Example sentences of "[art] [adj] than the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More striking by the 1820s than the continuity of the theme of the incompatibility of slavery with a true moral and religious order was the much fuller expression than at the end of the eighteenth century of the precepts of economic liberalism as part of the antislavery appeal ; abolitionists now clearly departed from mercantilist policy assumptions . |
| 2 | The worst of the slimy pools of sweated and casual poverty were more likely to be filled by the native than the immigrant . |
| 3 | Because of inflation , real food prices in the great majority of Latin American countries were higher at the end of the 1970s than the beginning . |
| 4 | A brief account of Bourdieu 's notion of ‘ habitus ’ provides an example of how we might assimilate the apparent paradox of an external physical world which is nevertheless in a more immediate relationship with the unconscious than the world of articulate symbolism . |
| 5 | When some of us are small we hear a great deal of criticism , more of the negative than the positive . |
| 6 | It is true that lengthy and detailed scrutiny takes place in a Standing Committee off the floor of the House , but even then it is typically the special interest groups , briefing Opposition spokesmen and Government backbenchers alike , which provide more of the dynamic than the representation of constituents ' views . |
| 7 | One profession which sees more of the bereaved than the rest of us are undertakers . |
| 8 | Pipkin and Blackberry were waking , more at the stamping than the voice , which was thin and novel , not striking through their sleep to any deep instinct . |
| 9 | The comparison of the scores of positivity for each RIBA 2 peptide showed significantly higher values in the cryptogenic than the autoimmune group only for c33c and c22–3 ( p<0.05 and p<0.001 , respectively ) . |
| 10 | Thus , even if we look strictly inside the built-up urban area , conventional town planning has become much less relevant in the 1980s than the growth of crime and the condition of existing property for increasingly large sections of the community . |
| 11 | His first excursion from the house took him no farther than the garden . |
| 12 | Elsewhere , I would recommend Ride 's brave stab at ‘ The Model ’ and Vic Reeves ' ‘ Vienna ’ is certainly no sillier than the original . |
| 13 | As he dismounted he looked at me over the saddle and there Was that tell-nothing expression , looking at me no different than the Way he had looked at Lamarr Dean the moment before he broke a Whisky glass against his mouth . |
| 14 | Their obsession with gathering may , at first glance , seem no different than the fanaticism of collectors of rare books or woodblock prints . |
| 15 | For a moment he knelt beside the boy , looking down at him ; again , as in the dream — the reality of it no clearer than the vision he had had . |
| 16 | They will note that Europe and America have decided not to risk a fight with a Bosnian Serb adversary whose army is probably no bigger than the equivalent of three or four rather ill-equipped divisions . |
| 17 | You only spread it in a square no bigger than the width of the roller . |
| 18 | His feelings had gone no deeper than the surface . |
| 19 | Drill these holes no deeper than the length of the screws . |
| 20 | The haustorium penetrates no deeper than the host 's epidermal cell layer in most species , and the fungus obtains its nutrients from this sheet of living cells . |
| 21 | Communication should be mainly through the central command and control centre which may be no larger than the project leader and his small personal staff as may be a group of heads of sub-systems or both . |
| 22 | From the explosive and detonator , a wire ran round the belt to the side , where it connected with a lithium battery similar to and no larger than the sort used to power digital watches . |
| 23 | Most are no larger than the palm of a man 's hand , but even spiders this small can have a deadly poisonous bite . |
| 24 | First customer deliveries should begin no later than the middle of November , according to Univel 's marketing VP Arun Taneja . |
| 25 | Surely it was no later than the winter of 1817 ? |
| 26 | second , where on registration of a charge the Registrar ( as he can be required to do ) issues a certificate of registration stating the date on which particulars of a charge were delivered to him , this is made conclusive evidence that the particulars were delivered no later than the date stated on the certificate and a presumption that they were delivered no earlier . |
| 27 | Time runs from the date of the breach , which will probably be no later than the date of the publication of the decision . |
| 28 | In time of special and genuine difficulty the Council will of course be prepared to extend the period for submitting applications but bodies must seek approval for a late application no later than the time when the application normally would be due . |
| 29 | On Jan. 18 the Hungarian government had called for a complete Soviet withdrawal by no later than the end of 1991 [ for Hungarian Defence Minister 's non-committal response to a suggestion to the same effect in December 1989 , see p. 37130 ] . |
| 30 | The suggestions are that the County Council in particular should help in the development of satellites to that erm , that business link , one in Oswestry and one at Craven Arms , and we should seek to make sure those satellites are available by no later than the end of nineteen ninety four , the beginning of nineteen ninety five . |