Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When James VI came to manhood and attempted to assert himself over both the Borderers and the disruptive Highland clans , he tended for a while to concentrate on the Highlands rather than the Lowlands . |
| 2 | At the ordinary level of society we find Richard de Derby in London , and Ingelram de Waleys ( meaning Wales , though perhaps the town near Sheffield rather than the Principality ) in Shropshire . |
| 3 | But there is a more immediate aim for striker Ian Wright who is fighting a fitness battle to return in the live Sky TV game against the club which sold him to Highbury less than a year ago and show he is still the man England need . |
| 4 | I 'm not even sure I should be letting you talk me into taking the phetam to Fraxilly rather than the FedPol . |
| 5 | But their anger appeared to be directed at the Renault rather than the Jaguar . |
| 6 | I also asked him to look at the Twyford Down plan with a view to having a tunnel under the Down rather than a cutting . |
| 7 | The voters of the Shankill Road in Belfast , traditionally the home of working class populist independent unionism , had supported Johnny McQuade rather than the UDA or UVF and McQuade had taken that vote into the DUP when he joined it in 1971 . |
| 8 | Police found the knife … the muggers found Mr Humphries less than a pushover |
| 9 | The major tournaments are now looming , Hong Kong this weekend and the World Cup Sevens at Murrayfield less than a month away , but Morgan remained adamant there is no need to feel gloomy about Scotland 's cause . |
| 10 | Officers surrounded a house in Argyle Avenue , Hounslow less than a mile from Heathrow . |
| 11 | The final text leaves this clash alone , free to speak for itself in a world where the reader believes he understands Stepan better than the narrator does . |
| 12 | From the 1660s , however , Louis XIV began to press very intransigently pretensions of this kind which had already been raised unsuccessfully by Cardinal Richelieu more than a generation earlier . |
| 13 | It did not occur to her that she valued her relationship with Prince Richard more than the love of her children , and had anyone suggested this to her , she would have been mystified ; such a comparison was impossible . |
| 14 | Educational accountability emerged in the United States earlier than the United Kingdom , where the term did not appear in an official document until the publication of the ‘ Green Paper ’ . |
| 15 | When he judged the moment was right — that he could turn the Mercedes faster than the truck driver could alter the onward rush of his mammoth — he swung the wheel to the left , switching to the outer lane . |
| 16 | Mortimer , armed with a Browning rather than a rifle , called out orders to his squad , and directed them to positions around the two-storey customs building . |
| 17 | I am not the first to suspect that the inhabitants of Massalia spent their money to ransom themselves from Catumarandus rather than the Romans from Brennus . |
| 18 | People living in a semi-detached house in Cambridge would pay £89 more than people in a similar house in Oxford simply because they were in East Anglia rather than the south-east , even though the semi-detached house in Oxford had cost much more . |
| 19 | It was reported on May 23 that Lithuania 's Salcininkai okrug ( district ) had been proclaimed autonomous by its local soviet ( council ) and that it would continue to recognize the constitution of Soviet Lithuania rather than the independence constitution . |
| 20 | The other older one had been in Chicago , moved to Washington less than a year back , and Erlich knew his name because he 'd the distinction of having run the sting in the Board of Trade 's soybean futures pit . |
| 21 | Siena is about nine miles south east and Florence less than an hour drive . |
| 22 | On balance the trading aspects of what came to be known as the Old Colonial System probably favoured England more than the colonies , though the colonial monopoly of English markets was a substantial counterweight to English monopoly of colonial trade . |
| 23 | Indeed , he has never really fitted in since Kendall brought him down from Scotland more than a year ago . |
| 24 | In the recital series , Demidenko ( inspired by a series given by the great Anton Rubinstein in Russia more than a century ago ) will explore the development of music for piano from the 18th century to the 20th . |
| 25 | It did n't take Ray Doyle more than a minute to realise that he was backing a loser . |
| 26 | Furthermore transport from one place to another could be by the River Thames rather than the roads , which were not always safe and often impassable in some weather conditions . |
| 27 | It is hard to escape the feeling that this proven hazard would not have been allowed to continue , poisoning children and adults , if the victims had been residents of Weybridge or Sloane Square rather than the Gorbals . |
| 28 | If 58 per cent expected the USSR rather than the United States ( 21 per cent ) to be the guilty party , only 40 per cent approved of American policy and 35 per cent were critical . |
| 29 | Certainly , from the beginning there were clear links with extra academic initiatives , especially in publishing : its editor for the whole of this period , R. B. McKerrow , was a partner in the publishing firm of Sidgwick & Jackson rather than an academic . |
| 30 | A UK exchange will be an RIE rather than a DIE ; overseas exchanges are usually DIEs ( which is an SIB rather than an FSA category ) but some with dealing facilities in the UK , such as the Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Mercantile Exchange , are RIEs . |