Example sentences of "than [art] surrounding [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So land tends to be hotter than the surrounding sea by day , and cooler by night ; and in general , hotter in summer and cooler in winter . |
| 2 | With all reputable glues the joint , when properly made , is stronger than the surrounding wood . |
| 3 | The value of relative inheritance arises because of difference ( 6 ) — the chunk difference : for example , assume a chunk of text includes a title that is to be in a bigger font than the surrounding text . |
| 4 | The low conductivity of lithosphere contributes to this effect , it being calculated that the centre of a descending lithospheric slab may be 1000 C cooler than the surrounding mantle at a depth of 400 km . |
| 5 | Temperatures increase and material begins to rise since it is less dense than the surrounding medium : cooler , denser material moves laterally at depth to take its place . |
| 6 | Secondly , the rocks of intrusions are often more resistant to erosion than the surrounding country rock so they frequently form prominent landforms once exposed at the surface . |
| 7 | In this region , as in many others , the intruded rock is more resistant than the surrounding country rock and gives rise to prominent topographic features ( Fig. 7.26 ) . |
| 8 | Solid features such as walls tend to have a smaller amount of magnetic minerals within them than the surrounding soil , and therefore give lower readings . |
| 9 | Clearly , the mats are deposited much more rapidly than the surrounding nannofossil ooze so that the assumptions of uniform sedimentation rates between age ‘ picks ’ , upon which most palaeoceanographic techniques rely , are invalid . |
| 10 | An initial hollow , whether scoured by the wind or not , would tend to be damper than the surrounding desert and thus chemical weathering would be greater there . |
| 11 | This analogy is made on the basis that the lunar maria are more lightly cratered than the Mercurian smooth plains and have a lower albedo than the surrounding terrain , whereas the lunar highland plains are comparably cratered to the Mercurian smooth plains and like the smooth plains have a similar albedo to their surroundings . |
| 12 | On the Lantonment and river sides of the banqueting hall there had been no firing of chain shot to clear the jungle : this was partly to save powder , partly because the banqueting hall was , anyway , higher than the surrounding land and thus more difficult to surprise ; there were also natural clearings to be seen here and there where the ground was too stony for a thick growth . |
| 13 | It produces no smoke , and its heat output is so controlled that it is not much warmer than the surrounding air and therefore hard for infra-red devices to detect . |
| 14 | The air in most buildings is at a lower pressure than the surrounding air . |
| 15 | It was warmer than the surrounding air , and seemed to be emitting steam or smoke . |
| 16 | Exhaust gases from the Trionic Saab 9000CS were purer than the surrounding air as it was driven through London . |
| 17 | It is significant that these interfaces are generally weaker than the surrounding material . |
| 18 | In 22 years , croplands in Costa Rica lost 60% of their calcium and 25% of their magnesium even though the fields in the first year were higher than the surrounding forest in these ions , through ash input . |
| 19 | Looking towards the middle of the room he could just make out the hulk of the engine , even more dense than the surrounding dark . |
| 20 | It seemed that the sugar beet , being on the side of a steep hill , was well-drained and , therefore , in drier soil than the surrounding farm land . |
| 21 | The floor of my brick garage is lower than the surrounding area , and I had trouble because water kept leaking in and collecting along one side . |
| 22 | At high concentrations , the blood becomes a sort of chemical sponge , capable of drawing in whatever meagre supplies of water exist , even when the toad 's body already contains much more water than the surrounding area of soil . |
| 23 | This will prevent the seam from tightening up with the result that it could be shorter than the surrounding fabric . |
| 24 | As with other intrusions , dykes form either positive or negative features depending on whether they are more or less resistant than the surrounding rock ( Fig. 5.18 ) . |
| 25 | ( 1 ) The shape of the core and associated corona from the STIM image is consistent with the optical images in stained sections ; ( 2 ) the core is more dense than the corona , which in turn is more dense than the surrounding tissue ; ( 3 ) the elemental distribution of the plaque as measured by PIXE and RBS shows similar minor and major elemental composition to those analysed in stained plaques , that is , increased levels of elemental sulphur , phosphorus and nitrogen ; and ( 4 ) examination of stained serial sections shows similar plaque density per area of tissue , and the plaques are located in a similar position with respect to more obvious common features such as blood vessels . |
| 26 | You will not be at a level a good deal lower than the surrounding ground , so you will have to lay a hardcore base to build up the foundations to suit the path material and method of laying . |
| 27 | Water is ill at ease when situated higher than the surrounding ground , almost as if it is impatient to tumble to a lower area . |
| 28 | They may grow in Sheffield because the urban climate is slightly warmer than the surrounding countryside . |
| 29 | Wycombe too returned more nil assessments than the surrounding countryside , but the overall proportion below £2 was slightly lower . |
| 30 | The level of the roddons has probably been accentuated by the oxidation and consequent lowering of the level of the peat on either side , but the roddons are thought to have been always higher than the surrounding peat fen ( Godwin , 1938 ) . |