Example sentences of "[prep] [adj -er] [noun] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He now realised that he needed to redefine his criteria for book selection to include material of broader interest than merely that which would fit in with his teaching : You buy your library books with a different set of criteria than the sort you use when you are trying to choose a textbook , and I had to restrain myself and think : " Well , I would n't like this , but maybe there is somebody who would . |
| 2 | We are producing more goods in our factories of better quality than ever before , how can there yet be a recession ? |
| 3 | They will recognise it too in terms of higher charges than perhaps ideally we would want to impose for certain services which the city operates , whether it be sports pitches or whether to be brutal , it 's the cost of actually burying the dead . |
| 4 | Frequently , the soundtrack was of higher quality than both plot and script — as Ice-T observed when piecing together ‘ Pimps , Players And Private Eyes ’ , a currently in-demand import compilation that features ten of the most potent soundtrack cuts from blaxploitation 's golden age , thus fulfilling a life-long ambition . |
| 5 | It was an achievement of greater significance than merely explaining some puzzling data . |
| 6 | Economic and social factors now loom large , and can be seen as being of greater importance than purely land use matters , though the courts would not necessarily accept such a line of reasoning ( as , for instance , when Lord Widgery held that the London Borough of Hillingdon could not impose a condition that the occupants of a private housing development should be people on the council 's waiting list ) . |
| 7 | More narrowly , but still at a high level of generality , some variables may function as identity markers for whole status groups or for larger regions than merely an inner-city community . |
| 8 | At a time when professional astronomers keep the sky under closer scrutiny than ever before , Alcock 's world-beating achievements rank him with great observers of the past , such as the famous French comet hunter Charles Messier . |
| 9 | THE HARDLINE leadership in East Germany is today under greater pressure than ever following the weekend demonstrations in East Berlin — the biggest show of social unrest in the East German capital since the doomed workers ' uprising of June 1953 . |
| 10 | The economic climate on Merseyside is now very conducive to development … enabling us to define preferred strategies with greater flexibility than hitherto . ’ |
| 11 | The strengthened assertion ( " wo n't " vs. " would n't want to " ) and the build-up to a climax are already there in B's turn even without the code switch from London English to Creole : " fresh air " is mentioned three times , each time with greater prominence than before , and the overall impression is of a crescendo which reaches its climax with the final " fresh air " . |
| 12 | These tutors are to be empowered with greater responsibility than previously when new membership standards are instituted . |
| 13 | Some psychologists are now investigating , with greater interest than previously , phenomenological and transpersonal experience . |
| 14 | Wordsworth was soon writing verse with greater confidence than ever before . |
| 15 | When he stood up , brushing his hands , the dogs came at him , barking with greater confidence than before , as if they had learnt his secret and wanted to tell . |
| 16 | He was even more of a Catholic fanatic than Charles had been , and under his rule , the persecutions against the Nonconformists were continued with greater vigour than ever . |
| 17 | Social attitudes demanded that the politician who aspired to a county interest should handle his constituents with greater care than merely bargaining for votes . |
| 18 | However , results of an experiment published just before Christmas show in clearer perspective than ever before that quantum theory holds good as far as we can tell . |
| 19 | It is a peculiar text to publish in a catalogue which will have greater circulation and sell in larger quantities than either Sylvester 's monograph or the catalogue raisonné . |
| 20 | But in the mean time , encouraged perhaps by such apparent signs of weakness , perhaps simply by pressure on their order-books , the Edinburgh master printers began recruiting girl apprentices in larger numbers than ever before during the early years of the century , to the growing despair of the ETS and increasing anger from the male trade-union movement in general . |
| 21 | The win keeps Swindon 's promotion hopes alive , but leaves Oxford in deeper trouble than ever . |
| 22 | With her career , like herself , in better shape than ever , could Cher really give it up to look after kids ? |
| 23 | ‘ But supplies are beginning to get through in better order than before . |
| 24 | New methods of detecting the presence of organic compounds in fish suggest that pollutants may be killing them and other marine species in smaller concentrations than previously thought . |
| 25 | First , on education and training , more young people are graduating from higher education than ever before — the number is up by nearly one third since 1979 . |
| 26 | Many of these were accepted during compromise negotiations , resulting in tighter regulations than originally proposed . |
| 27 | The list is by no means confined to local publishing as the photograph on the right of Norma Major with author Susan Normington indicates , but part of the planned expansion in the UK will , as it were , be inwards , covering localities in greater detail than ever before . |
| 28 | In 1696 the Whig cleric , William Stephens , observed that in the " sermons Preached at Visitations , and the constant ordinary Discourses of the Clergy … the Church of England is always represented , as at this time , in greater danger than ever it was " . |
| 29 | Hardly had the rains stopped when the spectators began to return to the slope above the melon beds , coming in greater numbers than ever before . |
| 30 | The Englishmen did not have time to put their delaying tactics to the test , because the islanders struck , in greater numbers than ever before , and armed with muskets and other stolen firepower . |