Example sentences of "[det] [adj] than [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nowhere is this clearer than in the debate about Europe , or rather in its absence . |
| 2 | Nowhere is this clearer than in the case of local economic policies . |
| 3 | The first full dress rehearsal occurred on July 10 and 637 aircraft took part , a few less than on the actual event . |
| 4 | The area office has a discretion to extend the time limit but can not be relied upon to exercise this other than in the most extenuating circumstances . |
| 5 | Nowhere is this truer than in the LDDC where , as well as the benefits listed above , additional incentives were available in the Isle of Dogs enterprise zone . |
| 6 | Early reviewers were more upset by the social conscience which poems like this displayed than by the outlandish verses , and did not understand why a poet should be concerned with the study of ‘ low and rustic life ’ . |
| 7 | This was much more than in the same period of 1973–75 , slightly more than in 1980 and similar to the decline in the first nine months of the 1981–82 recession . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Much more than in the Review , the concern here is with the quality of service offered to the " client " or consumer " . |
| 10 | He was still limping slightly , but much less than at the beginning of the week . |
| 11 | Having just returned from this delightful island where the people are so friendly and courteous and where the cost of living is much less than in the UK , I thought the following information could be helpful . |
| 12 | The advantage of buying in a local store in Europe is that although you have to pay local duty , it is likely to be much less than in the UK . |
| 13 | But as Nicholas Bosanquet ( 1975 , 1978 ) points out this is partly because younger people are now dependent , ill and hospitalized much less than in the past . |
| 14 | The party affiliation of the member is still the best single indicator of how he or she is likely to vote on a given bill , but party unity is very much less than in the British House of Commons . |
| 15 | On the basis of these measurements , ozone losses in the Arctic winter appear to be " not very much less than in the Antarctic spring " says Alan Plumb of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , " but the effects are less dramatic because polar ozone is being resupplied about as fast as it is being destroyed . " |
| 16 | There were , he reported , 4.2 million students in FE , many more than in the universities and ‘ polyversities ’ combined . |
| 17 | What more obvious than for the allies to outflank the French right to cut their lines of communication with Vienna ? |
| 18 | If the pond-building books fail to acknowledge Murphy 's Law , it is nowhere more evident than at the point where neat diagrams demonstrate the laying of slabs over flap of liner . |
| 19 | Curiously enough the use of phosphatic material to build hard parts is generally primitive — calcium phosphate shells are nowhere more numerous than in the earliest Cambrian . |
| 20 | If there is a twist to the plot , then it is nowhere more apparent than at the window management level where , it seems , Hewlett-Packard Co is determined to make its Visual User Environment stick . |
| 21 | If there is a twist to the plot , then it is nowhere more apparent than at the window management level where , it seems , Hewlett-Packard is determined to make its Visual User Environment stick . |
| 22 | This is nowhere more apparent than in the leafy avenues of middle-class suburbia , among the 2CV owners and Guardian readers , the teachers and social workers , where family life is pictured tumbling happily among Early Learning Centre climbing frames , glowing cosily out from safely bohemian pine-scrubbed kitchens . |
| 23 | The division between two schools of thought is nowhere more apparent than in the field of Zambian foreign policy . |
| 24 | The changing nature of ‘ town and country planning ’ is nowhere more apparent than in the area of what Circular 22/80 calls Planning and Business Activity . |
| 25 | This is nowhere more apparent than in the sixth quatrain : " Golden tongue " decently translates , but is purchased with a lame rhyme in " the shades among " . |
| 26 | They continued to evolve with undiminished vigour through the Tertiary , and their fossil remains are nowhere more abundant than in the ‘ crags ’ of later Tertiary age . |
| 27 | The concept , however , is nowhere more relevant than for the London area itself , which has recently been reaffirmed as a home of the rapidly expanding international office sector . |
| 28 | Energy use in industry is thought to be around 50 per cent less efficient than in the West . |
| 29 | This is nowhere more necessary than in the analysis of homophobia . |
| 30 | This was nowhere more true than on the northern border , where the nobles who held office as Wardens of the Marches , a system that had reached full development by the end of Edward III 's reign , were in effect allowed to maintain permanent standing armies at the Exchequer 's expense . |