Example sentences of "[adj] than the [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Discussion in the Yachting World office has taken some interesting turns lately , none more interesting than the campaign for the single black box , or the all-things-in-one instrument . |
| 2 | What you are achieving with such a happy mix is very much more personal and , therefore , interesting than the blandness of the careful match . |
| 3 | The earliest examples have straight pommel bars and guards , the latter slightly broader than the heel of the blade , and capped by a mount in the shape of a cocked hat . |
| 4 | Will my hon. Friend join me in paying tribute to the imaginative experiment that the Lord Mayor of London is supporting this year , in which young people go into schools to help pupils with learning difficulties and those who are quicker than the rest of the class ? |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps it was the Friar , ’ the thin man said , scarcely less alarmed by the thought of this than the thought of the unspecified ‘ they ’ . |
| 6 | And hope is less clear than the dew of the morn |
| 7 | Cut the gripper strips about 40mm shorter than the width of the stair carpet so that edges wo n't show , and do the same for the underlay , which should fit from the end of each strip on the tread , over the nosing , up to the edge of the next strip on the riser . |
| 8 | If the text is shorter than the width of the block reduce the width to that of the text by dragging the handles in before you copy the text . |
| 9 | However , one must weigh this potential change in content and focus against the benefits of rendering a smooth , natural translation in contexts where the use of the passive for instance would be stylistically less acceptable than the use of the active or an alternative structure in the target language . |
| 10 | More striking by the 1820s than the continuity of the theme of the incompatibility of slavery with a true moral and religious order was the much fuller expression than at the end of the eighteenth century of the precepts of economic liberalism as part of the antislavery appeal ; abolitionists now clearly departed from mercantilist policy assumptions . |
| 11 | And then we searched out the petits coins , a place described as ‘ more asleep than the rest of the village ’ . |
| 12 | The tongue was impossibly extended , pointed and wet and more alive than the rest of the thing . |
| 13 | Disregarding the cases when the electric field is very large or the conductor is very hot ( beyond the scope of this course ) the electrons can not get farther than the boundary of the conductor . |
| 14 | Divisive though the national guard proposals might be , the Morning Chronicle took them up , and , being friendlier than the Globe to the radicals , did so with less of a repressive , middle-class twist . |
| 15 | And if they did n't , the bill would probably still be lower than the price of the service charge . |
| 16 | If the enthalpy of the products is lower than the enthalpy of the reactants , the reaction is said to be exothermic ( see figure 5.4 ) . |
| 17 | Mr Bland said that the cost of the borrowings was much lower than the cost of the group 's equity , which he estimated at 20 per cent per annum . |
| 18 | You can see several of the topographic features discussed in the preceding section : a floor lower than the terrain beyond the rim ; the central peaks ; the wall slumps ; a floor flattened by infill ; an ( rather degraded ) ejecta blanket ; small surrounding craters , some of which can be shown to be secondaries . |
| 19 | There is some evidence that in searches containing a single " of " ( like " objectives of common agricultural policy " ) the portion to the left of the preposition should be weighted somewhat lower than the portion to the right . |
| 20 | ( Indeed , underreporting of cases may be a reason for the relatively low rural miscarriage ratio in Table 12 , which is lower than the ratio of the " other urban " places , while the still birth ratio that is based on complete registration of late fetal deaths was on the same level — 7.5 per 1,000 live births — in both rural and " other urban " areas . ) . |
| 21 | In pentagonally shaped plates there is often a distal tongue or lobe slightly lower than the rest of the plate . |
| 22 | In the example quoted , where higher rates of interest were available in sterling , compared with the US$ , then the forward rate would be lower than the spot on the day the contracts were entered into . |
| 23 | ‘ I think I see something deeper , more infinite , more eternal than the ocean in the expression in the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning , and coos and laughs because it sees the sun shining in its cradle . ’ |
| 24 | Names on the map tell us a great deal about the ancient undrained landscape , and none is more telling than the presence on the Ordnance Survey Map of the lowlands of the word ‘ moor ’ : Morton or Moortown ; Sedgemoor ; Otmoor ; Moorgate , the gate in London 's city wall which opened on to Moorfields , the marsh which William Dugdale , in his seventeenth-century classic on drainage , describes as a favourite resort of Londoners for skating . |
| 25 | Although economically underdeveloped by modern standards , they were more advanced than the rest of the new kingdom ( except Vojvodina ) , and especially in comparison with mountainous Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina , and with southern Serbia , including Kosovo and Macedonia . |
| 26 | Here you find clubs and schools like Associated Flying School , Paraparaumu Flight Training and Welair , with fleets of Pipers and Cessnas operating in skies less crowded than the air around the capital . |
| 27 | As a backbencher , his mind changed : ‘ Do you not think that the tone of England is more liberal than the policy of the government ? |
| 28 | Elsewhere , however , Britain 's imitation of Hollywood was proving to be built on ground more insecure than the area around the San Andreas fault . |
| 29 | In the case of the Finsbury Park debâcle , the discount is bigger than the price of the Madstock ticket . |
| 30 | Make the loop just a little bigger than the outline of the web , place it behind the web , and then bring it towards you slowly so that the main radial threads all touch the wire at the same time . |