Example sentences of "than the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have returned from the toughest trial that I have ever seen I he had already been wounded , for the third time , near Douaumont on February 25th ] — four days and four nights — ninety-six hours — the last two days soaked in icy mud — under terrible bombardment , without any shelter other than the narrowness of the trench , which even seemed to be too wide ; not a hole , not a dugout , nothing , nothing . |
| 2 | They almost certainly meet the needs of individual clients , but , like primary nursing , they may also fulfil the needs of the professionals concerned so successfully that the professionals , rather than the recipients of care , are really the most important clients of the system . |
| 3 | A second common assumption is that the sciences , generally , are more difficult than the humanities , and that within that , physics is more difficult than chemistry , which is more difficult than biology , and so on . |
| 4 | However , Pearson 's lack of interest in the methods of play construction led him towards even more unfocused ways of organizing his films , aiming for a sort of primitive naturalism — ‘ nothing more than the capture of things seen , life in the living , and by selection and arrangement , the flow of the human tale . ’ |
| 5 | We live in a century imprinted on the present , which regards the past as little more than the springboard from which we were launched on our way . |
| 6 | The magnetic materials used in practice have a unc several orders of magnitude higher than the Er of practical dielectric materials . |
| 7 | The law was changed in 1989 after public outrage when a judge gave a burglar who broke into a vicarage and raped the vicar 's daughter a higher sentence for the burglary than the rape . |
| 8 | An outsole which is wider at the heel than the midsole — designed to improve stability . |
| 9 | Mr Bland said that the cost of the borrowings was much lower than the cost of the group 's equity , which he estimated at 20 per cent per annum . |
| 10 | ‘ The benefit is higher than the cost , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Once musicians ' royalty income becomes greater than the cost of their recording time and personal advances from the record company , they start receiving royalty statements . |
| 12 | For around $7,700 — rather more than the cost of a burial — clients can be pickled and preserved for eternity . |
| 13 | In this game , investors borrowed dollars and other currencies according to their share in the krona basket , converted them into krona , and re-invested in Swedish securities with bigger returns than the cost of the borrowed funds . |
| 14 | Trivers argues that the chances of selection favouring altruistic behaviour in which individuals dispense a benefit to another greater than the cost of the act will be improved when many potentially altruistic situations arise in the population , when there are repetitive interactions of the same kind within a small group of individuals , and where symmetrical situations favouring the return of benefits are common . |
| 15 | There may well be a reputable graffiti artist in the area who would take on the challenge for little more than the cost of the materials ! |
| 16 | Senior expects Delta 's haemoglobin to cost around 50 pence per gram , ten times less than the cost of purifying it from red blood cells , the main existing source . |
| 17 | But inflated land prices , which have been rising much faster than the cost of living index , have placed even smallholdings out of reach except for the well-endowed . |
| 18 | As the bulk of the material was culled from just three radio sessions , this proved that an album of quality could still be made for less than the cost of recording your average chart single . |
| 19 | Invariably this works out at less than the cost of the repairs , because a vendor would be unlikely to reduce his price to the extent of their full cost — he would argue that he had already taken some account of defects and age when fixing the price of his house in the first place , and if he had been expected to replace all the windows he would have asked a correspondingly higher price . |
| 20 | From the second column of the table it can be seen that in 1977–8 , before the crisis year of 1979 , the money supply was growing faster than the cost of living . |
| 21 | Indeed , it had been rising much faster than the cost of living for a number of years . |
| 22 | That 's under 22 pence a day — less than the cost of most daily newspapers . |
| 23 | The rent paid by the retailer is much less than the cost of overheads in an equivalent central location . |
| 24 | The financial effort the nation has been called on to make is a very large one , especially since the cost of construction per kW of nuclear capacity is about 25 per cent higher than the cost per kW of coal-fired capacity . |
| 25 | For roughly £2 million ( little more than the cost of one Falkland islander ) the British government can preserve both Henderson , Pitcairn and its own reputation for colonial fair play . |
| 26 | Although we must not forget the sizeable minority who are caught in a poverty trap , during recent years wages and salaries have risen overall more than the cost of living , and educational opportunities have widened . |
| 27 | To enter this competition — just study the three simple questions below and then call our 24 hour hotline — it will cost you not much more than the cost of a first class stamp . |
| 28 | As there were cars to spare , if one was found with a defect , for which a replacement part might cost more than the cost of a licence , it was withdrawn particularly if the route on which it worked was nearing its closure . |
| 29 | The total value of the property taken was put at £925 , £54 less than the cost of the damage caused . |
| 30 | His reasoning was that the productivity of free workers was greater than slave labour if the labourers were offered sufficient inducement through piece-work and high rates for day labour ; the cost of getting the same amount of work done by slaves was greater than the cost of the higher rates offered as an inducement . |