Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [noun] than [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little doubt that it was the labour shortage which caused the shift to leasing , but although this provided more revenue than persistence in demesne farming would have done it still left the landowner with reduced resources . |
| 2 | A PWR was economic , displacing old plant ; it was a good thing because it used other fuel than coal , or , rather , it was in line with the |
| 3 | But no subject received more attention than Mathematics and no curriculum project then or since has received such massive support as the Entebbe programme and its successors . |
| 4 | With nostrils at the end of a proboscis-like beak , conspicuous ears and unable to fly , it seemed more mammal than bird . |
| 5 | Once there , Ursula poured more gin than tonic into a tumbler and drank at least a quarter of it in one gulp . |
| 6 | Austen Chamberlain made no secret of his belief that coalition produced better government than party . |
| 7 | The ministry thought that decentralisation of planning control to area committees of the planning authority produced better results than delegation to another elected body . |
| 8 | In an argument no doubt intended to be attractive to Manchester 's merchants and employers — local abolitionists had specifically asked him to write on the impolicy of slavery and the slave trade — he declared that freedom produced cheaper labour than slavery . |
| 9 | Taken together with the replacement of the solid , load-bearing external walls by rows of brick piers flanking narrower infill panels , this development allowed the area of window relative to wall to increase to a maximum in the 1900s when the façades of mills became more glass than brick . |
| 10 | Mania made more sense than reason . |
| 11 | Other fish with parental care , like pit-spawning cichlids , or bubble-nesters , lay more eggs than egg scatterers , but fewer than mouthbrooders . |
| 12 | Because it is closer to the Sun than Earth , Venus probably contained less water than Earth . |
| 13 | He made himself stare into the eyes in which , to his discomfort , he saw more pain than anger . |
| 14 | Both BBC-TV and ITV , both early and main evening news , all followed the same trend : they all screened more presentation than controversy until the third week ; then they screened between two and four times as much controversy as presentation in the third week , before reverting to more presentation at the end of the campaign . |
| 15 | It looked more silver than gold on this dull , overcast day . |
| 16 | He had always hated Jews — the pogrom was the way to deal with them — and a beating gave more satisfaction than use of a gun . |
| 17 | But the operation lasted less time than thought and generated large savings for Nuclear Electric . |
| 18 | ‘ Listen , freak , that DK had more bottle than Express Dairies and if you — ’ Ace stopped and lowered her arm . |
| 19 | The gravel sweep had more sand than gravel on it and the places which vehicles did not pass over were weedy . |
| 20 | So Chelsea had more reason than alliteration to fear a third successive failure to reach the third round . |
| 21 | Brando was no matinée idol heady with wine , or movie star who had more chemistry than talent . |