Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adv] [adj] than [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These findings suggest that fixed-term contract workers and agency workers are not always direct substitutes for one another ( in other words , that resort to one might be made for reasons very different than resort to the other ) . |
| 2 | The major frustration , for prisoners even more than Probation Officers , is the parole system . |
| 3 | It was true that those concerned with the enforcement of the law in this country were apprehensive that the abolition of the death penalty would be followed by an increase in crimes of violence ; but their predecessors had in the past opposed for the same reason the abolition of the death penalty for offences less serious than murder and their apprehensions had not in the event proved justified . |
| 4 | Radium is tens of times more hazardous than plutonium and thousands of times more hazardous than tritium . |
| 5 | Radium is tens of times more hazardous than plutonium and thousands of times more hazardous than tritium . |
| 6 | So much time does it take , day after day after day , and nights too , nights in cars , that it becomes your life rather than merely your occupation , especially for those who winter abroad and accordingly know of England little other than cricket . |
| 7 | • Is Freedom of Information more vital than food aid in relieving Famine ? |
| 8 | However , they noted some deviations related to the presence of heavy minerals with densities considerably greater than quartz and also to mica flakes whose shapes differ from the spherical . |
| 9 | Some were even taller than Miach , and some were dark-haired and pale skinned , with eyes more silver than gold . |
| 10 | It must be stressed , however , that the choice of B must be such at unc has eigenvalues with moduli all less than unity ; Sylvester 's expansion then shows that unc as r increases . |
| 11 | in things more telling than lipstick kisses : |
| 12 | They want to know whether today 's men are better fathers , whether men will ever open up at the breakfast table , whether male impotence is on the rise , whether men suffer from their own form of menopause , whether men will cultivate any interest in pastimes more enlightened than football and snooker . |
| 13 | Could it be — and this will shock the glossy posse at Esquire — that there are some things in life more important than fashion ? |
| 14 | The importance of their support , in an age when poverty and early death threatened family life in childhood still more than divorce and deprivation today , is brought home by the story of a North Welsh orphan , baptised as John Rowlands . |
| 15 | Social skills are in principle more complex than perceptual-motor skills because the latter assume ( correctly ) a passive world which will react neutrally , according to the laws of physics . |
| 16 | We might suppose from this that Weber is merely echoing Marx 's theories , but in fact Weber emphasises the importance of the market as the economic basis for class much more than property . |
| 17 | Indeed the former corporate raider would not be drawn on any specifics , even by questioners more illustrious than Management Today . |