Example sentences of "[det] than [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And certainly that other main arm of executive control — the army — seems little better at this than the police , for the number of participant accounts of their deep structures remains negligible , supporting McCabe 's ( 1980 ) contention that we should be asking of all of these costly institutions , ‘ who is to be controlled by whom and for what reasons ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 've no more idea of who did this than the police apparently have . ’ |
| 3 | Initially the Germans were more proficient at this than the Allies , for they kept their snipers in the same sector for long periods so they became familiar with the enemy 's trench systems there , while the Allies rotated their snipers with the units to which they belonged . |
| 4 | And no sooner had she done that than the trees began to wave their branches towards her . |
| 5 | There were around two hundred Englishmen , far fewer than the islands ' combined forces , as they realised . |
| 6 | The number of boundaries of competence that exist for any given social entity may vary : the members of an isolated New Guinea society , all of whom perform virtually identical tasks according to age and sex , will have fewer than the members of a more complex society with a greater division of labour . |
| 7 | These were places where at the beginning of the century there was no more than a Mechanics ' Institute or a Lit. and Phil. ; and these new institutions were more oriented to science than the ancient ones , and committed on the German model to research . |
| 8 | She looked good in country clothes as well ; in fact she looked pretty damned good all round , and right now it was the world 's greatest pisser that he was no more than a rough-at-the-edges motor mechanic whose chances with her had to rate at somewhere close to zero . |
| 9 | The report also warns drinkers to expect big differences in prices between locals in the same town , with upmarket pubs in prime locations charging more than a no-frills bar on the outskirts . |
| 10 | IN SPITE of their success with chilled lamb in some Scottish stores last year , New Zealand suppliers seem to have accepted this is little more than a coals to Newcastle exercise . |
| 11 | There was reason to think , as the Financial News suggested , that " Mr. Bonar Law 's resignation is more than a nine-days wonder . |
| 12 | The present occupant may say ‘ Oh well , I let old Mrs Smith walk through my garden and down the sideway when she needs to ’ and regard it as no more than a neighbours ' agreement . |
| 13 | Maybe it is true that it will take something more than a 44-points thrashing by France to force the IRFU into serious action . |
| 14 | But this was no more than a politeness with little political meaning , and one which disappeared , though slowly , during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . |
| 15 | ‘ That what the old lady witnessed was nothing more than a lovers ’ quarrel . ’ |
| 16 | As has been indicated , some provisions implied more than a customs union : membership of the EEC meant a commitment to the free movement of both capital and labour , a common investment policy , and the coordination and rationalisation of social welfare goals . |
| 17 | Er because it was more than a weeks wages . |
| 18 | If so , the power of critics may be no more than the listings services offered in the papers or on posters , while real power can be found in the organisation of the art market . |
| 19 | ‘ But she revived old memories , and sometimes memories hurt more than the acts which created them . ’ |
| 20 | This is implied in the following passage from his memoirs : ‘ We had n't given the Cubans anything more than the Americans were giving their allies in Italy and Turkey . |
| 21 | Females were particularly vulnerable in the ‘ falling in love craze ’ and could suffer more than the males as a result of their romantic encounters . |
| 22 | It 's more than the lands . |
| 23 | But the author ( and readers ) will want some written commentary to accompany the figures and here caution must be exercised not to claim more than the figures warrant . |
| 24 | THE establishment of a £11m nature reserve on Teesside is evidence that the Government 's development corporations do have more than the interests of big business at heart . |
| 25 | It was a quick route to popularity and she was invited out more than the others . |
| 26 | That 's a bit more than the others , so keep stumm about it . ’ |
| 27 | The last sort of objection , perhaps more than the others , consists in certain alternative views . |
| 28 | And even though the same scientists were involved in that experimentation , Rohmer could not resist a kind of immature pride in the fact that his unit had more than the others . |
| 29 | ‘ There were times when Sid James sowed dissatisfaction among the other artists by claiming that he was getting more than the others . |
| 30 | ‘ Our policy is not to make a fuss of one more than the others — that way there 's no aggro . |