Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all his silence , he was passionate , not desolate ; if there was a sadness or loss there , it was bigger or deeper or stranger than the loss of one person . |
| 2 | The incremental cost of implementing either regimen ( US$0.08 per dose for OPV and US$0.35–0.50 per dose for IPV ) is similar to or lower than the cost of mass vaccination campaigns ( US$0.68–3.60 per dose ) , and would also be less than expansion of the routine immunisation schedule to provide even more doses . |
| 3 | A second would make it irregular for the start to be higher or lower than the finish by a factor of more than one metre for every kilometre of the distance . |
| 4 | The ABV of a beer may be similar to its OG — for example 3.6% ABV and 1036%degree ; OG but the ABV can be higher or lower than the OG according to the amount of sugar left in the finished beer . |
| 5 | Alternatively , a high SD indicates that more scores from the sample were substantially higher or lower than the mean . |
| 6 | They were no more secretive or abashed than the soldier ants would have been , gnashing their way through anything that was organic , their collective mind unclouded by doubt , guilt or the smallest hint of compunction . |
| 7 | Wrangham writes that in his observations the mounter could be either older or younger than the partner and that approaches were made in situations commonly lacking in social tension . |
| 8 | It was then as if the rotting maggot-infested flesh , or the tags of matted clothing , had already become part of the earth which clung to and enclosed them , no more unnatural or frightening than a clump of compost or a drift of decaying leaves . |
| 9 | Their games are , in fact , nothing more or less than a rehearsal prior to the performance of the activities which are the serious business of all the members of the Gikuyu tribe . |
| 10 | The commissions are to strive to ensure that no constituency varies from this quota by more or less than a quarter of it . |
| 11 | Nor did it escape the notice of other critics of the Association that a handbill , lengthily entitled " A Dialogue between Tom and Harry on the Duties of Seamen and the Just and Equitable Rewards for their Services " , was in practice nothing more or less than a statement of union policy on bargaining with shipowners and published in this form only to avoid the appearance that the Standard was more than an innocent friendly society . |
| 12 | Impressive as it is , however , Dame Edna 's show is no more or less than a star vehicle . |
| 13 | Or did the church actively create the canon in response to Marcion and other sectarian leaders whose ‘ inspired ’ writings were either more or less than the church accepted ? |
| 14 | Where , on a buy-in , the purchase price of Target 's shares is equal to or less than the subscription price ( ie , nominal value plus any share premium ) , there will not be any distribution within s209 so no ACT will be payable , but there will be a capital gains tax disposal by the shareholders . |
| 15 | Thus investment spending by firms may be greater or less than the volume of saving , government spending may be greater or less than tax receipts , and exports may be greater or less than imports , but it must be the case that a deficit or surplus in one sector is exactly offset in one or more of the other sectors . |
| 16 | If the goods delivered and accompanying invoice were for more or less than the amount recorded on the order , a correcting entry would also have to be made . |
| 17 | Numbers are serially ordered ( 1,2,3,4 … n ) as are the differences between numbers so that , for example , the distance between any pair of numbers is greater than , equal to , or less than the difference between any other pair of numbers . |
| 18 | The direction of the correction depends on whether the demand elasticity , , is greater or less than the elasticity of factor substitution in the corporate sector . |
| 19 | This was no more or less than the truth . |
| 20 | There are occasions when you get an odd fish that weighs a couple of pounds more or less than the average on that day , but to expect this to happen is foolhardy . |
| 21 | Despite the two-child family becoming the average this century , most women married since 1930 have not had two children : three-quarters had at least one child more or less than the average . |
| 22 | This is nothing more or less than an abuse of your professional integrity . ’ |
| 23 | It cost my host , Andrei Nikitenko , one US dollar to park his Lada Riva with central locking and alarm a sum equivalent to 900 roubles or more than a day 's pay for the average Russian . |
| 24 | Currently sport occupies a quarter of the BBC 's own production and 17 per cent of its total output , though the fees for broadcasting have risen by as much or more than a thousandfold for certain sports like tennis and golf . |
| 25 | Brontosaurus was 25 metres long and weighed 30 tons , while Brachiosaurus was a long-necked , lizard-hipped creature weighing 80 tons ( or more than the weight of sixteen elephants ) . |
| 26 | One can talk of an object presenting an appearance to an unoccupied point in space , and of the presentation appearance of an object itself being larger or smaller than the presentation appearance of another to that point . |
| 27 | In the example above , Smith would have a laterality coefficient of 0.20 while/ones would have a coefficient of only 0.14 It does not matter whether the score for the left side is larger or smaller than the score on the right since the sign of the coefficient , negative or positive , indicates the direction of any lateral advantage . |
| 28 | If one of a couple is disabled or older than the other , the couple will qualify for the higher amount . |
| 29 | Now in life there is nothing more defenceless or ridiculous than a man with his pantaloons about his ankles , his shirt tail raised and his mind on other matters . |
| 30 | We can not simply appeal to ‘ reality ’ and ‘ truth , as Miller and Swift do ; we can not root out prejudice by fiat nor make sexism disappear just by exposing it ; we have even less power to control what people say or mean than the prescriptivist defenders of sexist convention . |