Example sentences of "[art] [adj] than [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More striking by the 1820s than the continuity of the theme of the incompatibility of slavery with a true moral and religious order was the much fuller expression than at the end of the eighteenth century of the precepts of economic liberalism as part of the antislavery appeal ; abolitionists now clearly departed from mercantilist policy assumptions . |
| 2 | In other words , after a certain point , education becomes more a form of consumption for the individual than a form of investment for increasing his earnings further . |
| 3 | A brief account of Bourdieu 's notion of ‘ habitus ’ provides an example of how we might assimilate the apparent paradox of an external physical world which is nevertheless in a more immediate relationship with the unconscious than the world of articulate symbolism . |
| 4 | It is true that lengthy and detailed scrutiny takes place in a Standing Committee off the floor of the House , but even then it is typically the special interest groups , briefing Opposition spokesmen and Government backbenchers alike , which provide more of the dynamic than the representation of constituents ' views . |
| 5 | One profession which sees more of the bereaved than the rest of us are undertakers . |
| 6 | Thus , even if we look strictly inside the built-up urban area , conventional town planning has become much less relevant in the 1980s than the growth of crime and the condition of existing property for increasingly large sections of the community . |
| 7 | I suppose this is more of a forewarning than a request for permission , as I was going to send them this week anyway . |
| 8 | The masquerade of camp becomes less a self-concealment than a kind of attack , and untruth a virtue : many a young man , says Wilde , ‘ starts with the natural gift of exaggeration which , if encouraged could flourish . |
| 9 | Their obsession with gathering may , at first glance , seem no different than the fanaticism of collectors of rare books or woodblock prints . |
| 10 | The third of my wildlife gift ideas is a magnifying glass , or better still , one of the new battery-powered pocket microscopes , no bigger than a couple of fountain pens . |
| 11 | When workers which have been out foraging return with crops full of honeydew and nectar , they feed it to a replete , which swells until its abdomen , once no bigger than a grain of sand , has swollen to the size of a large pea . |
| 12 | ‘ I have promised to take big fights all over the country and they come no bigger than a bout with a world title at stake , ’ Hearn said . |
| 13 | They will note that Europe and America have decided not to risk a fight with a Bosnian Serb adversary whose army is probably no bigger than the equivalent of three or four rather ill-equipped divisions . |
| 14 | You only spread it in a square no bigger than the width of the roller . |
| 15 | Drill these holes no deeper than the length of the screws . |
| 16 | For one of them the reason may lie no deeper than an ignorance of who God is , with all his Father 's love as the Bible and Jesus reveal him . |
| 17 | Each window was no larger than a sheet of tabloid newspaper and there was clearly no upstairs to the place . |
| 18 | Most are no larger than the palm of a man 's hand , but even spiders this small can have a deadly poisonous bite . |
| 19 | First customer deliveries should begin no later than the middle of November , according to Univel 's marketing VP Arun Taneja . |
| 20 | Surely it was no later than the winter of 1817 ? |
| 21 | Time runs from the date of the breach , which will probably be no later than the date of the publication of the decision . |
| 22 | On Jan. 18 the Hungarian government had called for a complete Soviet withdrawal by no later than the end of 1991 [ for Hungarian Defence Minister 's non-committal response to a suggestion to the same effect in December 1989 , see p. 37130 ] . |
| 23 | The suggestions are that the County Council in particular should help in the development of satellites to that erm , that business link , one in Oswestry and one at Craven Arms , and we should seek to make sure those satellites are available by no later than the end of nineteen ninety four , the beginning of nineteen ninety five . |
| 24 | * The Canadian government is to phase out the production and import of all chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) no later than the end of 1995 — a year earlier than previously targeted and five years ahead of the current requirement of the Montreal Protocol . |
| 25 | It has found that all of the councils should have the necessary administrative arrangements in place to issue bills no later than the end of April and to begin enforcement action by May or early June . |
| 26 | An unsuccessful artist was no better than a lunatic in the eyes of these people . |
| 27 | Equally , a feminist who left a meeting , went home and jumped into bed with hubbie or boyfriend , was no better than a member of the fifth column . |
| 28 | Begging your pardon , Sir , but some of those alleged artists that get feted on BBC Two could paint no better than a monkey in the zoo . |
| 29 | ‘ For goodness ’ sake , Shae , ’ she muttered into the darkness , ‘ you 're no better than the rest of them — you 're being betrayed by a longing that 's nothing more than physical . ’ |
| 30 | The Canadian provisions would seem to be no better than the English in this respect . |