Example sentences of "[noun] than [art] original [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This material will also bond well to stainless steel rods so that badly decayed timber can be drilled , stitched and glued to achieve higher strengths than the original construction .
2 The most obvious was to seek better compounds than the original nitrogen mustards , and numerous alkylating agents emerged during the following 30 years .
3 Laura was not in a great hurry to find a new designer if only because it was dawning on her that the company needed more of a skilled copier than an original artist .
4 Since he re-sells as owner it follows that he can keep any profit he makes by re-selling at a higher price than the original buyer had agreed to pay .
5 Where an offer is made to shareholders and shares are sold at a higher price than the original offer , the compulsory bid is deemed to be revised , again ensuring that shareholders are treated equally .
6 The latest draft of the Treaty , placing greater emphasis on republican rights than the original draft published in November 1990 [ see p. 37903 ] , had been approved by the Federation Council on March 6 ( albeit with Armenia , Georgia , Estonia , Latvia , Lithuania and Moldavia boycotting the meeting , and Azerbaijan and two of the 20 autonomous republics refusing to sign the finalized version ) .
7 There are situations where the reciprocal of a rate would make more sense than the original rate : ergonomists , for example , might find it more natural to look at the time it takes a person to produce a fixed number of items rather than at the output a person produces from a machine in a fixed period of time .
8 A further complicating factor is that English interference in BSL occurs at times under the guise of improving the English skills of deaf people , so that the interlanguage ( a variable form of signed English ) may be given a higher status than the original language .
9 Note that the modification record must have a later issue number than the original modification .
10 That might be a necessary protection in order , e.g. , to prevent a cheque obtained by fraud from getting into the hands of an innocent holder , who would be in better position than the original party to the fraud .
11 To his surprise Hahnemann discovered that remedies prepared in this way often became more powerful therapeutic agents than the original starting materials — a purely empirical observation .
12 In the absence of empirical evidence to that effect , however , the argument that intervention is inherently inefficient makes no stronger claim to validity than the original assertion of market competence .
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