Example sentences of "[adj] than the [adj] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Gentleman was far more brave than the hon. Member for Torridge and Devon , West ( Miss Nicholson ) who has adopted the role of reading out central office briefs in the House to apologise for the Conservative party . |
| 2 | This amplitude , but not the duration , was significantly lower than the corresponding value for peristaltic contractions induced by dry swallows ( p<0.001 ) . |
| 3 | The non completion rate of non-standard entry mature students was found to be 15.2% which was lower than the corresponding figure for mature students who satisfied the general entry requirement which was 21.7% . |
| 4 | In either case , at the borders and with slight variation in the illumination , it is possible that the exposure is slightly higher or lower than the optimum value for the current conditions . |
| 5 | Overall mortality was 23% lower than the national average for all causes of death and 18% lower for cancer . |
| 6 | The UK quantity restriction is clearly more restrictive than the tariff-equivalent level for a quota . |
| 7 | Exploration expenditure at £141 million was considerably lower in 1992 than the combined spend for LASMO and Ultramar in 1991 of £200 million ; further significant reductions in exploration expenditure are forecast for 1993 . |
| 8 | It seems to have been a fairly general rule in the later enclosure awards that the minimum width for inter-village roads should be forty feet between the ditches , though local roads carrying more than the average traffic for the district were often laid down forty-five or fifty feet wide . |
| 9 | However , viewed on the international stage the UK 's recent increases in R&D expenditure rose 8% , 2% more than the aggregate figure for British companies . |
| 10 | The 200 must be perceived as a refined car , if Rover is to justify charging slightly more than the going rate for its class . |
| 11 | The comment that all of this prompts is first , that it amounts to no more than the well-understood case for good personnel management in conventionally organised manufacturing or service industry . |
| 12 | For £25 , £1 more than the new charge for MoT test for cars , a qualified driving instructor will give the driver an hour-long skills appraisal which will include at least 45 minutes of driving . |
| 13 | Its object was to reduce disparity in sentences of imprisonment , and to remove the difficulty which judges faced when Parliament had told them no more than the maximum sentence for a particular crime : see Reflections on the English Sentencing System by Professor Sir Rupert Cross , Child & Co . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's more than the last straw for Faye . |
| 15 | If the used space is significantly less than the allocated space for a particular file , the space may be reclaimed by use of the CONVERT utility although this does not apply to the DC transactions file and the QA transactions file ( DCSTAT.FIL and QAPACK.FIL in the example configuration ) . |
| 16 | If , on the other hand , the estimates are always equal to or less than the actual cost for a path , as in Fig. 8.2. , then even if the algorithm initially takes the wrong path , its actual cost will be worse than the other , optimistically estimated paths . |
| 17 | Clearly , such resources will always be less than the total need for management development , so hard decisions about selective investment will continue to be required . |
| 18 | Figures released by the Central Statistical Office yesterday showed that the current account was £1.4billion in the red in November , some £300million less than the revised deficit for October and the lowest since March . |
| 19 | This is of course very much smaller than the comparative figure for the previous year of £321,715 , but it should also be looked at in the context of the budget for 1991–92 which had predicted a loss of £117,000 . |
| 20 | Sometimes these ancient estate-boundaries took the form of deep V-shaped ditches , much more impressive than the ordinary ditch for drainage , and therefore puzzling until one realises their special origin . |
| 21 | Drugs often produce effects far worse than the original problem for which they were prescribed . |
| 22 | The effective stiffness must then be chosen according to the expected amplitude of the rotor displacement , as shown in Fig. 3.3 in which the stiffness for small loads ( up to 0–15 TPK ) is appreciably higher than the effective stiffness for larger loads ( 0–8TPK ) . |
| 23 | In 1971 the UK was second only to the USA as a home base for multinational companies ; overseas production by British-based multinationals as a proportion of domestic output in 1977 was , at 40 per cent , higher than the corresponding figure for any other national economy except Switzerland ; and in 1971 nearly 20 per cent of UK output was produced by overseas based companies . |
| 24 | If the number you computed for yourself is higher than the top number for your frame size you are overweight . |
| 25 | The school day and terms are likely to be longer than the legal requirement for state schools . |
| 26 | • Continuing Group pre-tax profit up by 30 per cent to £1.71 billion , greater than the pre-tax profit for the entire Group in 1988 . |
| 27 | Someone even more influential than the hon. Member for Norwich , South disagrees with the hon. Member for Gateshead , East . |
| 28 | In this sense , therefore , it is narrower than the purposive test for interest relief for management described in s4.4 above . |