Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The term is more a measure of the sort of living a holding will provide and the labour involved than a mere acreage . |
| 2 | iii ) The number of steps executed during the deceleration depends on the load conditions ; a load with high inertia and low torque needs more steps to decelerate than a low inertia , high torque load . |
| 3 | No sooner have the Doctor and Vicki gone than the erstwhile school teachers are captured by slave traders who intend selling them at the slave markets in Rome . |
| 4 | It would probably be true to say , however , that the long and passionate ‘ french ’ hiss is more likely to give the gonococcus a chance to spread than the toothless peck on the cheek from an aged aunt . |
| 5 | Very heavy Syrian casualties would apparently have been deemed a lesser price to pay than the probable failure of anything less than what the general 's men say was planned : a full-scale armoured and infantry assault involving 40,000 men on five main axes along a 50-kilometre front . |
| 6 | Now it is true that all these examples of Christian virtue had other things to offer than a rigorous asceticism and a rather overt and physical way of acting this out . |
| 7 | A national election victory gives a stronger moral claim to rule than a local election . |
| 8 | An easier species to keep than the Banded Coral Shrimp ( Stenopus hispidus ) the other commonly available cleaner shrimp species and so adaptable that pairs will regularly breed in captivity . |