Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [noun] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is at variance with the unwritten law of our party system ; and there is no clearer statute in that unwritten law than the rule that party claims should always weigh very heavily in the disposal of the highest appointments … |
| 2 | This authority is taking a somewhat different view to that public inquiry than the erm the highways authority er after shire hill er erm so I I think if we were to take a decision tonight it could affect our position at the public inquiry adversely er and I would not want us to get into that situation so I think to some extent er councillor timing on this motions is wrong and we should n't be be er discussing it now . |
| 3 | In Nunn 's way of orchestrating the scene , however , the forced merriment comes across like the willed time-killing in Three Sisters , less the whiling away of a few specific minutes than the attempt to shake off a pervasive ennui . |
| 4 | All say they have had more letters on this foreign-policy subject than any other . |
| 5 | The commons played a more substantial and a more independent part in this political crisis than they had done in the conflicts of Edward I 's last years and Edward II 's reign , and they showed some awareness of their power to demand concessions in return for agreeing to the king 's financial demands . |
| 6 | It was less a matter of some technical revelation than the fact that , after a difficult first 18 months with Zachary , this once fiery soul learned to put things into perspective . |
| 7 | Does the general public care less about the plight of some old people than it does about children ? |
| 8 | postmodernism is less liberating for some social groups than for others — though there is a point to be made here about the extremely close links between postmodernism as a general theoretical superstructure and camp as a specific homosexual practice . |
| 9 | So far , we have shown that divorce is increasingly popular and more common in some social groups than in others . |
| 10 | Furthermore , this is probably one of those cases where social psychoanalysis can succeed in telling us more about this primitive superego-structure than can the clinical analysis of modern individuals unaided by cultural insights . |
| 11 | The occurrence of wet and dry days is thus not random — there is a persistence effect such that a wet day is more likely to be followed by another wet day than by a dry day , and vice-versa . |
| 12 | Their utilisation and redistribution occurs at another organisational level than the ecosystematic , the economic level . |
| 13 | Equally , it seems that multiple deprivation is more apparent in some inner-urban cores than in others ( Hausner and Robson , 1985 ) — inner Birmingham , Liverpool , Glasgow and Manchester seemingly substantially worse than most others . |
| 14 | For me , there is no finer way to appreciate this extraordinary beauty than an early morning spent fly fishing for salmon in the tranquil waters of the Dee , with the sun slowing rising above the mountains and not another soul in sight . |
| 15 | Manfred Kronen is perhaps more sensitive to this extraordinary situation than most . |
| 16 | If dew-claws prove troublesome in other dogs , you can have them removed by your vet , although this is more of a major operation when carried out at this late stage than in early puppyhood . |
| 17 | Answer guide : An opportunity cost is defined as the maximum benefit which could be obtained from a resource if it were used for some alternative purpose than the opportunity under consideration . |
| 18 | It is certainly true that the individual is more sensitive to particular types of influence at some developmental stages than at others , but to say that tells us little , either about the extent to which the period can be shifted or about the reasons for the increased sensitivity . |
| 19 | In fact , the legal force of any particular rule depends partly on the source of its authority ( essentially , whether it is supported by statute or not ) ; partly on the way it is drafted ( rules which are drafted in precise technical language are more likely to be given some legal force than are rules drafted loosely and non-technically ) ; and partly on its contents . |
| 20 | If we 're going to use The Circus as the theme for our drama we need to consider another dramatic frame than simply putting together all the different acts , for example : |
| 21 | How much taller was this polar bear than an average man ? |
| 22 | Yet there may be less to this unambiguous declaration than meets the eye . |
| 23 | For all their mutual confidence in each other and their shared patience — although one suspects from the records that the navigator had more of this essential quality than the adventurer — each brought his own special talents to this technique of beach reconnaissance . |
| 24 | There is little enthusiasm among voters for a coalition government and more would prefer another general election than an arrangement between either the Conservatives or Labour and one of the minor parties . |
| 25 | I 'd talked myself into caring more for some worn-out principle than about the reality of what was happening to us . |
| 26 | There was evidently more to this alien antiquity than he had first supposed . |
| 27 | " Kali the destroyer , " said Frederica knowledgeably , who in fact knew little more of this terrifying deity than her name and brief tag . |
| 28 | There was no easier way of embarrassing another Arab state than to charge it with betrayal of the Palestinian cause . |
| 29 | It may be possible to distract a horse in some other way than in giving it food , so that it tolerates being shod . |
| 30 | .. requires consultation with the redundant employee so that the employer may find out whether the needs of the business can be met in some other way than by dismissal and , if not , what other steps the employer can take to ameliorate the blow to the employee . |