Example sentences of "[adj] than [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reasons given for this included a 10 per cent fall in production as compared with the same period in 1990 , lower than expected revenue from taxes , the cost of social compensation for price rises , high wage settlements , and the conflict between the republics and the centre which was preventing the implementation of unified financial policies . |
| 2 | However , behaviour therapy was more effective than insight-oriented therapy for patients ' subsequent depression , anxiety , and assertiveness . |
| 3 | Maybe the next crowd will be better than this mixture of druids and crooks that we 're stuck with . ’ |
| 4 | Profit has been seen as more pursuable than collective concern for others . |
| 5 | Automatic inspection of this kind is more feasible than human inspection in cases where ( a ) accurate measurement is possible , ( b ) where continuous inspection is highly desirable and ( c ) where reliability of inspection is important . |
| 6 | Traditional typesetter like Linotype , Compugraphic and Monotype have moved to accommodate output from the low-cost software , generally by accepting PostScript instructions as an input , while the professional packages from companies such as Magna , GB Techniques among others now pay more than passing attention to facilities like soft preview and laser proofing . |
| 7 | On the next point , what initially appeared to have been an ace down the middle by Forget was shown to be no more than wishful thinking by spectators now spending more time on their feet than in their seats . |
| 8 | activities involving ‘ a more than ordinary risk of accidents or a risk of more than ordinary damage if accidents in fact result ’ — as a basis for future development of the law . |
| 9 | The immediate effect of the revenue enhancement however , brought with it a more than proportionate increase in costs across the board and a surplus deflated by approximately £100,000 . |
| 10 | There are some within education who quarrel with an approach which , with an emphasis on objectives and skill development , appears to require little more than continuing compliance from pupils . |
| 11 | Some social scientists did : most ignored the debate because it was , frankly , naive ( and often consisted of nothing more than special pleading from scientists working for institutions that had much to lose ) . |
| 12 | However , the chemistry of the atmosphere is far more complicated than this list of ingredients suggests , for many of the atmospheric gases react with each other to produce yet more compounds , some of which are extremely short-lived ( and therefore difficult to measure ) . |
| 13 | It is clear , however , that these religious and civil boundaries are a lot older than any association with churches or local authorities . |
| 14 | It also helps to show that more fundamental than any knowledge of objects are certain feelings , needs and desires , and that it is upon a phenomenological elucidation of such feelings , needs and desires that an ontological description of the world must be based . |
| 15 | If you want a building or equipment for less than that number of years , it 's best to rent . |
| 16 | For the first time since the end of the Falklands war there was , also , a less than total confidence among ministers in the certainty of the coming victory at the polls . |
| 17 | More to the point , he has modified the right by taking a less than severe attitude to breaches of section 58 . |
| 18 | A smaller than usual proportion of members who had sat in the Good Parliament were re-elected to this parliament , but it is hard to find evidence that the government tried to ensure the election of their own supporters . |
| 19 | Plate shown here smaller than actual size of 8″ diameter . |
| 20 | A wide range of responses to this question was noted , and most of these involved combinations of two errors , i.e. not knowing the number of centimetres in a metre , and holding the view that " any number of millimetres is smaller than any number of centimetres " . |
| 21 | They may , however , have contained within their ranks a higher than average representation of women , and historians have recently begun to recognize the importance of mothers as transmitters of Puritan values from one generation to the next . |
| 22 | The short-eared owl assemblages have a slightly higher than expected proportion of postcrania , and the snowy owl , red fox , mongoose and coyote all have very much higher values , perhaps the result of decapitation of prey and loss of the skull . |
| 23 | The claim is that because of this feature of the fossil record the major features of evolution , the sort of trends that you see over hundreds of millions of years , are not merely a kind of adding together of the changes which go on by natural selection within populations and which we can study today , but that some quite different kind of process must be responsible for the major features of evolution , other than natural selection of variants within populations . |
| 24 | More relevant to the figures in 1956–57 than any increase in fees was the introduction of petrol rationing in December 1956 as a result of the Suez crisis : this severely hit the following spring term 's programme . |
| 25 | One way of conceiving of this is that in any period there are in some islands a greater than average number of demanders , and in others a smaller number than average . |
| 26 | As before , cancer was not significantly more common in clinic patients than in controls though , as expected in a hypertension clinic , cardiovascular causes of death showed a greater than twofold excess in men , and slightly less in women ( fig 2 ) . |
| 27 | It requires a greater than one-for-one reduction in emissions in order to achieve a net improvement in ambient air quality . |
| 28 | Characterization of particles in terms of their dynamic behaviour is thought by many to be more environmentally significant than direct measurement of particles with calipers or sieves . |
| 29 | Indirect investment in the market is simply cheaper and more tax advantageous than direct ownership of shares . |