Example sentences of "[adj] than [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I think this social position is more apparent to the informant and the variation in role relations more marked than if the interviewer is an outsider and not in a particular relation to the speakers from the outset . |
| 2 | Nothing is more annoying than when a dole queue fan shells out six pounds for a ticket to a show which is nothing but a huge yawn for the artist involved . |
| 3 | Section 33(3) requires the court to have regard to all the circumstances of the case and in particular to : ( a ) the length of , and the reasons for , the delay on the part of the plaintiff ; ( b ) the extent to which , having regard to the delay , the evidence adduced or likely to be adduced by the plaintiff or the defendant is or is likely to be less cogent than if the action had been brought within the time allowed by s11 or ( as the case may be ) by s12 ; ( c ) the conduct of the defendant after the cause of action arose , including the extent ( if any ) to which he responded to requests reasonably made by the plaintiff for information or inspection for the purpose of ascertaining facts which were or might be relevant to the plaintiff 's cause of action against the defendant ; ( d ) the duration of any disability of the plaintiff arising after the date of the accrual of the cause of action ; ( e ) the extent to which the plaintiff acted promptly and reasonably once he knew whether or not the act or omission of the defendant , to which the injury was attributable , might be capable at that time of giving rise to an action for damages ; ( f ) the steps , if any , taken by the plaintiff to obtain medical , legal or other expert advice and the nature of any such advice he may have received . |
| 4 | Last May , I wrote that if customers had only limited choice as to where to buy jewellery ‘ then it is every bit as exploitative if the quality is unnecessarily low than if the price is unnecessarily high ’ . |
| 5 | I knew then that it was more inspiring than if the sound had come from an orphean bird . |
| 6 | Note that where the offence in question gave alternatives of using , causing or permitting the use thereof , ‘ uses ’ is interpreted rather more strictly and restricted than when an offence commences ‘ Did use ’ , with no other alternatives . |
| 7 | His mother Elizabeth said debris lying around the park was more dangerous than if the area under the play equipment had been left grassed . |
| 8 | Given the predisposition of colonic mucosa for neoplasia in FAP , neoplastic change seems less likely than if the pouch environment approximated to that of the colon with complete metaplasia of the reservoir mucosa . |
| 9 | The effect of the rule that terms must be incorporated no later than when the contract is concluded is illustrated by the case of Olley v Marlborough Court Hotel [ 1949 ] 1 KB 532 . |
| 10 | Thus , if the investment is defined as the initial margin , the variance of the resulting returns will be several hundred times larger than if the spot price is used as the investment . |
| 11 | Ten months later , however , the house looks better than when the crew arrived . |
| 12 | There is some convincing research that they are often no better than if the manager had simply stuck a pin in at random amongst the names of candidates . |
| 13 | You are only looking at it from our point of view though are n't you , I mean they , they 're going to look at it from the point of view that they can possibly obtain sixteen zero zero fours , although they 'd obviously like to get them cheaper , but at a price that makes the the overall package that contains that bearing and a six eight O seven cheaper than than the package that we would like them to use which inc would incorporate six zero zero fours , and er whatever after . |
| 14 | What essentially what you need to do how to do is if you wan na be able to work Saturdays we need to be able to prove that in fact pound per , per item of post on a Saturday is cheaper than because the productivity in the week will be lower therefore and even at time and a half , the cost of doing an hour 's overtime for the work you get out in the week is , is less productive than doing double time with what you get out on a Saturday . |
| 15 | Bunny raised no more than than an eyebrow and we shouldered our way through to the hall where Dosh and Freddie were discovering that they could really get to like Kümmel . |
| 16 | Nowhere is the art of the Designer needed more than when a script calls for an entirely new world to be created , as was so often the case in Doctor Who . |
| 17 | The consequences of being on the receiving end of such a notice are , of course , little less severe than when an expulsion is put into effect . |
| 18 | ‘ A firm 's ability to use the money effectively should be more important than whether the company is in a designated area for special assistance , ’ said , partner with Moores Rowland , as the firm issued guidelines to the main business grant schemes . |
| 19 | Nothing became more important than whether the President had added his approval to this ‘ very strange ’ piece of paper , as Poindexter called it : a memorandum Poindexter said he had never seen before , and which Thompson found him reading the next morning over breakfast . |
| 20 | The value of the offer made by the bonorum emptor would certainly have taken into account the fact that the land was subject to trust ; the consequence of the lower offer would be that creditors would receive rather less than if no trust existed . |
| 21 | Reported cases are small in number , and it may be true that in some ( not all ) of these cases the degree of trauma suffered by the wife is less than if the rape had been by another man ; but abolition of the marital-rape exemption is surely important as a statement of the married woman 's autonomy and freedom of choice in sexual matters . |
| 22 | When the source emits the next wave crest it will be nearer to us , so the time that wave crest takes to reach us will be less than when the star was stationary . |
| 23 | After training has finished the blood supply is reduced and the ‘ pump ’ disappears , resulting in the muscle being smaller than before the exercise started . |
| 24 | The 9.43–10.12 question appeared in this test context also , and fewer pupils were successful than when the question was asked directly , probably because the information required had first to be selected by the pupils from all the figures given in the timetables . |
| 25 | Thus reaction time in this situation would be slower than when a response originates from the directly stimulated hemisphere . |
| 26 | On the other hand on the sale of a business the purchaser frequently does pay such a premium and the vendor correspondingly receives a price higher than if no restraint existed ( see Morris ( Herbert ) Ltd v Saxelby [ 1916 ] 1 AC 688 per Lord Atkinson ) . |
| 27 | This means that the time between the two wave crests reaching us 15 smaller , and therefore the number of waves we receive each second ( i.e. , the frequency ) is higher than when the star was stationary . |
| 28 | Noticeably , the oscillation is greater than when the filter is present . |
| 29 | It seems that more significant than whether a parent tells you you are beautiful is whether they give you the message that you are ‘ good enough ’ , in Deborah 's words . |