Example sentences of "[noun prp] than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course before nineteen forty-five the value system being emitted by the educational system and other sources in the whole of Germany , in a much larger Germany than the Federal Republic of Germany , was very different indeed from those being purveyed in the educational establishments of this country or in France . |
| 2 | He doubts ‘ whether the significance which the certainty of the law has for the smooth and efficient working of economic life can be exaggerated ’ and suggests that ‘ there is probably no single factor which has contributed to the greater prosperity of the Western world compared with the Orient than the relative certainty of the law which in the West had early been achieved ’ . |
| 3 | The sundew was used in the making of tartan to produce a fine purple , but best known of all is ( Parmelia saxatilis ) , a kind of lichen whose Gaelic name has gained more popular currency among English-speakers in Scotland than the equivalent translation , stone parmelia . |
| 4 | The impression given in both plans is of an exceptionally well proportioned and attractive building placed rather further back from the Carrickblacker Road than the present church . |
| 5 | She was also discovering that there was more to Sean O'Farrell than the frivolous charm which he presented to the world . |
| 6 | They covered that without difficulty before dark , their only delay a meeting-up with their late fellow-invaders , the Armstrongs , whom they came across at the Kershopefoot crossing of Liddel Water , driving an even larger drove of cattle from Gilsland than the main body had collected , and taking a more northerly course home . |
| 7 | Fortunately , there is much more to the recent story of the industrial co-operative sector in the United Kingdom than the depressing account of the Scottish Daily News , KME and Meriden . |
| 8 | Opposition in Parliament in the 1980s came more effectively from Conservative dissidents and the House of Lords than the Labour party . |
| 9 | Ingénue , the album she released in March , has more of the evocative purity of a Judy Garland than the relentless drawl of a Dolly Parton . |
| 10 | A nineteenth-century drunkard sobbing at the penitents ' bench found no less an ‘ answer ’ in the cross of Christ than the twentieth-century philosopher with his carefully articulated questions . |
| 11 | Chopper looks more like 'e 's on the run from Dartmoor than a bloody Salvation Army bloke . ’ |
| 12 | Without them we had been , as formerly , a Prey to every petty Invader ; and the flourishing Empire of Great-Britain would be of no more consequence in Europe than the petty Republick of Lucca in Italy . |
| 13 | The right wing within the party had shown more realism about the events in Europe than the left wing . |
| 14 | It is surprising , and possibly inappropriate , that a leading article on a middle ear condition should be written by someone who specialises in general practice , rather than by an otologist , and by someone who may be less well acquainted with the problems of long waiting times in Britain than a British specialist . |
| 15 | A group of American companies was reported to have instructed its vessels not to stray farther up the Gulf than the Saudi terminal at Ras Tanura . |
| 16 | There was no doubting that Saturday 's was a better performance for Ards than the 5– defeat by Cliftonville the week before , but goalscoring is becoming a real problem . |
| 17 | The Chancery side is much more concentrated in London than the common law side , though some Chancery chambers have now been established in the provinces . |
| 18 | Ian heard from police that the girl was more like Mandy Smith than the proverbial school girl and gave both men conditional discharges . |
| 19 | Er he said or he 's in a in a in a little trouble today for allowing two men who had sex of thirteen to go free erm a policeman told the judge that the thirteen year old was more like Mandy Smith than the proverbial school girl with pigtails but she was nevertheless thirteen and the judge said he had better not say she was no angel or the national press would have a hundred field days with him . |