Example sentences of "than the [adj -er] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Corpuscular or particulate radiation appears in the form of protons and neutrons which take longer to reach the earth 's upper atmosphere than the higher energy radiations . |
| 2 | Denmark has made cuts in employment and sickness benefits and France required hospital patients to contribute towards non-medical services and uprated welfare benefits in line with current inflation rather than the higher level of the previous year . |
| 3 | Because enterprises receive the official , rather than the higher , black market , price , there is no incentive for them to increase production . |
| 4 | The effect of the adjustment is greater in the lower than the higher grades , reflecting the fact that the mediating factors show progressive differences across the employment grades . |
| 5 | Overall taxation and benefits also reduce the final income of richer groups in the population , but less than the higher rates of income tax for high earners would suggest . |
| 6 | Two main conclusions can be drawn : the lower socio-economic groups , both males and females , make less use of the general practitioners than the higher socio-economic groups , bearing in mind the need for such services . |
| 7 | They found that of those males who reported acute sickness or chronic sickness without any limiting effect on activity , a larger proportion of the lower than the higher socio-economic groups consulted their doctors ; there was no consistent trend in the case of the females . |
| 8 | The Scottish data are the most recent and most reliable and they show that the lower socio-economic groups are more likely to be both admitted to hospital and to stay longer than the higher socio-economic groups . |
| 9 | In brief , there is enough evidence to show that the ways in which ill health and accidents arise are such that the lower socio-economic groups suffer more than the higher socio-economic groups . |
| 10 | Housing is a basic need and it is therefore to be expected that the lower income groups will pay a higher proportion of their income to meet housing costs than the higher income groups , in spite of the fact that they live in less adequate accommodation . |
| 11 | In laying out a chord which covers a wide range the bottom two octaves or so should be less densely populated with notes than the higher altitudes . |
| 12 | At post mortem , the low fibre diet rats had more abnormalities and tumours of body tissue than the higher fibre diet rats . |
| 13 | The object objective in six should be to minimize the loss of that land and to take the land in the l in the lower grade within the best and most versatile , rather than the higher grade . |
| 14 | If the water is slowed , then these heavy materials come out of suspension , with the light material ( silt ) being carried further than the heavier . |
| 15 | Hotelware will continue to be an important part of the Group 's business , probably with greater emphasis on finer , domestic-type designs rather than the heavier weight catering product . |
| 16 | ‘ A survey has shown that the move is for the better , rather than the worse . ’ |
| 17 | Thus , according to mean daily temperatures , the warmest months are July and August ( 12.9°C ) rather than the sunnier months of May and June , while the coldest are January and February ( 4.1°C ) , displaying a similar , if less marked , lag . |
| 18 | Although women were in practice doing exactly the same work as certain categories of men , they too perceived the division of labour as a gender division , and took as their point of reference for equality the " all-round comp " , whom both masters and men held up as the exemplar , rather than the humbler linesman . |
| 19 | The economy-minded president even stayed at the four-star Buda Penta Hotel rather than the grander Grand Hotel overlooking the Danube . |
| 20 | The branched design utilizes the interactive capacity of the computer more fully than the simpler linear mode ; , |
| 21 | The new prints still took their inspiration from the past but were more likely to be derived from the printed silks of eighteenth-century Lyons or the pattern books of Victorian designers and architects than the simpler fly leaves of books upon which Laura had formerly relied . |
| 22 | However , if an agent is enjoying the wine with a Bryan Adams , he or she may be drinking the vinegar with a manager 's smaller act who makes much more work than the bigger act , with absolutely no income . |
| 23 | at the cost of single glazing and our price is usually by fifty percent cheaper than the bigger national companies because we do n't advertise and we 're a trade com company and I wondered if we could offer you a free quotation , no obligation whatsoever to buy ? |
| 24 | The strong sand and clay loams and alluvial silts of the East are more fertile than the thinner , stonier soils on the western uplands . |
| 25 | Choose one that takes a thick nylon line rather than the thinner type that will break more easily . |
| 26 | But here too there is a danger of distortion : occupants who were very poor but lived in a house with masonry foundations , surrounded by heaps of discarded food debris , and who used poor quality pottery ( fragments of which would survive ) might well appear to have had better living conditions than the richer occupants of a site who lived in a large timber-built house , using high-quality wooden and leather vessels ( which would not usually survive ) , and were able to employ servants to remove debris from the immediate vicinity of the house . |
| 27 | In doing so it used the temporary 1951–3 increase in employment of older workers rather than the wider post-war trend to earlier retirement . |
| 28 | It operates mostly on labour-intensive , repetitive government forms rather than the wider variety of commercial printing work which would give men a marketable skill on release as well as a good work experience . |
| 29 | So there was some basis for supposing that the appellants had been informed in writing , that their obligation was only not to sell the property , rather than the wider terms which in fact applied to the injunction . |
| 30 | William Keegan in The Observer claims , perhaps a touch cynically , that top earning businessmen are more interested in their own personal taxes than the wider concerns of industry . |