Example sentences of "of [adj] than [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The essential reason for obeying the sovereign power was that keeping it in power was inevitably better for the security of each than the chaos of civil war , or a society without government . |
| 2 | The boy was so small ; more like a child of eight than a boy of fifteen . |
| 3 | With regard to the need for direct and close contact , I do not think that we could have had a clearer example of that than the visit of President Yeltsin and the very straight talking between my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and the president . |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps it was the Friar , ’ the thin man said , scarcely less alarmed by the thought of this than the thought of the unspecified ‘ they ’ . |
| 5 | According to Reuters news agency , the draft apparently provided for the election of fewer than a quarter of the 460 Sejm deputies by a first-past-the-post majority vote ; most of the seats would be distributed to parties proportional to the votes won by their national lists of candidates . |
| 6 | For all the criticisms which can be levelled against it , the work remains a successful attempt to make sense of the complicated relationship which existed between England and France over a period of more than a century at the end of the Middle Ages . |
| 7 | English China Clays , a company formed at the end of the First World War , inherited the wastelands of more than a century of china clay workings , and then increased their extent . |
| 8 | But between 1846 and 1850 an annual average of more than a quarter of a million left Europe , in the next five years an annual average of almost 350,000 ; in 1854 alone no less than 428,000 arrived in the United States . |
| 9 | What evidence there is on sett size suggest that it does n't necessarily increase with group size , and certainly the four individuals in the Brighton group would hardly seem to need a complex consisting of more than a kilometre of tunnels . |
| 10 | TRAINS moved vital supplies into Soviet Armenia yesterday , ending a blockade of more than a month by workers in neighbouring Azerbaijan , Reuter reports . |
| 11 | On top of this , inevitably but it seems rather unfairly , they have to deal with the problem that faces every teacher in a new school : the fact that they do not know its geography , its structure and its rules , both explicit and unwritten , nor do they have a chance to get to know the personalities and quirks of more than a handful of either pupils or teachers . |
| 12 | Notwithstanding that the development of notions of democracy and the extension of the franchise have rendered the Queen 's participation formal and that of the Lords subservient to that of the Commons , Parliament still consists of more than the House of Commons . |
| 13 | The established system may let the Conservatives into office with less than half the popular vote , but it also invites the prospect of a future Labour Government elected to office on perhaps 32 per cent of the vote and with the support of less than a quarter of the electorate as a whole . |
| 14 | The Sejm 's draft bill provided for the direct election of less than a quarter of the 460 Sejm deputies , with the remaining seats distributed to parties proportional to the votes won by their national lists of candidates . |
| 15 | During the breeding season , a male will establish a territory of less than a metre in diameter in a stream , and aggressively repel all intruders . |
| 16 | To force together two protons that are initially far apart , for example those in two separate hydrogen atoms , is like trying to encourage the two north poles of a pair of magnets to join at a distance of less than a billionth of a millimetre . |
| 17 | The above ‘ recipe ’ describes one group 's insights so far , coming out of less than a decade of such activity . |
| 18 | Championship at Hillside , he holed his final putt of less than an inch in snooker-fashion with the grip-end of his putter . |
| 19 | Viennese modernism , which had a briefer period of flourishing than the modernism of other great cities , was also the least oppositional , the least social-critical , of modernisms . |
| 20 | This conclusion is supported by the fact that changes in the fossil record , even rather rapid ones like the increase in human brain size in the last four million years , were slower by a factor of 1,000 than the rate at which changes can be produced by artificial selection in laboratory populations or domestic animals . |