Example sentences of "[art] [adj] than the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The comparison of the scores of positivity for each RIBA 2 peptide showed significantly higher values in the cryptogenic than the autoimmune group only for c33c and c22–3 ( p<0.05 and p<0.001 , respectively ) . |
| 2 | Communication should be mainly through the central command and control centre which may be no larger than the project leader and his small personal staff as may be a group of heads of sub-systems or both . |
| 3 | Ideally the accumulated paint layers should be no thicker than the masking tape itself . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | The sentry is claimed to have replied : " Now do n't abaht , I 've got one up the spaht … " but rushed away to get the orderly corporal who , in turn , found the situation beyond his authority , and we were only released by no less than the duty officer . |
| 6 | Ruskin would surely have been surprised if he had been told that a time would come when railway stations , like lakes and mountains , would become a part of the imaginative life of men , and when the sounding express engine no less than the sounding cataract would rouse in them a noble delight . |
| 7 | On the one hand there have been those who have claimed that , at least in the early days , the campaign was no more than the minority group Moral Re-Armament ( MRA ) by a different name ; on the other there is Mrs Whitehouse herself , who clearly believes that the organisation represents the ‘ silent majority ’ in the country . |
| 8 | Conchis was no more than the chance agent , the event that had come at the right time ; just as in the old days I might , after a celibate term at Oxford , have met a girl and begun an affaire with her , I had begun something exciting with him . |
| 9 | A person is not partially exempt if his or her ‘ exempt input tax ’ ( the sum of the residue apportioned and that directly attributed to exempt supplies ) is no more than the de minimis limit of £600 a month on average ( Reg 33A ( 1 ) ) , ie £7,200 a year . |
| 10 | The ‘ fact ’ of the first premiss covers all and no more than the facts awareness of which would modify spontaneous reactions to the issue in question ; ‘ Face facts ’ will be applicable to the issue only within the scope of this information . |
| 11 | Believe it or not , she is prepared to pay … ’ — and then he mentions what is no more than the market value of the land , but he makes it sound like a king 's ransom — ‘ … per acre . |
| 12 | This is no more than the flight time to Mexico city , with which Merida lacked road and rail communication until little more than a generation ago . |
| 13 | Small companies wishing to dispense with the burden of audit would have to have turnover of no more than the VAT registration threshold , under new proposals from the Government . |
| 14 | One could fly no higher than the signal book that young Lieutenant Pasco used at Trafalgar to send up the Immortal Signal . |
| 15 | Indeed , among these villains of the wheel , the woman cyclist was possibly even more of a portent than the cyclist juror . |