Example sentences of "[adj -er] than [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The concept of an acquired disorder of cognition is , of course , much broader than the concept of an acquired disorder of language , but the latter concept is still extremely general ; and neurologists in the second half of the nineteenth century made it more specific in a variety of ways . |
| 2 | again there is no answer to that question , simply because the answer is so horrific , it does n't bear thinking about , but thank God all maybe safe , all will not be safe , but all maybe safe , God has provided a salvation that is available to all and if we are not safe it is because we choose to reject his s , his offers of mercy , so we thank God that all may be safe , but the solemn fact remains is that all will not be saved , well that leads us on to , to this third proposition , not only that the bible teach that all maybe saved , not only does it teach that all will not be saved , but it is quite clear that some will be saved whom we did not expect to be saved , we can be quite sure about that because judgment does n't rest with us , way back Abraham says perhaps one of the most important statements in his life when he said there in , in , in Genesis chapter eighteen and we actually sang the wo tho the quotation in the song we just sang a few moments ago where he says will not the judge of all the earth be right , judgement is not yours and mine , that 's God 's prerogative and the other song that we 've been , the song that we 've been singing , that song by faber there 's a wideness in God 's mercy lets be honest we are so narrow with our mercy , our gra , our expressions of grace is so limited , but there 's a wideness in God 's mercy and faber says it 's got the wideness of the sea , there 's a kindness in his justice , which is more than liberty , David knew all about that when he was given the option , he said oh I 'd rather fall into the hands of God than into the hands of men , I 'd rather that God dealt with me than that my fellow man dealt with me , because with him there 's mercy , with him there 's grace , with him there is , there is long suffering and there 's compa compassion and there 's love , and faber goes on with the love of God is broader than the measure of man 's mind and the heart of the eternal is most wonderfully kind , now that 's all very well for the song writer to say that in a hymn and it sounds nice and it 's , it sounds good but is there a scriptural authority for this , is it really true , or is it just a nice song that we sing with , it does us good because we feel it 's a nice , there nice thoughts , well , surely we have it in the passage we 've been reading that there is there is a mercy with God , there is a kindness with God in ver in verse thirty of that chapter behold some who are last will be first and some who are first will be last it 's quite clear that some will be saved that we did not expect to be saved , and you can find example after example of this , it was a tremendous surprise to the onlookers when a very sinful woman annoyed to the feed of Jesus , it was a tremendous surprise to the Pharisee who rejected God , although he was such a good man , to find that the , er sorry to be rejected by God although he was a good honest upright man , and to find that the sinner was accepted by God , it was a tremendous surprise to the people when Zacchaeus who named you to be a sinner , an open twist there an evil man was saved by the Lord Jesus , you could save salvation has come to this house , it was a tremendous surprise when the law breaker who was dying on the cross beside the law Jesus was saved and went to be with him , with the Lord in paradise , it was a tremendous surprise to the disciples when Jesus preached the gospel and revealed himself to a gentile woman , who was an adulterer seven times over but he did and she was saved , it was a tremendous surprise to Ananias when the Lord revealed himself |
| 3 | The work of a senior local government officer is , therefore , far broader than the confines of a single department or even a single local authority . |
| 4 | The earliest examples have straight pommel bars and guards , the latter slightly broader than the heel of the blade , and capped by a mount in the shape of a cocked hat . |
| 5 | Time was ‘ quicker than a shake of a lamb 's tail ’ . |
| 6 | Quicker than Sterland — but he was also quicker than a lot of defenders in those days . |
| 7 | Will my hon. Friend join me in paying tribute to the imaginative experiment that the Lord Mayor of London is supporting this year , in which young people go into schools to help pupils with learning difficulties and those who are quicker than the rest of the class ? |
| 8 | These skills are again evident when Tamburlaine successfully manages to woo Zenocrate with lines such as : ‘ Zenocrate , lovelier than the love of Jove ’ and ‘ Fair is too foul an epithet for thee ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ The shock waves will be felt a lot further than the streets of Tyneside . ’ |
| 10 | After the sober belches of the shoe-gazing clique ( itself a knee-jerk reaction to the brash swagger of baggydom ) , The Franks came across like circus clowns pissing around in a casualty department , all charmingly naive , astoundingly cheerful and dafter than a boardroom of brushes . |
| 11 | For me , this job is easier than a game of croquet … |
| 12 | ‘ I thought it would take too long to do but it was easier than the problems of printing . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ She 's tougher than the rest of us put together . |
| 14 | Also his playing career with us was far shorter than a lot of these blokes . |
| 15 | Zip , about 3cm shorter than the length of one side ( excluding seam allowance ) . |
| 16 | Processing times are also much reduced due to the lists of words being shorter than the lists of grams . |
| 17 | Cut the gripper strips about 40mm shorter than the width of the stair carpet so that edges wo n't show , and do the same for the underlay , which should fit from the end of each strip on the tread , over the nosing , up to the edge of the next strip on the riser . |
| 18 | If the text is shorter than the width of the block reduce the width to that of the text by dragging the handles in before you copy the text . |
| 19 | In Fig. 4.2 , for example , the three-phase currents are quickly established at the maximum value because the phase winding time constants ( 1 ins ) are much shorter than the period of each excitation ( 20 ms at a speed of 50 steps per second ) . |
| 20 | And there are a great many people , quite sane , quite balanced , quite worthy of respect , who , in the privacy of their psyches , believe in things far stranger than the divinity of Hernan Cortés . |
| 21 | For all his silence , he was passionate , not desolate ; if there was a sadness or loss there , it was bigger or deeper or stranger than the loss of one person . |
| 22 | The Northern Echo prompted a public outcry last year when it revealed how a night in the cells at Bishop Auckland police station cost £200 dearer than a room at the Savoy Hotel in London . |
| 23 | Disregarding the cases when the electric field is very large or the conductor is very hot ( beyond the scope of this course ) the electrons can not get farther than the boundary of the conductor . |
| 24 | Divisive though the national guard proposals might be , the Morning Chronicle took them up , and , being friendlier than the Globe to the radicals , did so with less of a repressive , middle-class twist . |
| 25 | Clearly Soviet oil was an attractive buy for the Cubans : Che Guevara stated that the landed price of Soviet crude was 33 per cent lower than the price at which the majors imported oil to Cuba from their Venezuelan subsidiaries , and the fact that it was a barter deal enabled the revolution to conserve its dwindling hard-currency reserves . |
| 26 | And if they did n't , the bill would probably still be lower than the price of the service charge . |
| 27 | But the most important fact requiring explanation is the depth at which the bases of the reefs occur : in other words some mechanism is required to provide for the depth at which coral is found , because this is much lower than the depth at which reef-building corals flourish . |
| 28 | If the enthalpy of the products is lower than the enthalpy of the reactants , the reaction is said to be exothermic ( see figure 5.4 ) . |
| 29 | As regards Yugoslav exports , the values reported by Yugoslavia were usually lower than the values of imports from Yugoslavia reported by the partner countries — but frequently so much lower as to be implausible . |
| 30 | For effective filtering , the ripple frequency must be very much lower than the frequency at which the series inductance becomes troublesome , and ideally the ESR must be less than the ratio of the specified ripple voltage to the ripple current . |