Example sentences of "[prep] greater [noun] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an achievement of greater significance than merely explaining some puzzling data . |
| 2 | Economic and social factors now loom large , and can be seen as being of greater importance than purely land use matters , though the courts would not necessarily accept such a line of reasoning ( as , for instance , when Lord Widgery held that the London Borough of Hillingdon could not impose a condition that the occupants of a private housing development should be people on the council 's waiting list ) . |
| 3 | THE HARDLINE leadership in East Germany is today under greater pressure than ever following the weekend demonstrations in East Berlin — the biggest show of social unrest in the East German capital since the doomed workers ' uprising of June 1953 . |
| 4 | The economic climate on Merseyside is now very conducive to development … enabling us to define preferred strategies with greater flexibility than hitherto . ’ |
| 5 | The strengthened assertion ( " wo n't " vs. " would n't want to " ) and the build-up to a climax are already there in B's turn even without the code switch from London English to Creole : " fresh air " is mentioned three times , each time with greater prominence than before , and the overall impression is of a crescendo which reaches its climax with the final " fresh air " . |
| 6 | These tutors are to be empowered with greater responsibility than previously when new membership standards are instituted . |
| 7 | Some psychologists are now investigating , with greater interest than previously , phenomenological and transpersonal experience . |
| 8 | Wordsworth was soon writing verse with greater confidence than ever before . |
| 9 | When he stood up , brushing his hands , the dogs came at him , barking with greater confidence than before , as if they had learnt his secret and wanted to tell . |
| 10 | He was even more of a Catholic fanatic than Charles had been , and under his rule , the persecutions against the Nonconformists were continued with greater vigour than ever . |
| 11 | Social attitudes demanded that the politician who aspired to a county interest should handle his constituents with greater care than merely bargaining for votes . |
| 12 | The list is by no means confined to local publishing as the photograph on the right of Norma Major with author Susan Normington indicates , but part of the planned expansion in the UK will , as it were , be inwards , covering localities in greater detail than ever before . |
| 13 | In 1696 the Whig cleric , William Stephens , observed that in the " sermons Preached at Visitations , and the constant ordinary Discourses of the Clergy … the Church of England is always represented , as at this time , in greater danger than ever it was " . |
| 14 | Hardly had the rains stopped when the spectators began to return to the slope above the melon beds , coming in greater numbers than ever before . |
| 15 | The Englishmen did not have time to put their delaying tactics to the test , because the islanders struck , in greater numbers than ever before , and armed with muskets and other stolen firepower . |
| 16 | Meanwhile the centre ground has been re-occupied , in greater strength than ever , by the Alliance party . |
| 17 | Therefore , they will be predisposed to choose applicants from those social classes , thereby reinforcing their examination success and leading them on to greater success than ever . |
| 18 | H. L. Gee knew it when he said that Edinburgh is ‘ perhaps never seen to greater advantage than late on a midsummer evening , the stones crimson in the setting sun , western windows ablaze with fire ’ . |