Example sentences of "[adj] than [det] of a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those making a decision need also to have in mind that , whilst an electronic instrument requires no tuning and very little maintenance , its life expectancy is at present shorter than that of a pipe organ . |
| 2 | Instead , as we go deeper and deeper the gaseous hydrogen gradually gets denser and denser until imperceptibly , and at pressures considerably in excess of those in Figure 9.9 , it acquires a density more characteristic of a liquid than that of a gas . |
| 3 | Phage φ29 has a linear genome whose degree of supercoiling in the cell is not known , but it is probably lower than that of a plasmid . |
| 4 | The amounts required for clothing and housing were also set lower than those of a person of working age . |
| 5 | Whilst sailing in surf you should always keep an eye out for these sets since if you do n't you may suddenly find yourself amongst the larger waves whose ‘ rinse cycles ’ are considerably more vigorous than that of a washing machine . |
| 6 | It is a category , as we have seen , which encompasses a range of disabilities from Down 's syndrome ( whose victims may even learn to read or write ) to microcephaly ( where the manifestations of life are no more than those of a vegetable ) and these differences are usually of account . |
| 7 | He was in good shape and in good heart , and although it was known that he did not run up to his best at Cheltenham , the conditions would suit him much more than those of a year ago and few opposed him . |
| 8 | THE two bosses who cut their own pay to less than that of a trainee to preserve jobs set a fine example in these tough times . |
| 9 | Otters gather a certain amount , but an otter holt is usually a natural hole between rocks or roots , and much smaller than that of a badger . |
| 10 | I have to confess at this point that my own sensitivity to psychic phenomena is scarcely higher than that of a slab of concrete . |
| 11 | And realised for the first time that my lot as a walker was far safer than that of a cyclist . |
| 12 | This characteristic is quite general and holds for geodesics in spaces that are less symmetric than that of a sphere , and in spaces of hi–her dimension . |
| 13 | But if a wife 's allegation of rape is true , her motive for bringing it is no more relevant than that of a householder who notifies the police about a burglary merely in order to recover insurance . |
| 14 | And the venom of the notorious black widow spider , far more potent than that of a rattlesnake , is now being utilised to treat disabling diseases of the nervous and muscular systems . |
| 15 | As for commercial reactions , they can be judged by the fact that the capital cost of a first FBR is estimated by the British nuclear industry at between 20 and 30 per cent greater than that of a PWR , and generating costs 20 per cent more . |
| 16 | Before the king 's court , she , her husband and her mother , Adelizia , maintained that the claim of a daughter was greater than that of a nephew . |
| 17 | It is difficult to account for so large a change in terms of a decrease in effective moment of inertia due to a change in the shape of the crust of the star , because for a rotation rate of 30Hz the equilibrium ellipsoid has a moment of inertia only 10 -4 greater than that of a sphere . |
| 18 | Or was it less his personality that accounted for their compliance than his power — a power so much greater than that of a headmaster within the State system ? |
| 19 | The average frequency of occurrence of a source node is greater than that of a target node , and a source node always has more than one target . |
| 20 | In the latter case , if the wife or husband dies without issue the tenant is said to be tenant in tail , ‘ after possibility of issue extinct ’ , and his rights are substantially no greater than those of a tenant for life . |
| 21 | Of the first thirty cantos by themselves , no account is more plausible than that of a writer in the New York Herald Tribune Books for 9 January 1927 , who decided : ‘ Mr Pound is avowedly writing a history of the Mediterranean basin' . |