Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] than the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ individualism ’ at issue here is , of course , enmeshed in bourgeois categories ; but , in its own way , it seems no more ‘ crippled ’ for that than the different but equally ‘ bourgeois ’ individualism of a Schoenberg . |
| 2 | There can be no doubt that this new ideal was much better adapted to the intellectual and material developments in western Europe after 1050 than the old monastically oriented society of the earlier period . |
| 3 | Foucault emphasizes that his work does not lay claim to universal or general categories , nor is it even homogeneous , a presupposition that , as he has shown , has less to do with the work as such than the critical construction of its ‘ author ’ . |
| 4 | Such a system might have much more to offer in the way of conflict-resolution than the present system of customary principles as a loose framework within which states enter into negotiations . |
| 5 | CLO patients who did smoke started to smoke at a slightly later age , smoked for fewer years , and accumulated fewer pack years of smoking than the severe reflux oesophagitis group . |
| 6 | And I I think I must say that i it 's well certainly in Nottingham , my experience is that the church of England is and perhaps other churches , are more aware of this than the catholic church is . |
| 7 | Nothing provides a better demonstration of this than the continued usage of the administrative-judicial dichotomy as a basis for determining the applicability of natural justice . |
| 8 | If no date had been fixed by the end of 1997 than the European System of Central Banks had to be established by July 1 , 1998 , and stage three would begin by Jan. 1 , 1999 , at the latest . |
| 9 | At the end of each tax year the DHSS takes the figure for your PAYE earnings and any credits , and calculates whether you have earned or had credits of more than the lower earnings limit . |
| 10 | In your sexual relations with other people , you need to be aware of more than the behavioural aspects . |
| 11 | Chancellor faces Budget decisions of more than the usual complexity |
| 12 | Furthermore , is it certain that the consumption of more than the daily requirement of methionine in this combination would be safe for all the more than 20 million adults in the United Kingdom who currently consume paracetamol each year without harm ? |
| 13 | Some theories concern themselves more with the motives of one than the other — seldom is the whole chain of actions discussed . |
| 14 | It is not enough if the evidence looks stronger against one than the other , if the case can not be proved beyond reasonable doubt . |
| 15 | So the foreign holidays , because you 're guaranteed sunshine , cheap alcohol , everything else , somehow being seen as better than the traditional British holiday . |
| 16 | Believe it , brothers and sisters , no other band anywhere can so consistently articular what 's little short of a full-scale earthquake — one that 's flavoured with more than the odd hint of Isaac Hayes , James Brown , Blue Cheer , Swans and vintage Black Sabbath ! |
| 17 | Believe it , brothers and sisters , no other band anywhere can so consistently articular what 's little short of a full-scale earthquake — one that 's flavoured with more than the odd hint of Isaac Hayes , James Brown , Blue Cheer , Swans and vintage Black Sabbath ! |
| 18 | It was concerned with more than the effing and blinding of other ranks or what Cyril Connolly published in Horizon . |
| 19 | Look , I know I have a reputation for serving up the truth with more than the traditional British accompaniments . |
| 20 | As an extreme right-winger , I have read your recent post-apocalypse editions with more than the usual merriment . |
| 21 | Many textbooks now do this with more than the usual letters , menus , maps , and newspaper cuttings ( old favourites chosen as much for ease of reproduction as for their usefulness ) and include pictures of cans and bottles and packets with legible labels , video covers , road signs , brochures , telex print-outs , and so on ( as in Task 54 ) . |
| 22 | He tried to cover his embarrassment by starting to rub his hands together with more than the usual combustive force , and was secretly rather proud of how she had managed to annoy Special Branch and the intelligence services . |
| 23 | Special mention has to be made of staff serving the Regional Chambers and headquarters who had to cope with more than the usual pressure ! ’ |
| 24 | Even allowing it the benefit of this doubt , our hypothetical small party would be very unlikely to end up with more than the same percentage of seats , 8.4 , as the Irish party . |
| 25 | Pearce could have done with more than the seven years he had at British Aerospace to achieve the kind of management culture he would have liked to have bequeathed to the company . |
| 26 | For the purposes of the research the authors originally defined ‘ non-standard entrants ’ ( NSE s ) as those entrants to degree courses with less than the normal minimum of 2 GCE A'level passes or the equivalent . |
| 27 | It is also possible to see Baker as a ‘ lightning rod ’ for the president , protecting him from the ire of conservative ideologues who , by definition , would never be satisfied with less than the whole loaf . |
| 28 | We climbed way up higher than the other balloons … and once above the clouds at more than seven thousand feet … |
| 29 | To hold the contrary , it has been well said , seems to assert ‘ that a bird in the hand is worth less than the same bird in the bush . ’ |
| 30 | Recall from Chapter 12 that an allowance has to be made for the fact that a given sum of money to be received in the future is worth less than the same sum received now . |