Example sentences of "[adj] than a [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Betting is one of Britain 's top leisure activities , even more popular than a trip to the pub or eating out . |
| 2 | it is more private than a hearing in the civil courts — the press and public are not entitled to be present |
| 3 | Such an order has inheritance tax advantages ( if dissolution of the marriage has taken place ) , a saving in the HM Land Registry fees is available ( see Chapter 3 and generally ) and , as any financial provision can be expressed in the order to be in full and final settlement of the wife 's claims ( see Chapter 11 ) , it is less likely to be upset than an agreement between the parties not carried into a " consent order " ( see for instance Dinch v Dinch [ 1987 ] 1 WLR 252 where the court refused to make a further order on the grounds that the consent order had conclusively determined the rights of the parties in the matrimonial home ) . |
| 4 | Others were that ‘ need ’ as opposed to ‘ reasonable requirement ’ did not have to be shown , that the case for making an order against an officer of the company was stronger than it would be against a third party , that an order for oral examination ( as in Cloverbay itself ) was likely to be more oppressive than an order for the production of documents . |
| 5 | I will bring you a cloak , it is not much , but warmer and more comfortable than a night on the cliff tops ! ’ |
| 6 | ( Note : There really is nothing more comforting than a chicken from the kosher butcher . |
| 7 | It might even be possible to create a ‘ place in the sun ’ , where car parking has been placed underground because a place in the sun for townsfolk is more important than a place in the sun for cars ( e ) . |
| 8 | Hm. 's furniture is very much more practical than a lot of the traditional stuff that 's sold in the shops at vast expense is n't it ? |
| 9 | On a glorious day like this , who could wish for anything more delightful than a walk in the park and a chance to share the secrets of Rainbow 's heart ? |
| 10 | If Casaubon had in mind something more precise than an alternative to the disguised Machiavellianism of the contemporary Tacitists , he did not make it clear . |
| 11 | The conventional form is generally convenient ; it is useful to have equal eigenvalues in groups and to the use superdiagonal ; but in particular cases it may be well to use a nonzero quantity other than a unit in the superdiagonal . |
| 12 | It turns out that the independent property consultancy was none other than a subsidiary of the national ports authority , which is a major shareholder in the Cardiff Bay development corporation . |
| 13 | death of or bodily injury to any person other than a member of the Policyholders family or household or a person in the employment of the Policyholder |
| 14 | It can perform any action other than a communication with the terminated process ( which clearly can not agree to any communication ) . |
| 15 | Or is he speaking about that nation of complacent and indifferent shopkeepers who long for nothing other than a return to the days of imperial hegemony ? |
| 16 | 8.1.4 any other act or thing by which but for this provision the Guarantor would have been released [ other than a variation of the terms of this Lease agreed between the parties that is prejudicial to the Guarantor ] Until the case of P & A Swift Investments v Combined English Stores Group plc it was believed that the benefit of a guarantor 's covenants could only be enforced by a successor in title to the landlord 's reversion , where there had been an express assignment to it . |
| 17 | In my view the effect of the Effer v. Kantner decision is that a court other than a court of the defendant 's country of domicile can not accept the jurisdiction on the mere assertion or pleading of the plaintiff . |
| 18 | There was no furniture in the room other than a cupboard in the far corner in which were kept special foods such as plates of dates selected from the great storehouse or the enamel pots poured full of the sweet of the area . |
| 19 | ( ii ) If the wife becomes entitled to the whole house and requests that the matrimonial home be conveyed or transferred to herself and her " new husband " ( to whom she is not married ) , is the wife making a gift for inheritance tax purposes to the " new husband " ? ( iii ) The Inland Revenue capital gains tax concession mentioned in Chapter 2 may not be available ( on a strict interpretation of its wording ) to the former husband if he conveys or transfers his interest in his former principal private residence to someone other than his spouse or ex-spouse. ( iv ) A conveyance to someone other than a party to the marriage will not attract the stamp duty relief of s83 of the Finance Act 1985 , ( see p22 ) but if it is a voluntary disposition , exemption L of The Stamp Duty ( Exempt Instruments ) Regulations 1987 ( SI No 516 ) ( Chapter 2 ) will apply . |
| 20 | Because BS knows all the facts about the brain state , and the experience just is the brain state , then what the experience is like must be something other than a fact about the experience . |
| 21 | At least in the first stage of transition , there is no alternative other than a combination of the market and state regulation . |
| 22 | Miss Thomas is not relying upon a contractual obligation other than an obligation by the university to comply with its own domestic laws . |
| 23 | As it was everybody was thankfully unhurt , though a scary moment occurred when the AA member turned up and turned out to be none other than an ex-member of THE TREMELOES . |
| 24 | There is no duty to disclose information provided by or on behalf of another person other than an employee of the local education authority , an education welfare officer or the person seeking disclosure . |
| 25 | A model with a clockwise rotor will already have a slight lean to the right and a turn in that direction will require a greater and more noticeable-bank than a turn to the left . |
| 26 | At £55 , it is a good deal more expensive than a ticket on the high-speed train which runs just below the bridge . |