Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun sg] than the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The offspring will probably be selected to want a greater quantity of parental investment than the parent because again , a little bit extra for the offspring probably means more than what to its reproductive success , than it er would mean to the reproductive erm , success of , of the mother , as far as the offsprings are concerned . |
| 2 | Much of the debate over economic policy was thought to have centred on the level of provincial autonomy which should be allowed ; the provinces were generally thought to favour a more radical pace of economic reform than the centre . |
| 3 | The life of a river has nothing to show more resonant of changeless change than the life cycle of the mayfly , a genus known even in the dry language of science as Ephemera . |
| 4 | However , they were made of lesser wood than the door . |
| 5 | Abolitionists successfully used the convention drastically to reduce the freedom of parliamentary action and to claim that it was more representative of national opinion than the legislature . |
| 6 | She will know at what point domestic happiness begins to cloy , where love , tidiness , rent , rates , clothes , entertaining , and rings at the doorbell should stop , and will recognize that there is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall . ’ |
| 7 | But perhaps it reveals more of the inherent uncertainty of experimental research than the tidiness which precedes it . |
| 8 | Some employers were crudely exploitative , others offered their workers shorter hours , better conditions , improved housing and medical care , from a mixture of philanthropy and conviction that the carrot was a more effective means of increasing productivity than the stick . |
| 9 | language is capable of far more subtle ways of metaphoric expression than the stock grammatical ways . |
| 10 | However backward in some respects , its educational level was high , and it was certainly better adapted in 1880 to the demands and discipline of industrial life than the population of any other part of the world except North America . |
| 11 | Although I had respect for Harry Thubron and Frank Lisle , the message of Basic Design was in , many ways much less important to schools of general education than the work which had been developed to such a pitch of excellence by Basil . |
| 12 | Containing a greater proportion of secular matter than the Church history of Eusebius , it was based partly on written material and partly on the memories of men still living . |
| 13 | Indeed , although the SLA is composed overwhelmingly of qualified teachers , it seems to some to have shown itself less aware of the pressures of educational change than the Library Association , with its royal charter to oversee the interests of libraries of all kinds . |
| 14 | And the fact that today this respect has to be defended even more stridently than before is more a comment on the destructiveness of modern development than the result of any new-fangled obsession with antiquity . |
| 15 | On December 14th 1719 " Super at Mr Cockburn 11 at table 22 persons in al " there were " eating poset in cheana [ china ] high dish at the head of the table , at the foot a haunch of venison , " in the midle of the table a pirimide sillibubs and orang cream in the past , above it sweet meets dry and wet " , on the sides black pudding , partridge , larks , celery salad " made and unmade " , veal collops white sauce , " 2 boyld pullets w t persley sauce , in the midle pickles of other sort than the comon ones . " |
| 16 | Workers in the nuclear industry could face up to double the risk of contracting leukaemia than the rest of society according to a report published today . |