Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun] than [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 Directors of subsidiaries of foreign companies received bigger salaries than directors of UK-owned companies .
2 Flora 's article would do more good than months of jumble sales , bring-and-buy fairs , charity fetes .
3 On this basis , by about 1996 , sales of electronic information products will be generating more revenue than sales of books .
4 Fish swimming in schools move faster and use less energy than fish of the same species made to swim alone .
5 He had always hated Jews — the pogrom was the way to deal with them — and a beating gave more satisfaction than use of a gun .
6 As organizational head of all CIA operations on the North American continent , Hayman literally had greater power than heads of State or European monarchy .
7 Although defeated by 144 votes to 183 Cullen nevertheless gained more support than Dollan of Govan , whose resolution for a return of the ILP to its propagandist role within the Labour Party received only 93 votes .
8 In work organisations it is universally believed that cooperation is a Good Thing , and achieve greater productivity than lack of cooperation .
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