Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] than the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Economic globalization implies a great deal more than the development of extensive trade links . |
| 2 | Only an upper limit on the flattening can thus be established , but this is a good deal less than the flattening of the Earth . |
| 3 | Investment over the 1992–1994 period at £5.4 billion is forecast to be 22 p.c. down on the 1989–91 levels after allowing for inflation and the lowest since 1984–86 but still 30 p.c. higher than the depth of recession in 1981–1983 . |
| 4 | Everyone he had met in Fontanellato had been very kind , a good deal kinder than the people of Štanjel had been to his successor ; which was encouraging . |
| 5 | Both sides have a point : some foxes kill lambs , poultry and game , and some foxes are guilty of no crime greater than the dispatching of mice and earthworms . |
| 6 | During clamps a significant rise in plasma hormone concentration was defined as a concentration greater than the mean of the five baseline ( euglycaemic ) values plus two standard deviations in two or more consecutive samples . |
| 7 | With a government that appears consciously to thrive on discord , and which has no policy on crime other than the obviousness of its being evil , the central role of the police has been inevitable . |
| 8 | Jo and Tina were chauffeured every day to a small exclusive private school for the cosseted daughters of those Bel Air families who valued high moral standards and hard work more than the pretence of being regular folks . |
| 9 | The revenue has no answer to the anomalies which arise when the cost of providing a loss-making facility means that the average cost basis results in the taxpayer being treated as receiving a sum by way of benefit greater than the cost of buying that benefit on the open market . |
| 10 | First , it does not appear that any point other than the construction of the document was argued : see the argument at pp. 645 and 646 . |
| 11 | Many-celled bodies make it possible for genes to manipulate the world , using tools built on a scale that is orders of magnitude larger than the scale of single cells . |
| 12 | Forty one per head more than the average of all comparable Authorities . |
| 13 | per head higher than the rest of the United Kingdom which would be jeopardised by any change in the constitutional arrangements . |
| 14 | The magnetic materials used in practice have a unc several orders of magnitude higher than the Er of practical dielectric materials . |
| 15 | Are the costs of inflation greater than the costs of curing inflation ? |
| 16 | As part of their representations on the 1981 Finance Bill , the Law Society recommended that income should not be " relevant income " to the extent that it was paid away to some person other than the recipient of the relevant benefit either before or after the receipt of the relevant benefit as it had by then ceased to be available as a source of funds out of which the relevant benefit could be paid . |
| 17 | So Care Kaleidoscope , Caress , The X Factor … what should we call it when a variety of different ingredients are brought together , blended , and receive a release of energy which makes the whole greater than the sum of its parts ? |
| 18 | Also , I am a bit older than the rest of you , but you can perhaps understand that I do n't want to drop dead without a proper and public recantation . |
| 19 | Note that we are assuming that both sets of firms sell their output at the price p t and that they have identical real wage elasticities of demand ( - α ) : that is , the firms are identical in every respect other than the timing of their wage contracts . |
| 20 | In the case where a lift was placed at each end of a summit , and where the traffic was through the summit , there would be no loss or gain of water by the use of the lift other than the loss of 1/100 of a lock each time either lift passed up and down . |
| 21 | Multiple locks slid into place , sealing the ve-hickle tighter than the Bank of Tokyo . |
| 22 | The house next to Mrs. Sutton 's was of about the same age but as the pavement was almost a foot higher than the floor of the front room , it had two steps down inside the door . |
| 23 | In fact the USSR 's oil production did not peak in 1980 and a production level higher than the Jeremiahs of the late seventies predicted , was achieved . |
| 24 | She enjoyed the faint intoxication in the scent of violet soap or hand cream when Maman pulled her gardening gloves off her warm , dry hands the gloves were gauntlet-cuffed , the right gloves for a very small armoured knight smaller than the suit of armour in the hall , a baby knight . |
| 25 | A claim for any relief other than the payment of money must be brought as a fixed date action — any claim for money as a default action . |
| 26 | This rule does not apply to an action for the recovery of land , where the return day is that of the final hearing ( N5 — 6 ) , unless a claim is joined for some relief other than the payment of mesne profits or arrears of rent or for moneys secured by a mortgage or charge ( Ord 3 , r 3(4) ) . |
| 27 | There was no sound or sign of life other than the scolding of blackbirds and the sudden dash of a startled fawn that had been grazing absorbedly on the fresh grass at the forest edge . |
| 28 | ‘ The shock waves will be felt a lot further than the streets of Tyneside . ’ |
| 29 | There was an odd-shaped room , not a lot bigger than the cab of the truck itself . |
| 30 | I seemed to be a lot happier than the rest of my fellow travellers who seemed to be very sleepy . |