Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [noun] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is at variance with the unwritten law of our party system ; and there is no clearer statute in that unwritten law than the rule that party claims should always weigh very heavily in the disposal of the highest appointments … |
| 2 | This authority is taking a somewhat different view to that public inquiry than the erm the highways authority er after shire hill er erm so I I think if we were to take a decision tonight it could affect our position at the public inquiry adversely er and I would not want us to get into that situation so I think to some extent er councillor timing on this motions is wrong and we should n't be be er discussing it now . |
| 3 | In Nunn 's way of orchestrating the scene , however , the forced merriment comes across like the willed time-killing in Three Sisters , less the whiling away of a few specific minutes than the attempt to shake off a pervasive ennui . |
| 4 | It was less a matter of some technical revelation than the fact that , after a difficult first 18 months with Zachary , this once fiery soul learned to put things into perspective . |
| 5 | Their utilisation and redistribution occurs at another organisational level than the ecosystematic , the economic level . |
| 6 | For me , there is no finer way to appreciate this extraordinary beauty than an early morning spent fly fishing for salmon in the tranquil waters of the Dee , with the sun slowing rising above the mountains and not another soul in sight . |
| 7 | Answer guide : An opportunity cost is defined as the maximum benefit which could be obtained from a resource if it were used for some alternative purpose than the opportunity under consideration . |
| 8 | How much taller was this polar bear than an average man ? |
| 9 | For all their mutual confidence in each other and their shared patience — although one suspects from the records that the navigator had more of this essential quality than the adventurer — each brought his own special talents to this technique of beach reconnaissance . |
| 10 | There is little enthusiasm among voters for a coalition government and more would prefer another general election than an arrangement between either the Conservatives or Labour and one of the minor parties . |
| 11 | Trying to build a culture on the basis of some other food ( the potato ? ) or some other animal than the llama ( the cow ? ) . |
| 12 | It was a question bristling with the lingering doubt that some other procedure than the transfusion of blood may be necessary and may be imperative for her health . |
| 13 | I do n't really know why I always went unless it was to remind myself that I too had once come from some other world than the one in which I lived . |
| 14 | Ministers may claim that the final decision was influenced by some other considerations than the objections of MPs . |
| 15 | Any parent who has had an insomniac or hyperactive child will know the situation in which interruption of sleep over a long period frays tempers and seeks some other scapegoat than the child ; husband and wife may end in screaming at each other across the bedroom . |
| 16 | Ramsay was perhaps less respectful towards this lofty assemblage than a young knight ought to have been , in his concern for the Berwick situation . |
| 17 | And what better time to consider this dead end than the twentieth anniversary of 1967 , that pivotal point at which sixties beat music leapt into the beyond , and the very notion of ‘ the progressive ’ was born . |
| 18 | Yet no less an authority on such international issues than the SRU 's chief executive , Bill Hogg , confirmed over the weekend that such a thing is theoretically possible . |
| 19 | Clearly there is more to such cross-species communication than a merely self-centred ‘ survival of the fittest ’ . |
| 20 | Firstly , the small stools of Western man will have a higher concentration of these cancer-inducing substances than the large diluted stools of the fibre eater . |
| 21 | The great rectangular block on which are inscribed the one-sixtieth fractions of the allied tribute which were ‘ paid ’ to the goddess Athena has room for one fewer annual list than the available years , and the most likely solution from a technical point of view is that no one-sixtieth was paid to Athena in 449 . |
| 22 | Of interest too was the finding that high-risk subjects who did not experience a breakdown had fewer perinatal problems than the low-risk subjects . |
| 23 | The bulls are in demand for use as beef sires in dairy and suckler herds and the calves are small enough to cause far fewer calving problems than the offspring of breeds such as the Charolais , Blonde d'Aquitaine or Maine-Anjou . |
| 24 | The centre boasts fewer sporting facilities than the Lompoc prison camp in California , which offered inmates the chance to improve their tennis and basketmaking skills . |
| 25 | The power of pop is situated in so many other places than the good song , or good intention — in the strange , the intolerable , the unattainable , the curiously sexual . |
| 26 | They had my permission , of course , but they preferred to be discreet about it — and what more discreet place than the engine-room ? |
| 27 | The digesta version , contrary to its usual practice , seems to have struck out more unnecessary detail than the responsa , such as the lengthy description of the debts and the circumlocution referring to the time the will was made . |
| 28 | In 1821 the former guerrilla leader Mina , an advanced liberal , recognized that a canon of Pamplona had more popular power than the provincial parliament of Navarre . |
| 29 | He said I should have more adequate protection than a burglar alarm . |
| 30 | The new comprehensive schools , educationalists complained , seemed to have less social mixing than the old grammar schools had done . |