Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] than the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There is no area more evocative of the organised and peaceful life of a well-ordered household than the kitchen garden . |
| 32 | All in all , it was better to have a tolerable tenement than the ideal which no one could afford . |
| 33 | No company , after all , is better equipped to design a jamming device for a particular missile than the company that made the missile in the first place . |
| 34 | Years of effort can find no other home than the darkness of a filing cabinet . |
| 35 | Two days later , Coningham replied that he thought the irregular treatment of the Broad Sanctuary houses stemmed from ‘ no other motive than the architect 's wish for the picturesque ’ . |
| 36 | Now he claims to have abandoned this principle , apparently for no other reason than the pursuit of electoral palatability . |
| 37 | Without amendments to the law , depreciation charges would mean existing taxpayers effectively paying twice for the same assets , for no other reason than the application of SSAP 12 . |
| 38 | Many of those studies use the States themselves as their organizing units , if for no other reason than the convenience that data are readily available for mapping at that scale . |
| 39 | The art of management , however , was more than the successful bribery of fifty per cent plus one , if for no other reason than the fact that there was never enough of the articles of bribery to employ it on such a scale , even if the voters had been willing to be so bought . |
| 40 | However , on our continent , on the doorstep of the most civilised part of the world , we are watching human beings killing each other for no other reason than the fact that they live next door to each other . |
| 41 | For a while , there was no other sound than the tramp of heavy footsteps , but the silence was finally broken by a familiar voice . |
| 42 | If , because of the size of the cylinder index , only a higher-level index than the cylinder index can be held in main storage , a 20–50 per cent improvement over the performance of the file when the master index is stored on disk can still be achieved . |