Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] than the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that a baby is weaned early , according to this argument , matters less than the reason for this decision : whether it reflects a cultural norm , or stems from the mother 's revulsion at physical intimacy , or expresses an urge to hurry the child towards independence . |
| 2 | A powerful sitter may also impose a requirement that the portrait looks impressive , so that an amused spectator can look for traces of the consequent power struggle in a picture ; Queen Elizabeth I of England was as firm as the Emperor Augustus about the principle that a ruler 's actual appearance matters less than the imprint of authority . |
| 3 | However , the preservation of a rape survivor 's anonymity needs more than the exclusion of the name . |
| 4 | The bureaucrat is assumed as a general rule to know more than the sponsor about factor costs and production processes involved in the bureau 's services . |
| 5 | Even with Sackville 's favour Bowyer failed to secure more than the reversion in 1597 to the clerkship of the parliaments , the successful candidate averring that he was unfit ‘ by reason of a great imperfection he hath in his speech ’ . |
| 6 | It seems to me that unless you can convince yourself that a grouping of companies adds more than the sum of its parts , there is no raison d'etre for the company at all . |
| 7 | In the area of booking contracts a form of damages has developed which may enable the guest to obtain more than the value of the contract . |
| 8 | Medical care outside the hospitals grew in importance in the second half of the century , becoming more than the prerogative of the rich . |
| 9 | As a matter of interest , Dr Jean Valnet and other doctors in the field of clinical aromatherapy have discovered that blends of certain essential oils are not only more powerful than when used singly , but that the mysterious factor of synergy is at work — the whole becoming greater than the sum of its equal parts . |
| 10 | He preferred the slow , peaceful life of the Devon countryside to the frenetic bustle of the metropolis : playing for Exeter seemed better than the likelihood of being very small fish in the big Arsenal pool . |
| 11 | And since Felicity — that 's my wife — ca n't now experience what 's happening five years ago — because it 's receding faster than the speed of light , and the speed of light is a constant which , as we know from Einsteinian physics , can not be exceeded … |
| 12 | It 's estimated that over ten million people now earn less than the Council of Europe 's decency threshold for wages . |
| 13 | You can choose glasses that cost more than the value of your voucher and pay the difference yourself . |
| 14 | What has happened is a swings-and-roundabouts operation , whereby last year pensioners received more than the cost of living that they had incurred , whereas this year they will receive less . |
| 15 | But the account of the meeting of Esau and Jacob goes deeper than the story of the purchase of Sarah 's burial plot . |
| 16 | The issue of curriculum and subject choice goes deeper than the portrayal of women in school textbooks , however . |
| 17 | Some early work in the United States ( Feldstein , 1975 ; Clotfelter , 1985 ) has suggested that the scale of charitable donations increases faster than the reduction in tax revenue and that the level of giving increases sharply if tax reliefs are given . |
| 18 | As she walked to it , Huy wished that he could see more than the slit in the dress revealed . |
| 19 | For there 's nothing the Scots enjoy more than the scoring of own goals . |
| 20 | The style and method of management matter less than the question of whether the headteacher can collaborate with other schools and is prepared to make adjustments and concessions in the way the school is run in order to allow better pooling of time , staff or other resources . |
| 21 | Mr Marzio also maintains that the tax law affects more than the stream of gifts to museums . |
| 22 | Does the Minister recognise that the question of loan sharks has been on the agenda for the past 12 years , but that nothing positive has occurred other than the report to which he referred ? |
| 23 | You get feeding better than the rest of us you do . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The Chelsea Flower Show is probably not the most obvious place to pick up a bargain — lead lions rampant and Medici urns atop Corinthian columns must cost more than the Governor of the Bank of England earns in a week to transport there , let alone purchase . |
| 26 | Such ideas have probably influenced the process of teaching more than the content of courses in higher education , although they had a direct bearing on the original terms of reference of university extra-mural departments . |
| 27 | The grand design of a single market for Europe requires more than the guarantee of free trade found in the Treaty of Rome . |
| 28 | The solution of the crofting problem requires more than the input of money into agriculture More than the input of money into industry . |
| 29 | But the team who led the table with an eight-point lead over the third-placed club in February and had two games in hand are surely lacking more than the rub of the green . |
| 30 | She said Jeremy turns his amp up — so his guitar sounds louder than the rest of them . |