Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They left their scars on park and copse ; they raised high walls of earth across the meadows — ’ your railroad mounds , vaster than the walls of Babylon , ’ Ruskin called them ; they brutally amputated every hill on their way . ’ |
| 32 | The embarrassing scenes he makes in New York 's suburban streets and supermarkets seem at times more real than the enormities of his nightmare past . |
| 33 | … the crisis today is that we have fictions which no one admits to be fictions , whereas before people had myths , people had religions , and so on , and a lot of it was believed in as a matter of faith , whereas now everything is presented as real , and it is no more real than the myths of before . |
| 34 | With the outstanding exception of some Asian countries , among the 56 countries represented in Table 18 , the risks of maternal mortality due to abortion are more similar for girls under age 15 and women over 44 than the chances of succumbing to obstetric related causes . |
| 35 | Hambros Jersey 's contention , if correct , would mean that the jurisdiction of the English court under the sections would be much more restricted than the circumstances in which an individual may be adjudged bankrupt or a company may be wound up by the English court . |
| 36 | Clearly they are easier ‘ laboratories ’ to reach , and far less dangerous than the poles with regard to climate and the hazards of survival . |
| 37 | Interestingly enough , the LGS samples from the Phase 1 unions were less likely to be dangerous than the samples from the Phase 2 unions , despite the fact that the Phase 2 unions had been visited by the Oral Replacement Workers in the previous year whereas two years had passed since the Phase 1 unions had been visited . |
| 38 | The stark events of A Fine Boy for Killing are no more and no less authentic than the events of Showell Styles 's novels or those of O'Brian and Forester . |
| 39 | The explosion , much bigger than the ones in the holes , and with almost nothing to muffle it , cracked across the dunes like a whip , setting my ears ringing and making even me jump a bit . |
| 40 | I realised straight away that there was not an awful lot happening over here ; the country scene was far bigger than the blues at that time . |
| 41 | In terms of sheer size they are sometimes bigger than the countries in which they operate ; they are estimated to control over a quarter of world output ; and their ‘ inter-firm ’ shipments of goods from one country to another account for nearly one-third of recorded trade ’ . |
| 42 | ‘ The Soup Dragons are bigger than The Charlatans over here , ’ says Tim . |
| 43 | ‘ The Soup Dragons are bigger than The Charlatans over here , ’ says Tim . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | For instance , the women speakers in extract ( 2 ) are less cooperative than the men on a number of quite plausible measures . |
| 46 | Hatton , for example , summed up the delinquency of Reggie Smashem and Billy Dustup as ‘ nothing more serious than the symptoms of healthy , vigorous , adventurous adolescence ’ : ‘ I propose to make a practical examination of this question of the ‘ hooligan ’ ’ , for I am seriously concerned that he is not getting a fair deal . ’ |
| 47 | Nicholas , however , proved to be significantly more cautious than the men around him . |
| 48 | The room was considerably less cluttered than the apartments of other members of the Royal Family . |
| 49 | He had been accused early on in the play by Agydeus that he was too barbaric to offer Zenocrate any amorous discourse , yet he manages to produce a lovely speech for her where he talks about he stunning beauty and his love for her : ‘ Zenocrate , the loveliest maid alive … whose eyes are brighter than the lamps of heaven … that with thy looks canst clear the darkened sky ’ . |
| 50 | For your correspondent , nothing is more haunting than the photographs of Jewish life in the town of Eisziszki , near Vilna ( in Russia , then Poland , now Lithuania ) between 1890 and 1941 . |
| 51 | This was much more rapid than the sorts of changes observed in long-run studies and indeed was in the opposite direction . |
| 52 | Children of parents with means were more likely than the children of the poor to have capital ; but enterprise was even more essential , and there is no reason to suppose that this was the prerogative of any group or class in the Europe of the day . |
| 53 | The number of boundaries of competence that exist for any given social entity may vary : the members of an isolated New Guinea society , all of whom perform virtually identical tasks according to age and sex , will have fewer than the members of a more complex society with a greater division of labour . |
| 54 | Stronger than the smells of Lefortovo or Vladimir , more pervasive than the smells of the Lubyanka interrogation cells or the train . |
| 55 | Readers may be surprised to learn that I have never owned anything larger than a 48″ × 18″ × 18″ , though at one point many years ago a 72″ × 18″ ( angle iron , with a divided front like the windscreen in very old Morris Minors ) nearly came to live with me . |
| 56 | 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 ’ . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | The chamber was wide , but no larger than the Halls of Crystal in the palace at Beaufort . |
| 59 | The shades of the nineteenth century seem to loom larger than the prospects of the 21st Century which is what we should be aiming for . |
| 60 | The heads of these children were no larger than the heads of matchsticks . |