Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There is no issue more crucial at this election than the defence of the unity of our United Kingdom , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Some large companies , unsure if they are rewarding their top people adequately , have been known to commission firms to find out what the competition are paying ; who better to ask to undertake this research than the headhunters themselves ? |
| 3 | You will also need scissors , which are more convenient for this job than a knife . |
| 4 | Bizarrely , it 's a pork butcher 's shop , and there 's more to this business than a bacon slicer and a few trays of pies . |
| 5 | It was built to pump water forty feet up from Wilton Water , as the canal is much higher at this point than the source of the River Kennet . |
| 6 | The haws on C lavallei are the orange side of red and both haws and leaves seem to hang longer on this tree than the other . |
| 7 | The impact of both descriptions being names is marginally greater in this respect than the impact of both being NPs , but the difference is not substantial or reliable . |
| 8 | Their answers are more illuminating in this respect than the generalisation of the authors quoted in the first section of this paper . |
| 9 | A very important time coming up for the club , some very important games , no more important to people in this area than the game at Swindon on Tuesday night , But then away to Middlesborough , home to West Ham , still something to play for for Oxford United this season if the results keep going their way ? |
| 10 | Nothing had done more to encourage this belief than the Church with its ecclesiastical calendar and regulations concerning what could or could not be done on specific days . |
| 11 | Lash and Urry are much less guilty of this offence than a group from whom they very specifically dissociate themselves — the proponents of ‘ post-industrialism ’ . |
| 12 | Since paid work still is much more likely to be distributed this way than the reverse , there is a built-in tendency for caring responsibilities to fall on women , even without cultural expectations that women are particularly suited to these tasks . |
| 13 | However , there are predictions that he will be able to announce a lower out-turn on borrowing this year than the £7 billion forecast . |
| 14 | They are better for this purpose than the Home and End keys because they work even when the typing line containing the cursor is very short . |
| 15 | Interestingly , it is the semantic anomaly that probably makes this kind of joke far easier to translate from English into another language than the jokes which depend on sound-play or polysemy . |
| 16 | Whatever the right labels , the attitudinist agrees that no properly ethical expression can be adequately defined in purely naturalistic or even metaphysical terms but offers what he thinks a better explanation of this fact than the invocation of non-natural properties , namely that such definitions ignore valuational or emotive meaning . |
| 17 | What more natural choice for this task than the heroes of the Hammer Quest ? |
| 18 | It has been suggested ( 78 Law Notes 177 ) that it validates agreements for maintenance even if there is no other consideration for such agreement than the abstention from application to the court ; the words , |
| 19 | If there is another problem , in that the soloist seems less interested in that theme than the orchestra and prefers to go his own way , it is resolved before the end of the work . |
| 20 | If there is another problem , in that the soloist seems less interested in that theme than the orchestra and prefers to go his own way , it is resolved before the end of the work . |
| 21 | 'E knows more about that place than the guv'nor 'imself , ’ he asserted . |
| 22 | Their B vitamins , potassium and other trace elements , starch and some protein are especially significant since we are more likely to eat potatoes each day than a kiwi fruit , a posy of parsley or a bunch of blackcurrants . |
| 23 | As house prices begin to rise , you could see your loan costing less each month than the gain in your first house 's value over the same period . |
| 24 | Fuzzy Peach ( ripe peach ) , Juba ( lemon and orange ) and Camomella ( camomile ) are on sale from February 18 — less ageist than a wrinkle cream ! |
| 25 | There is no difference between government coverage and party coverage in this respect except that government has more initiative in determining the news , which means that it has more opportunity than the opposition to ensure that its coverage is favourable . |
| 26 | Jenny laughed with more enthusiasm than the witticism merited . |
| 27 | It is , however , open to the criticism that it helps to preserve the anachronistic situation in which proprietary interests receive more protection than the interest in physical security . |
| 28 | So I needed no more prompting than a letter from Sean Constable of Runcorn for me to choose Marcus Miller on Sanborn 's Hey for this month 's analysis ( enjoy your Elites , Sean ) . |
| 29 | Eric was on the bench , the game was a bit grim , but the Leeds were making more noise than the Spurs . |
| 30 | I could see Myrtle Augee , Mary Berkeley and Tessa Sanderson , all waving and shouting , seeming to make more noise than the rest of the stadium . |