Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [noun pl] than the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the loan agreement is signed the donor may have a much more precise view of these conditions than the recipient , especially at the level of the line staff who are actually supposed to manage the project . |
| 2 | To suppress one of these , and produce a unidirectional laser , it is necessary to employ a nonreciprocal element usually based on the Faraday effect — which makes the cavity more lossy for one of these modes than the other . |
| 3 | It is this too which causes me personally to be deeply resentful of the practice so prevalent in the mass of fiscal and planning legislation of relegating provisions of real substance to Schedules which are sometimes cross-referenced between one another , so that construing the statute becomes a sort of verbal jigsaw puzzle that can only be solved by laying out numerous copies of the Act open at different pages or by the judicious use of more fingers than the number with which nature has been pleased to endow us . |
| 4 | Even with fewer guests than the park is able to cater for ( some 20,000 this week ; 35,000 are expected daily thereafter ) , the most popular rides such as Big Thunder Mountain and Star Tours had waits of an hour or more . |
| 5 | Nothing would weigh more heavily with many Tories than the thought that what above all had led them to throw away the 1992 election was the way the positive values and achievements of the Thatcher years had been allowed , through loss of nerve , to be obscured . |
| 6 | Sex is important in marriage for more reasons than the begetting of children . |
| 7 | ( The French are always more precise in such matters than the English . ) |
| 8 | This was important at a time when outvoters were a larger group in many constituencies than the size of the majority and when the outvoters were overwhelmingly Unionist . |
| 9 | They all put in their tenpenny 's worth about what they thought should be filmed , but nobody asked my opinion , and I 'd been in more films than the rest of the cast put together . |
| 10 | Average milk yields for Red Poll cows in the 1930s were about 3,300kg at 3.64 per cent butterfat , which was better in both respects than the Dairy Shorthorn but below the Lincoln Red . |
| 11 | Of all of the appointments which might easily be held by a resident freeholder , none was more attractive to many gentlemen than the post of collector of supply . |