Example sentences of "[noun prp] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a much more comfortable victory for Kelburne than the score suggests for two of Torbrex 's goals were scored late in the game by Gordon Shepherd whose second strike came from a penalty a minute from time . |
| 2 | Possibly the direct effects of war on the Flemish cloth towns , which suffered from the campaigns , may have been a further benefit to English producers ; indeed this may have been a more important factor in the decline of Flanders than the tariff protection enjoyed by England , because the Dutch cloth industry , which used English wool , also developed at this time at the expense of the Flemish . |
| 3 | It is now called Givat Shaul and is a mere suburb of Jerusalem , its main street a line of petrol stations , garages and high-rise apartment blocks , more like the Edgware Road or Brooklyn than the scene of a mass murder . |
| 4 | It could be that a record of achievement which has been validated by the business community will carry greater credibility with business people inside and outside Sheffield than an examination award from one of the national examination boards . |
| 5 | Roxburgh 's observation that high expectation can be dangerous might have carried more weight were it not for the fact that nobody appears to have a loftier opinion of Ferguson than the 21-year-old himself . |
| 6 | However , those less interested in the in-fighting in the House of Windsor than the environment will have noticed that Sarah Ferguson did one thing RIGHT . |
| 7 | Yesterday Dr Morris said : ‘ The latest work will be a follow-up to an earlier study that showed how the community 's health was 30pc worse in some parts of Sunderland than the country as a whole , and 30pc worse again in parts of Middlesbrough . |
| 8 | Knowing Hurley , Coleman was pretty sure that the DIA now had a better grasp of what was going on at DEA Nicosia than the DEA itself . |
| 9 | Tuttle , by maintaining that the Laetoli prints are closer to Homo than the Hadar foot bones , and that different species were involved , is falling very much into the Leakey camp which believes that the earliest ’ true man ’ is more likely to be found in Tanzania than in Ethiopia , and that A afarensis is no more than a sub-branch of evolution . |
| 10 | We needed something to go round the various workplaces in Northumberland that actually appertained a bit more to Northumberland than the stuff we 're going to get from national level . |
| 11 | He said the Budget was anti-poor and anti-Scottish because it cost 30 per cent more to heat homes in some parts of Scotland than the south-east of England . |
| 12 | Even if Dr Kingdom did feel more for Heather than a doctor should for his patient , it does n't mean that had anything to do with her disappearance . ’ |
| 13 | In 1606 , Nicholas Bownde commented that many people were still more knowledgeable about Robin Hood than the Bible . |
| 14 | In any event , he consoled himself , nothing could be worse for Katherine than the situation that had developed at home . |
| 15 | Chroniclers and poets in their embittered criticism of papal initiatives for peace were scarcely less vehement than the lords and commons in parliament , and when at last , in 1378 , an Italian pope was elected , an Englishman at Rome rejoiced because ‘ Previous popes and their cardinals had been greater enemies of the kingdom of England than the king of France himself . ’ |
| 16 | As it happened , the Stewart kings between 1406 and 1542 had married wives of considerable personality and , except in the case of Margaret Tudor , skill ; in the power-sharing between Mary of Gueldres , widow of James II , and the then elder statesman , James Kennedy , bishop of St Andrews , during the early years of James III 's minority , for example , it was the Queen Mother who pursued a much more intelligent foreign policy towards England than the bishop . |
| 17 | When she 'd called him , she 'd been no closer to Vine Street than the corridor pay phone just around the corner . |
| 18 | The evening was warm and clear , the light and the long soft shadows more flattering to this market town High Street than the noonday sun . |
| 19 | Here we report that the DD genotype , which is associated with higher levels of circulating ACE than the ID and II genotypes , is significantly more frequent in patients with myocardial infarction ( n=610 ) than in controls ( n=733 ) ( P=0.007 ) , especially among subjects with low body-mass index and low plasma levels of ApoB ( P= 0.0001 ) . |
| 20 | Citizen Kane curiously go down a treat more in the Midlands than the North though 48 bookings nationally fill this year 's diary . |
| 21 | Mr Major seemed to shake as many hands from Michigan , Brussels and Canada than the Home Counties . |
| 22 | Despite the stateliness of their domestic setting , Wordsworth and his sister were hardly more financially secure at Racedown than the household at Lime Street , and owed the possibility of living there to the brothers John and Azariah Pinney . |
| 23 | If Guangdong and other coastal regions were to lose their virtual autonomy in dealing with foreign investors and their privileged access to raw materials and fuel supplies , the effect would be far more damaging to Hong Kong 's confidence in China than the sight of tanks rolling into Tiananmen Square . |
| 24 | ‘ I am more of a personal assistant to Mr Steen than a secretary . |
| 25 | Ethel and the Australians had no sooner left Maggie and Bryce than the building began rocking again . |
| 26 | Big Arnie Schwarzenegger would probably prefer to tackle the Penguin than the army of infant terrors he faces in Kindergarten Cop . |
| 27 | I would actually ask the Harrogate Borough Council , where are these more environmentally sensitive sites in Harrogate than the Valley , the Beck and the Crag ? |
| 28 | The latter , however , was less critical in the UK than the increase expected in other west European countries , notably West Germany . |
| 29 | ‘ IXI will add more to the value of SCO than the dilution of the shares involved , ’ according to Anderson . |
| 30 | Possibly more champions are made up in one year in Australia than the total achieved in the UK since the breed 's first introduction . |