Example sentences of "[det] [adj] than [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Nowhere is this clearer than in the case of local economic policies .
2 Nowhere is this clearer than in the debate about Europe , or rather in its absence .
3 Much more than in the Review , the concern here is with the quality of service offered to the " client " or consumer " .
4 He was still limping slightly , but much less than at the beginning of the week .
5 But as Nicholas Bosanquet ( 1975 , 1978 ) points out this is partly because younger people are now dependent , ill and hospitalized much less than in the past .
6 If the pond-building books fail to acknowledge Murphy 's Law , it is nowhere more evident than at the point where neat diagrams demonstrate the laying of slabs over flap of liner .
7 If there is a twist to the plot , then it is nowhere more apparent than at the window management level where , it seems , Hewlett-Packard Co is determined to make its Visual User Environment stick .
8 If there is a twist to the plot , then it is nowhere more apparent than at the window management level where , it seems , Hewlett-Packard is determined to make its Visual User Environment stick .
9 The division between two schools of thought is nowhere more apparent than in the field of Zambian foreign policy .
10 The changing nature of ‘ town and country planning ’ is nowhere more apparent than in the area of what Circular 22/80 calls Planning and Business Activity .
11 Energy use in industry is thought to be around 50 per cent less efficient than in the West .
12 This is nowhere more necessary than in the analysis of homophobia .
13 We should not , however , expect a question for the initial verb alone since this is only possible in English for verbs which describe something as being , in some as yet ill-defined sense , " done " to their objects : ( 69 ) what did Rafferty do to the cistern ? and this can not be claimed for the verbs preceding clausal adjectives any more than for a verb which precedes an explicit subordinate clause .
14 If they are rich , they can spend more on it , and will ; but there is no calculus which can tell us the optimum amount that we ought to spend on education , any more than on the relief of suffering and the cure of the sick , or on the arts .
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