Example sentences of "[adj] than [noun sg] [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may say , then , that line A is less precise , less specific than line B. Line A is not swallowed up in line B , however ; it is not the case that once we have line B we can dispense with line A. Rather , line B provides the clue or the context within which the uncertainty of line A is resolved . |
| 2 | Lord Hunter had been unable to free himself from the idea of Meehan as a participant any more than Sir Daniel Brabin had been able to free himself from the assumption of Timothy Evans 's guilt ; neither could bring himself to admit , perhaps for the sake of the reputation of their profession , that the miscarriage of justice had been total , that Meehan as much as Evans had played no part whatever in the crime with which he had been charged . |
| 3 | IBM Corp 's board has settled on a pay and benefits package for new chief executive Louis Gerstner , who takes up his post today , valued at over $7m : he will receive an annual salary of $2m , a one-time transition payment of $5m and a string of other incentives including a performance incentive potentially worth $1.5m a year , $500,000 long-term incentive tied to performance over three years and options on 500,000 IBM shares — far more than predecessor John Akers got . |
| 4 | The package is far more than predecessor John Akers got . |
| 5 | In admitting a highly promising but less than conformist Sheffield Grammar School boy to Gonville and Caius College , the university placed Keeton under the tutorship of one of the most astute and world-wise masters in the Law . |
| 6 | Digitalk Inc , Los Angeles is now shipping the 32-bit version of its object-oriented Smalltalk/V development environment for OS/2 2.0 , enabling users to create Smalltalk/V applications that are up to 100% faster and 50% smaller than 16-bit OS/2 applications : it can call both 16-bit and 32-bit Dynamic Link Libraries , adds a debugger with enhanced single-stepping capability , improved support for bit maps , double-byte character set characters in Smalltalk/V code , and support for OS/2 's common dialogue boxes ; it costs a swinging $1,000 . |
| 7 | Yves Saint Laurent 's Opium , now in Secret de Parfum , lighter than perfume , stronger than eau de toilette ( £52 ) . |
| 8 | Events at Sheffield 's Grosvener House hotel proved even more spectacular than entrepreneur Ray Carter had hoped for when Lisa Crossland , of GT Sports , claimed he that PPF pool entrepreneur Ray Carter had taken the jackets from her shop , promising to pay up later . |