Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The face of his father 's surgeon , Hua , filled the screen , the old man 's features more expressive than a thousand words . |
| 2 | The four speed box would be more economical than the three speed and is a relatively easy conversion . |
| 3 | It was more emphatic than the 5-1 win on Thursday because little more than two hours after the start England had already achieved a 4-0 winning lead . |
| 4 | The old campaigner 's sense of what was honourable in such matters was more acute than the three sons of George III who , in the words of the author of the tract The Royal Criterion ( 1814 ) ‘ resorted to every mode of raising money without a scruple as to the means . ’ |
| 5 | Er of course it 's , it 's , it 's I think it 's more longwinded than er I mean it 's the first time you 've fully got into it , and it 's more longwinded than the fifteen minutes allows you erm but I , I thought you were doing quite well to be honest . |
| 6 | In 1974 the Iraqis came up with a detailed law for the autonomous area that was far more restrictive than the 1970 agreement and in no way reflected its accommodating spirit . |
| 7 | The mirthless chuckle made Peregrine sound more serious than the two girls had every known him . |
| 8 | I learned about them during the course of visiting various wholesale food markets in France : visits which proved a great deal more instructive than a thousand meals in restaurants , however good , could ever be . |
| 9 | Tonight 's gig encapsulates everything The Farm are good at — simple , terrace-anthem pop which can be entertaining and more affecting than a thousand Simon Dudfield pouts . |
| 10 | An example is the trial currently underway to see whether breast cancer screening by mammography is better yearly than every three years . |
| 11 | Fujitsu Ltd sources say that the machine being developed by Hal Computer Systems Inc in the US will be significantly more powerful than the 300 MIPS that has been reported — but 300 MIPS was for one of its Sparc chips . |
| 12 | These were more numerous and more complicated than the two groups of conformist and non-conformist boys identified by Willis . |
| 13 | ‘ I should , but this is more important than a dozen shows . |
| 14 | In the tsar 's view , the new assignment was much more important than the one Paskevich had just completed . |
| 15 | In that respect , Willy Russell has accomplished a considerably trickier feat than Dame Edna : his Shirley Valentine is a one-woman show in which the show is more important than the one woman . |
| 16 | By this time , a better designed apparatus was available than the one Gibson and Fawcett had used . |
| 17 | The riders ' warm-up will be longer by far than the eight kilometre course itself , and then comes an anxious wait . |
| 18 | Recording quality is once again hardly subtle , but it is far more vivid than the 1962 version once available on EMI ; beware a glitch in the second movement at 1′21″ which causes a fraction of a beat to be lost , possibly in order to edit out a particularly hacking cough . |
| 19 | The problem , of course , would be reaching agreement with all parties concerned , as to which events , other than the four Grand Slams , would be included . |
| 20 | Transfer can not be ordered where an Act or statutory instrument other than the 1981 Rules , eg s 17 of the Married Women 's Property Act 1982 , requires the matter to be commenced in a particular court ( Ord 16 , r 3 ) . |
| 21 | This demand system can be derived by maximizing the following aggregate profits function Γ for farmers with respect to Q 1 and Q 2 : where the aggregate production function for farmers is defined as : It is important to note that , for simplicity , the aggregate production function is of quadratic form and assumed to be homothetic , no inputs other than the two forms of fertilizers are considered , and the farmers ' output prices have been normalized to one . |
| 22 | If any member has any pictures of the Bishop 's Castle Railway , other than the two sets of four photos that the Society has issued , we would be very grateful for details . |
| 23 | The total number of eligible beneficiaries was 29 in 1963 and 32 in the subsequent relevant years and they were all persons other than the two settlors . |
| 24 | Each essay is illustrated by photographs of sites , both in Portugal and the Americas , old engravings and maps , and photographs of exceptional objects in other museums on which authors other than the eight essayists have written observations . |
| 25 | Finally , there was the fear that a solution based on any principle other than the 1949 Armistice Line would have destabilizing repercussions on Jordan and Israel . |
| 26 | O K , with erm other than the three bedrooms do you have any particular requirements , do you need a garage or anything like that ? |
| 27 | [ See p. 36626 for extension of flying rights to West Berlin to French , UK and US airlines other than the three carriers which until then had held sole operating rights . ] |
| 28 | On its commencement every proceeding is identified by a title , made up of the name of the court in which it is brought , the names of the parties and any Act ( other than the 1984 Act ) relied on to give the court jurisdiction , and by a distinguishing number allotted to it by the court office , written ( in an action ) as " Case No " or ( in a matter ) as " No of Matter " . |
| 29 | I am , however , pleased that the discussion papers now recognise that strategic planning and public transport will require special mechanisms , particularly if other than the 15 Authority option is chosen . |
| 30 | Our arguments on Friday , and still are , that we believe the two tier system is educationally beneficial than the three tier . |