Example sentences of "[verb] than [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is easier for the lecturer to write than for the student to look at a distant blackboard and then back to his so-called " notes " , and so a phase difference develops between the blackboard and the class . |
| 2 | Second , the pound was not hopelessly overvalued within the ERM , so importers ' margins have less room to adjust than in the past . |
| 3 | In the case of carers who have their own children this is easier to see than for the classic ( and disappearing ) case of the single daughter who was presumed to be childless ; although in that case the assumption in the past was that the single daughter would be rewarded in material terms through being the major beneficiary of her parents ' will , if they had money or property to bequeath . |
| 4 | Seldom has the conflict over what a river means to different people been more dramatically highlighted than in the case of the river Stour at Flatford Mill . |
| 5 | Auguste had persuaded his pupils that , having missed a lesson this morning owing to the inquest , this afternoon would prove an ideal time to instruct than on the magnificence of the St Pierre or John Dory . |
| 6 | Will my hon. Friend suggest that hospitals in the Sheffield health authority area considering trust status should visit the Walsall trust hospital in the west midlands , where they will discover that in the first three months of this year 1,100 more patients were treated than in the year before — a 13 per cent . |
| 7 | Painful bowel movements during the initial evaluation were reported significantly more often in children who recovered than in the soiling group ( p<0.005 ) . |
| 8 | Although experience is central to construct theory , in Kellian terms , this is measured less by actual experience undergone than by the level of investment made in the actual revision of a construct system . |
| 9 | English is , of course , not a tone language , and the function of tone is much more difficult to define than in a tone language . |
| 10 | This is relativity with a vengeance , and many of us have felt than in a case like this the scales that Eliot measures by are not so much sliding as slithering . |
| 11 | Agreement on that process was more difficult to reach than on the technology , according to one of the six . |
| 12 | The richness of personal awareness of God in the Old Testament is hardly better seen than through the wealth of metaphors for the God who was known and loved in daily life : |
| 13 | Appreciation by the children of such history , craftsmanship and skill was no where more obviously shown than in the canteen where balloons , strawberry tarts and fizzy drinks made a fitting end to a successful visit . |
| 14 | It may be that difficulty in getting people with problems to consult a solicitor is more to do with their perception of the problem and the ability of a solicitor to help than with the cost and availability of the advice service . |
| 15 | Nowhere was this cock-eyed way of running a world more poignantly overlooked than in the Band Aid , Live Aid efforts to help the hungry . |
| 16 | Nowhere is this amnesia more likely to apply than within the intimacy of marriage . |
| 17 | My main complaint concerning students of modern sediments is that they pay more attention to the question of how sediments are deposited than to the question as to whether or not they stay there . |
| 18 | As with due diligence , the warranties in an asset sale are likely to be far shorter and hence quicker and cheaper to negotiate than in a share sale . |
| 19 | This is nowhere better exemplified than in the treatment that some consultants in the NHS offered those who had to visit them as out-patients . |
| 20 | Nowhere is this better exemplified than by the rape of Jackie Berkley by police officers at Moss Side police station , and the shooting of Cherry Groce in Brixton and Cynthia Jarrett in Tottenham during police raids on their homes . |
| 21 | Nowhere is this better exemplified than by the way in which Ireland ( Eire and Ulster ) takes to the rugby field as one team . |
| 22 | Nowhere is this tension better demonstrated than in the provision of the British system of social services . |
| 23 | Our plan formed to become intimately involved in our community , and where better to start than via a group like our community association ? |
| 24 | Similarly , telex and faxing were more analogous to mail than to the press . |
| 25 | This is nowhere better illustrated than in the case we used for our basic illustration of good design itself — echolocation . |
| 26 | It has become clear that the anti-vivisection movement is now far better organised and directed than in the past . |
| 27 | She could not help them , so she began to hate than for the waste they brought into the hospital . |
| 28 | Much has been written about Griffith and his contribution to the movies but the ingredients that made up his genius have never been better identified than in the review Heywood Broun wrote of Intolerance when it appeared in 1916 . |
| 29 | Altogether , the ironies of the passage read far more plausibly as a challenge to the categories in which the Reeve , the Host and the Miller superficially belong than as a re-assertion of the impropriety of such characters acting out of their places . |
| 30 | Although the political future remains unclear , the new circumstances have allowed much more room to manoeuvre than in the past . |