Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] than [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time in 42 years , the seven biggest companies reported a smaller rise in assets in the financial year to March 31st than in the year before , as uncompetitive savings policies matured and were not renewed . |
| 2 | The technology used is more labour intensive than in the Pergascript plant . |
| 3 | An indicator is the abundance of the rare isotope of hydrogen , deuterium D , compared to the common isotope 1 H. D is twice the mass of 1 H and therefore 1 H will normally escape faster , enhancing D/ 1 H. The D/ 1 H ratio in the Cytherean atmosphere today is about 100 times that on the Earth , indicating more 1 H on Venus in the past , though still a good deal less than on the Earth . |
| 4 | No one in their senses puts money on a horse other than in the hope of winning money . |
| 5 | It has been suggested that the move to a loans-based higher educational system will provide small firms with a supply of labour , as in the US , but this is unlikely to have a major effect other than on the demand for temporary workers . |
| 6 | Even though the ranks of labourers were thinner and the level of wealth higher than in the west , tinning was not unknown in eastern parts , though parishes containing tinners differed little from ones that did not : not only were the former only slightly poorer in East hundred , but in West and Trigg they were actually rather better off . |
| 7 | A student in college accommodation ( halls of residence and probably head tenancies because of possible subsidies ) has no right to Housing Benefit other than in the summer vacation . |
| 8 | Financial circumstances other than as a result of redundancy under the terms of the Employment Protection ( Consolidation ) Act 1978 ( notice of which is received after the issue of the Booking Confirmation ) , disinclination to travel or weather conditions . |
| 9 | Elements other than in the uth , vth columns and rows are unaltered from those in A ; at the intersections of the uth , vth columns an rows the new elements are given by ( 3 ) ( with Buv = 0 ) , while the remaining elements Biu , Biv in the uth , vth columns and rows are unc We may make two deductions . |
| 10 | Nowhere are these projects larger than in the development of a major new commercial airliner , and the chief executive of Boeing , the largest plane manufacturer in the world , has described each major new project as ‘ betting the company ’ . |
| 11 | Many innovations have more to do with changes in the value systems of the individuals concerned than with the acquisition of wholly new skills . |
| 12 | In several species , including humans , colonic VFA absorption in vivo is associated with HCO 3 - secretion and a lower luminal pCO 2 than in the absence of VFAs . |
| 13 | Most of the gas brought to the Centre is apparently later expelled in a galactic wind , but some with low angular momentum finds its way to the nucleus , where the gas is at a pressure at least three orders of magnitude higher than in the disk . |
| 14 | ( c ) Property held by husband and wife and a third party In circumstances where the husband is to convey his interest in the house to the wife , little needs to be done to the legal title other than for the husband to retire as a trustee ; the wife and third party ( possibly her mother ) will be left holding the legal estate , the beneficial interests being " behind the curtain " . |
| 15 | As Joan de Warenne , she had no place at court other than as a servant — should privileges such as befitted her true station be accorded her , unwelcome suspicion would be aroused . |
| 16 | The weather gave rise to problems other than in the air . |
| 17 | Given that the CS molecule requires higher densities for its excitation than CO , it follows that the gas density in the bulge is about an order of magnitude greater than in the disk . |
| 18 | Public services have become more marketing orientated and have to be seen to be more accountable to their ‘ publics ’ ( e.g. the police service which is now more public relations conscious than in the past ) . |
| 19 | to consider proposals for securing income from the consumer other than through the licence fee . |
| 20 | The defence in general is 200% better than at the start of the year . |
| 21 | But surprisingly prices in Northallerton were lower than for the County Durham pubs although overall Which ? found Yorkshire prices higher than in the North-East . |
| 22 | Mr Kennedy said that no deal had been done with the Government other than on an understanding that today 's scheduled business should not be knocked out by allowing yesterday 's session to continue beyond lunchtime today . |
| 23 | Quite apart from the obvious undesirability of verbal agreements for the sale or purchase of land , no transfer of land can be validly achieved in France other than by an acte de vente , which is a notarial document prepared by a Notary and signed by all parties or their Attorneys before him … |
| 24 | The new edict is that we will have to wait for the year 2000 to land anywhere in space other than on the Moon . |
| 25 | Do not operate any controls other than from the driving seat . |
| 26 | When process of care measures were reanalysed after excluding the 21 patients who were referred back to the hospital clinic other than through the prompting system , all process of care measures in table IV remained more frequent in the prompted subgroup ( n=65 prompted subjects ) . |
| 27 | ( g ) The granting of a licence other than of the type applied for amounts to a refusal of an application . |
| 28 | No person was to be present at an operation other than with the consent of the surgeon who was performing it . |
| 29 | So whereas the policy committee were allowing us three point five million grant maximum , on top of the er base budget , now course that 's reduced because with cash limited to the total on to the base plus , so getting a lot less than with the group so they might say increase to about two and a half million rather than the figure we had earlier . |
| 30 | Inflation was steadier and growth stronger than in the rest of Africa . |