Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] [noun] for " in BNC.
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1 | It now seems no more dim than the adverts for new paint , new tiles . |
2 | Discussion in the Yachting World office has taken some interesting turns lately , none more interesting than the campaign for the single black box , or the all-things-in-one instrument . |
3 | Apart from the infiltration of the local anaesthetic , when the patient will feel a prick in the back , less painful than the anaesthetic for dental work , all that is felt is a pressure on the lower spine with occasionally a faint ‘ tingle ’ in one leg which simply signifies that the needle is in the right place . |
4 | I suppose this is more of a forewarning than a request for permission , as I was going to send them this week anyway . |
5 | An upholstered stool would be much more appropriate than a coffee-table for this attractive and scholarly volume . |
6 | In Switzerland the limitation period is five years , i.e. is neither more nor less favourable than the average for a dispossessed owner . |
7 | Others were that ‘ need ’ as opposed to ‘ reasonable requirement ’ did not have to be shown , that the case for making an order against an officer of the company was stronger than it would be against a third party , that an order for oral examination ( as in Cloverbay itself ) was likely to be more oppressive than an order for the production of documents . |
8 | Imagine hosting Christmas for a similarly huge number in a disused warehouse , with nothing more sophisticated than a Portakabin for a kitchen . |
9 | This result could have been spelled out more clearly in the statutes but it seems to me to follow from the provisions of the statutes as they stand and , contrary to the argument of Mr. Page , to be no more curious than the alternative for which he contends . |
10 | Moreover , it is the doctor-counsellor as much as anyone else who needs to ask these questions , for often spending time considering these aspects of ill-health might be more helpful than a prescription for drugs . |
11 | By a majority of 56 per cent to 22 per cent , citizens found television more useful than the press for providing issue-information ( a further 22 per cent found them equally useful ) . |
12 | By a smaller majority of 48 per cent to 30 per cent , they found tele-Vision more useful than the press for providing information about party leaders ( with 22 per cent , once again , rating the two sources equally useful ) . |
13 | And that is much more important than a championship for youth next year . |
14 | Many hundreds of cousins , the majority of the proliferation that linked the Fairleys to the other great families of England , the Pagets , the Cavendishes , the Churchills , the Devonshires , and the Spencers , did not choose lives predicated totally on loyalty to the ruling house ; those who did entered a circle in which birth and wealth were of some consequence but far less important than the taste for maintaining the moral code of the élite in all its ramifications . |
15 | But with respect to foreign economic policy ( excluding the issues of our membership of the European Economic Community ) and stabilisation policy the evidence for continuity is rather more plain than the evidence for discontinuity . |
16 | The demand for narrow money M0 or M1 is likely to be more elastic than the demand for broad money M3 , M4 or M5 . |
17 | The search for general information is more difficult than the search for specific information because all directions are relevant . |
18 | Easton 's district is more prosperous than the norm for these two council districts , with an overall unemployment rate in 1981 of 9.2 per cent , compared with 19.5 per cent for the two district council areas . |
19 | It is not obvious what counts as ‘ simple ’ , ‘ complex ’ and ‘ precise ’ ; indeed , the example for Level 3 is less precise than the example for Level 2 . |
20 | ( G ) In the event of any occurrence giving rise to a dispute between a party hereto and its Insured or to a claim against a party hereto other than a claim for which this Agreement provides it shall be optional to such party upon notice thereof to suspend the application of this Agreement to such occurrence until such dispute or claim has been adjusted provided that such party shall indemnify the other party hereto against all costs and expenses incurred as a consequence of such suspension in defending its interests in a matter for which this Agreement provides . |
21 | General words will be implied in all leases ( other than an agreement for lease for a term exceeding three years ( Borman v Griffith [ 1930 ] 1 Ch 493 ) ) unless a contrary intention appears in the lease . |
22 | As for rigs other than the hair for boilie fishing there are of course plenty of alternatives . |
23 | The intention to do so must therefore be made perfectly clear , for otherwise the court will consider that the exempted party was only to be free from liability in respect of damage occasioned by causes other than the negligence for which he is answerable . |
24 | She also knew that it was probably quite beyond Mrs Bennett to appreciate that a trained nanny , even as young and nice a one as Karen , would not take kindly to being asked to do anything other than the job for which she had been engaged . |
25 | Except with the permission of the senior invigilator , no person other than the candidates for the examination and other invigilators shall be allowed in the examination room . |
26 | Neurosis is socially isolating , and there is no social concern for others based on something other than the desire for a sexual object . |
27 | Such surety covenant is of value to no one other than the owner for the time being of the reversion … |
28 | So viewed , the decision is entirely consistent with the test laid down by Best J. The benefit of the covenant to repay could not touch and concern the land because someone other than the owner for the time being of the term could take the benefit of it … |
29 | Neglecting the input current of the operational amplifier in the circuit of figure 10.11(b) compared with the current through resistance R This time , if and for the sinusoidal component of highest frequency present in the equation reduces to Clearly the circuit of figure 10.1 l(b) acts as a differentiator when , which condition is much more easily satisfied than the condition for the corresponding passive circuit of figure 4.11(a) to act as a differentiator . |