Example sentences of "[n mass] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Less like an aircraft than a kettle , |
| 2 | Harry Moyle 's very detailed examination of Hampden , aided by his own personal experience in the aircraft , is perhaps of more interest to the aircraft than the lifeboat enthusiast but is included here for two very good reasons . |
| 3 | Neighbours , mm sounds more like a sheep than a horse , neighbours |
| 4 | ‘ It is better , ’ he concluded , ‘ to be a sheep than a wolf , better to be ruined than to do the ruining . ’ |
| 5 | Sexual selection only operates because individuals of one sex contribute more to the production of offspring than the other . |
| 6 | His confidence in the Queen 's ability to ‘ bounce back ’ seems to be borne out in surveys , with 10 per cent more people than a year ago naming her as their favourite royal . |
| 7 | Martin Lee , leader of the United Democrats of Hong Kong , said that he hoped that a politician would be more receptive to the will of the people than a diplomat . |
| 8 | I 'd noticed a couple of characters in different bars who also seemed more interested in the people than the liquor , and it did n't need any Sherlock Holmes to know who was paying for their drinks . |
| 9 | They are much nicer people than the mass of politically inactive carpers would suppose . |
| 10 | But Coun Dr Ann Macleod said : ‘ I think it is too high a price to pay because the housing in the north-east corner will affect far more people than the loss of the National Gallery . ’ |
| 11 | This referred less to the irreligious habits of the people than the fact that the village as yet contained no place of worship , for Wesley went on to say that when he began his service ( probably at a spot near the present Ulster Bank and using a mounting block as his pulpit ) ‘ the people gathered form all sides and , when I prayed , kneeled down upon the stones , rich and poor , all round me ’ . |
| 12 | If this suggests that there are other sorts of English people than the sort Auden has in his sights , on the other hand it lends point and force to his censure of Beerbohm , and of what Beerbohm stands for in English life . |
| 13 | In September the epidemic of Spanish influenza that devastated Europe , and killed more people than the war , reached Abyssinia ; there it killed three of the five doctors in the country and incapacitated a fourth . |
| 14 | It can go further and carry more people than the opposition which is normally limited to around 100 kts and five seats . |
| 15 | But other languages like Telegu , Bengali , Marathi , Tamil , Urdu , Gujarati , Kannada and Malayalam can hardly be ignored ; each is probably spoken by more people than the population of 145 of the member-states of the United Nations . |
| 16 | With less reliable means of reaching the station , with perhaps less requirement for haste , and less opportunity to understand the timetables or gauge time by any other means than the sun , these passengers used all the patience of the peasant to wait for their appropriate train . |
| 17 | A string , therefore , occupies one more byte than the length of the string . |
| 18 | A reference centre functioning as a small hospital with 24-hour cover needs many more staff than a health centre , and this will drive up recurrent costs . |
| 19 | A local council can spend more than its total guideline if it finances more from sales than the government assumes . |
| 20 | But when well played it gives a good top register to the clarinet choir or wind orchestra , which are more massive media than the orchestra based on strings — or at any rate less delicate in texture on the whole . |
| 21 | Because of this , Figure 4 looks more like a pedigree of species than a pedigree of individuals , but the principle is the same . |
| 22 | Of the two broad social groups between which the tsar had to mediate , he clearly set greater store by the gentry than the peasantry . |
| 23 | Fish and chips are most popular in Yorkshire and Humberside and Northern English homes spend less on fruit than the rest of the country . |
| 24 | Of course , there are times when your chances are much greater , such as the early morning , which will , more often than not , produce more carp than the afternoon . |