Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] than [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the course of this exploration , we have seen how much more is needed in the creation and understanding of coherent discourse than knowledge of the language system alone : its sounds and letters , its words and its sentence grammar . |
| 2 | Although there is a general trend for the private offices of many political heads of state to increase in size and influence , the British Prime Minister still appears to be less well endowed with this type of political support than leaders of most other states . |
| 3 | In general the never-married elderly make greater use of statutory services including institutional care than others of the same age , so change in marriage and fertility patterns pointed out by Timaeus may have important implications for future service use . |
| 4 | Peters ' work concerns mostly the tribes of the Saadi confederation ( Barassa , Magharba ) , rather than the Zuwaya ; but no evidence supports an argument that Zuwaya women were less important and active in this regard than women of other tribes . |
| 5 | None of these four biases are likely to be consistent either across the two sexes or across different species : all four are more likely to affect estimates of variation in male success than estimates of variation in female success in polygynous species , though in contrary directions . |
| 6 | As the statistics in Table 8 indicate , heavy physical work during pregnancy ( see for instance the categories of unskilled labourers and unskilled construction workers ) more often lead to premature birth than conditions of other occupations . |