Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [det] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it may be a lot more useful for the latter than the former . |
| 2 | Not only that , but there are at least half-a-dozen versions vying for pole position at present , to which this new recording from Tadaaki Otaki and the BBC Welsh can safely be added ( the halfstar is only dropped , incidentally , for the less than ideal internal clarity and rhythmic definition of the recording , which is otherwise tonally pleasing and possesses a warm ambience ideal for this particular work 's lush textures ) . |
| 3 | He knew that a conspiracy ( exposed with the maximum publicity ) to murder the king and Parliament in one horrific holocaust would cause public opinion to recoil into solid support for the less than popular James I and himself . |
| 4 | We know much more about the former than the latter . |
| 5 | If he makes it — and many experts think he can — it will be a massive vindication of his decision four years ago to quit a promising school career after no fewer than nine O-levels , giving up the chance of A-levels and university to turn squash professional at the tender age of just 17 . |
| 6 | The prayer was answered and , says John , ‘ he had all his lifetime after a more than ordinary fear of God and His presence ’ . |
| 7 | Eventually she ended up at Kirtland AFB , New Mexico , and after a less than spectacular career as a war memorial she was in danger of imminent scrapping . |
| 8 | Nelson 's experience was of an organisation that had its regular human share of good soldiers , time-servers , wasters , whiners , climbers , saints , piss-heads and heroes ; and when the pressure was on , probably more of the latter than it was fair to expect . |
| 9 | By judicious use of the more than adequate graphic , a wide variety of sounds can be accessed . |
| 10 | This recognition of the more than local effects of major retail development confirms how crucial it is to place such development within a strategic context . |
| 11 | Of the more than half-million students in full-time higher education in 1980 , fewer than 200,000 were at a university . |
| 12 | Every time the animal steps down it received a mild electric shock ( yet another of the less than pleasant learning tasks which experimental psychology finds it necessary to employ ) . |
| 13 | It is available now , but has not had the take up that Windows has enjoyed — one cynical comment has it that of the less than half million copies actually in use , the better part were given away — and yet it is a very capable operating system with some excellent features . |
| 14 | Goneril and Regan almost have hypocrisy thrust upon them , in that Lear 's invitations to flatter for instant profit do impose an intolerable burden on anyone of a less than firm integrity . |
| 15 | From Penhill Crags , where the only bones I saw were those of a less than gigantic sheep , we walked by the disused quarry to Stony Gate and the old drove road of Morpeth Gate , now a peaceful broad green lane and very pleasant walking . |
| 16 | This inevitably results in the provision of a less than satisfactory service which , of course , confirms the low status and ‘ poor ’ image of the personnel function amongst other departments and divisions . |
| 17 | It is of a more than usually splendid birthday party , of jolly music , beer and sausages , goose-stepping , displays of rocket transporters and President Gorbachev saying ( without mentioning his loaded off-the-cuff remarks , or those by his spokesman , Gennady Gerasimov ) all the right things about West German revanchism . |
| 18 | This has been capped by the well publicised current appearance of no less than Rain Man ( Warner ) for sale ( £14.99 ) as well as for rent , when hitherto the two spheres have tacitly been regarded as mutually exclusive . |
| 19 | The sampling theorem indicates that we must sample these phenomena at a frequency of no less than half their wavelength if we are to avoid bias in measurement . |
| 20 | On this basis , a data flow of no less than 1 terabyte ( i.e. 10¹2 ; bytes ) /day is anticipated by the mid-1990s . |
| 21 | This was a pity , since Hitchcock had the assistance of no less than Hein Heckroth as production designer and fellow-cockney expatriate Albert Whitlock ( who had also worked on The Birds and Marnie ) to do the matte paintings — he created most of the art gallery that figures in one sequence as a meeting place . |
| 22 | Qualifications for the per cent club , which was launched by the Prince of Wales in nineteen eighty six , is the contribution of no less than half a per cent of pre-tax , U K profits , or one per cent of dividends to the community . |
| 23 | The Chairman , for example , was one of no fewer than five Irish Americans to have held the top job in UM . |
| 24 | It also became the largest city in Western Europe , with walls enclosing an area of no fewer than 483 acres . |
| 25 | Henry replied , in an open letter , ‘ It is I ’ , and over the course of no fewer than 63 pages drew a factual , logical and haunting picture of the plight of his beloved Combsburgh , as he perceived it in the winter of 1830/31 . |
| 26 | This stretch of coastline contains the outlets of no fewer than seven rivers . |
| 27 | One mole-nest was found with an adjoining store of no fewer than 1 , 280 worms . |
| 28 | It was a red-letter day for his supporters everywhere when , on 31 December 1720 , a son was born to James 's new young wife , in the presence of no fewer than 100 cardinals , ambassadors and other important witnesses ; clearly the charge of being a ‘ warming-pan ’ changeling was not going to be laid against Charles Edward . |
| 29 | The RPK has not been formally registered : it has 2,000 members and Russian law requires that a new party must present a list of no fewer than 5,000 members to register with the justice ministry . |
| 30 | However , he thought it was probably the second language of no fewer than ninety per cent of Tanzanians . |