Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only statistically significant difference between the groups was for the presence of blood in the stool ; 5-ASA patients had significantly less blood reported than the bismuth group . |
| 2 | As de Valois said in a lecture to teachers : ‘ It is better to have a rule to break than no rule at all if chaos is not to reign in the class-room or on the stage . ’ |
| 3 | More like a volcano erupting than a steam engine blowing its top , Nick always said , but he was touchy about it because it made him sick the first time . |
| 4 | The MB86931 has claimed performance of 42 VAX MIPS and operates at 40MHz ; it is smaller and more cost-effective for higher speed working than the predecessor MB86930 , and useful as a controller for office automation and factory automation equipment . |
| 5 | It was urged that , if this construction were adopted , a solicitor would have a shorter time during which he may abstain from bringing his action for work done than the rest of Her Majesty 's subjects . |
| 6 | Real improvements in human rights seems to be a harder test to apply than the holding of multi-party elections , however flawed . |
| 7 | I 'd got a fumbling schoolboy with no more idea of what a girl needed than the man in the moon . |
| 8 | Of the drought he had experienced on his last visit , Gould wrote that , ’ It is easier for the imagination to conceive than the pen to depict the horrors of so dreadful a visitation . ’ |
| 9 | Right , but it 's easier to see the point moving than the numbers really . |
| 10 | There can be no more public place to apologise than the House of Commons . |
| 11 | She had more important things to discuss than the weather . |
| 12 | A major reason for this unconcern is that various fraudsters who have operated in the field have given ESP a bad name : underfunded scientists have far better things to investigate than a phenomenon which seems , on the basis of the available evidence , to be nothing more than a farrago . |
| 13 | In the modern landscape , woods , ponds , and heaths , for example , are increasingly isolated within enormous fields of pasture or arable land ; and the other major corridor for wildlife , the hedge system , has , of course , been cheaper and easier for farmers to remove than the river itself . |
| 14 | This warranty is obviously much easier for a consumer to invoke than a businessman . |
| 15 | What better inspiration could a literature of theory have than an audience composed of theorists and critics ? |
| 16 | As the troubadour Pous de Capdeuil put it , " What more can kings desire than the right to save themselves from hell-fire by mighty deeds of arms ? " |
| 17 | And what better project to visit than the Gyle Centre , WCUK 's biggest ever shopping centre contract in Scotland . |
| 18 | The men on one floor would complain , for instance , that they had a thicker piece of barley to turn than the men on the floor above them : ‘ The top floor is not spreed [ spread ] as thick as this 'un ’ , and so on . |
| 19 | The LGS took less time and effort to prepare than the rice-salt mixture . |
| 20 | On the whole , especially at local level , the Left in Britain has been more goal orientated than the Right . |
| 21 | In [ 26 ] they suggest that the extra contextual effects are derived by assuming that the speaker attaches a higher confirmation value to the proposition expressed than the hearer would have otherwise thought . |
| 22 | Lilian Hatton was an easier nut to crack than the girl who called herself Nora Fanshawe . |
| 23 | It worked out electronically that it took a fish finger less time to defrost than a leg of lamb , and when your designer-label , calorie-counted tagliatelle was ready for eating , it told you so with five bleeps rather than the paltry three offered by the cheaper models . |
| 24 | These stages , apparently complex and certainly time consuming for both buyer and supplier , are less problematic and time consuming than the effects of buying and using incorrect or inadequate products . |