Example sentences of "the [noun] than [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laboratory tests have shown that the rates of oxygen uptake and amounts of muscle effort that volunteers could develop tend to be greater in the daytime than at the night . |
| 2 | It is perhaps slightly easier for the writer than for the reader . |
| 3 | By 1988 Britain was for the first time selling more to the EEC than to the rest of the world ( £47 billion out of £93.5 billion at 1991 prices ) . |
| 4 | This was a prevalent interpretation within the EEC , and one which was reinforced by the tone of the debate in the British House of Commons upon the Stockholm Convention , in which most speakers concentrated more upon the relationship with the EEC than upon the organisation and aims of EFTA . |
| 5 | They had learned that it was easier to survive on the croft than in the bread line . |
| 6 | There is greater scope for a change in the context of the multilaterals than in the context of the bilaterals . |
| 7 | This page and View from City Road , page 33 Pay rises : Two surveys show that pay is rising faster at the top end of the scales than at the bottom . |
| 8 | Pursuing the concept that art and life are one , modern artists have chosen to use degradable materials concerned more with the nightmare of the present than with the recognition of generations still to come . |
| 9 | The company was less a victim of the recession than of the peace dividend , having geared up for military orders which failed to materialise . |
| 10 | ‘ I dare say thieves are no more frequent on the roads than in the town , ’ argued Ralf , saving Guy from further introductions . |
| 11 | In HGT-1 cells , specific binding of [ 3 H ] omeprazole was significantly greater in the presence than in the absence of 1 mM histamine ( 4.17 ( 0.45 ) pmol/mg cell protein v 2.08 ( 0.48 ) pmol/mg cell protein , p<0.05 ; n=3 , measured in triplicate in both cases ) . |
| 12 | Painted terracotta decorations for architecture are found in all areas of Greece in the archaic period and later ; figure-work too , but that is far commoner in the west than in the rest of Greece and reaches its acme in Etruria . |
| 13 | It is also noticeable that pan Atlantic species have a shallower upper bathymetric limit in the west than in the east , possibly due to the effects of the Western Boundary Current . |
| 14 | Immersion in water is less beneficial for the skin than for the woman , however . |
| 15 | That he has used his linguistic skills to make such a protest , where before he has been content merely with linguistic cleverness , marks an important development in his character and it leaves the reader with a distinctly more favourable impression of him at the end of the play than at the beginning . |
| 16 | Seldom is anything genuinely new shown at the Earls Court venue , normally used more as a glorified car showroom by the manufacturers than as a showcase for forthcoming cars and innovative ideas . |
| 17 | This slag-bank is very old — belonging , for the most part , to the last years of the last century , when smelting was so extravagant with ore that some people say there was more iron in the slag than in the pig . |
| 18 | I was keener on the pictures than on the prose and therefore skipped most of the moral rearmament propaganda : ‘ hobbies ’ , like ‘ pocket money ’ , were things that other kids had , so I was never tempted to make a jet-propelled car with a Sparklets bulb ( whatever that was ) . |
| 19 | While O'Neill would have shared some of those views , he was more concerned with the future than with the past and he deliberately set about ending Ulster 's ‘ petty apartheid ’ by visiting Catholic schools ( no previous Ulster premier had ever set foot in one ) , being photographed talking to priests and nuns , and meeting a cardinal . |
| 20 | Many more people in the future than in the past will benefit from the kind of economic support which people give to their relatives through post mortem transfers . |
| 21 | There will also be , as certainly we can tell , more very old people in the future than in the past , something also clear from table 5.4 . |
| 22 | You talked a lot about computers being more friendly in the future than in the past . |
| 23 | And as a Warsaw Pact leader they know him more intimately in the Kremlin than in the West . |
| 24 | The fun of the game is more in the confusion than in the winning . |
| 25 | Because those planning a service probably give greater weight to the words than to the music , the Commission believes that those texts which promote ancient truths in a readily-understood manner and in good , or at least passable , poetry are the ones which ought to be used . |
| 26 | Today , 30 years after his death , Lewis is remembered more as the author of such enchanting children 's stories as The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe than as a writer and broadcaster on ethical and religious questions , but it is one of those BBC sermons which he delivers at the beginning of this play . |
| 27 | Histology showed that there were more premalignant lesions ( intestinal metaplasia and dysplasia ) in the miners than in the control group . |
| 28 | Both " skill " and " apprenticeship " are notions which have been challenged by feminist writers as having less to do with the intrinsic nature of the work than with the sex of the people doing it . |
| 29 | However , these pauses were considerably longer for the philosophical section of the passage than for the description of the countryside . |
| 30 | Furthermore , energy was over 30 per cent cheaper in the South than in the northeast in 1980 , according to Agnew ( 1987b , p. 174 ) , who draws on Bensel 's ( 1984 ) work , which combines the energy and unionization advantages of the South , to illustrate the growing gap in growth rates over the post-war decades between , on the one hand , the energy-rich/right-to-work States and , on the other , the energy-disadvantaged ( high cost , mostly imported ) and heavily-unionized . |