Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [adj] [noun] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that in these experiments there is no evidence for differentiation may mean only that differentiation produces less powerful effects than does mediation . |
| 2 | The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation 's representative in Addis Ababa , Hans Dall , says Ethiopia receives less foreign aid than any other developing country — $8 per person per year . |
| 3 | Her disadvantages are : I. That she has less technical skill than a man and is not so useful all round . |
| 4 | Now that the line has been fitted , the residuals tell us how actual chronic sickness rates differ from expectations formed on the basis of death rates ; the West Midlands region , for example , has less chronic sickness than you would expect from its death rate , but East Anglia has more . |
| 5 | Resolving the question of whether palaeocurrent flow in Torridonian Scotland was predominantly westerly or northerly is important to those interested in Scotland 's geological history , but has less external interest than the solution of the genetic code problem had for all biologists . |
| 6 | However , I have argued that this need not be so ; the classical perspective , in the basic form laid down by Beccaria , has much greater potential than has been exploited so far . |
| 7 | The US-style new issue system has much lower commissions than its Eurobond counterpart . |
| 8 | I hope that this will not happen because CPRW has much wider objectives than the Park Society . |
| 9 | ‘ This classical music has much better tunes than dance music and I do n't seem to get tired of them nearly so easily . |
| 10 | British and W European race of Lesser graellsii has much paler mantle than Great , with contrasting black wing-tips , but in Scandinavian race fuscus mantle often as dark as Great . |
| 11 | However , to avoid irrelevant uncertainties that might result from relying on assumptions about particular situations , we offer in ( 5 ) examples that actually meet the unnecessarily strict requirement of inclusion on the type level , but which we might reasonably claim as sentences that could be used by ordinary speakers in the right circumstances : ( 5 ) ( a ) some of the Buddhists were sheltered in Islamic mosques ( b ) the carnivorous leopard has much larger teeth than an antelope ( c ) after the barren desert , Kano is like a garden 7.2 It will be immediately evident that the distinction between restrictive and non-restrictive does not concern any difference of intensional structure in the narrow sense , either in the relations involved , or in the nature of the elements related . |
| 12 | Domesticated grain contains less crude protein than its wild counterpart , and a higher percentage of carbohydrate . |
| 13 | The status consciousness argument really needs more convincing evidence than this experiment before we can take it as proven . |
| 14 | Today we launch our campaign , as the Community Care Act causes more elderly people than ever to rely on the six million people who care for relatives at home . |
| 15 | HALF WAY through the play you will have seen a walking table , several fast opening doors , the rapid interchanging of numerous couples , and a hotel foyer that is busier than Piccadilly Circus and has more familiar faces than your family tree . |
| 16 | HALFWAY through the play you will have seen a walking table , several fast opening doors , the rapid interchanging of numerous couples , and a hotel foyer that is busier than Piccadilly Circus and has more familiar faces than your family tree . |
| 17 | HALF WAY through the play you will have seen a walking table , several fast opening doors , the rapid interchanging of numerous couples , and a hotel foyer that is busier than Piccadilly Circus and has more familiar faces than your family tree . |
| 18 | Citicorp , which has more real-estate problems than any other bank — $1.2 billion in 1992 ( see chart on page 102 ) — plans to sell its properties slowly . |
| 19 | has more technical expertise than those lower down ; |
| 20 | The Scottish Office has more civil servants than the European Commission There has been a qualitative change in the call for devolution . |
| 21 | Benn is too much a product of his comfortable and intensely high-minded background to be able to understand why the common man ( let alone the common politician ) has more vulgar aspirations than plain living and high thinking . |
| 22 | The Alpine heartland is cold but still has more dry days than wet . |
| 23 | The food in some areas has more regional character than others but there are fine meals to be had if you ask around . |
| 24 | London has more international banks than any other city on the globe . |
| 25 | Dataease 4.5 has more good points than it has problems . |
| 26 | Britain has more professional boxers than the rest of Europe put together . |
| 27 | Cauterets in fact has more healing waters than it knows what to do with , for on the roadside outside the town you pass small , steaming escapes of water as yet untapped . |
| 28 | Even a modest PC has more raw power than an Amiga 600 or Atari ST and comes with hard , as well as floppy , disks , allowing programmers to include more levels and better graphics . |
| 29 | The island already has more hazardous plants than any other part of Britain . |
| 30 | The 1990s student — whether at primary or secondary school level — has more sophisticated tastes than ever . |