Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] than [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all his silence , he was passionate , not desolate ; if there was a sadness or loss there , it was bigger or deeper or stranger than the loss of one person . |
| 2 | The incremental cost of implementing either regimen ( US$0.08 per dose for OPV and US$0.35–0.50 per dose for IPV ) is similar to or lower than the cost of mass vaccination campaigns ( US$0.68–3.60 per dose ) , and would also be less than expansion of the routine immunisation schedule to provide even more doses . |
| 3 | It was then as if the rotting maggot-infested flesh , or the tags of matted clothing , had already become part of the earth which clung to and enclosed them , no more unnatural or frightening than a clump of compost or a drift of decaying leaves . |
| 4 | The commissions are to strive to ensure that no constituency varies from this quota by more or less than a quarter of it . |
| 5 | Nor did it escape the notice of other critics of the Association that a handbill , lengthily entitled " A Dialogue between Tom and Harry on the Duties of Seamen and the Just and Equitable Rewards for their Services " , was in practice nothing more or less than a statement of union policy on bargaining with shipowners and published in this form only to avoid the appearance that the Standard was more than an innocent friendly society . |
| 6 | Thus investment spending by firms may be greater or less than the volume of saving , government spending may be greater or less than tax receipts , and exports may be greater or less than imports , but it must be the case that a deficit or surplus in one sector is exactly offset in one or more of the other sectors . |
| 7 | The direction of the correction depends on whether the demand elasticity , , is greater or less than the elasticity of factor substitution in the corporate sector . |
| 8 | This is nothing more or less than an abuse of your professional integrity . ’ |
| 9 | Brontosaurus was 25 metres long and weighed 30 tons , while Brachiosaurus was a long-necked , lizard-hipped creature weighing 80 tons ( or more than the weight of sixteen elephants ) . |
| 10 | Three cases of the conchoid arise : with the fixed distance less than , equal to or greater than the distance of A from the fixed line . |
| 11 | In early studies it was called the residual — as such , it had more direct meaning , being no more nor less than a bundle of factors which can not be quantified individually . |
| 12 | ‘ It represents nothing more nor less than the imposition of the temple architecture of an extinct Mediterranean civilization upon the house design of a northern people ’ , remarks Olive Cook in her English House Through Seven Centuries . |
| 13 | It is maintained here that the constitution is nothing more nor less than the outgrowth of the ‘ realities ’ and not , as Lord Sankey and many others of us tend to assume , something distinct from them and which can therefore be contrasted to them . |
| 14 | Interestingly , the projected shortfall in the availability of skilled labour has done more for equal opportunity employment than more than a decade of educational programmes . |
| 15 | The Ministry of Agriculture 's latest published studies show that more than a quarter of pig kidneys sampled in 1985 had residues of sulphadimidine at average levels 11 times higher than the Government 's safety limits . |
| 16 | Similarly Norway claims that less than a quarter of its acid rain is home produced , the main culprit being the UK though this is disputed by the UK Central Electricity Generating Board . |
| 17 | This is one of the reasons why they 're already far more interesting and demanding than the wave of both American and British post-Nirvana types . |
| 18 | After the sober belches of the shoe-gazing clique ( itself a knee-jerk reaction to the brash swagger of baggydom ) , The Franks came across like circus clowns pissing around in a casualty department , all charmingly naive , astoundingly cheerful and dafter than a boardroom of brushes . |
| 19 | But this no more implies a conscious awareness of the distinctions between past , present , and future than the use of language necessitates an explicit knowledge of grammar . |
| 20 | We must look at this quest for beauty as a purpose more real and noble than the quest of the knights of old for the Holy Grail . |
| 21 | Brooks Brothers ' past success was based on the personal touch and more than a soupcon of snobbery . |
| 22 | WITH CHARACTERISTIC PRECISION AND MORE THAN A SOUPÇON OF INSPIRATION , THE SWISS CREATED THE DUROMATIC |
| 23 | During this time we organized two national conferences for students with disabilities and more than a handful of steadily more accessible conferences for lesbians and gays . |
| 24 | Certainly he came under such guidance from within his family which clashed with his own predilections , for his varsity life seems to have been plagued by vocational uncertainty and more than a touch of its weakening indifference . |
| 25 | The smile was still there , but behind it now was a hint of trouble , and more than a hint of tiredness . |
| 26 | A fruit and vegetable mixture with a delicately balanced flavour and more than a hint of summer . |
| 27 | I simply do not know , at least not if the properties are to be non-trivial , and more than an acceptance of certain machines into the category of human beings by fiat or polite convention . |
| 28 | At present north Belfast and Newtownabbey contain less than five per cent of the office space in Greater Belfast : much less than is contained in the small area around the university and less than a quarter of that found in east Belfast . |
| 29 | She seems to have been wholly unaware that she was in fact queen of a kingdom with a justifiably high opinion of itself — so much so that it is actually supremely ironic that Mary , brought up in one of the greatest of European countries , should have found this one , smaller , but passionately European , so much less interesting and appealing than the kingdom of England , not only Scotland 's traditional enemy , but already beginning the descent into the isolation which it was to maintain for much of the seventeenth century . |
| 30 | 2.22 The calculation of the multiplier is even less precise and arithmetical than the computation of the multiplicand . |