Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] than [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought it was better going to drama school direct rather than via a university and if you 're going to act I think that 's the way . |
| 2 | The ‘ definitive ’ John Barnard Ferrari will make its debut at the French Grand Prix at Magny-Cours in June 1993 rather than at the start of 1994 as originally scheduled . |
| 3 | Many animals are lighter underneath than on the back , or ‘ counter-shaded ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ I see your condition is diet-controlled rather than by the use of insulin . ’ |
| 5 | We are much clearer now than at the beginning about how to approach science in a more girl friendly way ( see Smail , 1983 , 1984 ) , and the clarity is due in part to the way we have worked with teachers . |
| 6 | The wider range of styles prompts five vocalists ; Souzay is the least satisfactory , sounding woolier here than on the Fauré set , but again , his intuitive style more than makes amends . |
| 7 | It is one thing for the Association to demand certain professional standards of its members ( as formulated in the Code of Professional Conduct ) , and to expect them to have loyalty to these rather than to the employer in any dispute , but the professional association itself has to be seen to take a strong stand in support of its membership , or indeed against its membership , if such situations of conflict arise . |
| 8 | She refers to the lines joining them as ‘ lines of force ’ , and states that pagans worship the Old Gods on these rather than at the power centres themselves which had tended to have been ‘ exorcized ’ by the Christians by the erection of chapels dedicated to St Michael . |
| 9 | The idea of basing decisions on generalisations about the elderly rather than on the needs of individual elderly patients has also met with criticism on purely ethical grounds . |
| 10 | The weight of the gun in his jacket pocket and the night air , thicker here than in the city centre , it was further from the ocean , you sometimes felt you could n't breathe until you found your way to the end of the land . |
| 11 | Perhaps they 're cheaper here than in the States . ’ |
| 12 | But the instructions were no more effective here than in the Ukraine , and , as we shall see , it was Georgia that came to sum up Lenin 's revulsion not only at the implementation of Party policy in the national field , but also at the general evolution of the Party . |
| 13 | In fact , the ‘ aesthetic ’ is discussed on the course , but as a problematic rather than as a response to literature . |
| 14 | The river Trent has always flooded , and nowhere more so than on the levels between where its own waters and those of the Yorkshire Aire flow out into the Humber . |
| 15 | And all in all not a bad place for a romantic tête à tête , nowhere more so than at the Las Palmeras Apartments where , among the seclusion of the palm trees , you can relax in maximum tanning mode with the partner of your dreams . |
| 16 | In a comparison carried out by the National Economic Development Council and the Manpower Services Commission ( 1984:85 ) it was said that the concern for a sound basic education is voiced strongly in all the three countries [ USA , Japan and the then Federal Republic of Germany ] as it is in the UK , but nowhere more so than in the US . |
| 17 | Nowhere more so than in the rape scene itself , which , in marked contrast to the humiliation of Lipstick , makes the men the object of spectacle , focusing on their behaviour , not Sarah 's suffering . |
| 18 | The steady economic growth and the increasing level of wealth which it generated led to an expansion of commerce whose effects were visible throughout the whole of France , but nowhere more so than in the capital , making it more and more a commercial as well as a political centre . |
| 19 | Film can cruelly expose limitations , and nowhere more so than in the case of the gloomy Dane and the blue-eyed wonder . |
| 20 | For unlike serf insurrection , slave rebellion was relatively uncommon — nowhere more so than in the United States — and never in the nineteenth century considered a very serious political threat . |
| 21 | Projects in Tilburg and in the Hague in the late 1970-s provided much practical experience , nowhere more so than in The Hague where deficient participation procedures angered shopkeepers who , fearful of trade falls through loss of car parking , tried to dig up the new cycle track . |
| 22 | The two Education Acts of 1986 and 1988 brought about some revolutionary changes in education — nowhere more so than in the role of governing bodies . |
| 23 | The same people , however , demanded a high standard from public works and nowhere more so than in the domain of street lighting . |
| 24 | We are in a decade when the timeless truth of John Wesley 's words is apparent , and nowhere more so than in the realm of church planting . |
| 25 | Christianity is such a religion : God is worshipped through Christ , the male principle , and the affirmation of light is found nowhere more clearly than in the opening chapter of St John 's gospel , which includes the verses : |
| 26 | Chaucer makes this point on more than one occasion , nowhere more emphatically than at the end of the Canterbury Tales , after the Parson 's Tale , where he " revokes " in his " retractions " " " my translacions and endytinges of worldly vanitees " " ( endytinges : compositions ) including " " the tales of Caunterbury , thilke that sownen into synne " " ( sownen into synne : " resonate with sin " ) ( X : 1084 – 5 ) . |
| 27 | Even so , I find the Christchurch trebles less robust here than in the choir 's previous Byrd discs , tending to remain within a limited dynamic range , even in the more laudatory Latin Motets . |
| 28 | If that is so , presumably costs to industry will be that much lower here than in the rest of Europe , so there will not be equal competition with enterprises in the other 11 nations of the European Community . |
| 29 | ‘ Unemployment is higher in Scotland than in Germany and I think it 's a lot worse here than in the rest of Britain . ’ |
| 30 | This means that , where the investor 's marginal rate of income tax is higher abroad than in the UK , he will not be liable to additional income tax in the UK , but nevertheless will suffer a higher tax burden on an overseas investment than with a comparable UK investment . |