Example sentences of "[noun] than [art] rest " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet , many will draw some sour satisfaction from the fact that the stockbroking trade , with its air of effortless mystique and superiority , is clearly no better at computers than the rest of us . |
| 2 | In pursuit of land reform , in a country without large inequalities in ownership , party militants shot any old man they could find who had a few more acres than the rest , or whose social position , as arbiter of disputes , set him apart from others . |
| 3 | The report concludes that London is likely to experience a longer hangover from the late 1980s boom than the rest of the country ; economists ' forecasts that new jobs in the capital during the 1990s will only grow by 48,000 ( 4.9% ) means that there will still be a lot of space available , and office tenants should be the beneficiaries . |
| 4 | However , this is n't likely to occur within the National Parks and although , as Table 8.2 shows , they have a higher percentage of woodland than the rest of the uplands , voluntary agreements to limit any further afforestation will reduce their relative share . |
| 5 | Jason says : ‘ Gary 's got more money than the rest of us because he gets publishing royalties for the songs he 's written , but the rest of us just get a modest wage . ’ |
| 6 | Is not the Prime Minister saying that he has used all the influence that he can muster to ensure that working people in Britain have fewer rights and less protection against bad employers than the rest of Europe ? |
| 7 | On Friday we 're playing for a couple of hours with a few suprise guests one had considerably more hair than the rest of the band put together . |
| 8 | I could see Myrtle Augee , Mary Berkeley and Tessa Sanderson , all waving and shouting , seeming to make more noise than the rest of the stadium . |
| 9 | ‘ He seemed to have more chances in our draw with Spurs than the rest of the season put together , ’ said Big Ron . |
| 10 | The rocket motors were closer to the centre of the hole than the rest of the craft ( it was falling in backwards , remember ) so was experiencing a stronger gravitational pull than the rest of the craft . |
| 11 | Workers in the nuclear industry could face up to double the risk of contracting leukaemia than the rest of society according to a report published today . |
| 12 | Britain has more professional boxers than the rest of Europe put together . |
| 13 | ‘ The relative buoyancy of this sector in the early 1990s was one reason why Scotland has suffered less severely in the recession than the rest of the UK , ’ he added . |
| 14 | It was on a lower level than the rest of the works and was lit by windows which ran the length of the wall facing the doorway . |
| 15 | The far end of the room was built on a higher level than the rest , and was reached by a single step . |
| 16 | A day or two after the baby 's birth , with Mrs Longhill lying-in and the nurse making more work than the rest of the household put together , Florrie left . |
| 17 | Researchers at Leicester University are monitoring 400 water sports enthusiasts , who they believe are up to three times more likely to suffer viral disorders than the rest of the population . |
| 18 | Werewolf and I were numbers three and four in the queue and the Sergeant had to tap his watch a couple of times as Werewolf seemed to be requiring more help than the rest of us from Private Boyd in getting his belt on . |
| 19 | Fortunately our CAA is doing its very best for all of us , but some of the smaller countries can outvote the UK , France and Germany and we together have more pilots than the rest . |
| 20 | She and the sequels have suffered far more from changes in social attitudes and literary expectations than the rest of Rider Haggard 's adventures have . |
| 21 | Britain 's tax burden could be 15% lower as a share of GDP than the rest of the EC 's . |
| 22 | They all put in their tenpenny 's worth about what they thought should be filmed , but nobody asked my opinion , and I 'd been in more films than the rest of the cast put together . |
| 23 | As a result the north-east corner of the island had become much more distinctly Protestant in population than the rest , though Protestant landlords owned property in a good deal of the rest of the island . |
| 24 | Ann , made of sterner stuff than the rest of her tribe , leapt from the car , determined to fish . |
| 25 | Similar patterns of dispersal could be seen on the terraces themselves , with S3 always standing further back than the rest . |
| 26 | Thus , the carcinogenic effects of a high consumption of dietary fat may be more readily produced in subjects who maintain lowered cholesterol concentrations by showing an inherently greater conversion rate to bile acids than the rest of the population . |
| 27 | The only other son is a child , and his nephew will have no better chance than the rest of his brothers-in-law and their offspring against the brethren of Wessex , once Siward goes . |
| 28 | Thus Northern Ireland enjoyed the same standard of services and endured no greater taxation than the rest of the UK . |
| 29 | more per head from United Kingdom taxation than the rest of the United Kingdom , so unless England , of its benevolence , gave more tax revenues to Scotland there would have to be a 5p increase in tax just to stand still . |
| 30 | This illustrates the perception of disabled people as having different needs and rights than the rest of the population . |