Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] than the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is at variance with the unwritten law of our party system ; and there is no clearer statute in that unwritten law than the rule that party claims should always weigh very heavily in the disposal of the highest appointments … |
| 2 | No nation and no government has been more conscious of the need , as they perceive it , to build barriers protecting European civilisation against American and Japanese audio-visual cultural imperialism than the French . |
| 3 | It was less a matter of some technical revelation than the fact that , after a difficult first 18 months with Zachary , this once fiery soul learned to put things into perspective . |
| 4 | Answer guide : An opportunity cost is defined as the maximum benefit which could be obtained from a resource if it were used for some alternative purpose than the opportunity under consideration . |
| 5 | For all their mutual confidence in each other and their shared patience — although one suspects from the records that the navigator had more of this essential quality than the adventurer — each brought his own special talents to this technique of beach reconnaissance . |
| 6 | Trying to build a culture on the basis of some other food ( the potato ? ) or some other animal than the llama ( the cow ? ) . |
| 7 | It was a question bristling with the lingering doubt that some other procedure than the transfusion of blood may be necessary and may be imperative for her health . |
| 8 | Any parent who has had an insomniac or hyperactive child will know the situation in which interruption of sleep over a long period frays tempers and seeks some other scapegoat than the child ; husband and wife may end in screaming at each other across the bedroom . |
| 9 | Perhaps nothing better illustrates the difficulties of trying to establish the truth of such a tradition and of achieving accuracy in the dating of events in the lives of scholars of the early Ottoman period than the problem presented by the death date of Cemaleddin Aksarayi . |
| 10 | The drawing packages I 'm looking at this month have more widespread practical use than the painting packages I reviewed last month . |
| 11 | And , I hazard a guess , more logged flying time than the sum total of all the senior officers in the Command at the time . |
| 12 | They had my permission , of course , but they preferred to be discreet about it — and what more discreet place than the engine-room ? |
| 13 | The digesta version , contrary to its usual practice , seems to have struck out more unnecessary detail than the responsa , such as the lengthy description of the debts and the circumlocution referring to the time the will was made . |
| 14 | However , insufficient height was available to install windows copying the attenuated shape of the original ‘ lancets ’ and the unquestioning reproduction of the arch form in the new windows would have produced a weaker visual result than the treatment which was adopted — the insertion of new tripartite lights capped by a simple square-headed profile ( Plates 18 and 19 ) . |
| 15 | So after both of these elections a government was formed which had less electoral support than the opposition . |
| 16 | Always more than a nepotistic afterthought , Brix had more musical input than The Fall could comfortably contain and now , after almost four years of intermittent solo action , she 's finally made her own album ( Spin This Web ) with her own group Adult Net . |
| 17 | Of the letters I wrote to Eliot and kept copies I reproduce one , which might perhaps have some more permanent interest than the ephemera . |
| 18 | We are not speaking here so much of the kettledrums , which are on a higher artistic plane than the rest of the ‘ kitchen ’ , but with regard to the percussion instruments of indefinite pitch , one should be extremely sparing in their use . |
| 19 | Indeed , the very idea of a major structure or grid into which leys have to fit says more about our own cultural environment than the reality of the landscape . |
| 20 | There was never a time in Sir Hector Laing 's life when it ever occurred to him to work for any other company than the family business , originally called McVitie $ Price and now known as United Biscuits . |
| 21 | A good answer is that we regard the causal circumstance as leaving no room for any other eventuality than the effect . |
| 22 | Those on this side of the argument would refute any suggestion that prenatal knowledge comes from any other source than the patient himself . |
| 23 | It is essential that the Security Service should be kept absolutely free from political bias or influence and nothing should be done that might lend colour to any suggestion that it is concerned with the interests of any particular section of the community , or with any other matter than the Defence of the Realm as a whole . |
| 24 | The rocket motors were closer to the centre of the hole than the rest of the craft ( it was falling in backwards , remember ) so was experiencing a stronger gravitational pull than the rest of the craft . |
| 25 | The provinces were thought to favour more rapid and radical economic reform than the centre . |
| 26 | But Lebanon 's inter-communal boundaries are so porous , so criss-crossed by reciprocal interests — with , for example , East Beirut controlling most of West Beirut 's water and electricity supplies — that an economic blockade would probably require a much greater political will than the shambles which Hrawi 's ‘ legitimate ’ administration could ever muster . |
| 27 | The Alternative Religion needs no other unproved assumption than the existence of the ‘ unit of desire ’ . |
| 28 | I readily acknowledge that I can not expect definitive statements from the Minister when the answers given by his ministerial colleagues , who have greater legal experience than the Minister and I possess , are , to say the least , somewhat circumspect . |
| 29 | By this means the south was to achieve a rather greater legal homogeneity than the north . |
| 30 | No greater testimony exists to the power and resilience of positivism in modern legal thought than the debate between constitutional lawyers about the nature of parliamentary sovereignty . |