Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adj] than the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LUXURY TOUCH : He ordered decorators to coat the walls with an expensive marble-effect finish — about three times dearer than the standard chip paper and emulsion he had chosen earlier . |
| 2 | Few reports about this species are received annually , but these suggest that it is some three to four times scarcer than the Common Partridge . |
| 3 | During a month-long survey , Lyme Regis passed the EC 's guideline for faecal coliforms which is 20 times tougher than the basic standard . |
| 4 | When Edward Thomas entered the History Eighth at St. Paul 's in January 1894 , he was at least seventeen months younger than the seven pupils who had joined the class in the previous July or September and who were to leave it the following June . |
| 5 | They were only months older than the senior pupils , of course . |
| 6 | ‘ I can not ’ , he wrote , ‘ be party to soldiers placed under my command bringing before the Government , by channels other than the hierarchic channel , complaints or protests concerning the execution of my orders . ’ |
| 7 | Whether the parents in the sample saw themselves as consumers or not they used their right to choose ; 31 per cent sent their children to schools other than the nearest and 58 per cent would , if they were not happy , consider moving their child to another school . |
| 8 | We sometimes bill shipments in currencies other than the local currency — US$ would be an example . |
| 9 | The position of the aggregate demand curve is determined by the values of all the variables other than the general level of prices which determine the positions of the IS and LM curves , such as real government expenditure and the nominal quantity of money in the economy . |
| 10 | Attempting to dispel confusion caused by his April 24 statement announcing political reforms [ see p. 37366 ] , President Mobutu Sese Seko on May 3 outlined a timetable for the transitional period , and warned that parties other than the ruling Mouvement populaire de la révolution ( MPR ) remained unauthorized . |
| 11 | In April he had stated that only two parties other than the ruling MPR would be legalized [ see p. 37445 ] . |
| 12 | In accordance with a commitment made in September 1990 , President Kenneth Kaunda on Dec. 17 signed into law a bill approved by the National Assembly on Dec. 4 , amending the Constitution to allow for the formation of political parties other than the ruling United National Independence Party ( UNIP ) . |
| 13 | The justification advanced — and clearly it has some validity — is that medical opinion is divided , or , more important , that the legal concept is of a different nature from the medical , involving considerations other than the mere question of scientific evidence , such as notions of responsibility or the common good . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A boy next door called Rupert Entwistle had told her that if you chopped off a newt 's tail , the tail stayed alive and grew into another newt ten times bigger than the first one . |
| 16 | Measuring 30 centimetres or so across , it is many times bigger than the largest known trilobite and its armour no longer shows any signs of segmentation . |
| 17 | Her head is large with a substantial brain many times bigger than the tiny knot of nerve cells that is all that a worker possesses . |
| 18 | The six-axle lorries " six tonnes heavier than the current limit " will only be allowed to transfer freight to and from rail terminals . |
| 19 | A survey of nitrogen oxide levels in the atmosphere , also conducted by the JCCU , recorded concentrations in the Tokyo and Osaka areas higher than the 0.06 parts per million maximum level set by the environment agency . |
| 20 | Part of what is wrong with pornographic eroticism , where people are not treated as autonomous , is that it reinforces men 's desires to treat women as means , as objects , in areas of their lives other than the erotic . |
| 21 | We all land safely with no real casualties other than the odd jaundiced expression . |
| 22 | Such schemes had advantages other than the 12 per cent . |
| 23 | Those of course would have to qualify according to the rules of technical assistance and British aid , but in principle the study seminars are certainly open and we normally have people from countries other than the Third World ones . |
| 24 | The ease of use of SNMP2 is likely to speed up its rate of adoption by communities other than the local area network world . |
| 25 | This is all logical enough given Fforde 's conviction that collectivism comes from ‘ areas other than the British Conservative party ’ , but Fforde seems to forget that the Conservatives were in power for fifty-five of the 100 years from the dawn of collectivism to the edge of Thatcherism , and must , therefore , have been at least partly responsible for some of Keith Joseph 's ‘ detritus ’ . |
| 26 | Unlike Marcion , many Gnostic sects welcomed numerous gospels other than the four which were finally included in the canon , and enjoyed producing ‘ secret ’ or apocryphal gospels , acts , epistles , and apocalypses ( the choice of these and not other literary genres being a silent testimony to the existence and currency of the canonical texts ) . |
| 27 | If the court order refers to matters other than the matrimonial home it is no doubt better to keep these extraneous matters private and to prepare an abstract ( and mark the same as examined against the original order ) of the relevant part of the court order . |
| 28 | In the end , Messina reproduced much of the original Benelux position on matters other than the broad principle of the common market . |
| 29 | Greenpeace alleged in September 1990 that illegal toxic waste imports to the UK were three times larger than the legal trade . |
| 30 | Greenpeace has published an analysis showing that an illicit trade in toxic waste exists which is estimated to be three times larger than the legal trade . |