Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] than [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The simple truth is , though , that you will never be in a better position to arrange suitable contract safeguards than during the period when a company is anxious to secure your services .
2 But it increased slightly more in the action samples than in the control groups .
3 Work redesign was therefore more popular in management journals than on the shop or office floor .
4 In fact the only drawback about the Cube is that you 're more than likely to find one or two of the Sounds freelancers propping up the bar but , aside from that , there are n't many better ways to spend the approaching cold winter evenings than in the comfort of decent live music and good company .
5 In fact the only drawback about the Cube is that you 're more than likely to find one or two of the Sounds freelancers propping up the bar but , aside from that , there are n't many better ways to spend the approaching cold winter evenings than in the comfort of decent live music and good company .
6 For external locus of control a lower increase in score was seen in the FSE and SAM groups than in the control group , but the increase in the FSE/SAM group was higher than that in the control group .
7 Large single falls are less common on the sandstone cliffs than on the chalk , the former tending to slump and yet recede the fastest .
8 In its response SNH says it is less interested in institutional arrangements for the delivery of water services than in the need for key principles to be followed .
9 Such revolutionaries also complain that by adhering so closely to the old subject divisions , in the past characteristic more of GCE O levels than of the CSE , those who devised the new examination missed a great opportunity .
10 Let us not forget the experience of the past 10 years , during which time we have had more experience of guillotine motions than in the whole of the previous history of Parliament .
11 People were more preoccupied with rumours about an imminent sharp reduction in food rations than by the speech of the Führer , noted the SD .
12 It seems from these results that unions have a greater ( negative ) impact upon the use of agency workers than upon the use of fixed-term contract workers .
13 Sheila Payne suggests a number of reasons for this : the side effects of the drugs become more distressing ; patients are aware that they will have to go through further courses of similar treatment and feel gloomy at the prospect ; and they receive less support from health professionals than at the start .
14 Others believed the panel to be constituted on a representative basis , so that the coordinating committee was entitled to no more than one seat on the panel that it had created , while others appear to have seen the panel as relating more to the county inservice activities than to the project itself .
15 Pernå Church , nearby , is much like Hollola on the exterior ( 574 ) ; this simple pattern of three-aisled , rectangular , hall church is more attractive and appropriate in the smaller country buildings than on the cathedral scale of Porvoo .
16 That she is more liable to leave work just when she is getting most useful [ in other words ] there are more changes in a crowd of women workers than in a crowd of men workers.32
17 The mortality rate due to acute gastroenteritis was significantly lower in the vitamin A clusters than in the placebo clusters .
18 In the USA far more states now hold party primaries than at the start of the post-war period , and the sequence of primary results is increasingly the key determinant of presidential candidate selection .
19 The commodification and rising class status of music hall song is more easily explained by referring to the penetration of culture by market relations than to the influence of musical literacy ; the increasingly extensive and homogeneous market demanded more songs more quickly than oral methods could supply .
20 Yet , first , that outcome of specialization which is an assumed general division between those who create and perform and those who merely receive is not significantly greater at this level of material techniques than at the level of systems of training of inherent resources .
21 The rest of the objects were more in keeping with the plastic table mats than with the linen cloth , for Mrs Maugham was in practice a sworn friend to the synthetic ; to her , utility was a prime virtue .
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