Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] than [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One Washington ambassador of a small West European country says that America kept his government more closely informed of the progress of the ‘ two-plus-four ’ talks on German unity than did the West Germans , French or British . |
| 2 | I said from the outset that , in the eyes of the TCCB , the MCC and the International Cricket Council , the gouging of a cricket ball is a lesser crime than rocking the boat . |
| 3 | New interpretations of archaeological discoveries suggest that the Garden of Eden and the lost civilisation of Atlantis are the true folk memories of our distant past and that the cudgel-wielding caveman has no more historical truth than do The Flintstones . |
| 4 | The second er reason which he gave me , of course I should have thought for myself , he said , but the accountants more accurately represented the human form than did the rats , so that was a clear one to him , but it was the third one that really floored me , when he told me that their staff had been getting really attached to the rats . |
| 5 | Trilateralism was certainly an effective antidote to isolationism , even if it did not extinguish the assertiveness shown by the Lord Chancellor 's Department in securing a faster growth in the rate of expenditure on the courts and legal aid than did the Home Office on the police and prisons . |
| 6 | The ALP finished with 0.2 per cent less of the two-party preferred vote than did the opposition coalition , and in at least 10 instances the ALP won because they received the second preference votes of supporters of the Greens . |
| 7 | They enable one to draw out the distinctive features of that culture , in a more useful manner than does the framework provided by others , and to consider the impact of both history and resources . |
| 8 | They go on to say that the notion of ‘ intrinsic intentionality ’ makes no more empirical sense than does the notion of position in absolute space . |
| 9 | The report says future policies will give even greater emphasis to protecting the rural environment than increasing the pace of economic development . |
| 10 | It must be better to be an alone child than to have a brother like Augustin . |
| 11 | Though Obispal might have adopted a more subtle surgical strategy than hacking the body to pieces to extract the festering organ … |
| 12 | Nevertheless , many patients receive extensive and expensive investigations , perhaps more for clinical interest than to benefit the patient . |
| 13 | Now he is outside the car I see that he is a little over six feet tall and carries no more spare flesh than does an iron poker . |
| 14 | ‘ What the rule of compulsion seems to require is that there is no practical choice but to pay in the circumstances , or to put it another way , before a payment will be regarded as involuntary there must be some natural or threatened exercise of power possessed by the party receiving it over the person or property of the taxpayer for which he has no immediate relief than to make the payment … |
| 15 | Yet there may be less to this unambiguous declaration than meets the eye . |
| 16 | The results show that , generally it is easier for most pupils to draw a named shape than provide a name for a shape . |
| 17 | For many journals the referee receives a typescript in the post , sends comments off , and receives no other feedback than to see the article appearing in print later . |
| 18 | If the situation continues I will have no other recourse than to set the facts before Rose Lipman . |
| 19 | Some saw the press as an industry and had no other object than to sell a product , provide employment and make a fair profit . |
| 20 | Any picture of such a tree , with ordered lists of children , conveys a much more thorough image than does a picture of an average graph , because the picture can exhibit the order in each list of children . |
| 21 | The party took more easily to modern electioneering than did the Liberals , and gained an unexpected bonus in the votes of women , who have been a force for conservatism since their enfranchisement in 1918 . |
| 22 | Mr Kinnock has learnt that it is more effective to mock the Prime Minister as an anachronism in a brave new world than snarl the word ‘ Thatcherism ’ and present her as the personification of all evil . |
| 23 | One of the Inverkeithing officers , the tide waiter , was ‘ threatened to be removed or broke ’ if he joined Provost Cunningham in the burgh elections , a sad state of affairs , when , as Cunningham complained , ‘ your Lordship knows what I do is from no other view than to serve the D[uke] of A[rgyl]e & your lordship 's interest , and have his grace 's order for doing so ’ . |
| 24 | It is a tribute to the awe in which Indirect Rule was held in the 1920s that their pretensions were taken seriously : few deliberative bodies in history can have had a higher regard for themselves as repositories of political wisdom than did the Conference of Residents . |
| 25 | At present the evidence suggests that society would prefer to tolerate the adverse consequences of ready consumption than curtail the enjoyment of the majority . |
| 26 | If delivery with an unfavourable cervix is thought essential it may be better to deliver by elective lower segment caesarean section under epidural block than to risk the need for an emergency caesarean section under general anaesthesia in the middle of the night . |
| 27 | However the map does require more intellectual effort than does the routine not only in making decisions about how to proceed but also in filtering out the required information from the massive irrelevance ( for a particular task ) which is equally available . |
| 28 | Watching a film on TV or renting a video was still a more desirable option than visiting a cinema for many . |