Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] than the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What better forum for conspicuous consumption than the locker-room or the golf club car-park ? |
| 2 | The offspring will probably be selected to want a greater quantity of parental investment than the parent because again , a little bit extra for the offspring probably means more than what to its reproductive success , than it er would mean to the reproductive erm , success of , of the mother , as far as the offsprings are concerned . |
| 3 | Much of the debate over economic policy was thought to have centred on the level of provincial autonomy which should be allowed ; the provinces were generally thought to favour a more radical pace of economic reform than the centre . |
| 4 | The life of a river has nothing to show more resonant of changeless change than the life cycle of the mayfly , a genus known even in the dry language of science as Ephemera . |
| 5 | However , they were made of lesser wood than the door . |
| 6 | Abolitionists successfully used the convention drastically to reduce the freedom of parliamentary action and to claim that it was more representative of national opinion than the legislature . |
| 7 | She will know at what point domestic happiness begins to cloy , where love , tidiness , rent , rates , clothes , entertaining , and rings at the doorbell should stop , and will recognize that there is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall . ’ |
| 8 | But perhaps it reveals more of the inherent uncertainty of experimental research than the tidiness which precedes it . |
| 9 | Some employers were crudely exploitative , others offered their workers shorter hours , better conditions , improved housing and medical care , from a mixture of philanthropy and conviction that the carrot was a more effective means of increasing productivity than the stick . |
| 10 | language is capable of far more subtle ways of metaphoric expression than the stock grammatical ways . |
| 11 | However backward in some respects , its educational level was high , and it was certainly better adapted in 1880 to the demands and discipline of industrial life than the population of any other part of the world except North America . |
| 12 | Although I had respect for Harry Thubron and Frank Lisle , the message of Basic Design was in , many ways much less important to schools of general education than the work which had been developed to such a pitch of excellence by Basil . |
| 13 | Containing a greater proportion of secular matter than the Church history of Eusebius , it was based partly on written material and partly on the memories of men still living . |
| 14 | Indeed , although the SLA is composed overwhelmingly of qualified teachers , it seems to some to have shown itself less aware of the pressures of educational change than the Library Association , with its royal charter to oversee the interests of libraries of all kinds . |
| 15 | And the fact that today this respect has to be defended even more stridently than before is more a comment on the destructiveness of modern development than the result of any new-fangled obsession with antiquity . |
| 16 | On December 14th 1719 " Super at Mr Cockburn 11 at table 22 persons in al " there were " eating poset in cheana [ china ] high dish at the head of the table , at the foot a haunch of venison , " in the midle of the table a pirimide sillibubs and orang cream in the past , above it sweet meets dry and wet " , on the sides black pudding , partridge , larks , celery salad " made and unmade " , veal collops white sauce , " 2 boyld pullets w t persley sauce , in the midle pickles of other sort than the comon ones . " |
| 17 | She said : " I felt at an earlier stage there were enough moderate Africans who could have taken their place alongside whites in government and there would have been much more evolution towards African leadership than the revolution that came about in the end . |
| 18 | Workers in the nuclear industry could face up to double the risk of contracting leukaemia than the rest of society according to a report published today . |
| 19 | A microlight engine is less likely to suffer cylinder damage through thermal shock than the engine of a conventional aircraft which is allowed to tick over and cool down too quickly on the descent , but extremes are best avoided . |
| 20 | Not for the first time , the legate had shown more enthusiasm for papal power than the pope . |
| 21 | ‘ Baking as it used to be ’ the cake 's cardboard wrapper proudly claimed , but the ingredients seemed more in tune with modern technology than the farmhouse kitchen . |
| 22 | In The Road to Serfdom Hayek wrote : ‘ Nothing distinguishes more clearly conditions in a free country from those in a country under arbitrary government than the observance in the former of the great principles known as the Rule of Law . ’ |
| 23 | If you are new to a company , lower in overt status than the rest of the people present or simply shy , the easiest contribution to make is to ask a question . |
| 24 | There he delivered the first of his attacks upon the press lords : ‘ There is nothing more curious in modern evolution than the effect of an enormous fortune rapidly made and the control of newspapers of your own . |
| 25 | The creation of such schemes is more often a reaction to political pressure than the result of a rational approach to the issue of compensation for the effects of government action . |
| 26 | The hypothesized eastward movement of China towards the Pacific would be expected because the continental lithosphere of Eurasia would provide more resistance to lateral movement than the subduction zones of the western Pacific margin . |
| 27 | There is more to contemporary racism than the violence they perpetrate . |
| 28 | The conduct struck at by section 19 was made an offence in the 1965 legislation , and was a more frequently prosecuted form of incitement to racial hatred than the utterance of words . |
| 29 | Oleic acid administration , at different doses , had no more effect on PYY release than the bile salt alone . |
| 30 | These explanations see the delinquent individual as inherently more prone to criminal behaviour than the non-delinquent . |