Example sentences of "[det] [adj] than [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | What more obvious than for the allies to outflank the French right to cut their lines of communication with Vienna ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The division between two schools of thought is nowhere more apparent than in the field of Zambian foreign policy . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 " . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Energy use in industry is thought to be around 50 per cent less efficient than in the West . |
| 15 | This is nowhere more necessary than in the analysis of homophobia . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The statement that ‘ the parties that contended in turn for domination regarded the possession of this huge state edifice as the principal spoils of the victor ’ is nowhere more true than in the immediate pre- and post-colonial competition among indigenous interests for the administrative positions hitherto reserved for the imperialists . |