Example sentences of "[noun] than [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chief minister , 70-year-old Krishnan Nayanar , claims that because people are literate , Kerala has less crime and alcoholism than elsewhere in India . |
| 2 | There are more restaurants than anywhere outside London . |
| 3 | ‘ In a year which has seen more investment than ever in drama on S4C , it is wonderful not only to have audience acclaim in Wales but critical acclaim of professional peers in the RTS. ’ he said . |
| 4 | Moreover , in the interests of trade regulation , thrashed out after many years of conflict between coalowners , merchants , shipowners and government , colliers were loaded in sequence and sailed in convoy , giving even better opportunities than elsewhere for seamen , keel men and others to pressurize their employers by delay . |
| 5 | Far be it for me to say that this is the sort of budget that conservatives ought to applaud because it is after all , a budget that is guided by a feeling that councils should provide services and they should orientate their services to the least communities , to be guided by equal opportunities and by egalitarians and that 's what this group has always stood for , this is the budget that we present tonight and I would hope that it would get a far better and far larger measure of support than perhaps of course been the case in the past . |
| 6 | His old friend , the abbot of St Peter 's Abbey in Salzburg , noted that Leopold had been a man of ‘ much wit and wisdom ’ , whose talents went far beyond those of music alone , yet he had ‘ had the misfortune always to be persecuted ’ and was consequently held in less esteem in Salzburg than elsewhere in Europe . |
| 7 | It is one of the ways in which we ensure that , so far as possible , people are better off in work than out of work . |
| 8 | The whole cathedral shows a greater French influence than elsewhere in Belgium . |
| 9 | There is more need than ever for employers and colleges to work together to meet the needs of providing sufficient well qualified operatives , supervisors and managers for the industry . |
| 10 | While both initiatives are seen as bringing about a closer link between assessment and teaching and learning , and place a greater emphasis than hitherto on teacher assessment , Broadfoot points to various tensions and contradictions between these systems of assessment . |
| 11 | ‘ If present trends continue we will have fewer people at work making things than out of work making nothing , ’ he declared . |
| 12 | There is a greater demand than ever for men possessing good judgment , trustworthiness of character and the power of dealing intelligently and thoughtfully with new conditions . |
| 13 | Although the furore about asylum has been more recent in Great Britain than elsewhere in Europe , it has on occasion been as fierce , particularly as orchestrated by parts of the right-wing tabloid press . |
| 14 | Ms Harman said the gap between men and women 's wages is wider in Britain than elsewhere in Europe because of the lack of a minimum wage . |
| 15 | The neighbourhood ( for which physical limits may be assigned ) acted as a base for a group but , often , these groups could be more accurately defined by housing and class interests than purely by locality . |
| 16 | This relegation - for as such it was undoubtedly construed — to the domestic realm , whilst on the one hand promoting a higher status than before for women in terms of motherhood ( a status generated for society 's structural purposes and needs ) , also resulted in an overall decrease in women 's status generally , for , to use the well known Levi-Straussian model , the domestic unit — i.e. the ‘ biological ’ family concerned with reproducing and socializing new members of society — was seen as separate from the public entity — i.e. the superimposed network of alliances and relationships which comprised society proper , as it were . |
| 17 | However , the Liberal backbenches after the election contained a larger number than before of members known to be committed to social reform . |
| 18 | Today there are far fewer music publishers than previously in Britain . |
| 19 | ‘ The wind of change ’ , that phrase coined by Harold Macmillan in 1960 , grew to have amore general application than just to Africa , or just to politics . |
| 20 | But he was concerned to prevent the system becoming a greater burden than ever through malpractice of the sort which the Worcester monk Hemming reports when he says that estates were sometimes taken even when the money due had been paid on time . |
| 21 | A better balance than elsewhere between industry and agriculture was the advantage she derived from slower industrial growth ; she also owed to it some of her resilience and powers of recovery after two world wars . |
| 22 | On the other hand more retired people will have greater power than before as consumers in coming years . |
| 23 | Reasons of this sort dictate that the political impetus accompanying Ministers on arrival at their departments after an election is usually a good deal less noticeable at the Home Office than elsewhere in Whitehall . |