Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [noun] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have been unlikely were it not for the introduction of the microcomputer , and in the UK the installation of microcomputers in large numbers of secondary schools has stimulated perhaps more of this work than anywhere else . |
| 2 | There are some unavoidable costs er on that account , particularly on the engine programme where delays to the aircraft programme which result in extra costs on the engine side , are the customer 's liability , erm but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think , from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment that we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non-common and we have had to take a larger share of the costs of those equipments than originally planned . |
| 3 | Erm , but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment than we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non common and we have had to take a larger share of the cost of those equipments than originally planned . |
| 4 | In whatever sense it is to be recognized as an objective fact that I am now responding in awareness of more factors than before , my reaction will likewise be objectively better than before . |
| 5 | Counselling sensitivity and insight can often be of more value than strictly medical knowledge . |
| 6 | for physics there is only one true measurement from any one position , and it can be more accurate than ever before ; writing and painting communicate look and feel from a viewpoint with more sophistication than ever before ; with a Cubist vision which constructs reality from the different facets exposed from different angles one is better orientated than ever before . |
| 7 | She cradled the phone with more force than strictly necessary , just as Jack Lawrence strolled past in his black leather gear . |
| 8 | ‘ No sooner is the dish empty than it is filled again — and with more food than before ! ’ |
| 9 | Announcing the changes in a Commons written answer , Lord James said that planned spending on legal aid would still rise by 40 per cent over the next three years , in spite of the changes , with more people than ever being granted legal aid . |
| 10 | A new race of novelists may result , making it possible to refute with more confidence than hitherto B. S. Johnson 's fear that the British novel has never fulfilled the huge potential created by the irruption of modernism into the literature of the twentieth century . |
| 11 | Since the human eye moves horizontally with less fatigue than vertically , the cone of vision tends to be flattened . |
| 12 | We do not yet know the implications for job numbers of the reorganisation , but as stated in the AEA Times Bulletin there may be a need to plan for more reductions than previously anticipated . |
| 13 | In 1738 Bartram journeyed to Williamsburg in Virginia with a letter of introduction from Collinson to John Custis : ‘ In the vegetable kingdom perhaps you will find him more knowing in that science than any you have met with . |
| 14 | One traditionally impoverished group — women — have become more represented in this offence than elsewhere in criminal statistics . |
| 15 | The Tories say they campaigned harder in this election than ever before . |
| 16 | There are perhaps more collectors of antiques in this country than anywhere else in the world . |
| 17 | But during the nineteenth century soldiers were perhaps more continuously prominent in this way than ever before . |
| 18 | … There 's more of public relations in this job than probably — that does n't come down in print . |
| 19 | It also tended to increase the cost of land more markedly in this region than elsewhere . |
| 20 | Our main 1979 survey was designed largely to throw light on this relationship between people 's knowledge about credit and how they make actual shopping decisions — the first major study to explore this in this country , and more searching in this respect than even the valuable American studies carried out recently for the National Commission on Consumer Finance and the Federal Reserve Board . |
| 21 | Some species have benefited from the change in the downland agricultural scene , and Corn Buntings and Skylarks are now more numerous in these areas than elsewhere in the county and are the most characteristic birds of the downland . |
| 22 | Much of the housing is unfit for human habitation , and the proportion of dwellings which are overcrowded or lack basic amenities is much higher in these areas than elsewhere . |
| 23 | From the point of view of problem solving , I find the cube has led me to formulate many problem-solving techniques in more generality than previously and to develop a general scheme for all problems of this sort . |
| 24 | Mr Langdale added : ‘ He is quite clearly a ruined man — ruined in more senses than just one . |
| 25 | This example was worth discussing in more detail than most because the Argille scagliose type of " catastrophic " deposit is now recognised in many parts of the world , from California to Formosa . |
| 26 | Now what we have to do however is look at it in more in more detail than just simply the age of people . |
| 27 | After ten minutes , I lifted the shafts in a temper and pushed off in more pain than ever , singing , ‘ I just do n't trust you any more , Lord . |
| 28 | This is true in more ways than simply obtaining an Equity card . |
| 29 | There are more in those records than just Von Braun and his few . |
| 30 | Yet it often happens that when a new kung fu student enters a kwoon , with pre-conceived ideas about fighting , and is shown basic techniques that look as though they were aimed at primary school level , he looks for more in those techniques than there actually is . |