Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Porter , an Australian ex-patriate who knows more about European culture than almost anyone , the old creative-writing nag about ‘ No ideas but in things ’ becomes ‘ No things but in ideas ’ — in The Chair of Babel ( Oxford , £6.99 ) it seems to work just as well . |
| 2 | Existing member states , such as the UK , therefore were to receive relatively less in terms of regional aid than previously , although this could in part be compensated by the general increase in the size of the Structural Funds . |
| 3 | He now realised that he needed to redefine his criteria for book selection to include material of broader interest than merely that which would fit in with his teaching : You buy your library books with a different set of criteria than the sort you use when you are trying to choose a textbook , and I had to restrain myself and think : " Well , I would n't like this , but maybe there is somebody who would . |
| 4 | Given these conditions of campaigning it is not surprising that when they get to Washington legislators are even more inclined towards individualistic behaviour than before , and even less responsive to the appeals of party leaders and presidents . |
| 5 | In these other bodies of law we see more influence of foreign law than elsewhere in our legal system . |
| 6 | It would have been unlikely were it not for the introduction of the microcomputer , and in the UK the installation of microcomputers in large numbers of secondary schools has stimulated perhaps more of this work than anywhere else . |
| 7 | And by 1874 , Richard Fynes , a historian sympathetic to the miners could write : ‘ Experience , however , proved that [ the lamps ] were the most deadly instrument ever devised in mining operations and were the cause of more sacrifice of human life than ever had occurred before . ’ |
| 8 | To give an example : a leak in the roof of one 's garden shed would probably be seen as less in need of urgent action than exactly the same defect in the roof of one 's home or car . |
| 9 | We are producing more goods in our factories of better quality than ever before , how can there yet be a recession ? |
| 10 | The compromise brought a clearer distinction between the spiritual and temporal aspects of ecclesiastical office than ever before : it abolished lay intervention in conferring the symbols of ecclesiastical office , while conceding that the temporalities remained within the secular domain . |
| 11 | Counselling sensitivity and insight can often be of more value than strictly medical knowledge . |
| 12 | Frequently , the soundtrack was of higher quality than both plot and script — as Ice-T observed when piecing together ‘ Pimps , Players And Private Eyes ’ , a currently in-demand import compilation that features ten of the most potent soundtrack cuts from blaxploitation 's golden age , thus fulfilling a life-long ambition . |
| 13 | THE Hampshire County Youth Choir were formed last October to give young people aged 15 to 20 years the opportunity to take part in a higher standard of choral singing than perhaps would be open to them at their schools or colleges . |
| 14 | It was an achievement of greater significance than merely explaining some puzzling data . |
| 15 | Economic and social factors now loom large , and can be seen as being of greater importance than purely land use matters , though the courts would not necessarily accept such a line of reasoning ( as , for instance , when Lord Widgery held that the London Borough of Hillingdon could not impose a condition that the occupants of a private housing development should be people on the council 's waiting list ) . |
| 16 | Meantime there was greater need for unity , greater need for national composure than ever . |
| 17 | At a time when professional astronomers keep the sky under closer scrutiny than ever before , Alcock 's world-beating achievements rank him with great observers of the past , such as the famous French comet hunter Charles Messier . |
| 18 | for physics there is only one true measurement from any one position , and it can be more accurate than ever before ; writing and painting communicate look and feel from a viewpoint with more sophistication than ever before ; with a Cubist vision which constructs reality from the different facets exposed from different angles one is better orientated than ever before . |
| 19 | She cradled the phone with more force than strictly necessary , just as Jack Lawrence strolled past in his black leather gear . |
| 20 | ‘ No sooner is the dish empty than it is filled again — and with more food than before ! ’ |
| 21 | A new race of novelists may result , making it possible to refute with more confidence than hitherto B. S. Johnson 's fear that the British novel has never fulfilled the huge potential created by the irruption of modernism into the literature of the twentieth century . |
| 22 | Since the human eye moves horizontally with less fatigue than vertically , the cone of vision tends to be flattened . |
| 23 | Section 239 gives the court a like power in respect of a transaction by a company which has put a creditor or guarantor into a better position in the event of the company going into insolvent liquidation than otherwise would have been the case . |
| 24 | THE HARDLINE leadership in East Germany is today under greater pressure than ever following the weekend demonstrations in East Berlin — the biggest show of social unrest in the East German capital since the doomed workers ' uprising of June 1953 . |
| 25 | The economic climate on Merseyside is now very conducive to development … enabling us to define preferred strategies with greater flexibility than hitherto . ’ |
| 26 | The strengthened assertion ( " wo n't " vs. " would n't want to " ) and the build-up to a climax are already there in B's turn even without the code switch from London English to Creole : " fresh air " is mentioned three times , each time with greater prominence than before , and the overall impression is of a crescendo which reaches its climax with the final " fresh air " . |
| 27 | These tutors are to be empowered with greater responsibility than previously when new membership standards are instituted . |
| 28 | Some psychologists are now investigating , with greater interest than previously , phenomenological and transpersonal experience . |
| 29 | Wordsworth was soon writing verse with greater confidence than ever before . |
| 30 | When he stood up , brushing his hands , the dogs came at him , barking with greater confidence than before , as if they had learnt his secret and wanted to tell . |