Example sentences of "than that of [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never saw anything like it ; nobody ever saw anything to equal the infinite age which was graven on that fearful countenance , no bigger now than that of a two months old child , though the skull retained its same size ; and let all men pray they never shall , if they wish to keep their reason . |
| 2 | Again lateral deposition will occur , but this time the sediments will have their diachroneity rather better disguised than that of the near-shore deposits . |
| 3 | The bitter lessons of the early years were learnt and digested ; crude though it may have been , Rome 's attitude towards its conquered peoples was far more effective than that of the nineteenth-century imperialists . |
| 4 | For many ‘ chronic ’ patients they could serve little purpose other than that of the tramping houses for vagrants . |
| 5 | The solar wind loses its identity in the interstellar medium at a distance no less than that of the outer planets . |
| 6 | Interestingly , the distribution of variants in Lurgan is more similar to that of the inner-city areas than that of the outer areas ( a pattern that applies also to other vowel and consonant variables ) . |
| 7 | It was perfectly clear to all four of them that the forensic skills , the intellectual abilities , the sheer weight of grey cellular matter , the brutalizing experience of countless similar quests , possessed by the real experts was infinitely greater than that of the mere professionals . |
| 8 | In use the banding clamp is adjusted before gluing to a diameter slightly larger than that of the assembled segments . |
| 9 | The environmental impact of precolonial agriculture in the subhumid highlands of central México equalled that of the Classic Maya cities in the lowland rainforests of Guatemala , and was even more severe than that of the indigenous cultivators in New Guinea . |
| 10 | the median peak acid output in the patients with idiopathic DU ( 37 mmol/h , range 17–52 ) was similar to that of the H pylori positive patients with DU ( 40 ( 15–57 ) ) and higher than that of the non-ulcer controls ( 22 ( 16–29 ) ) . |
| 11 | Despite the widespread diffusion , adaptation , and imitation of the Calvinist psalm-tunes throughout northern Europe , their ultimate contribution to Western music generally was less than that of the Lutheran hymns to which they were so closely related . |
| 12 | However , the scale of slaughter , cruelty and destruction involved in European wars of the seventeenth and subsequent centuries was immeasurably greater than that of the tribal conflicts of the ‘ savages ’ . |
| 13 | The execution , however , and this is typical of the 17th century Dutch masters , is more minute ; and the composition , completely determined by a diagonal , is stricter than that of the English painters . |
| 14 | Methods of manufacturing such zeolites were found later , and these were made with a capacity for the interchange of cations greater than that of the natural materials . |
| 15 | The depth over the entrance sill was almost two metres lower than that of the Old Docks . |