Example sentences of "than in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , does the essence of Christianity really lie in its high spiritual , ethical and personal values , in ‘ the message ’ and ‘ the kingdom ’ rather than in Jesus Christ himself ? |
| 2 | Inasmuch as the media does reproduce such accounts it sustains the status quo , since ‘ the problem ’ is said to lie within the individual and not wider social processes , implying that a solution comes through changes in the individual rather than in society . |
| 3 | There were signs that Iraq was withdrawing the military support it had sent in to bolster the Lebanese Army against the Syrians , and the reasons for this could be established more discreetly in Beirut than in Baghdad . |
| 4 | In the event of the Board terminating your appointment other than in circumstances of gross misconduct on your part or wilful neglect by you of your duties then the Board may in its discretion determine to pay you compensation in respect of that termination . |
| 5 | The key point in such a engagement letter is the client agreeing to indemnify KPMG etc against any and all losses which may arise as a result of the transaction other than in circumstances of KPMG 's gross negligence . |
| 6 | Prices have fallen a little but are still higher than in Spain , says John Esplan of Babet . |
| 7 | The French influence here was even greater than in Spain and in the eleventh century the northern region had broken free to become a satellite of Burgundy , though later it became independent . |
| 8 | The EC regime will replace national systems under which bananas cost less in Germany and the Netherlands than in Spain , France or Britain whose overseas territories or former colonies grow more expensive bananas than large-scale Latin American plantations . |
| 9 | The long-term problem of the railways and the failure of earlier strategies to stem the tide of losses led to political awareness of the need for permanent state support and to steps , earlier in Britain than in Spain , to formalize the financial relationship between railways and the state . |
| 10 | This process , characteristic of the whole of the public enterprise sector , occurred earlier in Britain than in Spain for reasons explained in previous chapters . |
| 11 | Indeed despite the small proportion of women councillors they are rather better represented in local councils than in Parliament . |
| 12 | If the clergy had gained — and continuing practice had yet to confirm this — the right to be taxed in their own assemblies rather than in parliament , they had exposed those gatherings to royal attention , intervention and considerable control . |
| 13 | British taxes on the ownership of a large lorry are almost as high as in Germany , at the top of the EC league ; the retail price of diesel is a touch lower than in Ireland . |
| 14 | It serves to emphasize that an STV constituency would include many distinct and disparate localities — more in Britain than in Ireland , and far more than could be covered by parties in the thorough Irish style . |
| 15 | How many additional votes it might receive by way of transfers from other parties is quite unpredictable : relatively fewer than the Progressive Democrats , one might surmise , because the distinction between political parties is sharper here than in Ireland , and voters could therefore prove more reluctant to give lower preferences to any but the party they most favour . |
| 16 | As my own research shows , local purchases in the export-oriented zones in Egypt , Mexico and China are very much less than in Ireland , perhaps in the region of 1 or 2 per cent ( Sklair , 1988c , 1989 , pp.197–202 , forthcoming ) . |
| 17 | Few retailers expect their orders with suppliers this month to be higher than in December 1988 . |
| 18 | Few retailers expect their orders with suppliers this month to be higher than in December 1988 . |
| 19 | Based on non-seasonally adjusted data , retail sales value in current prices in December was 1 per cent higher than in December 1990 . |
| 20 | higher than in December 1991 . |
| 21 | Roger Short , of the Medical Research Council 's Reproduction Research Unit in Edinburgh , had predicted that in species where females mate with more than one male during a reproductive cycle , the males would have larger testes for their body size than in species whose females had only a single mate per cycle . |
| 22 | The third view of the company is one which has prevailed in the academic literature rather more forcefully than in company law doctrine itself . |
| 23 | In death she looked more beautiful than in life . |
| 24 | The air here 's worse than in Los Angeles . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Disney World really , but I 'm sure it will be just as good , and there 's a lot less pollution than in Los Angeles . ’ |
| 26 | Costs twenty pounds more that hostess trolley in here than in Comet . |
| 27 | Only in Albania was the scenario of dynastic communism and vendetta carried on with more brutality and verve than in Romania , but at least there were two rival clans struggling for control of the Albanian Communist Party . |
| 28 | For the same reason , it can be misleading , because not all centres of population which possessed recognizably urban characteristics , as for example the employment of the inhabitants in manufacturing or trade rather than in agriculture , were boroughs in the strict legal sense . |
| 29 | Generally , lower doses are used than in organ transplantation . |
| 30 | The afternoon blast starts around one o'clock , and is more frequent than in Greece . |