Example sentences of "[noun sg] than the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recollettas our Spanish investment paid off handsomely , profits more than doubled and Marker is er , the seven day a week sports paper , is now the er second biggest paper in Spain and has a higher readership than the first paper . |
| 2 | Such effects emphasize that the immediate economic dominion which Europe appeared to enjoy in 1880 was really less important for the future than the gradual integration of the whole world with the European industrial and commercial system . |
| 3 | A quick glance at the specifications that Detroit 's idea of a '90s performance saloon has more in common with current European thinking than the muscle-bound 7-litre American V8 's of the '60s and '70s . |
| 4 | The new Carrera 4 is a significantly better car than the old rear-drive 911 . |
| 5 | Does he agree that if the distribution of Government grant were seen to be fair , local residents would not only be able to assess the performance of local authorities but would begin to see that our new council tax is a far better deal than the uncosted return to the rates — or , even worse , the uncosted local income tax — proposed by the Opposition parties ? |
| 6 | Both groups trained to attend to the sounds of words were significantly better at reading and spelling at the end of the study than the untrained group . |
| 7 | He insisted : ‘ Lady Thatcher did more to help British industry than the Labour Party has ever done . ’ |
| 8 | In spite of the reduced and indeed reducing turnover that we have had in the past 12 months , 1992 provided a better financial result than the previous year . |
| 9 | The value of relative inheritance arises because of difference ( 6 ) — the chunk difference : for example , assume a chunk of text includes a title that is to be in a bigger font than the surrounding text . |
| 10 | The book assumes that by now the reader is accustomed to disappointment and knows more about the tragedy of defeat than the drunken elixir of triumph . |
| 11 | David Scott , for example , complained that he got so many requests for Indian patronage from the council of St. Andrews that if the remaining burghs in his district were to seek aid in proportion to the size of their communities it ‘ would require more patronage than the whole East India Direction have in their gift ’ . |
| 12 | She slipped into a frock made of less tape than the average cassette . |
| 13 | Investment expenditure I is also assumed to be exogenous in our model , with factors such as business confidence and the expectations of entrepreneurs being considered more important determinants of the level of investment than the current level of income . |
| 14 | It was noticeable in our study that oesophageal peristaltic dysfunction was a commoner and more pronounced abnormality than reduced lower oesophageal sphincter pressure , which suggests that impaired oesophageal clearance may play a larger part in the pathophysiology of this condition than the defective barrier function of lower oesophageal sphincter . |
| 15 | Subjective awareness ( a positive answer to the question ‘ Do you feel low ? ’ ) occurred at a lower blood glucose concentration than the initial adrenaline response but the threshold was identical for the two insulins ( 2.5 ( 0.1 ) mmol/l ) . |
| 16 | Better a little fish in a big pond than the other way round ? ’ |
| 17 | I should have preferred that to be put in a more positive light than the hon. Member for Fife , Central was able to do . |
| 18 | It is simply necessary to ensure ( a ) that no strong stem contributes to the score of a record which is indexed under the corresponding weak stem , and ( b ) that a strong stem , if distinct from the corresponding weak stem , has lower weight than the weak stem . |
| 19 | Kirkwood ( who adopts the Prague School rather than the Hallidayan definition of theme and rheme ) , suggests that placing an element in initial position will give it a certain prominence but that it will still ‘ carry less weight than the actual rheme ’ . |
| 20 | The French investors are starved of the kind of new issues common to the British market -big , well-publicised privatisations or pseudo-privatisations aimed more at the general punter than the institutional investor . |
| 21 | The MX-3 , at 166ins long , is more a Volkswagen Corrado rival than the anticipated threat to the Honda CRX . |
| 22 | A number of respondents noted that franchising would probably be as , if not more , suitable for legal aid administration than the green form scheme . |
| 23 | Normally , a flock of almost 3000 sheep was kept , producing a better grade of wool than the usual run of scraggy downland animals . |
| 24 | Second , the judicial powers of the Council were greater in practice than the official limit , a five-hundred-drachma fine : Aristophanes speaks as if the proposal to execute the poet Euripides was a Council matter ( Thesmophoriazusai 1.79 ) , and in the 360s the Council put to death a political assassin on the island of Keos ( Tod 142 = HD 55 ) . |
| 25 | Afro-Asian aspirations for more speedy decolonization than the British Government thought wise , or indeed practicable , were already causing concern in the aftermath of Suez . |
| 26 | And that is one of the reasons why , in contemporary Britain , the " fringe benefits " which attach to a job , which are paid in kind rather than money , e.g. the use of a company car , are often of greater concern to the recipient than the precise quantity of the money wage . |
| 27 | This thought had no sooner crossed his mind than the good dame noticed his bloodstained sleeve . |
| 28 | Now more of a sex vixen than the innocent girl next door it remains to be seen if one can retain her teeny bop audience while aiming for the ( slightly ) more mature rock audience . |
| 29 | It 's becoming sort of fairly topical erm where there , and it is , more perhaps related to the fear of crime than the actual crime itself , where , people are afraid to go out for fear that they 're going to be personally attacked , whether it be you know , answering the door at night in their own homes , or actually , you know , going to their cars . |
| 30 | In our study , significantly more miners complained of anorexia and weight loss than the general population , as shown in an earlier published report . |