Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | For instance , the women speakers in extract ( 2 ) are less cooperative than the men on a number of quite plausible measures . |
3 | 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 ’ . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | One strange thing is that the buzz is worse when the volume pot is turned half-way on and gets less noisy when full up , but even then it 's still noisier than my brother 's Squier which cost less than the pickups on my guitar ! |
6 | The French have generally been more reticent than the Germans on this point , aiming their efforts at economic and monetary union instead . |
7 | Being higher than the policemen on the ground , I could see that most of the action was down to a half-a-dozen women wearing anoraks with the hoods up . |
8 | It has been found that the stretched tendon becomes hotter within the inner core up to 10–20°C warmer than the fibres on the edge of the tendon . |
9 | So you can actually er say that someone at sixty five will live slightly longer than the figures on the on the board here . |