Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a couple is less conspicuous than a man on his own … ’ |
| 2 | Whatever it was on the bottom of the loch it was no more strange than the atmosphere on that boat . |
| 3 | In the example quoted , where higher rates of interest were available in sterling , compared with the US$ , then the forward rate would be lower than the spot on the day the contracts were entered into . |
| 4 | In addition the Budget made the tax on diesel supplied by firms for employees ' private motoring lower than the tax on petrol . |
| 5 | Names on the map tell us a great deal about the ancient undrained landscape , and none is more telling than the presence on the Ordnance Survey Map of the lowlands of the word ‘ moor ’ : Morton or Moortown ; Sedgemoor ; Otmoor ; Moorgate , the gate in London 's city wall which opened on to Moorfields , the marsh which William Dugdale , in his seventeenth-century classic on drainage , describes as a favourite resort of Londoners for skating . |
| 6 | Essentially what Darwin realized was that sexual dimorphism , particularly where it makes the male spectacularly different from female is not always the outcome of inter-male conflict , very often it is , we saw examples of the films of stags , of erm elephant seals , those kinds of animals where the dimorphic differences appear to be the result of inter-male conflict , for instance elephant seals are seven times heavier , the males are seven times heavier than the females on average because sheer weight is what wins those astonishing battles they have on the beaches when they , they kind of lunge at each other . |
| 7 | For instance , the women speakers in extract ( 2 ) are less cooperative than the men on a number of quite plausible measures . |
| 8 | I will bring you a cloak , it is not much , but warmer and more comfortable than a night on the cliff tops ! ’ |
| 9 | A series of dots sits in the middle of the screen , set out to give the impression that they 're painted onto an invisible ball — the dots ‘ nearest ’ to you are thus larger than the ones on the back of the ‘ sphere ’ . |
| 10 | Floy looked with interest at the fields and pastures and thought that , although they were much larger than the ones on Renascia and the crops and vegetables were not quite the same , there was not so very much difference , really . |
| 11 | Greg had been little better than a crook on the business front — and he had very nearly dragged her father — and his stupendous talent — down with him . |
| 12 | And he was young enough to hope for something better than a pat on the head from the Leaderene . |
| 13 | My rather innocent trust crumbled when I realized that as far as the police were concerned , I was little better than a criminal on whom they must keep tabs . |
| 14 | It grips better than the Corrado on the fast sweepers , but , on tight and bumpy lower-gear corners , the VW leaves the Calibra scrabbling to get a grip on the road surface . |
| 15 | This was better than the label on the bottle of Camp coffee . |
| 16 | Notions of what it means to read are much more diverse , encompassing more than a judgement on the text , and always referring to an interplay between text and the discursive space in which judgements about it are formed . |
| 17 | At Rome there had been some disagreement and even contention for more than a century on the possibility of restoration for believers who committed adultery , murder , or apostasy ( participation in idolatrous rites ) . |
| 18 | Other nearby springs supplied Frogwell below the Town Hall and the conduit which ran from Springfield into the brewery for more than a century on the perhaps appropriate site of the new Health Centre . |
| 19 | It is true that water levels on the Alaskan coast , caused by tsunami , earthquake-related tidal waves , have risen over three hundred feet but this only happens when the sea-bed shallows close inshore : in the deep sea , although the tsunami can travel tremendously fast , two , perhaps three , hundred miles an hour , it 's rarely more than a ripple on the surface of the water . |
| 20 | The idea was so daft she would have laughed except for the Captain 's searing glance , which rested for no more than a second on her before returning to burn into Midnight as he breathed : |
| 21 | ROWLAND S HOWARD These Immortal Souls ' Australian exile recounts more than a decade on the musical edge … |
| 22 | That makes the investment look like little more than a punt on First Fidelity 's shares — a profitable punt , perhaps , but a punt nonetheless . |
| 23 | Alina peered toward the lake , which was hardly more than a sliver on the horizon . |
| 24 | Port Solent has a choice of houses and apartments to suit the various needs of the yachtsman and those who want more than a home on the waterfront . |
| 25 | You could be described as being no more than a brain on wheels or a brain stuck in a chair . |
| 26 | It 's a whirlwind ride which rarely lingers for more than a minute on individual songs until we reach the '90s and the Zoo TV extravaganza . |
| 27 | Such abuses were seldom reported , thorough investigations were rarely held , and " the few perpetrators disciplined or prosecuted usually get little more than a slap on the wrist and most know they can get away with it unchallenged " . |
| 28 | Eliot seems to have ignored these suggestions because for him the physical and social landscape of London was no more than a screen on which to project a phantasmagoria that expressed his own personal disorders and desperations ( partly sexual , as one might expect , and as the drafts make clear ) ; whereas Pound seems to have supposed that the subject of the poem was London in all its historical and geographical actuality , much as the city of Dublin was from one point of view the subject of Joyce 's Ulysses . |
| 29 | The men are too tired , the women too remote from the issues of the day , to offer more than a commentary on the quiche or a flirtatious skirmish . |
| 30 | His failure to appreciate that at the time is no more than a commentary on the absence of knowledge about child abuse generally among social workers . |