Example sentences of "than [prep] [noun] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some areas of the country , where voluntary services are well developed , substitution of voluntary for local provision would be easier than in areas where the voluntary sector is weak . |
| 2 | Cameron ( 1984 ) argues , for example , that in countries where the labour movement is capable of reaching a political accommodation based on collective restraint in its economic demands , the rate of inflation is lower and employment higher than in countries where the working class is more militant . |
| 3 | He explored this theme most famously in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism ( 1930 ) and related works , arguing that Calvinistic Protestantism 's individualistic ethos and positive attitude to the accumulation of private wealth provided the key to understanding why capitalism had arisen in the West rather than in Asia where the economic conditions for capitalist development existed to at least an equal extent . |
| 4 | Meeting in Budapest on March 6 the defence ministers of Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland sought to co-ordinate policy towards NATO 's North Atlantic Co-operation Council ; they committed themselves to an " open barracks " policy along similar lines to the existing " open skies " policy but stressed that they wished to act in the spirit of dialogue and consultation rather than to set up a closed grouping . |
| 5 | In some extraordinary way it seemed hotter now than at midday when the blistering sun was overhead ; such faint breeze as there might be from the water seemed to fall utterly it this turn of the tide . |