Example sentences of "[noun sg] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A much closer contest than the scoreline suggests was effectively settled during two crucial first half minutes when Sheron , City 's unheralded striker , made two crucial interventions — one in each goalmouth . |
| 2 | This is the main purpose of this last part of Losing Out , and the proposals are broached in such a way as to appeal to a wider section of the electorate than the underclass alone . |
| 3 | As a woodwork teacher for many years I consider this design to be dangerous because power drills run at a much higher speed than a brace and consequently the feed is too fast for accurate control . |
| 4 | ‘ The press was more a paper soldier than an anti-war , anti-government crusade . ’ |
| 5 | Iron from ferrous sulphate , for example , is more available to the horse than the iron in ferrous carbonate . |
| 6 | It is undoubtedly true that in this period when new political lordships and principalities were replacing the Carolingian empire , and Europe was recovering from external attacks , the church was far more an upholder than a hammer of kings and other rulers . |
| 7 | Inside , the glovebox lid did n't fit properly , with a much bigger gap on one side than the other . |
| 8 | If , in such a movement , the head meets a brighter light on one side than the other , the animal turns away from the brighter side . |
| 9 | If they compress more on one side than the other , try differentiated densities , which are firmer and less likely to compress . |
| 10 | Often it was not , and the grass verge was very much wider on one side than the other . |
| 11 | Not level , the dining room one was two inches shorter one side than the other , the tie-backs |
| 12 | He 's got one side than the other you know . |
| 13 | A graph ( Figure ) of the corresponding readings shows that the sensitivity is greatest in the middle of the view field , and less on the lefthand side than the right . |
| 14 | Since the awareness from which we recoil is constantly being forced on us by pain or misfortune , no doubt many or most people can take every opportunity they have to avoid the unpleasant without being in any danger of becoming more aware of the bright side than the dark . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm Ron Barton and I 'll have you know that I am the Roving Correspondent of the True Brit , the newspaper with an even bigger circulation than the Sun , and I never laid a finger on , or up , the lady . |
| 16 | Nothing is more off-putting to a prospective employee than a delay in reply . |
| 17 | An employer has no more power to give orders to an employee than a customer has to demand that a grocer supply goods at a certain price : all a discontented employer can do in practice , just like a customer , is terminate the relationship . |
| 18 | He , as a rag doll , contorted , controlled by invisible strings , jerked one way and then the other and the sewer filled up high , not a half-foot from the top of the walls , so that his tumble , when he fell into the swamp , it was more a plop than a splash . |
| 19 | Indeed in the middle of the twentieth century it can be said that the majority of the world 's population lives under systems of government where the government itself and particularly the executive government are of more importance and are treated with more respect or fear than the Constitution . |
| 20 | More is involved in the denial of prejudice than the rebuttal of actual criticisms , which might be made by specific others . |
| 21 | Those who argue that rape should be viewed as more a crime of violence than a crime of sex might also prefer the scope of rape to be confined in this way . |
| 22 | The report was , however , critical of the CCB , stating that there were strong suspicions that its operatives had been involved in " more crimes of violence than the evidence shows " . |
| 23 | Sterling is even closer to its intervention level against the peseta than the escudo and market rumours of a lira devaluation mean that the Italians , the Portuguese and the Spanish pose a more immediate threat to the pound than the identity of the next British Chancellor . |
| 24 | The female adopts a more passive role in conception than the male , and physiologically she has less to do . |
| 25 | But that act has more to do with the future than the present , as chapter 23 will make abundantly clear . |
| 26 | Such a structure is in contrast to a structure which , once negotiated , is subject to little questioning , which orders activities on a termly or a yearly basis , and which has a declared interest in the future than the present . |
| 27 | The Kirgiz government has a more realistic vision of the future than the president of Russia . |
| 28 | Spot checks or random monitoring visits were felt by some societies to hold out more prospect of deterring and detecting fraud than a routine requirement to produce a six-monthly report — a view supported by FIMBRA . |
| 29 | These observations suggest that an acute bacterial inflammation evokes a more pronounced intestinal net fluid secretion than the inflammation caused by Nippostrongylus brasiliensis . |
| 30 | There is , first , the relationship between rich and poor nations , which may be conceived in terms of neo-imperialism and dependency ( but in that case imperialism has to be seen in a wider perspective than that which treats it exclusively as a stage in the development of capitalism , important though this latter process is ) , or in terms of the current preoccupation with a ‘ North-South dialogue ’ , which is today more a confrontation than a dialogue . |