Example sentences of "of [adj] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | A MASSIVE 96 per cent of road accident and assault victims in Britain have less chance of surviving than similar cases in the USA . |
| 2 | Petr Semenov , a liberally inclined participant in the emancipation process , believed that in appointing Panin the tsar had in fact " revealed a greater degree of far-sightedness than any of those active in the peasant question " . |
| 3 | It implies that if one achieves a desirable end ( in terms , say , of pain prevented ) but at a greater cost of suffering than was necessary for it , one 's act was right , though not the best , even if one could have achieved that end by a less drastic means . |
| 4 | It is all too easy to do this , especially if we know no other ways of praying than our own . |
| 5 | The stream-of-consciousness novel only ‘ shows ’ us the operations of the mind by another kind of telling than straightforward authorial report . |
| 6 | This sense of ‘ apartness ’ reinforces the internal reliance of the mining community — or ‘ cohesive mass segregation ’ ( p. 69 ) — and also promotes a greater level of strike-proneness than is the case in more heterogeneous industrial settlements . |
| 7 | The interaction between Valerie and Laverne is in London English until the point where Valerie responds in vexation , " I do:nt knoh where it is " with an open back rounded vowel in both " do:nt " and " knoh " — pronunciations more characteristic of Creole than London English . |
| 8 | The essential reason for obeying the sovereign power was that keeping it in power was inevitably better for the security of each than the chaos of civil war , or a society without government . |
| 9 | ‘ Many of our customers could not understand why we might have only one style of nightdress or long-sleeved blouse , but it was because Laura was trying to evolve the most perfect example of that particular item and believed it was more important to have one good example of each than several skirts and dresses , ’ Moira explains . |
| 10 | Nor is there any question of his being elected thanks to a miscellaneous accumulation of votes of lower than first preference : all the votes are clear-cut votes of first and only preference . |
| 11 | Furthermore , over the same period there was a shift towards indirect taxation , which tends to take a greater proportion of the income of lower than higher income groups . |
| 12 | The boy was so small ; more like a child of eight than a boy of fifteen . |
| 13 | On average , inner London districts employ around one third fewer district nurses per capita of the resident population over the age of 75 than comparable districts outside London and the cost per contact is 60% higher than the national average . |
| 14 | Each machinist was given virtually an entire garment to produce as a more satisfying method of working than ‘ production line ’ techniques . |
| 15 | In other words , where God is concerned we are attempting to think of that than which nothing greater can be thought , which is also beyond thought . |
| 16 | I am more certain of that than I am of anything in my life , and although it is a slow and at times agonizing road I tread , the time will come when I shall be heard and cleared of the indictment held against me . |
| 17 | What better symbol of that than a new , improved BR . |
| 18 | With regard to the need for direct and close contact , I do not think that we could have had a clearer example of that than the visit of President Yeltsin and the very straight talking between my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and the president . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd have thought you 'd be a better judge of that than me . ’ |
| 20 | Such a system might have much more to offer in the way of conflict-resolution than the present system of customary principles as a loose framework within which states enter into negotiations . |
| 21 | That is perhaps more of historical than of current scientific interest . |
| 22 | Very sort of lighter than , no lighter than that . |
| 23 | The goldfish can not only spy on the fair-red secrets of our world , but its vision extends through the spectrum to shorter wavelength ultraviolet radiation , making it receptive to a wider band of light than almost any other animal . |
| 24 | The chairman of the London Board , Harry Randall , for example , was convinced of the need for Boards to earn a more ‘ commercial ’ rate of return , and his Board consistently had bigger surpluses and a higher level of self-financing than the others . |
| 25 | Some of my friends have been frightened into no longer wanting to smoke , others have faced the facts but are reconciled to being fonder of smoking than they are afraid of cancer , but I myself yield to the temptation to smoke although convinced that I ought to abstain . |
| 26 | CLO patients who did smoke started to smoke at a slightly later age , smoked for fewer years , and accumulated fewer pack years of smoking than the severe reflux oesophagitis group . |
| 27 | These components were , therefore , far more representative of the structure of G-BEBP than two brand new units would have been ; indeed the period in which they had been subjected to the stresses and strains of flight was remarkably similar to that of the accident aircraft . |
| 28 | Downstream , in light of high product stocks , industry refining margins in the USA and Europe are expected to be lower in the first quarter of 1993 than in the fourth quarter of 1992 . |
| 29 | Foods tend to contain mixtures of these fatty acids , but obviously some foods have higher proportions of some than others . |
| 30 | Do n't make more out of this than you have to . |