Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [adj] [noun] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The compromise brought a clearer distinction between the spiritual and temporal aspects of ecclesiastical office than ever before : it abolished lay intervention in conferring the symbols of ecclesiastical office , while conceding that the temporalities remained within the secular domain . |
| 2 | It has more cars per square kilometre than anywhere else in the world . |
| 3 | We are producing more goods in our factories of better quality than ever before , how can there yet be a recession ? |
| 4 | There are some unavoidable costs er on that account , particularly on the engine programme where delays to the aircraft programme which result in extra costs on the engine side , are the customer 's liability , erm but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think , from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment that we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non-common and we have had to take a larger share of the costs of those equipments than originally planned . |
| 5 | Social attitudes demanded that the politician who aspired to a county interest should handle his constituents with greater care than merely bargaining for votes . |
| 6 | The economic climate on Merseyside is now very conducive to development … enabling us to define preferred strategies with greater flexibility than hitherto . ’ |
| 7 | As our national wealth increased , we have been able to devote much greater resources to these services than ever before . |
| 8 | The increased discipline of competition in the product market ( ie the market in which goods and services are sold ) ensures that firms will be more responsive to consumer demand , providing better quality goods at lower prices than previously . |
| 9 | Existing member states , such as the UK , therefore were to receive relatively less in terms of regional aid than previously , although this could in part be compensated by the general increase in the size of the Structural Funds . |
| 10 | They will recognise it too in terms of higher charges than perhaps ideally we would want to impose for certain services which the city operates , whether it be sports pitches or whether to be brutal , it 's the cost of actually burying the dead . |
| 11 | From the point of view of problem solving , I find the cube has led me to formulate many problem-solving techniques in more generality than previously and to develop a general scheme for all problems of this sort . |
| 12 | … There 's more of public relations in this job than probably — that does n't come down in print . |
| 13 | There are perhaps more collectors of antiques in this country than anywhere else in the world . |
| 14 | Grudgers came to dominate the population because they passed on more genes to future generations than either Suckers ( who helped others indiscriminately , and were exploited ) or Cheats ( who tried ruthlessly to exploit everybody and ended up doing each other down ) . |
| 15 | But in the mean time , encouraged perhaps by such apparent signs of weakness , perhaps simply by pressure on their order-books , the Edinburgh master printers began recruiting girl apprentices in larger numbers than ever before during the early years of the century , to the growing despair of the ETS and increasing anger from the male trade-union movement in general . |
| 16 | California 's Silicon Valley , home of computer high-tech , has more PhDs per square mile than anywhere else in the world . |
| 17 | More books were translated from other languages into Russian in the 1980s , including record numbers from English , German and French ; and there were more foreign students in Soviet universities than ever before . |
| 18 | The list is by no means confined to local publishing as the photograph on the right of Norma Major with author Susan Normington indicates , but part of the planned expansion in the UK will , as it were , be inwards , covering localities in greater detail than ever before . |