Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] than [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose she 's thinking of Terry , she thought , and squeezed Sarah 's arm , although Believe Me If All had been Joe 's favourite rather than Terry 's . |
| 2 | The abolition of examinations , shortening the length of courses and open criticism of teachers and academic knowledge , among other features of the Cultural Revolution period , led to disruption and chaos rather than Mao 's goal of an egalitarian higher education system . |
| 3 | GEC Marconi , which employs 3,500 people in Simon Burns ' Chelmsford constituency , signs contracts with the Ministry of Defence rather than Swan Hunter . |
| 4 | Henry said almost apologetically , ‘ I think we could do you a bit better than Cranmer . |
| 5 | Paddy would have seen the trail better than I. He often rode ‘ shot-gun ’ on the roof-rack . |
| 6 | A repetition of the analysis just given shows that stellar cores of mass less than M(Chandrasekhar) are stable against further collapse and form neutron stars . |
| 7 | Just south of it was the Jeanetta Cochrane theatre , where Haynes was working with , amongst others , Charles Marovitz , another exiled American , but , in his case , from New York 's lower east side rather than Louisiana . |
| 8 | The command which will stop a LIFESPAN Process is exactly the same as the startup command , except that you use LSSTOP rather than LSSTRT . |
| 9 | The bank defended the terms saying they are a 50 p.c. premium over Midland 's price before last month 's bid proposal , 27 p.c. above net asset value and will give an income 442 p.c. better than Midland 's reduced dividend . |
| 10 | The syntax was not perfect , perhaps , but it was a great deal better than Higginbotham 's , and the use of such lengthy phrases as " venture to approach " and " await your response " showed some acquaintance with the useful cliches of the language . |
| 11 | I have n't seen a team in Europe that 's a great deal better than England . |
| 12 | Two other traits Charles may have owed to the influence of his father Louis the Pious , though he pursued both a good deal further than Louis . |
| 13 | Although other countries had wanted to specify the end of 1992 as the deadline , the UK persuaded them to refer instead to the schedule outlined in the Treaty which provided that the Treaty could come into effect later than Jan. 1 , 1993 , if the ratification process were not completed by then in all states . |
| 14 | In this respect , clearly , they were a great deal closer than Richards to the Russian Formalists and their successors . |
| 15 | On the other hand it 's a buzz physically , I admit , because our new friend has been around quite a bit longer than Irene . |
| 16 | Op. 17 No. 2 ( Chopin 's nagging child rather than Schumann 's entreating child ) is surely over-pedalled , and an unspecified change of tempo in the central episode of No. 3 jars on repetition . |
| 17 | Corinth , then , not Sparta , was most nearly affected by the rapprochement between Athens and Megara in 460 and , consistently with this , it was Corinth rather than Sparta who fought Athens hardest in the war which now broke out , the First Peloponnesian War , of 460–446 . |
| 18 | In the case of another very early practitioner , Psiax , who also worked with Andokides but whose stylistic links are with Lydos and Amasis rather than Exekias , the highly distinctive hand is unmistakable in both techniques . |
| 19 | The attacks , all using an explosive base of fertiliser rather than Semtex , seem designed to prove the IRA 's ability to infiltrate even the most protected areas . |
| 20 | There is no poor law infirmary nearer than Waterford , so I took her there , and that was the last I saw of that dreadful day . |
| 21 | Adam sneaked into fourth place on 20.63sec , a quarter of a second slower than Christie . |
| 22 | An oil leak wrecked his hopes of grabbing the overnight pole position , but he was only one-tenth of a second slower than champion-elect Prost . |
| 23 | His time of 46.55secs was a second slower than David Grindley ran in Rome on Wednesday and Grindley is now favourite to be picked for the European Cup later this month . |
| 24 | The fastest man in Europe was the Russian Viktor Bryzgin , a hundredth of a second faster than Linford . |
| 25 | In the warm-up , Niki is three tenths of a second faster than Prost , but he does n't like his engine and gets it changed . |
| 26 | BOBBY ‘ The Brain ’ Heenan hurls insults from the ringside faster than Randy Savage pulls punches . |
| 27 | m most of the careers officers that are on si scale six are taking more money home than Kevin is . |
| 28 | In one season alone Gallacher scored 46 goals for Airdrie , striking up an almost telepathic relationship with the club 's left winger Jimmy Sommerville , a name that conjures up images of late '80s gay-disco rather than Broomfield Park in the midst of industrial depression . |
| 29 | Once this connection is broken , Eastern Europe 's élites may make other arrangements ( as did Hungary 's Imre Nagy in 1956 ) on terms consistent with their own safety rather than Moscow 's . |
| 30 | Guernsey granite rather than Purbeck stone brought him wealth and he retired to Swanage in 1944 leaving his nephew George Burt to look after the firm in London . |