Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In any event , he consoled himself , nothing could be worse for Katherine than the situation that had developed at home . |
| 3 | Even if Dr Kingdom did feel more for Heather than a doctor should for his patient , it does n't mean that had anything to do with her disappearance . ’ |
| 4 | It is hard to think of him doing any worse for England than the cardboard cut-outs who allegedly were playing midfield in Santander the other night . |
| 5 | Yesterday Dr Morris said : ‘ The latest work will be a follow-up to an earlier study that showed how the community 's health was 30pc worse in some parts of Sunderland than the country as a whole , and 30pc worse again in parts of Middlesbrough . |
| 6 | However , those less interested in the in-fighting in the House of Windsor than the environment will have noticed that Sarah Ferguson did one thing RIGHT . |
| 7 | Roxburgh 's observation that high expectation can be dangerous might have carried more weight were it not for the fact that nobody appears to have a loftier opinion of Ferguson than the 21-year-old himself . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He said the Budget was anti-poor and anti-Scottish because it cost 30 per cent more to heat homes in some parts of Scotland than the south-east of England . |
| 10 | Chroniclers and poets in their embittered criticism of papal initiatives for peace were scarcely less vehement than the lords and commons in parliament , and when at last , in 1378 , an Italian pope was elected , an Englishman at Rome rejoiced because ‘ Previous popes and their cardinals had been greater enemies of the kingdom of England than the king of France himself . ’ |
| 11 | As it happened , the Stewart kings between 1406 and 1542 had married wives of considerable personality and , except in the case of Margaret Tudor , skill ; in the power-sharing between Mary of Gueldres , widow of James II , and the then elder statesman , James Kennedy , bishop of St Andrews , during the early years of James III 's minority , for example , it was the Queen Mother who pursued a much more intelligent foreign policy towards England than the bishop . |
| 12 | ‘ IXI will add more to the value of SCO than the dilution of the shares involved , ’ according to Anderson . |
| 13 | A nineteenth-century drunkard sobbing at the penitents ' bench found no less an ‘ answer ’ in the cross of Christ than the twentieth-century philosopher with his carefully articulated questions . |
| 14 | There is , however , obviously a great deal more to the history of Siberia than a catalogue of criminality and cold . |
| 15 | Opposition in Parliament in the 1980s came more effectively from Conservative dissidents and the House of Lords than the Labour party . |
| 16 | It is always a question whether the flowers in an opium dream are more beautiful than the flowers in the field ; or the Garden of Eden than the first protoplasm. but all this leads nowhere — people will either like the painting of Georgia O'Keeffe or dislike it . |
| 17 | More importantly , the city has long been a centre of manufacturing excellence ; why then should it still arouse such hostility ; is there something deeper to the disapproval of Birmingham than the quality of its goods . |
| 18 | The action of a single tyrant may be more potent to inflict suffering on the continent of Europe than a combination of less powerful persons . ’ |
| 19 | Stanko Guldescu , the historian of medieval Croatia , has described this disaster as having ‘ more significance for the subsequent fate of Europe than the more publicised Serbian debacle ’ at Kosovo Polje in 1389 . |
| 20 | Who has a better right to enquire as to the welfare of Richard of York than the lady Anne his wife ? ’ |
| 21 | It is concluded that the programme conducted by the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee was more appropriate for the people of Bangladesh than the National Oral Rehydration Programme . |
| 22 | My mother had more stories of India than the war : my mother dancing with young men at the club , the cobra she saw on the veranda , the retired doctor in the Indian army who sent her his travelling rug before he died . |
| 23 | No sound was more typical of Iran-contra than the dropping of a secret , like a stone , into otherwise peaceful conversation ; at which the other participants would carefully get up and walk away . |
| 24 | Both had made previous flights to Fairbanks on the Irkutsk-Fairbanks ferry run and hoped one day to see more of America than the tundra regions of Alaska . |
| 25 | The stories of Sigurd and Wayland seem to have been particularly popular , and while , as R.N. Bailey has argued , such carvings could have been attempts to link pagan with Christian belief , one is still driven to the conclusion that they " may have appealed to tastes and interpretations which were based more on the traditions of Scandinavia than the Christian Fathers " . |
| 26 | And everyone in Maple Drive , as they cooked , consoled , took out their best suits and thought of even nicer things to say about Donald than the last nice thing that had been said about him , were privately so astonished , so relieved , so savagely glad to be alive that if someone had proposed to bury him upside down in a bucket of horse manure they would probably have agreed it was all for the best . |
| 27 | It sounded more like MacDonald than the old parliamentary master . |
| 28 | Maybe , it is murmured , an indecisive , messy sort of ending might be better for Israel than a clear-cut one . |
| 29 | The appeals court ruling meant that several laws restricting abortion passed by other states were more likely to provide a vehicle for a reconsideration of Roe v. Wade than the Louisiana statute . |
| 30 | Curtis said that growth was more marked in Germany than the UK , with the number of lines having grown to between 60,000 and 70,000 in 1992 from 20,000 in 1991 . |