Example sentences of "[adj] than [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Athletic News snorted indignantly : ‘ As a matter of commerce , ten young recruits at £100 a piece might have paid better , and as a matter of sport , the Second Division would be more honourable than retention of places by purchase . ’ |
| 2 | The new crop is more resistant than wheat to diseases , especially to leaf blotch , powdery mildew , and other fungal infections such as the smuts . |
| 3 | In fact Peasgood suggests , in one of the few surveys which have been carried out in this area , that selection in academic libraries from the ‘ book in hand ’ was found to be no more effective than selection from lists ( effectiveness being measured in terms of subsequent issues ) . |
| 4 | ‘ Good sense about trivialities ’ , he once wrote , ‘ is better than nonsense about things that matter . ’ |
| 5 | Government and the HSE are well aware that the promotion and enforcement of safety demands much more than reliance on individuals and management . |
| 6 | Global competition is much more than rivalry among firms , for it involves the ‘ structural competitiveness ’ of states within the world system . |
| 7 | ‘ Punishment ’ may be no more than withdrawal of rewards . |
| 8 | Yet despite this there has mostly in practice been little depth , little more than discussion of opinions with regard to these ultimate questions — what one disillusioned teacher called " mutual exchange of ignorance " . |
| 9 | Heat is nothing more than energy of atoms in motion , so if you can slow down atoms , you are in effect cooling them . |
| 10 | Of the others — and this is no more than reportage of answers to the question - the ambulance services emerge reasonably well , in that they allow service by right of assessment . |
| 11 | With a more than halving of losses in the second quarter to $48.7m ( 1992 : $100.2m loss ) , the worldwide underwriting deficit at the mid year was down by $106.2m from $235.2m ( representing 12.3% of premiums ) to $129.0m ( 6.1% of premiums ) , a reduction due largely to a substantial improvement in the UK result . |
| 12 | But liberationists like Regan and Clive Hollands ( 1985 ) , as we saw in earlier chapters , scorn this as requiring no more than kindness towards animals ( Hollands , for example , dismissed it as ‘ a Victorian concept ’ ) and demand a great deal more . |
| 13 | The bond 's conditions did not allow for this , so even if bought and transferred at less than par between individuals , they had to be redeemed by the Club in full . |
| 14 | Specialist lay representation tended to be more successful than representation by solicitors and barristers . |
| 15 | It is even worse than heroin in terms of the dependency and hopelessness it creates . |
| 16 | I find this particular facility to be more usable than Word For Windows ' text fiddling tools , purely because you can use any font you wish , as long as it is installed in Windows . |
| 17 | The silver inlays show up as pale areas because they are denser than brass to X-rays . |
| 18 | Small animals are dominated by surface forces other than gravity in ways unknown and unknowable to us . |
| 19 | Of these seven patients , six had potential aetiological factors other than use of gangliosides ; protopathic bias was detected in five , and in the remaining one it was doubtful whether the drug could be blamed . |
| 20 | We know they are different — if they were identical we would not need to consult the doctor for purposes other than access to resources — but we can not understand why they differ in these particular ways . |