Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] than [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Guys like Stefan and Boris will be more pumped up for that than for a preparation tournament . ’ |
| 2 | Dickens 's Will Fern , with first-hand knowledge of life inside one , complains of this female tendency : ‘ It looks well in a picter , I 've heerd say ; but there a n't weather in picters , and maybe ‘ t is fitter for that than for a place to live in . ’ |
| 3 | Indeed , Braveman and Jarvis ( 1978 ) , having argued that their results imply separate mechanisms for the two phenomena , go on to acknowledge the possibility that their results might simply reflect the use of a test procedure that was less sensitive as a measure of conditioning than as a measure of neophobia . |
| 4 | Game had passed and they had slept , huddled , more aware of cold than of the hunt . |
| 5 | Where best developed , for example at Stramberk in Czechoslovakia , it contains a rich and varied fauna including massive compound corals ( though the fossils are more obvious in the collections from many years of quarrying than in the quarries themselves ) . |
| 6 | I merely note that other European countries have found an alternative way of living which , as it happens , for whatever reason , has resulted in their enjoying higher standards of living than on the whole do EEC members . |
| 7 | That meant Argentinian shoppers were paying roughly 30 times more for the same basket of goods at the end of 1989 than at the beginning of the year . |
| 8 | 8.7 In the event that any proceedings are brought against other than in the circumstances described in clause 8.5 ( and including , but not limited to , those arising out of any acts or omissions of in its exercise of its rights under this Agreement or otherwise in connection with alleged defects in the Licensed Products ) , will at 's option either give all assistance reasonably required by in connection with such proceedings or take over their conduct . |
| 9 | But what of Mr Major 's claim that Mr Ashdown has more in common with Labour than with the Tories and could be the Trojan horse with which Mr Kinnock bursts through the wrought-iron gates into Downing Street ? |
| 10 | The common English proverb " Early to bed and early to rise , makes a man healthy , wealthy and wise " is less concerned with self-denial than with a prescription for regular habits . |
| 11 | There was , however , room for two pages of details of other excerpts records in the same series : why anyone would be any more interested in these than in the Humperdinck if they had not more information than that supplied with this CD was not clear . |
| 12 | For instance , the number of working-age people ( 16-pensionable age ) grew by 1.2 million between 1971 and 1981 and by a further 1.3 million in the seven years up to 1988 , while the age groups spanning the period of most intense new household formation ( 15–44 years old ) contained 3.6 million more people in 1988 than at the beginning of the 1970s . |
| 13 | The great majority of its members were more attracted to this than to the abuse from the Communists or to the dissensions of the ILP . |
| 14 | To the extent that he went further so as to suggest that in no circumstances could the speeches be looked at other than for the purposes of seeing what was said on a particular date , his remarks have to be understood in the context of the issues which arose in that case . |
| 15 | Note that even without the exact position of the original markers being known , the line from Bishops Cannings church through the WKLB and the centres varies by less than of a degree . |