Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adj] than the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the girls in the bawdy-house were indolent and frivolous : without a thought in their heads other than the size of a man 's cock or the latest women 's fashions . |
| 2 | In terms of the aggregate demand curve developed in section 4.1 this specification is a simplification : it ignores the influence on aggregate demand of variables other than the quantity of money . |
| 3 | They formed a proportion of new schools greater than the proportion of children they served ( though this may have been because they were more likely to have suffered from bombing in city centres ) . |
| 4 | They stretched in great flocks wider than the whole of the Zoo . |
| 5 | Their research in areas other than the psychology of ‘ race ’ and prejudice is treated lightly , particularly if it is theoretical , unless it puts questions of ‘ race ’ aside entirely and adopts a white feminist perspective . |
| 6 | Histamine has effects other than the stimulation of acid and pepsin secretion , such as marked vasoactivity . |
| 7 | However , hotels , restaurants and other places of entertainment where the substantial proportion of the business consisted of transactions other than the sale of intoxicating liquor came within the 1954 Act . |
| 8 | This is not a failure to understand resulting from the difficulty of the material , but from attention being on matters other than the content of the text . |
| 9 | Political patronage within the burghs might , however , relate to matters other than the employment of revenue officers , for even the location of an excise office could be a political question . |
| 10 | ‘ We must assume there is some invisible mass , approximately 100 times larger than the mass of the gas cloud itself , ’ says Terzian . |
| 11 | It must be appreciated that , although the population of the world is about a million times larger than the population of a large village , the model needed to make a reasonable study of some major world trends and problems is not necessarily much larger or more complex than the village model . |
| 12 | At just 46 he is the third youngest president of all time and five years younger than the voice of rebellious youth , Bob Dylan . |
| 13 | Jess Reid 's chapter undertakes an analysis of children 's literature , which involves instances of the written speech and thought of individuals other than the author of the story . |
| 14 | Every effort was made to ensure that tribunals normally sat in buildings other than the premises of the DHSS in order to emphasize their independence from the Department . |
| 15 | There is also provision for ABWOR to be provided at the request of a magistrates ' court or a county court by a solicitor within the precincts of the court for purposes other than the provision of ABWOR , where the court considers that the case should proceed the same day and that the client would not otherwise receive representation . |
| 16 | Such domains can , as was previously suggested , be used for purposes other than the generation of functional parameters . |
| 17 | It is clear that quantitative methodology can be applied , with interesting results , to data bases other than the bodies of naturally occurring spontaneous speech for which it was originally designed . |
| 18 | He wrote of it as seeds finer than the spores of fungi or dust caught in the sails of ships a thousand miles from land . |
| 19 | Blown-up extracts from contemporary Paris newspapers , on panels larger than the works of art on display , suggest that the district 's sudden fame was not so much to do with art or philosophy , but the novel phenomenon of la jeunesse . |
| 20 | THERE are n't many sounds worse than the squalling of a baby . |
| 21 | These rights do not exist in the information itself but arise from its confidential nature and the circumstances in which persons other than the originator of the information come by it . |
| 22 | Type B nonprofit : a nonprofit organization that obtains a significant amount of financial resources from sources other than the sale of goods and services . |
| 23 | Type B non-profit — non-profit organizations which obtain a significant amount of financial resources from sources other than the sale of goods and services . |
| 24 | The reasons for this will become obvious if we compare meanings with things other than the species of thought . |
| 25 | Suspicious evidence relating to things other than the condition of the child I called secondary danger clues . |
| 26 | The diameter of a full stop ( period ) character in ordinary type is 0.06cm , so a ray of red light would have a wavelength 92000 times smaller than the diameter of a full stop . |
| 27 | Safety standards for future nuclear power stations should be set so that risks to the public are ten times smaller than the danger of a road accident , according to new proposals published by the Health and Safety Executive ( HSE ) , the British industrial safety regulatory body . |
| 28 | Upthrusts of men and women forced cones of tangled , crushed bodies higher than the rest of the mass . |
| 29 | But approaching the IRA from a nationalist perspective is very different from seeing them as savage , without apparent objectives other than the spread of evil . |
| 30 | Amidst the din of the machines , in his narrow sphere of activity , Antoine had no time to go through human motions other than the motions of his work . |