Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] rest [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will my hon. Friend join me in paying tribute to the imaginative experiment that the Lord Mayor of London is supporting this year , in which young people go into schools to help pupils with learning difficulties and those who are quicker than the rest of the class ? |
| 2 | Then he said : ‘ I 'm more interested than the rest of you to know whether he killed himself . |
| 3 | ‘ She 's tougher than the rest of us put together . |
| 4 | And then we searched out the petits coins , a place described as ‘ more asleep than the rest of the village ’ . |
| 5 | The tongue was impossibly extended , pointed and wet and more alive than the rest of the thing . |
| 6 | In pentagonally shaped plates there is often a distal tongue or lobe slightly lower than the rest of the plate . |
| 7 | Although economically underdeveloped by modern standards , they were more advanced than the rest of the new kingdom ( except Vojvodina ) , and especially in comparison with mountainous Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina , and with southern Serbia , including Kosovo and Macedonia . |
| 8 | The old are more frequently ill than the rest of the population and more frequently suffer from physical disabilities such as partial loss of hearing or arthritic joints . |
| 9 | What is the point of all that careful breeding with suitable people , all that specialised education and upbringing , if not to produce people who are somehow nobler and more self-sacrificing than the rest of us ? |
| 10 | Students of communications , instrumentation , special applications and ( marginally ) computing were more likely than the rest to be seeking work . |
| 11 | Firstly , their income is less likely than the rest of the population to come from earnings from employment ; and more likely to be derived from pensions from the state or from past employers or from savings . |
| 12 | ‘ What job is it you have here that makes you so much more likely than the rest of your family to attain a Mercedes ? ’ |
| 13 | This growth owes more to the birth-rate than to evangelism : Muslims are younger than the rest of the population ( half the South Asians are under 16 ) and usually have large families . |
| 14 | ( Of course , Natalie was n't silly ; she was , in fact , a year younger than the rest of the first-year students , having kept a year ahead at school . ) |
| 15 | The 10 patients who were lost to follow-up were younger than the rest of the cohort ( mean age : 48 yr vs 60 yr , p=0.05 ) , but otherwise had similar baseline characteristics . |
| 16 | Now all I can say about that is it seems to me you 're braver than the rest of us but we try to keep out of it . |
| 17 | Rory supposed it was the same thoughtlessness that had made dad and mum have him so much later than the rest of their children . |
| 18 | Generally the vaults have replaced the original wooden roofs in the churches here and so are later than the rest of the building . |
| 19 | Typical is S. Botolph 's Church , Boston , in Lincolnshire , called colloquially the ‘ Boston Stump ’ because its top storey was added so much later than the rest of the church and for many years the tower had a decapitated appearance ( 476 ) . |
| 20 | At the end of the corpus spongiosum ( through which runs the urethra ) is the glans penis which is larger than the rest of this cylinder and is the most sensitive part of the penis . |
| 21 | I seemed to be a lot happier than the rest of my fellow travellers who seemed to be very sleepy . |
| 22 | ‘ For goodness ’ sake , Shae , ’ she muttered into the darkness , ‘ you 're no better than the rest of them — you 're being betrayed by a longing that 's nothing more than physical . ’ |
| 23 | In Scotland the track record is better than the rest of Britain , with Employment Service staff maintaining its target of ensuring that 3 per cent of its job placements are for disabled people , according to its Scottish director , Alan Brown . |
| 24 | You get feeding better than the rest of us you do . |
| 25 | This was the spare room , the room that had once been a garage , and it was noticeably colder than the rest of the house . |
| 26 | These priests may have been more affluent than the rest of the population , but one has evidence of flesh-eating in the artisan class too . |
| 27 | Nationalized industries tend to be much more capital-intensive than the rest of the economy , and it is precisely the presence of these large capital costs that generates the economies of scale that make many of these industries natural monopolies . |
| 28 | We need clean rivers even more than the rest of the population of our planet ! |
| 29 | So why should she be protected , any more than the rest of them ? |
| 30 | They seem to have their origin in Judaism far more than the rest of the book . |