Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] than [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the distribution of scores among their controls , we estimate that people above the upper quartile had at least a twofold higher risk of being admitted to hospital for acute myocardial infarction than did people with a score of zero . |
| 2 | The arguments of so-called radical democrats like Bachrach and Baratz had rather more direct impact than did disagreement over the nature of theory , partly because they shared some important ground with the pluralists . |
| 3 | It could be argued that predicting no change is a more reliable strategy than predicting change and just guessing at what it might be . |
| 4 | I reckon he 's more interested in personal publicity than telling people about God . ’ |
| 5 | Carey may be contested , as the Times , the Institute of Directors , Nicholas Fairbairn MP et al have been quick to attempt , but there is surely nothing curious in the head of a Christian church saying there are matters of greater moral significance than making money — unless by curious is meant the fact that Carey is head of a Christian church that also happens to be the established church of the realm . |
| 6 | The importance of the ley crop , particularly clover , in an arable system in this contest is that it not only provides diversity , but also a better opportunity for wildlife , particularly plants and insects , to complete its annual cycle than do crops which are cleared every year . |
| 7 | In 1980 , for instance , he claimed , ‘ There 's not been a president in modern history , including Franklin Delano Roosevelt and including Lyndon Baines Johnson , who has a better record of support from the Democratic Congress than has Jimmy Carter . ’ |
| 8 | Such fees , it claimed , would be more effective in halting deforestation than logging bans . |
| 9 | A Stravinsky versus Strauss controversy also surrounded Newman 's head , with supporters of the Russian composer challenging his views by suggesting that Stravinsky had penetrated more deeply into the human mind than had Strauss . |
| 10 | Economists make very different specifications about the nature of human behaviour than do sociologists or psychologists . |
| 11 | In some applications the infra red sources and detectors are placed around the edge of the visual display unit , a cheaper method of providing an interactive screen than embedding touch pads into the glass . |
| 12 | Similar research elsewhere leads to better overall outcome in the long term than does hospital admission . |
| 13 | However , father 's education exerts a less powerful influence than does mother 's schooling . |
| 14 | There should be more to alternative comedy than saying FILOFAX . |
| 15 | Mrs Shephard , 52 , a former inspector of schools and senior education officer , has always joked that nothing could have prepared her more for being thrown into the deep end than leaving Cromer , where her father was a cattle dealer , for St Hilda 's College , Oxford , where she read modern languages . |
| 16 | In effect , then , chapter 11 says it is better to keep a firm running than to honour debt agreements . |
| 17 | Coal will be the primary source of electricity generation within the region though in Malaysia and Thailand gas will be significantly used for electricity generation since this represents a more cost effective option than importing coal and exporting LNG . |
| 18 | Males grow more during normal puberty than do females . |
| 19 | In fact , politics may have more to say about the actual extent of a regulatory framework than does economics . |
| 20 | In this context the relationship of the persuader to the patient — for example , spouse , parents or religious adviser — will be important , because some relationships more readily lend themselves to overbearing the patient 's independent will than do others . |
| 21 | In my opinion , distinctiveness and memorability owe more to rhythmic design than to pitch patterns . |
| 22 | Climate change is already more important than acid rain , genetic engineering a more topical issue than saving whales . |
| 23 | Indeed , so long as total pleasure just outweighs total pain an ever increasing population is likely to be a more effective way of increasing happiness than making life better for each individual . |
| 24 | Given the government 's definition of accountability , under the existing system of local government finance some local authorities face a more accountable regime than do others . |
| 25 | The objects themselves are arranged n telling juxtapositions — a kind of museological montage technique which aims less to ‘ reveal ’ a single explanation than to stimulate speculation , enquiry and even free association . |
| 26 | Classes I and II have taken greater advantage of educational expansion than have Halsey 's other social groupings . |
| 27 | A dispute in Hungary at about the same time was not resolved so amicably , at least in part because Hungary occupied a far more important strategic position in terms of Soviet security than did Yugoslavia . |
| 28 | This results in exaggerated abundances of such elements as ribs , vertebrae and finger bones , all of which occur in higher numbers in the mammalian skeleton than do skulls , mandibles and major limb bones . |
| 29 | As the events which followed the Warsaw coup illustrated , circumstances required " the Russian bear " to spend more time mauling the non-Russian inhabitants of the Russian Empire than attacking non-Russians abroad . |