Example sentences of "than [det] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the real cost of £1,000 worth of BES shares to anybody earning more than that during the fiscal year , which starts on Monday , would be only £500 . |
| 2 | However , in O'Reilly v. Mackman Lord Diplock argued that the present procedural regime for AJRs is more advantageous to applicants than that under the pre-1978 version of Ord. 53. and that it strikes a sound balance between the interests of applicants and respondents . |
| 3 | Perkins group managing director , Tony Gilroy says : ‘ Despite the current recession in the construction industry , we expect to sell them a lot more than that under the new agreement . |
| 4 | If we believe in the idea that the most economical hypothesis is the best , then Daly should win , but it seems at present as though the evidence in favour of the subsidence theory , with its ad hoc lowerings of islands , is considerably greater than that for the Glacial Control theory . |
| 5 | Disabled adults of working age are a significant and identifiable minority group , experiencing a rate of unemployment far greater than that for the general population . |
| 6 | higher than that for the current year . |
| 7 | However , when subjects had to concurrently remember 2,4 or 6 words the reaction time for both hemispheres improved , but that for the right hemisphere more than that for the left hemisphere , which resulted in a LVF superiority . |
| 8 | This figure is a great deal better than that for the consecutive spill method of handling overflows , and even chained records randomized to individual addresses show an advantage over consecutive spill . |
| 9 | Initially , the chemical potential µ 1 , of the solvent in the solution , is lower than that of the pure solvent , µ 1 ° and solvent molecules tend to pass through the membrane into the solution in order to attain equilibrium . |
| 10 | Andrew Marvell 's ‘ The Garden ’ , however , offers a quite different mode of retreat than that of the former poet . |
| 11 | The history of continuing post-war pressure by officers for a flatted development in the East End of North Shields is a fascinating one but for our purposes here what matters is that nearly 1000 flats and maisonettes were built , again at a higher unit cost than that of the contemporary construction of traditional dwellings . |
| 12 | It is a naked-eye object , and binoculars show it excellently ; its actual surface brightness is much greater than that of the Small Cloud . |
| 13 | On the retina of the left eye in 1a , the ( inverted ) image of the left-hand edge is shown as taller than that of the right-hand edge , to reflect the fact that the left-hand edge is nearer that eye , and therefore subtends , at its nodal point , a distinctly larger angle than the right-hand edge . |
| 14 | The concept of ‘ normality ’ has no real meaning other than that of the personal viewpoint of any individual . |
| 15 | The claim of the ‘ good ’ characters to the Wagenburg treasure is no better justified than that of the rival party under Ellis , even if his murder of a secret service man does inspire Jonathan Mansel , who makes a third with Chandos and Hanbury , and who heard the dying man 's last words , to engage upon the adventure : |
| 16 | In its treatment of a split in 1980–81 within the people 's Redemption party ( PRP ) , Radio Nigeria decided to recognize Aminu Kano 's leadership rather than that of the rival faction . |
| 17 | At their best ink-jet printers can produce an output quality several times better than that of the average matrix printer . |
| 18 | Management and leadership training and experience for NCOs and officers , new skills training for everyone , and a very much higher level of fitness than that of the average civilian are benefits of their voluntary service . |
| 19 | The distinctive Peugeot blue body is much bulkier than that of the average tool . |
| 20 | Even when the latter does raise religious matters , he seems to deal with them from a different perspective than that of the ascetic theology of Faustus or the spiritual philosophy of another great writer and friend , Claudianus Mamertus . |
| 21 | Dividing by the mean success of males in this sample will accentuate this error since the mean success of the males sampled will be higher than that of the male population as a whole . |
| 22 | It does regrettably seem true that the seal 's behaviour is more standard than that of the male penguin . |
| 23 | There can , however , be few less satisfying occupations than that of the professional unmasker of psychic frauds , for , whatever the facts may be , one undeniable fact is that people deeply want to believe these things . |
| 24 | As Table 3.15 shows , the proportion of unskilled workers living in overcrowded conditions is seven times greater than that of the professional group . |
| 25 | Some return to the surface with scars on their snouts which suggest that they have been battling with creatures possessing suckers 13 centimetres across , and squid beaks even bigger than that of the Norwegian giant have been found in their stomachs . |
| 26 | The mass of the population ( especially the mestizos and the coloured and Indian populations who were truly ‘ slaves ’ ) were either indifferent or actively hostile to the political ambitions of the white creoles of the towns and the large estates , who represented a more immediate oppression than that of the Spanish crown . |
| 27 | Supported almost unanimously by her business and financial community , Britain , in her own eyes , was creating for herself no more and no less than an enormous home market comparable to that of the United States and larger than that of the new trading giant , Japan . |
| 28 | In some words , we can observe a type of stress that is weaker than primary stress but stronger than that of the first syllable of ‘ around ’ , for example in the first syllables of the words ‘ photographic ’ , ‘ anthropology ’ . |
| 29 | The age composition of the mining group was significantly older than that of the general population group , since the source of the coal miners was a group of retired men . |
| 30 | With some very large incomes in the extended tail of the distribution and many small increases in the ‘ meaty ’ body of the distribution , the median voter 's income is less than that of the mean voter ( see Fig. 9–1 ) . |