Example sentences of "[noun] than the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A much closer contest than the scoreline suggests was effectively settled during two crucial first half minutes when Sheron , City 's unheralded striker , made two crucial interventions — one in each goalmouth . |
| 2 | This is the main purpose of this last part of Losing Out , and the proposals are broached in such a way as to appeal to a wider section of the electorate than the underclass alone . |
| 3 | This was a much more comfortable victory for Kelburne than the score suggests for two of Torbrex 's goals were scored late in the game by Gordon Shepherd whose second strike came from a penalty a minute from time . |
| 4 | Iron from ferrous sulphate , for example , is more available to the horse than the iron in ferrous carbonate . |
| 5 | Inside , the glovebox lid did n't fit properly , with a much bigger gap on one side than the other . |
| 6 | If , in such a movement , the head meets a brighter light on one side than the other , the animal turns away from the brighter side . |
| 7 | If they compress more on one side than the other , try differentiated densities , which are firmer and less likely to compress . |
| 8 | Often it was not , and the grass verge was very much wider on one side than the other . |
| 9 | Not level , the dining room one was two inches shorter one side than the other , the tie-backs |
| 10 | He 's got one side than the other you know . |
| 11 | A graph ( Figure ) of the corresponding readings shows that the sensitivity is greatest in the middle of the view field , and less on the lefthand side than the right . |
| 12 | Since the awareness from which we recoil is constantly being forced on us by pain or misfortune , no doubt many or most people can take every opportunity they have to avoid the unpleasant without being in any danger of becoming more aware of the bright side than the dark . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm Ron Barton and I 'll have you know that I am the Roving Correspondent of the True Brit , the newspaper with an even bigger circulation than the Sun , and I never laid a finger on , or up , the lady . |
| 14 | The maritime antarctic as a whole has 20% more lichens than the continent and 150% more mosses ; in addition it has 25 taxa of hepatics to the continent 's one , and two species of angiosperms that have not yet been found on the continent . |
| 15 | Tai chi has far fewer styles than the hand system of kung fu , only a handful in fact . |
| 16 | Indeed in the middle of the twentieth century it can be said that the majority of the world 's population lives under systems of government where the government itself and particularly the executive government are of more importance and are treated with more respect or fear than the Constitution . |
| 17 | Important as it is to recognise that the notion of abuse has wider connotations than the physical , not much purpose seems to be served by struggling to define more precisely such elusive matters as emotional interactions . |
| 18 | More is involved in the denial of prejudice than the rebuttal of actual criticisms , which might be made by specific others . |
| 19 | The report was , however , critical of the CCB , stating that there were strong suspicions that its operatives had been involved in " more crimes of violence than the evidence shows " . |
| 20 | Although he may receive more help in the first few months than the widow usually does , he may find that his sudden change in life-style is a considerable shock . |
| 21 | Sterling is even closer to its intervention level against the peseta than the escudo and market rumours of a lira devaluation mean that the Italians , the Portuguese and the Spanish pose a more immediate threat to the pound than the identity of the next British Chancellor . |
| 22 | Possibly the direct effects of war on the Flemish cloth towns , which suffered from the campaigns , may have been a further benefit to English producers ; indeed this may have been a more important factor in the decline of Flanders than the tariff protection enjoyed by England , because the Dutch cloth industry , which used English wool , also developed at this time at the expense of the Flemish . |
| 23 | The female adopts a more passive role in conception than the male , and physiologically she has less to do . |
| 24 | But that act has more to do with the future than the present , as chapter 23 will make abundantly clear . |
| 25 | Such a structure is in contrast to a structure which , once negotiated , is subject to little questioning , which orders activities on a termly or a yearly basis , and which has a declared interest in the future than the present . |
| 26 | The Kirgiz government has a more realistic vision of the future than the president of Russia . |
| 27 | These observations suggest that an acute bacterial inflammation evokes a more pronounced intestinal net fluid secretion than the inflammation caused by Nippostrongylus brasiliensis . |
| 28 | As it might be argued that this microflora is more likely to exert pathogenic or protective effects in the intestine than the lumen flora , we were interested to determine the adherent and hydrophobic properties of our mucosal E coli isolates by techniques comparable with those used by others studying faecal isolates . |
| 29 | So when UNITA arrived in Abidjan last month , fresh from victory at Huambo , it was determined to get a much better deal than the agreement in May 1991 which supposedly ended Angola 's decade and a half of civil war . |
| 30 | Playing an investment banker , something which perhaps requires greater suspension of disbelief than the film 's vision of the spirit world , Swayze gets to make all his crowd-pleasing moves in a novel setting . |