Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] than the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | However , the preservation of a rape survivor 's anonymity needs more than the exclusion of the name . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Medical care outside the hospitals grew in importance in the second half of the century , becoming more than the prerogative of the rich . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | It 's estimated that over ten million people now earn less than the Council of Europe 's decency threshold for wages . |
| 10 | You can choose glasses that cost more than the value of your voucher and pay the difference yourself . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But the account of the meeting of Esau and Jacob goes deeper than the story of the purchase of Sarah 's burial plot . |
| 13 | The issue of curriculum and subject choice goes deeper than the portrayal of women in school textbooks , however . |
| 14 | For there 's nothing the Scots enjoy more than the scoring of own goals . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Mr Marzio also maintains that the tax law affects more than the stream of gifts to museums . |
| 17 | You get feeding better than the rest of us you do . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The grand design of a single market for Europe requires more than the guarantee of free trade found in the Treaty of Rome . |
| 22 | The solution of the crofting problem requires more than the input of money into agriculture More than the input of money into industry . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She said Jeremy turns his amp up — so his guitar sounds louder than the rest of them . |
| 25 | We conclude that the CL100 gene and its mouse homologue represent a new subclass of mammalian PTPase in that they show no significant similarity to any human PTPase yet discovered other than the presence of the highly conserved active-site sequence . |
| 26 | If the textual sprawl of today 's average ‘ quality ’ newspaper ultimately represents less than the sum of its sections , then it also represents in a more immediate sense the collapse of what Neville Wakefield has recently described as ‘ a world in which information can still be organised and evaluated and hierarchised according to rigid structures of meaning ’ The new generation of ‘ top people 's papers wear their manifold contradictions firmly on their sleeves . |
| 27 | With these decisions Darwin became more than the protégé of Lyell . |
| 28 | So it , it is hard to say , erm and I would n't like to make a prediction except that I think the number of postgraduate students may have fallen more than the number of undergraduate students , and that we may see already even in this first year erm a substantial not altogether healthy change in the national makeup of overseas students . |
| 29 | A team has a mix of people who contribute in different but complementary ways thus achieving synergy , ie the team produces more than the sum of its individuals . |
| 30 | But there is little doubt in my mind that the future will only go to the large company if that large company is really able to release the energies and the synergies that ought to be a part of the grand design and make more than the sum of the parts . |