Example sentences of "[det] [noun] than [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | To try and explain this one is almost as bad as to try and explain Hegel erm my ignorance is even more crying in this case than in the other . |
2 | Obviously , if one particular question is compulsory and has for example a weighting of 1½ then you must allocate 50 per cent more time to this question than to the others . |
3 | The authorities were more worried about this group than about the NL and only one document about it his so far been released , despite the fact that it was successfully infiltrated by several agents . |
4 | Trade , technical and professional magazines ; There are more magazines in this group than in the consumer group and it is safe to say that whatever the trade , profession or industry there will be a publication to deal with it . |
5 | The Doric temple became early popular in the western colonies and many more sets of archaic metopes are known from this area than from the homelands . |
6 | In the closing stages of the tournament I felt that the message had got through to the players about staying on their feet , and there were less penalties given for this offence than in the pool games . |
7 | Nearly all lawyers in local government are solicitors , and it is better to qualify this way than at the Bar . |
8 | However , even outer clothing must have required fastening and such wear would also have arisen if they were worn on undergarments in such a way as to come into contact with the inner face of the coarse outer garments ; such extreme wear is perhaps more likely to have occurred in this way than on the outside . |
9 | The other factor is that the margin between lending and borrowing rates is narrower on this market than on the home market , primarily because banks can operate at lower cost when all business is wholesale and when they are not subject to reserve requirements . |
10 | This may reflect the fact that many people today have more leisure and money to spend on such pursuits than in the past . |
11 | For him , there is not enough room in life for anything but one-to-one relationships and then as now , Niki has always been better in such relationships than in the goings-on of a board or a team . |
12 | The -ing form would have referred more to the mere experience of being alone at that moment than to the unexpectedness of finding himself alone . |
13 | Tests of medical house doctors after a night spent on emergency admissions ( when they got an average of 1.5 hours ' sleep ) showed them to be significantly worse at a memory task designed to tap these skills than after a night off duty . |
14 | In summer , however , when the sun shines constantly , Arctic and Antarctic waters provide some of the richest feeding grounds of the oceans ; fewer species than in the tropics , but often with a far greater biomass . |
15 | Development training was specifically mentioned by fewer respondents than in the county libraries . |
16 | Thus the surgical group required a significant amount of blood transfusion as well as injection and check endoscopies , although there were fewer episodes than in the sclerotherapy group . |
17 | The substantially better climate and weather patterns — particularly in the southern USA — result in much higher annual utilisation and fewer cancellations than in the UK . |
18 | By legs told me that I had skied more that day than in a week on previous holidays . |
19 | And where better to remember that individuality than in the town of Bazar . |
20 | Assemblies of protest , it was said in the House of Lords debate ( Lord Beloff ) , should receive less support than in the past . |
21 | Publishers were looked to for far more support than in the past , as the following interview comments show : ‘ There 's a change from the past , when we used worksheets predominantly , with textbooks just for backup . |
22 | Groupe Speciale Mobile communication in France is more expensive and has achieved less penetration than in Germany , and cellular overall has much less penetration than in the UK . |
23 | It is very difficult to give any precise figures to illustrate or establish this ; but a rough count of the twelfth-century marriages noted in three volumes of the Complete Peerage reveals that among the English upper classes of the twelfth century it was much commoner for a lady to have two or more husbands than for a man to have two or more wives ; in the cases noted , almost twice as common ( 36 to 19 ) . |
24 | With no less force than on the dog 's behalf might the third-party claim that the law should intervene to see the job is done , but there would be no inclination to talk of the right of the grave to be maintained . |
25 | The Committee noted that the UKAEA has a ‘ magnificent record in scientific and technical achievements ’ but stressed that future research and development in nuclear energy will attract considerably less resources than in the past . |
26 | In the 1970 's and early ‘ 80 's the Club saw more changes than in the whole of its earlier history , so much so that in 1976 former President Tom Luker said of the course shortly before his death ( 1977 ) , ‘ It has been modified so many times it has gone full circle ’ . |
27 | In the period 1990-92 there were more repossessions than in the whole of the 1980s . |
28 | The ITN version suggests that the pickets are still largely to blame for the violence , but the police contribution to disorder is given more emphasis than in the BBC 's bulletin . |
29 | more patients than in the months before they became managed . |
30 | New artists Youssou N'dour and Tracy Chapman contributed a vital freshness to the London evening : Chapman , admittedly , had much less impact than at the Mandela concert , mainly because she sang carbon copies of songs which are now heard anywhere and everywhere ; but N'dour 's intriguing vocal range and muezzin 's inflections came over brilliantly in this company . |