Example sentences of "than [art] present [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the big tin-can already has three times more room for experiments than the present space station , which could render the modules redundant . |
| 2 | Possibly an HM government warning about bad breath would be more effective than the present slogan . |
| 3 | Vauxhall 's new four is said to offer better induction and combustion and be more compact and economical to build than the present unit . |
| 4 | The findings indicated there was probably no major savings in efficiency to be made which would produce a commercial charge more than the present public authority cost . |
| 5 | Football hooliganism may well be older than the present century |
| 6 | It seemed that Smith has got a better image than the present chancellor has n't he ? |
| 7 | Until elimination of those stocks is achieved , Labour will retain Britain 's nuclear capability , with the number of warheads no greater than the present total . |
| 8 | Her letter adds : ‘ Until elimination of those stocks is achieved , Labour will retain Britain 's nuclear capability , with the number of warheads no greater than the present total . ’ |
| 9 | This path would enable children from Baberton and Juniper Green to cycle or walk to Currie High School by a shorter and safer route than the present route , which involves negotiating the busy and dangerous Lanark Road ( cyclists have to cross it twice ) . |
| 10 | To take advantage of that large amount of fuel , we have to develop what are there is the fast reactors , and this is Britain 's fast reactor a fast reactor erm uses energy erm about sixty time uses uranium about sixty times more efficiently than the present type of reactors not sixty percent but sixty times so it obviously has tremendous implications for uranium resources . |
| 11 | Such a system might have much more to offer in the way of conflict-resolution than the present system of customary principles as a loose framework within which states enter into negotiations . |
| 12 | The selective imposition of fines , probation orders , community service orders , and compensation orders , particularly when coupled with ‘ positive repentance ’ for the corporation and occasional imprisonment ( not for merely thirty days ) for executives would undoubtedly achieve the penal aims of deterrence , incapacitation , rehabilitation , and restitution better than the present system of token fines and infrequent short imprisonment sentences . |
| 13 | Any diagnostic system that is quicker and cheaper than the present system would be of use . |
| 14 | Some form of client-server architecture , where queries are processed on the server before being delivered to the client machine , rather than the present system where transactions are dealt with sequentially , exchanging input and output continually between server and workstation , would help . |
| 15 | Are the 4 cylinder engine mounts suitable to take a Perkins engine without chassis welding and will this engine give me more torque for towing than the present engine . |
| 16 | Two er requirements for the future that er seem to be er er desirable are stealth and what could be stealthier than the present generation of aircraft and secondly to prevent you having to go over your target you 're likely to be shot down so that you need a stand up weapon capability , er if the payload is somewhat limited can it still carry stand off weapons that are effective ? |
| 17 | Yet future historians are likely to look more kindly on his achievements for his country than the present generation . |
| 18 | The impression given in both plans is of an exceptionally well proportioned and attractive building placed rather further back from the Carrickblacker Road than the present church . |
| 19 | It may come sooner than the present management thinks . |
| 20 | Changes announced yesterday mean that anybody with a disposable income of more than £61 a week will have to contribute a maximum of one third of his or her income above the limit rather than the present quarter . |
| 21 | However , I do know that it features a new , wider stance and a longer body than the present model along with wider wheel-arches and new wheels and grille . |
| 22 | In fact at room temperature a diamond will survive for longer than the present age of the Universe . |
| 23 | Unlike the new Cistercian seekers for a simpler form of monastic life , Anselm — however much he shared a personal preference for simplicity — disapproved of a discontented search for something better than the present community provided . |
| 24 | Thus an elected second chamber could be a much stronger barrier to the achievement of socialist ideals than the present House of Lords . |
| 25 | I hope therefore that your Executive Committee can come up with something more positive than the present draft . |
| 26 | The memory seemed to grow strongly into life , much more real than the present moment ; the glossy cream-coloured cooker stood like a house , black knobs winking like eyes , and the big brown table was a house , roofed over and four-square . |
| 27 | Mr Waddington said prisoners should serve at least half their sentences rather than the present minimum of one-third . |
| 28 | It is larger than the present office and will provide improved showroom and administrative facilities . |