Example sentences of "[adj] than [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As a consequence , elderly persons entering residential accommodation tend to be more physically and mentally dependent than in the past , and the type of support needed is similar to that given in a nursing home , rather than a guest house or private hotel . |
| 32 | Bargaining occurs in all political systems , but nowhere is it more prevalent than in the United States — ‘ The necessity for constant bargaining is … built into the very structure of American government . ’ |
| 33 | Yet , for some , physical work at night seems more demanding than during the daytime and this is clearly another disadvantage for the night-worker . |
| 34 | Although European markets will be later than Britain in feeling any economic recovery coming from America , the bonus for investors is that share prices remain relatively undervalued and dividend policies , traditionally less generous than in America or Britain are now catching up , chivvied by foreign and domestic investors who are more demanding than in the past . |
| 35 | But what of Mr Major 's claim that Mr Ashdown has more in common with Labour than with the Tories and could be the Trojan horse with which Mr Kinnock bursts through the wrought-iron gates into Downing Street ? |
| 36 | Inclusion of the GFF and LPF into the bigram experiments appears to be less stable than for the trigram experiments — the number of top ranked correct words tends to drop for the bigram cases but remains almost constant for the trigram cases . |
| 37 | Points to make in the context of this table are , again , the very large turnover involved and the fact that profit margins are healthier and more stable than in the tour operator case . |
| 38 | In the field of power station design , the conservatism of the headquarters engineers was more persistent than in the case of the Supergrid . |
| 39 | Diffusion is much slower through a liquid than through a gas . |
| 40 | The treaty imposed more onerous obligations on the Scots than on the French , but in the spring of 1334 Philip VI invited David II to seek refuge in France , and Philip now began to step up the diplomatic pressure on Edward 11I . |
| 41 | His mother was obviously surprised , for he rarely went out , moving no farther than to the chair in front of the television set . |
| 42 | One example of this is that the CEGB 's engineering costs for a new coal plant are expected to be 16 per cent higher than for the completion of the coal-fired Drax power station while for a new AGR it expects engineering costs to be 20 per cent lower than for the Heysham II prototype . |
| 43 | But surprisingly prices in Northallerton were lower than for the County Durham pubs although overall Which ? found Yorkshire prices higher than in the North-East . |
| 44 | The payments on a lease will normally be lower than on a contract allowing for the purchase of the asset , although sometimes the difference is small and then a rebate is made when the term of the contract finishes and the plane is sold . |
| 45 | The number densities of craters on the maria are far lower than on the highlands , indicating , as outlined in section 3.3.4 , that the maria surfaces are younger . |
| 46 | But generally the level of violence in Cambodia during the election was lower than during the campaign . |
| 47 | Whilst the poll tax in Kensington was set some 48% above government estimates , Institute of Public Finance figures suggest that average household bills would be a quarter lower than under the rates . |
| 48 | In one of these studies the FVC in low birthweight children was not lower than in a reference group . |
| 49 | The general standards of safety , hygiene , fire precautions etc will generally be lower than in the UK . |
| 50 | A similar system is in operation in many countries , with the key exception of the US , where book prices are much lower than in the UK . |
| 51 | Incomes in the area have therefore been lower than in the UK as a whole , and out-migration has reduced the region 's share of Scotland 's total population from about 20 per cent in the mid-eighteenth century to about 5 per cent today . |
| 52 | Prices in Greece and Portugal are also up to 40 per cent lower than in the rest of Europe . |
| 53 | The study found that accounting standards in such countries as Italy , Portugal , Spain and Greece were considerably lower than in the rest of the EC . |
| 54 | The trouble was that their general educational standard was much lower than in the past . |
| 55 | On the other hand despite the increase in funding during the last forty years , the UK spending on health as a proportion of national income is lower than that in most West European countries and considerably lower than in the USA ( see Figure 7.1 ) . |
| 56 | With positive inducements to continuous employment in one firm and severe constraints on mobility , it is hardly surprising that Japanese rates of labour turnover are now lower than in the West . |
| 57 | Fortunately , the level of civil claims overall in the UK is a lot lower than in the US which is why at present premium rates are considered relatively cheap . |
| 58 | But with oil prices now much lower than in the mid-1970s , the cost to the government is much higher than that of petrol . |
| 59 | The two decades on either side of 1500 were comparatively stable , with wages being only a little lower than in the middle of the fifteenth century , but by the second decade of the sixteenth they began to decline in face of increasing prices . |
| 60 | Only with the aid of a fully divided heart , with the blood pressure in the lung circuit being lower than in the body-and-head circuit , could Brachiosaurus have existed and functioned . |