Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [noun] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frivolity is a better marketing strategy for the bottled-water industry than actually telling consumers about its products . |
| 2 | It is likely then that marriages , at least amongst the propertied , in fact lasted longer during the Victorian period than ever before or since . |
| 3 | Of course , if such a procedure were adopted by the House it would be better to have it subject to agreement between the usual channels than merely on the diktat of the Government . |
| 4 | There had always been more in common between the front benches than either had in common with their followers in the country . |
| 5 | Because in recent years hypnosis has tended to leave behind its mystical and Svengali-related image — and also because complementary medicine in general is far more widely accepted than it used to be — many people are less worried about the whole concept than before . |
| 6 | Trade unions , despite a loss of membership and their apparently weakened position , appear to have performed more effectively after the General Strike than before — which suggests that employers were more reluctant to become embroiled in major industrial conflict and that the unions were , themselves , asserting their rights in more effective and varied ways . |
| 7 | These two factors have always applied , but the significance of regional and local perspectives on population changes seems greater in the last quarter of the twentieth century than previously . |
| 8 | erm I 'm very much aware that the challenges are ahead of us , both in terms of erm dealing with a difficult financial situation , which has been the pattern now for three or four years , but also in entering certain fields and approaches to arts activity that perhaps require more of the central staff than previously . |
| 9 | In the event Labour received marginally more votes than the Tories , in an election in which the two parties took a larger share of the total votes than ever before , but because of the geography of electoral support in relation to constituency boundaries it was the Tories who gained the majority of seats in Parliament and formed the next government . |
| 10 | Unionists of the time would scarcely have recognized the terms of the debate , for in 1922 the party was still embroiled with Ireland and the House of Lords , held a smaller share of the popular vote than ever before , and was still split as it had been since 1902 ; few Unionists would have seen the war as a turning-point for the better in the party fortunes . |
| 11 | James Kasting , of the Pennsylvania State University , also told the American Association for the Advancement of Science in February 1990 that , judging from ancient craters on the moon , collisions with asteroids nearly 300 miles in diameter , hitting the Earth at more than 100,000 mph , were much more common in the early history of the solar system than today . |
| 12 | Experience of this nature may reduce the reliance of less developed countries on goods imported from abroad ; local manufacturers may be able to satisfy local market needs by intelligent marketing , and thus gain a larger share of the local market than before , with consequent results for local levels of production and the economy generally . |
| 13 | 's ( 1965 ) three dimensions and in a survey of heads of household in Illinois , found that socioeconomic status generally accounted for more of the rural-urban variation than either occupation or residence , and then rejected Bealer 's approach when they argued that future work should concentrate on single-dimension variables . |
| 14 | General practitioners are experiencing more stress , less job satisfaction , and poorer mental health with the new contract than before . |
| 15 | Alongside the festivals , the dalliance of the music business with the counter-culture pumped more money into the underground press than ever before . |
| 16 | Prince Charlie can go a lot better in the tartan game than most for he can , officially , wear no fewer than 11 different tartans . |
| 17 | Peet 's analysis of labour unionization in the United States noted that rates of union membership have traditionally been much lower in the southern States than elsewhere ( figure 5.15 ) . |
| 18 | Minority groups were better represented in the new Congress than ever before . |
| 19 | In short , if life was always harder in the inner cities than elsewhere , and if conditions may temporarily have been alleviated by the impact of the welfare state and rising incomes , the last decade has been widely represented as a period of deterioration . |
| 20 | Although this species has occurred more regularly in the past decade than formerly , no very significant change in status seems likely . |
| 21 | I suspect that if ever the day came when we had the misfortune of the Labour party inflicting regional government on us from Newcastle , those people would be wondering why their income tax or whatever other form of tax that Labour would seek to impose was so much higher in the northern region than elsewhere . |
| 22 | Ironically , and not for the last time in history , the Communist-inspired proletariat had more clout outside the Soviet borders than within . |
| 23 | This is in miniature the classic blueprint detective story , and it can give more pleasure by virtue of its clues coming closer to the final revelation than sometimes the full-length affair does . |
| 24 | This is far more damaging to the wild population than simply kidnapping an infant . |
| 25 | G. eucnemus ( Fig. 8 ) differs from G. caputmedusae by the following characters : the disk is covered by hemispherical granules which occur more densely on the radial shields than interradially and in some large specimens the interradial areas look bare until examined closely . |
| 26 | Dumping human sewage at sea is having a far greater effect on the marine environment than previously thought , according to US researchers who have conducted a six-year study of dumping off the coast of New Jersey . |