Example sentences of "[art] [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , the sample in the latter case would have to be a greater proportion of the total than the former . |
| 2 | The vapour is a mixture of the more volatile component A and the less volatile component B. The particles of the more volatile component have a greater tendency to escape from the liquid than the particles of the less volatile component . |
| 3 | By looking at the diagram though , you will probably see that the smaller sleeve length is also narrower at the top than the measurements in your size . |
| 4 | By your expression , I judge that you suspect me of pseudo-intellectual flim-flam and it is undeniable that our deliberations tended more towards the sybaritic than the Socratic . |
| 5 | The smallness of the earth was arguably felt more vividly in the medieval than the modern system , for there was then an absolute standard of comparison — the immense size of the outermost sphere . |
| 6 | Though a topic for voluble discourse , it was less of a threat to the contented than the taxes that would have reduced it . |
| 7 | Even FD Roosevelt , he reminds us , had to tell lies about his fiscal intentions in order to get elected ( it is a pity the Labour Party did not see the proofs of this book ) ; and the famous fiscal deficit of the US , ‘ though a topic of voluble discourse ’ , was ‘ less of a threat to the contented than the taxes that would have reduced it ’ . |
| 8 | In other words , after a certain point , education becomes more a form of consumption for the individual than a form of investment for increasing his earnings further . |
| 9 | The results in Table 3 show that shadowing verbal material causes greater reduction in right field advantage with the verbal than the spatial tasks . |
| 10 | The worst of the slimy pools of sweated and casual poverty were more likely to be filled by the native than the immigrant . |
| 11 | Subsequently McAdam and Whitaker ( 1971 ) demonstrated that prior to the production of various test words summed negative wave potentials were of greater magnitude over the left than the right hemisphere . |
| 12 | At the shortest duration ( 20 msecs ) subjects were unable to identify any words , but lexical decisions were more accurate in the left than the right visual field . |
| 13 | During placebo , the median amplitude of oesophageal contractions was higher in the proximal than the distal oesophagus ( 35.0 mm Hg ( 19–53 ) v 26.8 mm Hg ( 13–54 ) , p<0.05 ) in the upright period . |
| 14 | During the upright period , contraction amplitude was higher in the proximal than the distal oesophagus , which contrasts with healthy volunteers and may indicate a reduced contractile force of the distal oesophagus and thus impaired acid clearing in patients with reflux oesophagitis . |
| 15 | That Nicholas was far more concerned about the domestic than the international repercussions of the 1848 revolutions is evident from the much greater dynamism of his domestic behaviour . |
| 16 | The matching open-ended grant ( price subsidy ) will always lead the authority to consume more of the good than an unconditional non-matching grant ( lump-sum subsidy ) . |
| 17 | This in reality does n't have to be so ; for happiness is in the grasp of everyone , rich or poor ; in fact more in the grasp of the poor than the rich . |
| 18 | As everyone is to pay an equal amount , the burden of tax will fall far more heavily on the poor than the rich . |
| 19 | A brief account of Bourdieu 's notion of ‘ habitus ’ provides an example of how we might assimilate the apparent paradox of an external physical world which is nevertheless in a more immediate relationship with the unconscious than the world of articulate symbolism . |
| 20 | When some of us are small we hear a great deal of criticism , more of the negative than the positive . |
| 21 | As they use much thinner weft than warp strands , more knots are tied on the vertical than the horizontal axis . |
| 22 | It is true that lengthy and detailed scrutiny takes place in a Standing Committee off the floor of the House , but even then it is typically the special interest groups , briefing Opposition spokesmen and Government backbenchers alike , which provide more of the dynamic than the representation of constituents ' views . |
| 23 | One profession which sees more of the bereaved than the rest of us are undertakers . |
| 24 | A higher proportion of the temporary than the total labour force are women ( 54 per cent compared to 41 per cent ) . |
| 25 | The total number and the number of propagated and non-propagated contractions were two to four times higher during the upright than the supine period ( p<0.001 ) . |
| 26 | Correctness proofs might be based on concepts such as satisfaction ( sat ) unc the weakest pre-condition unc or Hoare logic unc We expect that these methods will be based more usually on the denotational than the algebraic description of occam . |
| 27 | Pipkin and Blackberry were waking , more at the stamping than the voice , which was thin and novel , not striking through their sleep to any deep instinct . |
| 28 | This loss of faith goes far deeper among the young than the old . |
| 29 | Is the restoration of health to be valued more highly in the young than the old , the productive than the nonproductive or have all lives equal value ? |
| 30 | The comparison of the scores of positivity for each RIBA 2 peptide showed significantly higher values in the cryptogenic than the autoimmune group only for c33c and c22–3 ( p<0.05 and p<0.001 , respectively ) . |