Example sentences of "[noun sg] than [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First I believe if we are going to seek a broader approach to the problems of law and order , I feel we need a broader electorate than the existing members of a police authority . |
| 2 | What was needed was a new system of dégorgement , able to cope with far greater capacity levels at a significantly higher speed than the traditional à la volèe process . |
| 3 | Camels operate each foreleg and its associated hindleg in unison , more like a pantomime horse than a regular quadruped . |
| 4 | The bases have more give and spring than the traditional rigid type and are also adjustable , so you can firm up certain parts of the bed . |
| 5 | Figure 6a illustrates such a mitotic cell in which the normal X is inactive and is seen as being shorter than normal ( the X is normally the fifth longest chromosome ) and darker staining than the other chromosomes . |
| 6 | The Danish eluded her but the tone of voice nearer a growl than a polite question suggested she was being asked to state her business . |
| 7 | Such effects emphasize that the immediate economic dominion which Europe appeared to enjoy in 1880 was really less important for the future than the gradual integration of the whole world with the European industrial and commercial system . |
| 8 | If , as some Israeli ‘ moderates ’ argue , terrorism always was a marginal question , it is certainly infinitely less serious for Israel 's future than the mass popular unrest of the Intifada , but by continuing to lump everything they can — such as children throwing stones — under its general rubric , the ‘ extremists ’ seek to ‘ de-legitimise ’ the Intifada , and evade any necessity for looking at its real causes . |
| 9 | The high turnout , at 75-80 per cent , was regarded as giving the UNP a more convincing mandate than the low-turnout elections won by Ranasinghe Premadasa and the UNP in 1988 and 1989 [ see pp. 36394-95 ; 36467 ] . |
| 10 | A quick glance at the specifications that Detroit 's idea of a '90s performance saloon has more in common with current European thinking than the muscle-bound 7-litre American V8 's of the '60s and '70s . |
| 11 | Still , the new 911 is a better car than the old one , as you 'd expect . |
| 12 | The new Carrera 4 is a significantly better car than the old rear-drive 911 . |
| 13 | Does he agree that if the distribution of Government grant were seen to be fair , local residents would not only be able to assess the performance of local authorities but would begin to see that our new council tax is a far better deal than the uncosted return to the rates — or , even worse , the uncosted local income tax — proposed by the Opposition parties ? |
| 14 | We can for example say that in West Germany erm a worker who 's paid contributions for forty-five years gets an old-age pension that amounts to about seventy-five percent of what he was taking home in take-home pay before he retired , and obviously this looks a much better deal than the British old age pensioner gets . |
| 15 | Dell 's new machines offer you a better deal than the old ones — they are significantly improved , yet cost the same |
| 16 | Feeling reflective and pensive we are more likely to reach for a sensitive ultramarine or restful cobalt than a stinging chrome yellow or vivid lime . |
| 17 | Both groups trained to attend to the sounds of words were significantly better at reading and spelling at the end of the study than the untrained group . |
| 18 | The right hemisphere is more concerned with emotion than the left and therefore its dysfunction would explain many characteristic features of emotion disorder in schizophrenia . |
| 19 | How much taller was this polar bear than an average man ? |
| 20 | He insisted : ‘ Lady Thatcher did more to help British industry than the Labour Party has ever done . ’ |
| 21 | Are these not better ways of improving the skills of British industry than the rigid structures favoured by the feudal barons of the trade union movement ? |
| 22 | Even as American investment slumped from £100 million annually at its peak to around £30 million at the beginning or the 1970s , the US companies were still doing a lot more for the British film industry than the British seemed able to do for themselves . |
| 23 | On other wavelengths of perception than the visible , the warp was far from empty . |
| 24 | The noise of the pump can be reduced by reducing the output using the regulator , giving a quieter result than a small pump running flat out . |
| 25 | In spite of the reduced and indeed reducing turnover that we have had in the past 12 months , 1992 provided a better financial result than the previous year . |
| 26 | FEW of us can be more disappointed by the election result than the aforementioned Mr Pinter . |
| 27 | The value of relative inheritance arises because of difference ( 6 ) — the chunk difference : for example , assume a chunk of text includes a title that is to be in a bigger font than the surrounding text . |
| 28 | Thus belief in the credibility of punishment is sustained by the expectation that each firm will prefer to be the punisher than the punished . |
| 29 | The book assumes that by now the reader is accustomed to disappointment and knows more about the tragedy of defeat than the drunken elixir of triumph . |
| 30 | David Scott , for example , complained that he got so many requests for Indian patronage from the council of St. Andrews that if the remaining burghs in his district were to seek aid in proportion to the size of their communities it ‘ would require more patronage than the whole East India Direction have in their gift ’ . |