Example sentences of "[art] [adj] than the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vapour is a mixture of the more volatile component A and the less volatile component B. The particles of the more volatile component have a greater tendency to escape from the liquid than the particles of the less volatile component . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | Is Pasolini 's The Gospel According to St Matthew closer to the original than the Jesus of Christianity ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Their obsession with gathering may , at first glance , seem no different than the fanaticism of collectors of rare books or woodblock prints . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | You only spread it in a square no bigger than the width of the roller . |
| 11 | Drill these holes no deeper than the length of the screws . |
| 12 | The heads of these children were no larger than the heads of matchsticks . |
| 13 | Most are no larger than the palm of a man 's hand , but even spiders this small can have a deadly poisonous bite . |
| 14 | The chamber was wide , but no larger than the Halls of Crystal in the palace at Beaufort . |
| 15 | First customer deliveries should begin no later than the middle of November , according to Univel 's marketing VP Arun Taneja . |
| 16 | Surely it was no later than the winter of 1817 ? |
| 17 | Time runs from the date of the breach , which will probably be no later than the date of the publication of the decision . |
| 18 | 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 ] . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | * 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 23 | Whatever the poets might say , no children could ‘ run to lisp their sire 's return ’ and climb his knee in a hovel , measuring 7 feet by 12 feet , housing five people , the bed 's end within a foot of the fire and the floor no better than the pavement of a street . |
| 24 | Newton 's law of gravitation has no explicit time dependence , implying that gravitational effects are transmitted instantaneously to all parts of the Universe ; however , it is a basic postulate of SR that signals travel no faster than the speed of light . |
| 25 | One might think that such an ambition — no less than the forging of a cultural revolution — is most unconservative . |
| 26 | Christian marriage is no less than the unity of two people , living out the reality of Christ 's coming , death and resurrection in their lives together . |
| 27 | He would have been still more surprised if he had been told that the closing of an old railway station would one day move men to sadness no less than the demolition of a Gothic church or the violation of a landscape . |
| 28 | The resulting drab uniformity and melancholy of mood which struck Spanish visitors to the Inca empire no less than the lack of personality of its inhabitants provides an interesting and instructive parallel with socialist societies of today . |
| 29 | The advent of twentieth-century mass propaganda technologies and techniques — heralded in the Great War , developed subsequently in totalitarian regimes ( the Soviet Union , Nazi Germany ) — no less than the development of sound broadcasting in France , led Parliament , after much hesitation , to vote the law of 1923 . |
| 30 | In any case fear of the spread of communism reinforced the belief that Asia , too , could benefit from the treasure that was being poured into Europe by way of Marshall Aid and , as Wolf concludes : ‘ It is fair to say that the desire to avoid ‘ another China ’ no less than the desire of the Administration to avoid further Congressional attacks on its Asian policy , determined the timing of US aid to Southern Asia . ’ |