Example sentences of "[adj] than on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The treaty imposed more onerous obligations on the Scots than on the French , but in the spring of 1334 Philip VI invited David II to seek refuge in France , and Philip now began to step up the diplomatic pressure on Edward 11I . |
| 2 | The payments on a lease will normally be lower than on a contract allowing for the purchase of the asset , although sometimes the difference is small and then a rebate is made when the term of the contract finishes and the plane is sold . |
| 3 | It is also restricted to the tips of the incisors , where it is usually heavier than on the category 1 samples . |
| 4 | Amnesty International 's report that this unholy alliance is responsible for at least 2,500 political killings in the past two years demonstrates that the Colombian authorities are more interested in waging a war on the left than on the drug cartels . |
| 5 | Village clusters are fewer than on the mainland . |
| 6 | Even excluding bonuses , British top managers beat their French , German and Dutch counterparts with a 12.1 per cent hike in basic pay ( although their real increases — 5.1 per cent — were not much larger than on the continent ) . |
| 7 | The maple veneer ceilings were divided into four panels with designs in the corners ( less elaborate than on the Brush cars ) . |
| 8 | You can talk personally better than on the phone . |
| 9 | Tonight Tesco insisted its own survey 's had shown its prices to be constitently cheaper than on the continent . |
| 10 | They perhaps entered by the route of Kamchatka and Alaska , where the climate , even now so much milder and more equitable than on the north-east coast of America , might have been warm enough in late Pliocene times to have allowed the migration of these animals . |
| 11 | Rain can thrash its surface , wind can chop it up , and the carp still have to be outwitted ; probably even more than on a water where the natural food is less abundant and the carp are smaller and therefore not so cautious . |
| 12 | If they are rich , they can spend more on it , and will ; but there is no calculus which can tell us the optimum amount that we ought to spend on education , any more than on the relief of suffering and the cure of the sick , or on the arts . |
| 13 | The total number attending was only nine less than on the question of membership of the European Community seventeen years earlier , and forty more than had voted on the Government of Ireland bill in 1893 . |
| 14 | An indicator is the abundance of the rare isotope of hydrogen , deuterium D , compared to the common isotope 1 H. D is twice the mass of 1 H and therefore 1 H will normally escape faster , enhancing D/ 1 H. The D/ 1 H ratio in the Cytherean atmosphere today is about 100 times that on the Earth , indicating more 1 H on Venus in the past , though still a good deal less than on the Earth . |
| 15 | Not only were there more 40s. men and fewer at £1 or less , but in the borough itself the poorest class was much smaller than on the land , implying that the more skilled , more remunerative trades were carried out there , while poorly paid weavers and the like lived and worked in Speenhamland . |
| 16 | These counts covered about 60 square kilometres in which distribution was more uniform than on the coast , but higher densities do occur in favoured spots . |
| 17 | I merely note that other European countries have found an alternative way of living which , as it happens , for whatever reason , has resulted in their enjoying higher standards of living than on the whole do EEC members . |
| 18 | Overcrowding on the bus service is even worse than on the train service . |
| 19 | ( There is always a danger of pinning in any kayak or canoe but on rivers the chances of getting trapped in a boat are , of course , much higher than on the sea . ) |
| 20 | She loved the way she could jump much higher than on the Earth . |
| 21 | The average surface temperature on Venus is also much higher than on the Earth , 730 K instead of 288 K. The troposphere extends up to an altitude of about 60 km , and in its lower 50 km or so the lapse-rate is adiabatic . |
| 22 | How a contract could be agreed for , say , general medicine , other than on a population basis is difficult to envisage . |
| 23 | Mr Kennedy said that no deal had been done with the Government other than on an understanding that today 's scheduled business should not be knocked out by allowing yesterday 's session to continue beyond lunchtime today . |
| 24 | The new edict is that we will have to wait for the year 2000 to land anywhere in space other than on the Moon . |
| 25 | It has been suggested that the move to a loans-based higher educational system will provide small firms with a supply of labour , as in the US , but this is unlikely to have a major effect other than on the demand for temporary workers . |
| 26 | Where a bankruptcy order has been made other than on the debtor 's petition , the bankrupt must submit to the official receiver a statement of his affairs within twenty-one days of the bankruptcy order or within such longer period as the official receiver may allow ( s 288(1) and ( 3 ) ) or the court may allow ( r 6.62 ) . |
| 27 | Out with the toolkit , some minor surgery and the cable now connects perfectly although it 's still too short to allow the tablet to go anywhere other than on the right or directly behind the Spectrum . |
| 28 | b , Mature males have a higher mortality when searching for a female than on a female 's web . |
| 29 | To Dexter the producer seemed much more self-confident than on the morning after the murder , talkative and charming . |
| 30 | Long memories are rare in a fashion world where thoughts are more concentrated on what 's happening next than on the past . |