Example sentences of "[noun pl] than [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ministers may claim that the final decision was influenced by some other considerations than the objections of MPs . |
| 2 | For the elderly , the history of welfare provision seems to have been less a story of steady progress over the centuries than an oscillation between phases of relative generosity and meanness . |
| 3 | Come to that , she had much better legs than a man of Gav 's mental age deserved . |
| 4 | I glanced over , thinking that she had much better legs than a woman of her age deserved . |
| 5 | And yet , many will draw some sour satisfaction from the fact that the stockbroking trade , with its air of effortless mystique and superiority , is clearly no better at computers than the rest of us . |
| 6 | It will cost more to repair the burnt valve seats and valves than the saving on fuel . |
| 7 | It is often easier to chart the high points of labour disputes than the realities of everyday life . |
| 8 | Interestingly , the dementia from this disease has different characteristics than the symptoms of Alzheimer 's . |
| 9 | Nothing better illustrates the social balance in the party and the fierce independence of the local parties than the argument about the selection of working-class candidates . |
| 10 | ‘ Sweeter it is to my ears than the mewing of gulls ’ , she said . ’ |
| 11 | Of all of the appointments which might easily be held by a resident freeholder , none was more attractive to many gentlemen than the post of collector of supply . |
| 12 | Many artists are now drawn to it , and find that it has other attractions than the records of the burial of kings : they love to paint the children who come to meet the tourist with wave-worn pebbles from the sacred isle , and also the scenery of Mull , and the many lochs that indent that isle of bold headlands and rugged mountains masses , as they are seen from Iona . |
| 13 | As a Scottish paper remarked at the time , it was not his first dismissal , ‘ Bremner has had more early baths than a miner on night-shift . ’ |
| 14 | There were few things more calculated to endear a prince to his subjects than a display of stern retribution on unjust officials . |
| 15 | His Lordship will need to assess whether the nudity involved in the depiction of this is more corrupting to young eyes than the safety of the encounter is exemplary . |
| 16 | Yet there is far more to the martial arts than the aggression of karate . |
| 17 | The Moving Picture World described how ‘ the nickel palace of amusement made its appearance with no greater blare of trumpets than the noise of its phonograph horn and the throaty persuasions of its barker ’ and ‘ how these came unobtrusively in the still of the night ’ . |
| 18 | The credit strength of some — especially those that face less balanced regulation or are slower to realise operating efficiencies than the industry as a whole — could come under pressure short-term . |
| 19 | Above all , the elections have provided a shot in the arm for the Christian right , proving , first , that blacks and Hispanics are more likely to listen to Baptist ministers and Pentecostalist preachers than the likes of Mayor Dinkins and Joseph Fernandez , and , second , that when it comes to gay sex , fundamentalists and Catholics are more than willing to co-operate with each other . |
| 20 | Although detailed consideration of these lies beyond the scope of the present book , l it is worth noting that they raised more specifically social and economic grievances than the risings of the fifteenth century . |
| 21 | Bearwood is so designed that the ladies get no closer to the offices than the door between the transverse and the butler 's corridor . |
| 22 | There were no warmer or more enthusiastic supporters than the BDDA in the reconstitution of the Institute , and there has always been harmonious co-operation between the two . |
| 23 | If the business is a service industry , the purchaser will be more interested in the staff and existing contracts than the state of the plant and machinery if any . |
| 24 | The construction of a written case demands perhaps even greater skills than the preparation of oral argument . |
| 25 | I 've gone it alone more times than a hermit with attitude . |
| 26 | It is this too which causes me personally to be deeply resentful of the practice so prevalent in the mass of fiscal and planning legislation of relegating provisions of real substance to Schedules which are sometimes cross-referenced between one another , so that construing the statute becomes a sort of verbal jigsaw puzzle that can only be solved by laying out numerous copies of the Act open at different pages or by the judicious use of more fingers than the number with which nature has been pleased to endow us . |
| 27 | Clearly , the issues are less about individual technologies than the requirements of this new order in European education and training . |
| 28 | Is not the Prime Minister saying that he has used all the influence that he can muster to ensure that working people in Britain have fewer rights and less protection against bad employers than the rest of Europe ? |
| 29 | Teacher : Definitely I have come across incidents where I have actually seen teachers pick on children for no other reasons than the colour of their skin . |
| 30 | Sex is important in marriage for more reasons than the begetting of children . |