Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adj] than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For most of the workers previously employed by the health authority , their social security entitlement became higher than the wages they could gain from such part-time employment . |
| 2 | Marcus thought of normality as a complex pattern on tracing paper , peaks , rounds , interlocking jigsaw parts , which , when slid over the mess of the actual graph or representation of what was , produced a thickened shifty outline , a jigging blurring worse than the original . |
| 3 | The bureaucrat is assumed as a general rule to know more than the sponsor about factor costs and production processes involved in the bureau 's services . |
| 4 | However , a horse needs more than the space necessary to exercise both body and mind . |
| 5 | True , this remedy contains more than an element of ‘ big brother ’ and it may be that it does no more than turn the criminals away from the areas covered by the cameras ' eyes . |
| 6 | ROWLAND S HOWARD These Immortal Souls ' Australian exile recounts more than a decade on the musical edge … |
| 7 | Alex Miller 's team asked no questions of a drastically altered Ibrox side containing more than a smattering of Rangers ' impressive reserve strength . |
| 8 | What they definitely do indicate are the extremes of weight problems ; where your weight falls higher than the amount given under the large-frame weight for your height , or lower than that given for the small-frame weight for your height , then you have problems . |
| 9 | Is the kingdom of God spoken of in the New Testament simply ‘ the moral organisation of the human race ’ , or does that conception owe more than the Liberals themselves realised to their own enlightened and optimistic view of the development of Protestant culture in their own day ? |
| 10 | If the target word in the position had a recognition score lower than the threshold then it was omitted . |
| 11 | Neither side had more than a couple of scoring chances in the first half , and Ecchinswell took advantage of the first of these , breaking through after dispossessing Martin Whiddett on the sideline and finding a vast opening in the Alton defence . |
| 12 | The outbreak comes less than a month after the bug struck 11 children in the intensive care unit at Guy 's Hospital , London . |
| 13 | But the exiled soldier wanted more than a place to stay : he wanted , to a Peter Pan-ish degree , everything as it had been in his childhood home . |
| 14 | The new ban came less than a year after Saudi Arabia had lifted a ban imposed during the Gulf crisis on all Jordanian imports . |
| 15 | Then too , Sun has more than a touch of the ‘ not invented here ’ syndrome . |
| 16 | Holding high small thin green shoots thicker than a matchstick but no thicker than a pencil , he jeered at women satisfied , he said , by ‘ little boys ’ . |
| 17 | The style and method of management matter less than the question of whether the headteacher can collaborate with other schools and is prepared to make adjustments and concessions in the way the school is run in order to allow better pooling of time , staff or other resources . |
| 18 | Mr Marzio also maintains that the tax law affects more than the stream of gifts to museums . |
| 19 | Sketching out the good and bad side of human nature … cartoons get a fleeting glance in daily papers … but for many there 's a more serious side … the cartoonists work raises more than a smile . |
| 20 | According to Bill Martin , economist at UBS-Phillips & Drew : ‘ The only thing the Chancellor fears more than the currency speculators are the rows of blue rinses at Blackpool next week ’ . |
| 21 | In the case of Sheffield City Council v A.D.H. Demolition Ltd the Divisional court of the queens bench made it clear , for the first time in a reported case , that ‘ premises ’ within s.1(1) of the 1968 Act covered more than a building standing on a particular piece of ground , but did include a vacant site . |
| 22 | At stake lay more than the future of the English garrison in the town which the French were besieging and blockading by land and sea . |
| 23 | In burns — any third degree burn ( see below ) , any second degree burn ( blistering and loss of the top surface of the skin — very sore and painful ) occurring on sensitive skin ( face , hands , genitals ) or second degree burn larger than a hand size occurring anywhere else . |
| 24 | Although the revolt lasted less than a month and its effects were confined to a small region , Gubec became a folk hero to the peasants . |
| 25 | The concentration of chloride in interstitial water in the unsaturated zone is a chemical record that represents recharge to the saturated zone covering more than a century . |
| 26 | We are nature 's unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove sounder than the reflex . |
| 27 | As a PC depreciates faster than a catwalk model who 's just turned 30 , here are my tips for those of you who do n't want to lose your shirts : |
| 28 | But there are too few projects like Cleevedon , and too little money to help more than a handful of youngsters every year . |
| 29 | Sometimes the heel on the foot wears less than the toe and sides , so that the frog becomes raised above the ground , and the heel becomes contracted , and the pastern upright . |
| 30 | There is also initial reluctance to spare more than an hour , though experience shows that interviewees will find time for three or four more sessions . |