Example sentences of "[det] than [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The great majority of its members were more attracted to this than to the abuse from the Communists or to the dissensions of the ILP . |
2 | ‘ It is more difficult to be precise about this than about the earlier phases , partly because the pictures are rarer and less accessible , and have not been adequately photographed , partly because it includes considerable variations . ’ |
3 | The anatomy is also more strongly stressed in this than in the earlier statue , perhaps to tell against reflections in the shiny metal ; and this is something that becomes even more marked in succeeding generations . |
4 | Centromeres are portions of the DNA that hold the two halves of a divided chromosome together , and it is reasonable to suppose that the centromeres of a given species would be more like one another than like the centromeres of another species . |
5 | Dickens 's Will Fern , with first-hand knowledge of life inside one , complains of this female tendency : ‘ It looks well in a picter , I 've heerd say ; but there a n't weather in picters , and maybe ‘ t is fitter for that than for a place to live in . ’ |
6 | ‘ Guys like Stefan and Boris will be more pumped up for that than for a preparation tournament . ’ |
7 | They were lovers now , and he preferred today to dwell on that than on the knottier problems . |
8 | The gradual assimilation of minority nationalities , moreover , has operated less to the advantage of the Russian population as such than to the advantage of the larger nationalities in general , Russians included . |
9 | The total number killed was 16 fewer than at the same time last year . |
10 | Village clusters are fewer than on the mainland . |
11 | At the western end of the Vale of the White Horse in Berkshire dairy farming afforded greater opportunities to smallholders , and poor labouring folk were far fewer than on the Downs . |
12 | 172 bomb incidents this year — 54 fewer than for the same period last year . |
13 | Nor did close links between banks and industry prevent panics and crashes , booms and slumps , though there were fewer than in the late 19th century . |
14 | With his party winning 20 seats — two fewer than in the previous parliament — Mr Ashdown conceded that the high hopes generated by his widely praised campaign had not been fulfilled . |
15 | With his party winning 20 seats — two fewer than in the previous parliament — Mr Ashdown conceded that the high hopes generated by his widely praised campaign had not been fulfilled . |
16 | Not only are there few people in the Highlands and Islands , but they are much fewer than in the past ( see Appendix 2 ) . |
17 | Here the workers were fewer than in the machine shop , and shyer — perhaps because they were mostly Asian . |
18 | In the first 11 months of 1992 Brazil exported 15m bags of coffee — 14% fewer than in the same period of 1991 . |
19 | On May 21 Milongo announced a major Cabinet reshuffle , naming only 10 ministers in addition to himself , eight fewer than in the previous transitional administration . |
20 | Gap junctions in the patients with gastric ulcer were significantly fewer than in the healthy volunteers . |
21 | ‘ To date this year there have been 172 bomb incidents , 54 fewer than in the same period last year . |
22 | Since the start of August the UDA/UFF has stepped up its campaign , killing four people within four short weeks and since the start of the year the UVF have killed seven — two fewer than in the same period last year . |
23 | However , a spring sowing of such seed will produce some plants , though the number will be fewer than from a summer sowing . |
24 | There was , however , room for two pages of details of other excerpts records in the same series : why anyone would be any more interested in these than in the Humperdinck if they had not more information than that supplied with this CD was not clear . |
25 | There may be more scope for a GIS approach in the latter than in the former situations . |
26 | But if you decide a 33MHz 486SX is the machine for you , be prepared to pay around £100 more than for a comparable 25MHz system . |
27 | We should not , however , expect a question for the initial verb alone since this is only possible in English for verbs which describe something as being , in some as yet ill-defined sense , " done " to their objects : ( 69 ) what did Rafferty do to the cistern ? and this can not be claimed for the verbs preceding clausal adjectives any more than for a verb which precedes an explicit subordinate clause . |
28 | More than 77,000 people have visited the exhibition to find out for themselves already this year — that 's almost 28,000 more than for the same period in 1991 ! |
29 | In the past nine months the terror group — which boasts a bigger membership than the IRA — has murdered 14 people , two more than for the same period last year . |
30 | ‘ This year there are a lot of students who have not yet got training places — significantly more than at a similar time in previous years , ’ Mr Pritchard said , adding that the Law Society was considering various ways of helping those unable to find a training places with a law firm . |