policy , and nobody has outlined the principles of this policy more forcefully than M. Molotov " . |
| 4 | Barbara Cartland is n't the only woman to write her own fortune — CATHERINE COOKSON is worth £24 million , SHIRLEY CONRAN £16 million , JACKIE COLLINS is richer than sister Joan with £15 million and ROSEMARY CONLEY has £14.8 million . |
| 5 | Iniki was only fractionally weaker than Hurricane Andrew , which had caused severe damage in the Bahamas , Florida and Louisiana in late August [ see p. 39044 ] . |
| 6 | Within the rural high oil category only three ( small ) sectors more than 20 km from urban areas had a higher rank than west Thurso when the recent oil impact and child density scores were combined . |
| 7 | Further information on copper deposits and occurrences in areas other than South-west England and Scotland can be found in Dewey and Eastwood ( 1925 ) . |
| 8 | Few do it better than Welshman Colin Jackson who was the pre-Games favourite to become the first Briton to win the Gold Medal in the discipline . |
| 9 | Local centre events were often challenging as well as rewarding and perhaps none more so than South Cumbria 's ‘ Operation Isolate ’ . |
| 10 | The luxury shower — costing more than Princess Diana 's whirlpool bath -is part of a £26,000 spruce-up of Chief Executive Mike Smith 's office . |
| 11 | Hardy 's diction here is certainly pre-modernist , though in matters other than diction Hardy was more of a modernist than we commonly suppose . |
| 12 | Iona is older than Mull , older than mainland Scotland . |
| 13 | Melissa sensed rather than saw Sybil 's nervous hesitation as they sat down . |
| 14 | But there 'll be some jollification around the old homestead tonight and nobody likes tripping the light fantastic better than wor Martin . ’ |
| 15 | In admitting a highly promising but less than conformist Sheffield Grammar School boy to Gonville and Caius College , the university placed Keeton under the tutorship of one of the most astute and world-wise masters in the Law . |
| 16 | Digitalk Inc , Los Angeles is now shipping the 32-bit version of its object-oriented Smalltalk/V development environment for OS/2 2.0 , enabling users to create Smalltalk/V applications that are up to 100% faster and 50% smaller than 16-bit OS/2 applications : it can call both 16-bit and 32-bit Dynamic Link Libraries , adds a debugger with enhanced single-stepping capability , improved support for bit maps , double-byte character set characters in Smalltalk/V code , and support for OS/2 's common dialogue boxes ; it costs a swinging $1,000 . |
| 17 | This , rather than Inch Keith or Scalpay , would have been the island for Johnson . |
| 18 | Lydia lies more comfortably than baby Hoskins , the angle of the corpse vis-à-vis the pillow being less exaggerated . |
| 19 | That is the view of no less an authority than novelist Barbara Cartland , perhaps the Royals biggest admirer . |
| 20 | None more so than captain Graham Gooch who , although he could not deliver the Government the fillip of a World Cup win , appeared alongside another cricket-loving leader , John Major , at one of his election rallies . |
| 21 | Rachaela had the feeling that , rather than warning Ruth away from the Scarabae , she was intriguing her further with them . |
| 22 | Lord Hunter had been unable to free himself from the idea of Meehan as a participant any more than Sir Daniel Brabin had been able to free himself from the assumption of Timothy Evans 's guilt ; neither could bring himself to admit , perhaps for the sake of the reputation of their profession , that the miscarriage of justice had been total , that Meehan as much as Evans had played no part whatever in the crime with which he had been charged . |
| 23 | Events at Sheffield 's Grosvener House hotel proved even more spectacular than entrepreneur Ray Carter had hoped for when Lisa Crossland , of GT Sports , claimed he that PPF pool entrepreneur Ray Carter had taken the jackets from her shop , promising to pay up later . |
| 24 | For Simmies , none tried harder than centre Andy Parle , who made three try-saving tackles , while second rower Keith Murphy , a new signing from the IBIS club , looked a star for the future . |
| 25 | Certainly no American text of the sort I am discussing was ever written for black people — no more than Uncle Tom 's Cabin was written for Uncle Tom to read or be persuaded by . |
| 26 | It has to be none other than Star Trek : The Screen Saver , which Berkeley is marketing under the slogan of ‘ Beam Up or Burn Or Burn Out . ’ |
| 27 | By diverting attention towards the 1143 deaths due to overdose of drugs other than paracetamol Spooner disregards the fact that paracetamol is consistently one of the most common drugs used in suicide and far exceeds any other over the counter medication as a method of death by poisoning . |
| 28 | Unified state more longing than reality David Gow on Germany 's history of division , tribal wars and migrations . |
| 29 | We may say , then , that line A is less precise , less specific than line B. Line A is not swallowed up in line B , however ; it is not the case that once we have line B we can dispense with line A. Rather , line B provides the clue or the context within which the uncertainty of line A is resolved . |
| 30 | IBM Corp 's board has settled on a pay and benefits package for new chief executive Louis Gerstner , who takes up his post today , valued at over $7m : he will receive an annual salary of $2m , a one-time transition payment of $5m and a string of other incentives including a performance incentive potentially worth $1.5m a year , $500,000 long-term incentive tied to performance over three years and options on 500,000 IBM shares — far more than predecessor John Akers got . |