Example sentences of "[adj] than [prep] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arithmetic in the Lords is messier than in the Commons . |
| 2 | More and more members of the American foreign service were coming to question the belief , strongly held at the end of the war , that the USSR was more likely to be caught up in rivalry with the British than with the United States . |
| 3 | All investors must look carefully at the safety of any offshore investment as protection arrangements may be less rigorous than in the UK . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The general standards of safety , hygiene , fire precautions etc will generally be lower than in the UK . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | European component manufacturing costs are lower than in the States , and we could save the Corporation around a billion dollars a year by purchasin' components from our European plants . |
| 12 | The solutions offered by the Nazi Party were no less simple than in the Reich , but isolation , the proximity of Poland and the effects of the Depression gave the hopes and fears of the borderlands a personal intensity and meaning quite different from those in the Reich . |
| 13 | In some areas we have measured a contamination which is much bigger than in the Minimata incident in the Japan . |
| 14 | The sheer recklessness and shortsightedness of the Commission , and especially the Franco-German axis within it , is nowhere clearer than in the GATT fiasco . |
| 15 | ‘ Customers need more hand-holding than in the US . ’ |
| 16 | If we examine the three morbidity indicators shown in table 9.3 , which do exist in the RAWP report , we see cases where the differences are consistently larger than for the SMRs . |
| 17 | The distance education materials are prepared by each of the training colleges involved , and seem to have been much less effective than in the Zintec programme , with its central distance learning unit . |
| 18 | In the spring the flowers are at their most glorious , and the weather is much better than in the UK . |
| 19 | But direct operating costs are lower since the fees levied by aerodrome owners for landing and parking etc. are generally much more reasonable than in the UK |
| 20 | With literally hundreds of places to eat , drink and make merry , not to mention the theatres , ballet and galleries , it 's no wonder Düsseldorf is known as ‘ Petit Paris ’ ( but a beer here is a lot cheaper than on the Champs Elysees ! ) |
| 21 | Transport is considerably cheaper than in the UK but prices are on the increase . |
| 22 | The one exception is the European Monetary System , where member countries have continued to operate some form of managed exchange rates , although parity adjustments here have been much more frequent than in the Bretton Woods era . |
| 23 | A full-price CD retails around A$28 ( about £11.50 or US$21 ) , not significantly dearer than the UK but much more than in the USA . |
| 24 | Advertising has reached , we believe , a quite remarkable development in the 1980s , and perhaps nowhere more than in the United Kingdom . |
| 25 | Apart from the UK , which has begun to deregulate the airline industry , all continental airlines pay workers substantially more than in the United States , even though countries like Spain and Portugal have much lower living standards in general . |
| 26 | File handling with BBCBASIC(Z80) is more flexible than on the BBC Micro and different in approach to most other versions of BASIC . |
| 27 | This was no more evident than on the Isle of Wight at the end of 1989 , which seemed to be going backwards despite getting new stock . |
| 28 | That finding is certainly borne out in the United Kingdom , where the shift to a less progressive tax structure has been even more evident than in the United States ( Hills , 1988 ) . |
| 29 | Here we have the glancing metal and the freshness of original work , but besides the small scale the skirt is strongly broken by the left knee and the whole treatment is looser and freer than in the Hestia . |
| 30 | Again most of these stars are red , with spectral types of M , R , N or S. Their amplitudes are less than for the Mira stars , and usually amount to little more than a magnitude . |