Example sentences of "[det] than [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great majority of its members were more attracted to this than to the abuse from the Communists or to the dissensions of the ILP . |
| 2 | Centromeres are portions of the DNA that hold the two halves of a divided chromosome together , and it is reasonable to suppose that the centromeres of a given species would be more like one another than like the centromeres of another species . |
| 3 | ‘ Guys like Stefan and Boris will be more pumped up for that than for a preparation tournament . ’ |
| 4 | Dickens 's Will Fern , with first-hand knowledge of life inside one , complains of this female tendency : ‘ It looks well in a picter , I 've heerd say ; but there a n't weather in picters , and maybe ‘ t is fitter for that than for a place to live in . ’ |
| 5 | The gradual assimilation of minority nationalities , moreover , has operated less to the advantage of the Russian population as such than to the advantage of the larger nationalities in general , Russians included . |
| 6 | Village clusters are fewer than on the mainland . |
| 7 | At the western end of the Vale of the White Horse in Berkshire dairy farming afforded greater opportunities to smallholders , and poor labouring folk were far fewer than on the Downs . |
| 8 | Not only are there few people in the Highlands and Islands , but they are much fewer than in the past ( see Appendix 2 ) . |
| 9 | Here the workers were fewer than in the machine shop , and shyer — perhaps because they were mostly Asian . |
| 10 | However , a spring sowing of such seed will produce some plants , though the number will be fewer than from a summer sowing . |
| 11 | There was , however , room for two pages of details of other excerpts records in the same series : why anyone would be any more interested in these than in the Humperdinck if they had not more information than that supplied with this CD was not clear . |
| 12 | We should not , however , expect a question for the initial verb alone since this is only possible in English for verbs which describe something as being , in some as yet ill-defined sense , " done " to their objects : ( 69 ) what did Rafferty do to the cistern ? and this can not be claimed for the verbs preceding clausal adjectives any more than for a verb which precedes an explicit subordinate clause . |
| 13 | There are now 242 shops , 31 more than at the start of the year . |
| 14 | Veloso said that 5,600,000 people were now displaced or affected by the emergency , 1,000,000 more than at the time of the April appeal . |
| 15 | There are almost 6,600 workers at the plant , roughly 300 more than at the end of last year , after transfers from East Fishkill , New York . |
| 16 | Rain can thrash its surface , wind can chop it up , and the carp still have to be outwitted ; probably even more than on a water where the natural food is less abundant and the carp are smaller and therefore not so cautious . |
| 17 | If they are rich , they can spend more on it , and will ; but there is no calculus which can tell us the optimum amount that we ought to spend on education , any more than on the relief of suffering and the cure of the sick , or on the arts . |
| 18 | Any assessment on the beneficiaries to income tax can never be more than on the £65 grossed up . |
| 19 | But if talk of a right were insisted upon it would be seen as no more than as a flourish of personification to emphasise that the trustee had legal obligations towards the grave . |
| 20 | Fa : During that week that he had that he was in absolute agony and night time seemed to affect him more than during the day . |
| 21 | Therefore , as you cross the middle marker on final , your localiser displacement should be no more than between the circle and one dot . |
| 22 | If you 're driving in a flash car , driving a porsche you 'll pay more than in a mini . |
| 23 | Perhaps even more than in the case of energising Anglican evangelical clergymen like William Marsh , in the ranks of evangelical nonconformity the powerful leadership of some ministers shaped the attitudes of chapel communities and led them into collaboration across denominational and church/chapel lines . |
| 24 | Even more than in the case of war , political sociologists have tended to neglect the more subtle , less blatant influences which affect political change . |
| 25 | No more than in the West , therefore , could the emergence of effective trade unions and moderate political representation for workers have been expected to reconcile the most radical sections of the working class to capitalism . |
| 26 | Is he aware of the report by the Henley Centre for Forecasting , which states that , in the first nine months of this year , 12,359 small businesses failed in London and the south-east , which is more than in the whole of last year and shows an alarming and continuing increase in business failures in our capital city ? |
| 27 | In this low undergrowth their disorganized progress and uneven , differing rhythms of movement delayed them still more than in the wood . |
| 28 | A full-price CD retails around A$28 ( about £11.50 or US$21 ) , not significantly dearer than the UK but much more than in the USA . |
| 29 | There was always such a lot of scope in hospitals , certainly far more than in the Army sick room . |
| 30 | Nowhere more than in the repeal movement was the link between philanthropic work and an emergent feminist discourse more clearly visible . |