Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] than [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since a right visual field advantage was still found when the word in the right field was exposed 20 msecs. later than the word in the left field it was subsequently concluded that temporal factors were not importantly involved ( McKeever and Huling , 1971 b ) . |
| 2 | Yesterday 's denoument will also turn out to be good for Edwards , who will be able to sell his stake for a good deal more than the £10m on offer . |
| 3 | Economic globalization implies a great deal more than the development of extensive trade links . |
| 4 | For Guinnessness and Irishness go hand in hand , or glass in hand , and mean a good deal more than an island of soft green hues and a drink that 's a subtle black and white . |
| 5 | The total value of the property taken was put at £925 , £54 less than the cost of the damage caused . |
| 6 | Only an upper limit on the flattening can thus be established , but this is a good deal less than the flattening of the Earth . |
| 7 | Investment over the 1992–1994 period at £5.4 billion is forecast to be 22 p.c. down on the 1989–91 levels after allowing for inflation and the lowest since 1984–86 but still 30 p.c. higher than the depth of recession in 1981–1983 . |
| 8 | Everyone he had met in Fontanellato had been very kind , a good deal kinder than the people of Štanjel had been to his successor ; which was encouraging . |
| 9 | Both sides have a point : some foxes kill lambs , poultry and game , and some foxes are guilty of no crime greater than the dispatching of mice and earthworms . |
| 10 | All the girls in the bawdy-house were indolent and frivolous : without a thought in their heads other than the size of a man 's cock or the latest women 's fashions . |
| 11 | Although the usual coefficient of determination or scaled deviance can be used to indicate the global fit of any specified model , it is also important to examine model performance when estimating populations over areal units other than the wards from which the models were derived . |
| 12 | During clamps a significant rise in plasma hormone concentration was defined as a concentration greater than the mean of the five baseline ( euglycaemic ) values plus two standard deviations in two or more consecutive samples . |
| 13 | In terms of the aggregate demand curve developed in section 4.1 this specification is a simplification : it ignores the influence on aggregate demand of variables other than the quantity of money . |
| 14 | At least in the first stage of transition , there is no alternative other than a combination of the market and state regulation . |
| 15 | It can perform any action other than a communication with the terminated process ( which clearly can not agree to any communication ) . |
| 16 | The emaciated guitarist balances precariously on legs thinner than a pair of whittled Swan Vestas , which is fine , because a painfully thin member is essential if the glam card is going to be successfully played . |
| 17 | They formed a proportion of new schools greater than the proportion of children they served ( though this may have been because they were more likely to have suffered from bombing in city centres ) . |
| 18 | With a government that appears consciously to thrive on discord , and which has no policy on crime other than the obviousness of its being evil , the central role of the police has been inevitable . |
| 19 | Essentially what Darwin realized was that sexual dimorphism , particularly where it makes the male spectacularly different from female is not always the outcome of inter-male conflict , very often it is , we saw examples of the films of stags , of erm elephant seals , those kinds of animals where the dimorphic differences appear to be the result of inter-male conflict , for instance elephant seals are seven times heavier , the males are seven times heavier than the females on average because sheer weight is what wins those astonishing battles they have on the beaches when they , they kind of lunge at each other . |
| 20 | Zip , about 3cm shorter than the length of one side ( excluding seam allowance ) . |
| 21 | Jo and Tina were chauffeured every day to a small exclusive private school for the cosseted daughters of those Bel Air families who valued high moral standards and hard work more than the pretence of being regular folks . |
| 22 | The revenue has no answer to the anomalies which arise when the cost of providing a loss-making facility means that the average cost basis results in the taxpayer being treated as receiving a sum by way of benefit greater than the cost of buying that benefit on the open market . |
| 23 | As for rigs other than the hair for boilie fishing there are of course plenty of alternatives . |
| 24 | They stretched in great flocks wider than the whole of the Zoo . |
| 25 | Rutger often uses chord tones other than the root to a give a smoother movement between chords : eg. the min 7th ( D ) of Em7 to lead from the root ( E ) to the next chord root ( C ) in the bars 14 and 15 , followed by the major 3rd ( B ) of G major in the same bar . |
| 26 | Their research in areas other than the psychology of ‘ race ’ and prejudice is treated lightly , particularly if it is theoretical , unless it puts questions of ‘ race ’ aside entirely and adopts a white feminist perspective . |
| 27 | Histamine has effects other than the stimulation of acid and pepsin secretion , such as marked vasoactivity . |
| 28 | The conventional form is generally convenient ; it is useful to have equal eigenvalues in groups and to the use superdiagonal ; but in particular cases it may be well to use a nonzero quantity other than a unit in the superdiagonal . |
| 29 | However , hotels , restaurants and other places of entertainment where the substantial proportion of the business consisted of transactions other than the sale of intoxicating liquor came within the 1954 Act . |
| 30 | This is not a failure to understand resulting from the difficulty of the material , but from attention being on matters other than the content of the text . |