Example sentences of "[adj] than [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guard duty over the two women was much lighter than tree-felling in the steamy forest or sawing up the timbers into six-feet lengths , then splitting them into staves for the stockade , the master 's house , and the other habitations they were erecting in the settlement . |
| 2 | These findings suggest that fixed-term contract workers and agency workers are not always direct substitutes for one another ( in other words , that resort to one might be made for reasons very different than resort to the other ) . |
| 3 | Opinion poll results showed that he was consistently more popular than Bolger with the electorate , and many commentators expected him to launch a challenge for the party leadership . |
| 4 | The ex-Manchester United star admitted : ‘ I 'd rather quit at the top than drop to a lower level . |
| 5 | ‘ In my job , old boy , I 've learned that truth is stranger than fiction by a long way . ’ |
| 6 | He also investigated the effects of the uptick rule when the future is underpriced , and found that arbitrage involving short positions in shares was less profitable and much riskier than arbitrage with a long share position . |
| 7 | If Protestantism was more Conducive than Catholicism to the expansion of science , one would expect this to manifest itself in a greater receptivity toward new and controversial ideas . |
| 8 | Knighton , McColl and Elliott all get a statistical raw deal , he insists , but none is more wronged than bottom of the table Len Ashurst . |
| 9 | Print on a page is more seductive than print on a screen . |
| 10 | It should also encompass an intent to have anal intercourse or commit an act of gross indecency since such conduct ‘ would be regarded by many as more serious than abduction for the purposes of sexual intercourse . ’ |
| 11 | Conclusions ranged from condemnation of general practitioner care as ‘ erratic , ’ of ‘ generally poor standard ’ and ‘ less satisfactory than care by the hospital diabetic clinic ’ to a view that organised general practitioner diabetic care ‘ can achieve a degree of glycaemic control … equal to that reached by a hospital clinic . ’ |
| 12 | It 's larger than life in every way . |
| 13 | While longing and longing for their arrival , she had feared they would seem larger than life in the sedate village . |
| 14 | Things certainly look better than back in the late Eighties , when he went unemployed for nearly two years . |
| 15 | The idea that life in the community is better than life in a hospital has , for decades , been an article of faith for mental health workers . |
| 16 | ‘ Well fashion is still faring better than advertising in the current page squeeze , but there are now less editorial pages to correspond with the fewer advertising pages being sold in magazines ’ . |
| 17 | This probe had been shown to be better than actin as a control for the amount and quality of total ribonucleic acid loaded . |
| 18 | Its leader , Holger Nielsen , says he now thinks that a chance to influence Europe 's future is better than dependence on the EC without influence . |
| 19 | ‘ Think about it , dear girl , ’ Spencer said softly , ‘ anything is better than disgrace to the family name , do n't you think , and between us , you and I could rescue the old family firm ? |
| 20 | For a start it is 40 per cent cheaper than electricity from the national grid . |
| 21 | I agree with the hon. Gentleman that British coal is the cheapest in western Europe , but it is certainly not cheaper than coal from the United States or Australia and it is still uncompetitive in world terms . |
| 22 | Most sporting methods do no more than cream off a proportion of the rabbit stock , but ferreting , to my mind , is the ultimate . |
| 23 | It 's about time somebody killed this ‘ debate ’ dead in its tracks , even if it meant stating the obvious ; that postmodernism is nothing more than Situationism without the socialism , the archetypal assimilation of revolutionary technique and terminology . |
| 24 | Bearing in mind the strength of his views on " mere specialists " , we may surely see more than coincidence in the swiftness with which this final commitment was followed by the conversion to Schopenhauer . |
| 25 | It is not a sign of " malice " to refuse an apology , or to repeat the allegations prior to trial , or to persist in them at the trial : this is no more than steadfastness in the cause ( although if the allegations turn out to be false , such conduct may increase the damages . ) |
| 26 | More than quarter of a million pounds has been given by people throughout South Durham to build the specialist unit at Darlington Memorial Hospital . |
| 27 | It was the first time in more than quarter of a century that the socialists had been returned to power . |
| 28 | But evidence really amounts to no more than expression of the opinion by a particular practitioner of what he thinks that he would have done if he had been paid hypothetically without the benefit of hindsight the position of the defendant , with a little while the evidence of the witness is due , what in the matter of law the solicitor 's duty was in the particular circumstances of the case , I should have thought , being a solicitor the very question which the functions , to decide . |
| 29 | These studies lend support to the thesis that labour mobility policies as presently constituted do little more than act as a mild incentive to a very small proportion of migrant workers . |
| 30 | If it does nothing more than act as an educational lubricant or leaven , it serves its purpose well , by enriching minds , broadening outlooks , removing prejudice and opening vistas . |