Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] [noun] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In my view it 's even more interesting than the Soane museum in Lincoln 's Inn Fields ; a perverse neo-classicism I suppose you 'd call it .
2 The degree of suffering involved varies according to the temperament of the individual ; but it is bound to be no less tormenting than the hair shirt of the penitent .
3 However , it may be said to be fairer than the Community Charge in that the tax does , at least , rise with the value of the house and it is reasonable to assume that those living in more expensive houses have higher incomes than those living in less expensive dwellings .
4 Scotland 's major canals were built across the country to link the western and eastern coasts providing a route which was safer and shorter than the sea passage around the northern coast .
5 For another thing the most profitable processes today simply do not need large amounts of labour and is it seriously expected by the government that as long as we avoid being tied down by the social chapter , we shall become such a reservoir of cheap labour , that we shall become cheaper and more exploitable than the labour force in the Third World ?
6 The recurrence rate in the corrosive group , however , decreased over time , and after 12 months it was significantly ( p<0.001 ) lower than the recurrence rate in the first six months .
7 In 1989 , the Total Period Fertility Rate for mothers born in the Caribbean was 1.6 , slightly lower than the UK average of 1.8 .
8 In the low head the stressed syllable which begins the head is low in pitch ; usually it is lower than the beginning pitch of the tone on the tonic syllable .
9 Such a bond is likely to be called when the market rate of interest is lower than the coupon rate on the bond .
10 In 1989 the broad money supply increased by 74,300 million forints or 12 per cent , which was 7 per cent lower than the growth rate of the nominal GDP , indicating the extreme monetary rigour of the Central Bank .
11 The Barman 's voice was lower than an ankle bracelet on a flat-footed pygmy .
12 The hall was bigger than the Cromarty Hall in the village ; it could accommodate more local people and more of the television cameras that by now were multiplying daily , along with their crews , reporters , producers , and the army of newspaper journalists and feature writers that by this time had gathered in Orkney .
13 And yet the horizontal moon might look bigger than the meridian moon in the other , non-objective , sense of ‘ looks ’ .
14 An organization is bigger than the sum total of its people .
15 The prime data area of an indexed sequential file is less densely packed than the data area of a sequential file .
16 Was it ever anything more homogeneous than the sum total of the systems which were not communism ?
17 There 's nothing nicer than an evening hack after a day in the office , and even if you prefer riding earlier , the extra hour of daylight somehow seems to lift the spirits .
18 Sizes range enormously from a towed compressor to a portable unit not much taller than a litre bottle with the former capable of delivering 3000 psi from a 3 phase supply .
19 The only problem was that the coastline awarded to Poland lacked a single port larger than a fishing village along its entire length and was therefore virtually useless to a modern state .
20 The presentation appearance of the horizontal moon , for instance , can properly , though falsely , be said to be larger than the presentation appearance of the meridian moon .
21 The bridge of the Simonova was far larger than the Navy pattern to which he had become accustomed .
22 The socially efficient quantity of labour input would then be much larger than the equilibrium level under current tax rates .
23 In fact their performance was slightly better than a control group of subjects who had one night 's sleep deprivation with no prior selective deprivation .
24 And David quite got his bearings right , full toss that one , I 've , I 've been watching this summer this slope at Lord 's can play havoc with bowlers and I always get the impression that er , he 's , he bowls better than the nursery end at Lord 's , David Lawrence .
25 Even where post-merger firms did achieve productivity gains , they did little better than the productivity performance of the industry as a whole .
26 Today it was cloudy but bright , and the thick , accustomed smell of the city was better than the hospital smell in the house .
27 I mean we gave a certificate for St Aldate 's Courtyard for instance , because we felt it looked really very nice and so much better than the office block across the road .
28 On average ( £5.44 per capita ) the Wealden vale was filly comparable with the com-sheep region ( £5 — £5.55 ) and far more affluent than the forest ridge to the east ( £4.64 ) , where , in contrast to the rest of Sussex , the scarcity of truly rich people placed the biggest concentration of wealth in the range £10-£19 instead of £20-£39 .
29 Multiple regression analysis suggests that readers did not find the highbrow press significantly more useful than the lowbrow press for any purpose : reading a highbrow paper had no influence in the multiple regressions for newspaper ‘ usefulness ’ ( Table 6.10 ) .
30 Well , nowadays you could get no closer than the wire cage around the perimeter , thanks to the hippies or the busloads of Americans or druids maybe , who knew ?
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