Example sentences of "[verb] [det] [adj] [noun] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little enthusiasm among voters for a coalition government and more would prefer another general election than an arrangement between either the Conservatives or Labour and one of the minor parties . |
| 2 | As a Scottish paper remarked at the time , it was not his first dismissal , ‘ Bremner has had more early baths than a miner on night-shift . ’ |
| 3 | And what better time to consider this dead end than the twentieth anniversary of 1967 , that pivotal point at which sixties beat music leapt into the beyond , and the very notion of ‘ the progressive ’ was born . |
| 4 | Has this development now led to the United Staffs having more intensive review than the United Kingdom ? |
| 5 | He said I should have more adequate protection than a burglar alarm . |
| 6 | The electoral agreement which Peace Alliance supporters proposed " would have less electoral appeal than a united and independent Labour Party " . |
| 7 | For me , there is no finer way to appreciate this extraordinary beauty than an early morning spent fly fishing for salmon in the tranquil waters of the Dee , with the sun slowing rising above the mountains and not another soul in sight . |
| 8 | The new comprehensive schools , educationalists complained , seemed to have less social mixing than the old grammar schools had done . |
| 9 | The results show that a surface containing both differential vertical and differential horizontal perspective cues appropri- ate to viewing the surface at infinity was judged to have more peak-to-trough depth than the equivalent surface with perspective cues appropriate to viewing at 28cm . |
| 10 | Any parent who has had an insomniac or hyperactive child will know the situation in which interruption of sleep over a long period frays tempers and seeks some other scapegoat than the child ; husband and wife may end in screaming at each other across the bedroom . |
| 11 | Of interest too was the finding that high-risk subjects who did not experience a breakdown had fewer perinatal problems than the low-risk subjects . |
| 12 | So after both of these elections a government was formed which had less electoral support than the opposition . |
| 13 | On admission to the trial those given 5-ASA had less severe symptoms than the bismuth group although the differences in symptoms and in both sigmoidoscopic and histological grades did not achieve statistical significance ( table IV ) . |
| 14 | Always more than a nepotistic afterthought , Brix had more musical input than The Fall could comfortably contain and now , after almost four years of intermittent solo action , she 's finally made her own album ( Spin This Web ) with her own group Adult Net . |
| 15 | In 1821 the former guerrilla leader Mina , an advanced liberal , recognized that a canon of Pamplona had more popular power than the provincial parliament of Navarre . |
| 16 | The centre boasts fewer sporting facilities than the Lompoc prison camp in California , which offered inmates the chance to improve their tennis and basketmaking skills . |