Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] than [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in the specialised cells that support and nourish the fetus the immune reaction is greater against a mule fetus than against a horse fetus . |
| 2 | Believing their children will receive a better and more disciplined education , with a greater prospect of university entry than from a state school , many parents who can afford it send their children to such private institutions , known ( confusingly ) as " public schools . " |
| 3 | The simple truth is , though , that you will never be in a better position to arrange suitable contract safeguards than during the period when a company is anxious to secure your services . |
| 4 | They are more interested in the search process than in the goal of the search , and record the rise and fall of activity in competing units over a number of processing cycles . |
| 5 | In both age groups , the estimated ( projected ) proportion of children who remained seropositive 13–17 months after vaccination tended to be higher in the IPV group than in the OPV group , although few of these differences were statistically significant . |
| 6 | For men being named as an absent parent will mean a much higher maintenance bill than in the past and thus some men may put pressure on the women to avoid this . |
| 7 | But it increased slightly more in the action samples than in the control groups . |
| 8 | Graeme , a town-bred Yorkshireman , is more at home on the kitchen range than on the prairie . |
| 9 | He 's far more likely to catch a chill standing about at a show or in the hunting field than after a bath , as long as you take the right precautions . |
| 10 | Meals that last longer than twenty minutes indicate that the child is gaining more from the parent interaction than from the food . |
| 11 | Even with a 25 per cent discount , single adults living alone in a property banded above D will pay more under the council tax than under the poll tax . |
| 12 | Tory MPs are worried that voters could face HIGHER bills with the council tax than with the poll tax . |
| 13 | Cheltenham Borough Council is shedding thirteen jobs from its treasury department because there is less work with the new council tax than with the poll tax . |
| 14 | This international acceptance was emphatically less the result of the peace process than of the Uprising . |
| 15 | The latter falls off more rapidly , indicating that the turbulence changes in a way that makes it relatively less efficient as a heat transfer mechanism than as a momentum transfer mechanism . |
| 16 | The result is significantly lower figures for ownership control than with a methodology such as that of Nyman and Silberston , discussed above . |
| 17 | So again we would predict that the measured apc would be higher in a slump year than in a boom year . |
| 18 | Work redesign was therefore more popular in management journals than on the shop or office floor . |
| 19 | Almost six feet eight inches ( 2 metres ) tall , he seemed larger than life in most of his actions , blond , handsome , with great charisma that was much better suited to the Test arena than to the county grind ; a Test batting average of 40 compared to a career average of 31 shows this perfectly . |
| 20 | In fact the only drawback about the Cube is that you 're more than likely to find one or two of the Sounds freelancers propping up the bar but , aside from that , there are n't many better ways to spend the approaching cold winter evenings than in the comfort of decent live music and good company . |
| 21 | In fact the only drawback about the Cube is that you 're more than likely to find one or two of the Sounds freelancers propping up the bar but , aside from that , there are n't many better ways to spend the approaching cold winter evenings than in the comfort of decent live music and good company . |
| 22 | This in fact repeats more generally what was stated with regard to environmental competence by Article 130R(4) of the EEC Treaty , inserted by the Single European Act , under which ‘ the Community shall take action relating to the environment to the extent to which the objectives … can be attained better at Community level than at the level of the individual Member States ’ , a provision which does not yet appear to have been the object of scrutiny by the European Court of Justice . |
| 23 | Here , it is apparent that the teacher 's role is seen in broader terms in the community college than in the school . |
| 24 | ‘ British industry is far more productive , far more competitive , better managed and with better industrial relations , in a better tax climate than at the beginning of the 1980s , ’ he told ACCOUNTANCY , ‘ so it is better placed to benefit from economic recovery . ’ |
| 25 | At least ten times as many people can be supported on a cereal diet than on a meat based diet — and that figure rockets up to 30 TIMES AS MANY people being supported by a diet based on soya protein . |
| 26 | The researchers concluded that the decision to use robots in this way was because management was much more concerned with cost and product quality than with the quality of the working life of the welder . |
| 27 | It will offer holders of the outstanding 26 per cent of the PPFE capital the same terms and also make a fractionally higher cash offer than under the privatisation proposal to the larger number of warrantholders . |
| 28 | As in Britain , the early social survey belonged much more to a reform impulse than to an effort to develop an explicitly social science methodology . |
| 29 | It should not perhaps surprise us that trade unions appear to have made less bargaining headway on the issues of job design than on the question of equipment design . |
| 30 | But as the 1980s progressed , the Brick Lane site was becoming more valuable as a potential development area than as a brewery . |