Example sentences of "[noun sg] than at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the magnetic field happens to be larger at one side than at the other side , then the beam will be deflected towards the weaker field which makes the field even weaker , etc. , leading to the so-called kink instability ( Fig. 3.3(b) ) . |
| 2 | Laboratory tests have shown that the rates of oxygen uptake and amounts of muscle effort that volunteers could develop tend to be greater in the daytime than at the night . |
| 3 | Greater peace could be found on a boating pond in Regent 's Park than at the populated end of poor Loch Morar in summer , with speed boats raping its once enigmatic waters and queues of cars waiting for senior citizens in their caravans to unblock the single track road where they have parked in a passing place to brew up a cuppa . |
| 4 | This in fact repeats more generally what was stated with regard to environmental competence by Article 130R(4) of the EEC Treaty , inserted by the Single European Act , under which ‘ the Community shall take action relating to the environment to the extent to which the objectives … can be attained better at Community level than at the level of the individual Member States ’ , a provision which does not yet appear to have been the object of scrutiny by the European Court of Justice . |
| 5 | That he has used his linguistic skills to make such a protest , where before he has been content merely with linguistic cleverness , marks an important development in his character and it leaves the reader with a distinctly more favourable impression of him at the end of the play than at the beginning . |
| 6 | While the delay to the start of the flying programme has been much longer than anyone would wish , much more progress has been made in the ground and rig testing than at the comparable stage of any previous project I have been associated with and we are very satisfied indeed with the results that have been obtained so far . |
| 7 | Adidas is also attacking the bulk end of the market by offering shoes at more affordable prices , with greater strength in the £35–£45 range than at the top of the market . |
| 8 | We have already discussed the question of fuel used in cremations which , at least for the larger cremation cemeteries , argues that the cremation itself may be more likely to have occurred at home than at the cemetery . |
| 9 | Second , American industry has much less spare capacity than at the start of previous recoveries . |
| 10 | ‘ I expect you would be a good judge of that , ’ she snapped , hating the fact that she felt less annoyed at finding him in the room than at the thought of all the other women he was comparing her to . |
| 11 | The self-financing ratio was no higher in the later years of the period than at the beginning , though , without the pressure from the Ministry , it would no doubt have declined . |
| 12 | The survival of the nationals may seem remarkable , in view of the much greater choice of alternative media at the end of the period than at the beginning , with TV an obvious competitor for the reader 's time and the advertiser 's money . |
| 13 | The situation in this respect is better for those at the younger end of the group than at the other , but a man or woman who was 40 in 1978 was only 10 in 1948 ; an impressionable age and a time before there was much relaxation in sexual codes . |
| 14 | ‘ British industry is far more productive , far more competitive , better managed and with better industrial relations , in a better tax climate than at the beginning of the 1980s , ’ he told ACCOUNTANCY , ‘ so it is better placed to benefit from economic recovery . ’ |
| 15 | An elderly verger once confided to me that he felt happier at a good funeral than at a wedding . |
| 16 | At 81 he knew he was about to play a longer ‘ innings ’ that evening than at The oval in 1948 , though the use of the word ‘ memorial ’ in respect of the new foundations ‘ presupposes my death — not a subject I 'm approaching with any enthusiasm ! ’ |
| 17 | However , her warnings are aimed less at the right than at the Communists and their 26 deputies , who would fare badly in an early general election . |
| 18 | This heating is uneven : more by day than at night , and more at the equator than at the poles . |
| 19 | However , the greater solar input at the equator than at the poles would produce greater solar choking at the equator , and this can be shown to aid equator to pole circulation in the Jovian interior , thus distributing solar energy more uniformly and leading to the small equator to pole temperature differences observed in the upper troposphere . |
| 20 | No sooner back than at the very first race of the 1982 season , at Kyalami , controversy broke out again . |
| 21 | Often it is easier to arrange this out of season than at the height of the busy tourist period . |
| 22 | New artists Youssou N'dour and Tracy Chapman contributed a vital freshness to the London evening : Chapman , admittedly , had much less impact than at the Mandela concert , mainly because she sang carbon copies of songs which are now heard anywhere and everywhere ; but N'dour 's intriguing vocal range and muezzin 's inflections came over brilliantly in this company . |
| 23 | It was more like being present at a seance than at a lecture . |
| 24 | The number of participants varied from evening to evening : attendance was higher at the beginning of the week than at the end . |
| 25 | The industry 's reaction to news of the Novell/USL negotiations ( UX No 398 ) is less one of surprise at the possibility that Novell might effectively buy Unix than at the timing . |
| 26 | And I see companions and conviviality as much more on the sidelines of life than at the centre . |
| 27 | It is easier when you are feeling fresh and alert after a good night 's sleep than at the end of a busy day , easier for short periods than for long periods . |
| 28 | In it , his recently-prepared chart of the Atlantic Ocean showed that this huge stretch of water was shallower in the centre than at the edges . |
| 29 | Informally put , in the case of an oligopolistic market this can be achieved by an agreement which specifies that the punishing firms choose outputs or prices which yield them higher profit than at the collusive allocation , so that they would actually gain in the punishment phase . |
| 30 | Before we consider why processing load might be greater at the end of a clause than at the beginning , we will discuss some experiments which have been carried out on reading , from which a similar pattern has emerged . |