Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Older children were less inclined to wait for attention than younger children . |
| 2 | Males can produce sperms at a faster rate than females can produce eggs , and are therefore selected to allocate more of their time to searching and competing for mates than are females . |
| 3 | Contact lenses are less frequently prescribed for children than spectacles because physical growth is still taking place and because they are relatively more expensive . |
| 4 | The choice between these two often depends on the type of experiment ; more successful techniques for velocity measurement have been developed for air than for water , whilst flow visualization is generally more successful in water than in air . |
| 5 | MANY people spend more time worrying about how they are going to cope with catering for Christmas than they do actually cooking the bird and all the trimmings . |
| 6 | But , within a family , it is much less common for a woman to be listed as ratepayer than a man . |
| 7 | There 's no better inspiration for shrugging off slothfulness than Glen Shiel , which rewards with such a high score of tops and something worthwhile to brag about to those who spent Saturday and Sunday vacuuming the car with a cordless hoover . |
| 8 | Taking a steady look at it , thought Nelly to herself , easing off her shoes for greater comfort , it was n't such a bad little house , and certainly very much more conveniently placed for shopping than her own cottage at Lulling Woods . |
| 9 | Phil Philips , deputy secretary of the British Hotels , Restaurants and Caterers Association , said : ‘ People in the industry are much better educated about AIDS than they were in 1987 . ’ |
| 10 | What more did they know of life than that it was life ? |
| 11 | In these days of dwindling research funds and increased competition , what better way of disposing of rivals than by characterising papers or proposals as so much chaff ? |
| 12 | Already more children may be dying with AIDS than from famine and 11 million are carrying the virus HIV , 1 in 250 of all adults worldwide . |
| 13 | The west façade is more richly decorated with sculpture than is usual in England ( 448 ) . |
| 14 | Narrow topics like " Whig reforms 1 830–41 " or " the suffragette movement " are less likely to be overburdened with detail than more general topics like British foreign policy , 1815–65 " or " Britain 's inter-war economy " . |
| 15 | In religious matters the restoration of monarchy was followed by the decisive establishment of the power of the Church of England , and in constitutional questions Charles showed that he was much more resigned to the need to work with Parliament than either Charles I or Cromwell had been , but in colonial affairs there was no change of direction , though the new government may have been able to follow its policy with more continuity than its predecessor . |
| 16 | There 's much more to walking in Africa than Mount Kenya , as David Else discovered with a group of walkers from Sheffield |
| 17 | The classical spirit in which he was trained never lost its hold upon him ; the spirit of the pagan authors he revered in their original languages coexisted in his mind with an Anglicanism more committed in substance than fervent in style ; and as the new novel of the 1950s revived the techniques of eighteenth-century fiction , so did Lewis 's critical prose revive the world of hard-hitting supper-party debates that Boswell records . |
| 18 | The Left , even in the local Labour parties , tended to move in a world of the politically involved and to be far more responsive to what was happening in Europe than were most British voters . |
| 19 | At the same time both the Constituency Labour Parties and the Labour League of Youth were enjoying a rapid increase in membership and many of their new recruits were more interested in what was happening in Europe than in the traditional problems of unemployment and labour conditions . |
| 20 | A higher proportion of women go out to work in Britain than in any other EC country except Denmark . |
| 21 | It is even more original and varied in type than the consort music , including not only fantasias , ‘ In nomines ’ , stylized dance-music , arrangements of music from masques and of popular songs , but also miniature genre-pieces , essays in programme music and pure impressionism such as Byrd 's ‘ The Battle ’ and ‘ The Bells ’ , variations on ground basses , and sets of variations on popular tunes as distinct from simple arrangements of them . |
| 22 | The districts are even more varied in size than the regions . |
| 23 | These horses are more likely to suffer from alkalosis than acidosis . |
| 24 | Babies of working class mothers are more likely to suffer from illness than middle-class babies for a variety of reasons : the mother 's health and style of living , particularly whether she smokes heavily ; the mother 's diet ; the mother 's type of employment during the late stages of pregnancy ; housing conditions , particularly heating ; the use of ante-natal clinics by the mother during pregnancy . |
| 25 | To begin with , it is an outstanding solvent : more different kinds of atom , ion ( charged atom ) and molecule can be dissolved in water than in any other naturally occurring material . |
| 26 | Also , it was expected that ability would be more lateralised in men than in women . |
| 27 | No sooner has one cycle started to diminish in amplitude than another disturbance to the economy occurs , starting off a new cycle . |
| 28 | Following the loss of their mother by separation or death , those children who experienced either marked indifference or markedly low control from their fathers or substitute parents were three times more likely to be depressed when interviewed in adulthood than women with no such experiences ( Brown et al. , 1986b ) . |
| 29 | Skilled Unix technicians are also easier to find in Poland than traditional systems people . |
| 30 | Some accounts ( e.g. Honig 1981 ) assume that a reinforcer expectancy is more likely to persist in memory than is a representation of the sample stimulus itself . |