Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Northern Echo prompted a public outcry last year when it revealed how a night in the cells at Bishop Auckland police station cost £200 dearer than a room at the Savoy Hotel in London . |
| 2 | Clearly Soviet oil was an attractive buy for the Cubans : Che Guevara stated that the landed price of Soviet crude was 33 per cent lower than the price at which the majors imported oil to Cuba from their Venezuelan subsidiaries , and the fact that it was a barter deal enabled the revolution to conserve its dwindling hard-currency reserves . |
| 3 | But the most important fact requiring explanation is the depth at which the bases of the reefs occur : in other words some mechanism is required to provide for the depth at which coral is found , because this is much lower than the depth at which reef-building corals flourish . |
| 4 | For effective filtering , the ripple frequency must be very much lower than the frequency at which the series inductance becomes troublesome , and ideally the ESR must be less than the ratio of the specified ripple voltage to the ripple current . |
| 5 | I realised straight away that there was not an awful lot happening over here ; the country scene was far bigger than the blues at that time . |
| 6 | The first is the absence of deep gaps in barrier reefs and atolls , whereas if subsidence has been long continued , there should be deep gaps present , because once the gaps are deeper than the depth at which reef-building corals occur they can not be filled by coral growth . |
| 7 | This is better than a night at the Follies . |
| 8 | Cleanly shaven , smelling good and feeling better than a basketeer at a codpiece competition . |
| 9 | He says he had a fifty-fifty chance of surviving the operation but it was better than no odds at all . |
| 10 | And incidentally , we have also demonstrated to ourselves , yet again , that 5 per cent vision is better than no vision at all . |
| 11 | Five per cent vision is better than no vision at all . |
| 12 | Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd told fellow ministers : ‘ A treaty which is somewhat delayed is better than no treaty at all . ’ |
| 13 | The fact that her stomach no longer turned over when he looked at her came as a surprise and disappointment — even unrequited love was better than no love at all . |
| 14 | Clearly a damaged shell is better than no shell at all . |
| 15 | Life in a box is better than no life at all . |
| 16 | As Margaret Peter 's research showed , any systematic approach to spelling , whatever its basis , is better than no approach at all . |
| 17 | Brave , but probably mistaken : even teen success is better than no success at all . |
| 18 | Well , I think you need to recognize that really sales volume is , it it takes us back again to the fact that any customer is better than no customer at all . |
| 19 | His attitude towards me was one of dumb , doglike devotion , which I found tiresome , but in the circumstances he seemed better than no boyfriend at all . |
| 20 | The £18m project , including a government offer to pay for approach roads , will be discussed this month by the Highland Regional Council which must decide whether a private toll bridge is better than no bridge at all . |
| 21 | Sometimes , sadly , even a bad deal is better than no deal at all . |
| 22 | I suppose a half-match is better than no match at all . |
| 23 | Not only is it clear that part of an eye is better than no eye at all . |
| 24 | At least Nautilus dramatizes the point that a lensless eye is better than no eye at all . |
| 25 | In the event , Mark surprised his wife by taking the view that a baby 50% genetically created by Wendy was better than no baby at all . |
| 26 | Five per cent hearing is better than no hearing at all . |
| 27 | Wherever we have an X in a real live animal , where X is some organ too complex to have arisen by chance in a single step , then according to the theory of evolution by natural selection it must be the case that a fraction of an X is better than no X at all A and two fractions of an X must be better than one ; and a whole X must be better than nine-tenths of an X. I have no trouble at all in accepting that these statements are true of eyes , ears including bat ears , wings , camouflaged and mimicking insects , snake jaws , stings , cuckoo habits and all the other examples trotted out in antievolution propaganda . |
| 28 | Gain-up does tend to make the picture look rather grainy , though , so it is best to look on it as a last resort and reserve it for those times when a grainy picture is better than no picture at all . |
| 29 | Five per cent flight efficiency is better than no flight at all . |
| 30 | The view from a coach is better than no view at all I suppose , but I know which way we preferred to arrive at Rhosili . |