Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [noun sg] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is at variance with the unwritten law of our party system ; and there is no clearer statute in that unwritten law than the rule that party claims should always weigh very heavily in the disposal of the highest appointments … |
| 2 | It was less a matter of some technical revelation than the fact that , after a difficult first 18 months with Zachary , this once fiery soul learned to put things into perspective . |
| 3 | Answer guide : An opportunity cost is defined as the maximum benefit which could be obtained from a resource if it were used for some alternative purpose than the opportunity under consideration . |
| 4 | For all their mutual confidence in each other and their shared patience — although one suspects from the records that the navigator had more of this essential quality than the adventurer — each brought his own special talents to this technique of beach reconnaissance . |
| 5 | There is little enthusiasm among voters for a coalition government and more would prefer another general election than an arrangement between either the Conservatives or Labour and one of the minor parties . |
| 6 | Trying to build a culture on the basis of some other food ( the potato ? ) or some other animal than the llama ( the cow ? ) . |
| 7 | It was a question bristling with the lingering doubt that some other procedure than the transfusion of blood may be necessary and may be imperative for her health . |
| 8 | Any parent who has had an insomniac or hyperactive child will know the situation in which interruption of sleep over a long period frays tempers and seeks some other scapegoat than the child ; husband and wife may end in screaming at each other across the bedroom . |
| 9 | Again , we are only really concerned with two intervals and their inversions , but it must be noticed that one is much more dissonant than the other . |
| 10 | The whole place stank of money : much more money than the singer could have earned at the Kitty Kat Club . |
| 11 | If a local authority has any matter to propose for the good of local government in general or for any particular section of local government , this should invariably be done through the appropriate local authority association , for if supported by the association it will carry much more weight than the proposal of a single local authority . |
| 12 | His response underlines how much more royalist than the king were some of his judges and how the dividing line between church and crown jurisdiction was under more pressure from the king 's subjects and agents than from the king himself or from any royal policy . |
| 13 | A word processor is so much more power than a typewriter you would n't believe it . |
| 14 | For example , the number of unconnected words we can hold in immediate memory is about the same as the number of unrelated digits , even though a word contains much more information than a digit . |
| 15 | On the other hand these accruals accounts have provided much more information than the cash accounts . |
| 16 | In sum , it seems , the principle which is supposed to underlie the formation of groups , of which nationalists are one , is of much less importance than the existence of the groups . |
| 17 | In fact , because of Police and Trade Union restrictions , a motor bus running in London is allowed very little more flexibility than a trolleybus . |
| 18 | They had my permission , of course , but they preferred to be discreet about it — and what more discreet place than the engine-room ? |
| 19 | The digesta version , contrary to its usual practice , seems to have struck out more unnecessary detail than the responsa , such as the lengthy description of the debts and the circumlocution referring to the time the will was made . |
| 20 | He said I should have more adequate protection than a burglar alarm . |
| 21 | If the principle of induction is to be defended as reasonable , then some more sophisticated argument than an appeal to its obviousness must be offered . |
| 22 | So after both of these elections a government was formed which had less electoral support than the opposition . |
| 23 | Always more than a nepotistic afterthought , Brix had more musical input than The Fall could comfortably contain and now , after almost four years of intermittent solo action , she 's finally made her own album ( Spin This Web ) with her own group Adult Net . |
| 24 | Of the letters I wrote to Eliot and kept copies I reproduce one , which might perhaps have some more permanent interest than the ephemera . |
| 25 | Indeed , the very idea of a major structure or grid into which leys have to fit says more about our own cultural environment than the reality of the landscape . |
| 26 | Surely it is more essential that she should be well educated , as research has shown the mother 's education to be more important to the child 's own later achievement than the father 's . |
| 27 | When examining the structure of local government and establishing the local government commission , one could not make any better start than the appointment of Sir John Banham as the chairman of the commission if one wants common sense , quality decision making and a tough-minded approach . |
| 28 | Bentham 's ideal calculation of the moral quality of an act presupposes that of any two pleasures the one is a definite number of times more pleasurable at any one moment than the other . |
| 29 | There was never a time in Sir Hector Laing 's life when it ever occurred to him to work for any other company than the family business , originally called McVitie $ Price and now known as United Biscuits . |
| 30 | A good answer is that we regard the causal circumstance as leaving no room for any other eventuality than the effect . |