Example sentences of "[noun pl] than the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Sweeter it is to my ears than the mewing of gulls ’ , she said . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Yet there is far more to the martial arts than the aggression of karate . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The construction of a written case demands perhaps even greater skills than the preparation of oral argument . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Sex is important in marriage for more reasons than the begetting of children . |
| 12 | It was sad for me that I had fallen in love with someone who did not love me , but it was not an experience I cared to repeat — for more and better reasons than the fear of pain . |
| 13 | Already by the time of Mortmain , however , the problem was less about donations of land to the religious houses than the purchase of land by them , but this too was curtailed more by monastic poverty than by statute ; in fact the king not long after this had to ban houses of which he was patron from selling their endowments . |
| 14 | ‘ I want more emphasis on the fear of deterrents than the fear of crime , ’ he said . |
| 15 | The decline of pre-marital pregnancy during the late nineteenth century was probably therefore less the product of adoption of middle-class values than the consequence of the felt loss of control over the consequence of heterosexual relations . |
| 16 | ‘ He seemed to have more chances in our draw with Spurs than the rest of the season put together , ’ said Big Ron . |
| 17 | In this game , investors borrowed dollars and other currencies according to their share in the krona basket , converted them into krona , and re-invested in Swedish securities with bigger returns than the cost of the borrowed funds . |
| 18 | Middlesbrough steel , for instance , can still be identified in the railway stations of India and Argentina : on the eve of the First World War , those countries alone bought more British iron and steel exports than the whole of Europe . |
| 19 | Britain has more professional boxers than the rest of Europe put together . |
| 20 | It has greater power in certain areas than the House of Representatives , for example the Senate can vet all major presidential appointments to the executive and the judiciary and must concur in any treaties negotiated by the President . |
| 21 | Researchers at Leicester University are monitoring 400 water sports enthusiasts , who they believe are up to three times more likely to suffer viral disorders than the rest of the population . |
| 22 | Not surprisingly the variations in salary made transfers almost as common an object of solicitation as first appointments and promotions , but requests for a change of post might , however , be occasioned by more significant matters than the possibility of attracting a few additional pounds in salary . |
| 23 | But as one source close to the mayhem warns : ‘ They are more interested in the cut of their trousers than the cut of their films . ’ |
| 24 | She and the sequels have suffered far more from changes in social attitudes and literary expectations than the rest of Rider Haggard 's adventures have . |
| 25 | They all put in their tenpenny 's worth about what they thought should be filmed , but nobody asked my opinion , and I 'd been in more films than the rest of the cast put together . |
| 26 | This personal acquaintance with higher living standards is a much more potent factor in increasing the restlessness of today 's farm workers than the influence of television and the other mass media to which it is often attributed . |
| 27 | Clearly the labour mobility programmes have transferred fewer workers than the number of jobs created by regional policies . |
| 28 | In Bristol , Augustine Birrell , MP for Bristol North , remembered that Henry Arnold Thomas , pastor of Highbury Congregational Chapel , which was home to the Wills family , was said to ‘ cut a greater figure on the Downs than the Bishop of the Diocese ’ . |
| 29 | Thus , the carcinogenic effects of a high consumption of dietary fat may be more readily produced in subjects who maintain lowered cholesterol concentrations by showing an inherently greater conversion rate to bile acids than the rest of the population . |
| 30 | IN GENERAL , nothing is surer to rally Quebeckers into the trenches than the sniff of new legislation on language . |