Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The reason the tyres were heated was this : when we cut out the piece of the loose tyre and welded it together it was –en smaller than the actual woodwork on the wheel . |
| 2 | Suppose I can identify a range of cases in which I am wrong more than the putative authority . |
| 3 | All polymerases bind the T7 promoter with an affinity 10-fold higher than the lac promoter and 20 to 50-fold higher than the gal promoter . |
| 4 | One comes from revelation and inspiration , and is guided by a light higher than the light of human understanding , and a truth deeper than the truth of outward existence and accepts a changing reality that ultimately leads to freedom . |
| 5 | Indeed it is questionable if an overall EEC policy in regard to the disadvantaged areas would be sensible other than the acceptance that problems exist , local schemes will be required and that financial assistance for support measures is essential . |
| 6 | One suspects that the language was no more beautiful in the German original than the English translation . |
| 7 | Lesser known than the Bradenham , the Suffolk is also a sweet ham which is lightly smoked . |
| 8 | The dominance of US business was more overwhelming in the early fifties than the statistics for exports suggest . |
| 9 | The dictum of the ancient Greek philosopher Protagoras , ‘ man is the measure of all things ’ , expresses a relativism with respect to individuals , whilst Kuhn 's remark ‘ there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community ’ expresses a relativism with respect to communities . |
| 10 | ‘ There is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community . ’ |
| 11 | But the suspicion is that this was little more than a public relations exercise . |
| 12 | And I 'm certainly prepared to admit that from the point of view of erm evolution , I too am er little more than a biodegradable package er for my genes , because , after all , if natural selection really were about fitness and perfecting the organisms , in terms of making the organism more perfect , more fit , more survivable , why do n't we live forever , or , or almost forever ? |
| 13 | ‘ … the invitation is made or the information is given by or on behalf of a body corporate , a single individual , or a group of connected individuals for the purposes of or with a view to the acquisition or disposal of shares in a body corporate other than an open ended investment company between parties each of whom is a body corporate , a single individual , or a group of connected individuals , being shares which — |
| 14 | It usually took two men to hold the tyre and if the smith thought the fit was satisfactory — at this time it was half-an-inch larger than the wheel — the boy helping was ordered to throw buckets of cold water over the still very hot steel which would immediately contract and tightly hold the rim . |
| 15 | Anthracite black is more of a black grey than a true black , so it is great for tinting other colours to get softer washes . |
| 16 | All polymerases bind the T7 promoter with an affinity 10-fold higher than the lac promoter and 20 to 50-fold higher than the gal promoter . |
| 17 | No-one is more aware of the weaknesses in the current XV than the Scotland utility back who will be playing at centre for the A XV this weekend , and he revealed that the club ‘ already had some irons in the fire ’ as regards to one or two new faces for next season . |
| 18 | Levied without regard to income , it hits the poor harder than the rich . |
| 19 | An institution was any establishment provided by the Council for reception and maintenance of the poor other than a hospital , a children 's home or a separate casual ward . |
| 20 | The number of TC-LC that adhered to KC was 10-fold greater than the number of TE-LC that bound , implying a role for cadherins in LC-KC interactions . |
| 21 | But gluRs fail to localize at the NMJ and , by 16h AEL , the EJC at the innervated junction is 10-fold greater than the uninnervated site . |
| 22 | The few inappropriate appointments in his experience were , Tagg felt , probably more the fault of Grand Metropolitan than the headhunters concerned , and reflected very rapid changes in the organisation at that particular time . |
| 23 | Usually , one or two of the band are more chatty , outgoing or just plain pretentious than the rest . |
| 24 | It sailed a sea painted sky-blue and there was even a figure with eyes and a mouth in a crow's-nest smaller than an acorn . |
| 25 | In the two West Midlands boroughs there was a clear tendency for the Conservatives to do better and Labour worse than a similar examination of a wide range of ward social characteristics would lead one to expect . |
| 26 | Before the Minister gives us , once again , the sterile old argument about the number of empty council properties , I point out that the number of empty council properties is far fewer than the number of empty properties owned by the Government . |
| 27 | Choirs all over the country , in less impressive surrounding than the Sheldonian will be giving their versions of the famous work . |
| 28 | Companies take full advantage of the cheaper labour available from such countries and easily attract Asian workers to the Middle East by paying salaries which are in general higher than the worker could hope to earn in his own country but , of course , much lower than would pertain in , say , Western Europe . |
| 29 | Contributors to this volume were given no more precise brief than the provisional subtitle ‘ explorations in philosophy from a feminist perspective ’ , and they are working within quite different philosophical traditions and on different sorts of issues . |
| 30 | Above all , globalization is a political process , involving issues that demand decision and action at a level higher than the individual nation-state . |