Example sentences of "[det] [noun] than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was noticeable in our study that oesophageal peristaltic dysfunction was a commoner and more pronounced abnormality than reduced lower oesophageal sphincter pressure , which suggests that impaired oesophageal clearance may play a larger part in the pathophysiology of this condition than the defective barrier function of lower oesophageal sphincter . |
| 2 | The smoothness with which the financial system dealt with the first oil shock surprised most people and suggested that the new floating exchange rate regime might cope better with large shocks of this type than the adjustable peg system would have . |
| 3 | But I think there 's a more powerful force in this universe than the Prime Mover . |
| 4 | Finally , there also seemed to be some evidence than an internal bias towards helplessness ( similar to Seligman 's concept ) was implicated at some stage , in making PMP more likely or leading to poor coping responses . |
| 5 | An advantage of this technique is that the teacher can decide while using the program what level of exercises to generate — the computer program offers a great deal more flexibility in this respect than an ordinary textbook . |
| 6 | No one man changed football more in this century than the would-be colliery official who drifted by chance into soccer management . |
| 7 | ‘ A wolf can travel faster in this country than a mounted man — and more silently , too . |
| 8 | On the evidence this production is speaking far more vividly to this generation than the traditional version . ’ |
| 9 | The 1977–81 material is thought to be essentially complete , except for the exclusion of 12% who had a previous history of malignancy or had undergone gastric surgery or who were given the drug for another diagnosis than a peptic ulcer related disease . |
| 10 | This has sometimes led to social divisions between newcomers and locals , as mentioned in chapter 1 , although the more remote rural areas are less affected by this influx than the accessible countryside . |
| 11 | Nothing is more unsavoury in all these transactions than the total abandonment of Duke Robert to his fate . |
| 12 | Bottom last season with fewer points than a truncated triangle , the Middleton Tyas club now finds itself second , above Masham Reserves on goal difference . |
| 13 | Several publicly-controlled groups have already signalled a desire to unwind some state shareholdings , and the new prime minister is likely to raise fewer objections than the interventionist Cresson . |
| 14 | After that I might do some washing — I 'd rather do a little each day than a large amount at once . |
| 15 | In this respect the importance of agreement with the IMF on access to its facilities is much greater for many borrowers than the actual size of the funds provided by the Fund would appear to indicate . |
| 16 | They have become coordinators largely because they have established their reputations as the first to counteract those years of neglect , but they have themselves suffered more from that neglect than the new generation of community language teachers which is at last emerging . |
| 17 | Hindle 's survey at the University of Lancaster , where a departmental selection system operated , showed that in one year a total of 17 departments had added books on the subject of ‘ operational research ’ to their collections — two of these ordering more titles than the operational research department itself . |
| 18 | The kiln , which is the only one of its kind in the UK , will generate less dust , less noise and considerably less emissions than the previous plant . |
| 19 | Public sector data users have generally had considerably more requests than the private sector , which conforms with evidence put forward at the committee stages of the Data Protection Bill that the public sector is viewed as offering the greatest threat to individual liberties . |
| 20 | She had more teeth than a game-show hostess on ZeeBeeCee , and breasts like udders . |
| 21 | In general , the working class wife evinced more sympathy than the working class husband . |
| 22 | He has been able to involve many more clubs than the senior side . |
| 23 | My your Mum 's had more pricks than a secondhand dart board . |
| 24 | Christ almighty , she 's had more pricks than a second-hand dart board ! ’ |
| 25 | Two thugs having a square-go in Glasgow could not have set about one another with any less ferocity than the Scottish Secretary and the Scottish National Party leader did on Tuesday . |
| 26 | You 'll find that quite often this sort of selective improvement will give a room the new look it needs for far less money than a drastic change-around . |
| 27 | This means in turn that they must be shining almost unbelievably brightly — perhaps 100 or more times than an average galaxy . |
| 28 | Either arbitration or litigation would have taken more time and cost more money than a successful reference to an expert . |
| 29 | Your daughter does n't live extravagantly enough for it to be noticed that she has more money than the average student . |
| 30 | To be envious , in Axelrod 's terminology , means to strive for more money than the other player , rather than for an absolutely large quantity of the banker 's money . |