Example sentences of "by [adj] [noun] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Mrs Currie said her famous one-liner about eggs and salmonella , the egg consumption in this country plummeted by an incredible 30% , more or less overnight , and she achieved far more by that sentence than the entire medical profession had achieved in 20 years . |
| 2 | This has sometimes led to social divisions between newcomers and locals , as mentioned in chapter 1 , although the more remote rural areas are less affected by this influx than the accessible countryside . |
| 3 | The struggle to end capitalist wage labour can not be helped by women opting out and can only be undertaken by a working class that is less divided by male domination than the present one . |
| 4 | It does appear that the non-enrollers were more likely to be affected by personal circumstances than the migrants . |
| 5 | The British Government had cut the overseas aid budget by more money than the two charities had ever raised in their entire histories — and neither the media nor the general public had produced a murmur of protest . |
| 6 | But other languages like Telegu , Bengali , Marathi , Tamil , Urdu , Gujarati , Kannada and Malayalam can hardly be ignored ; each is probably spoken by more people than the population of 145 of the member-states of the United Nations . |
| 7 | Even so , the obvious incorrect answer 15 was given by more pupils than the correct answer . |
| 8 | If a linguistic feature ( like rising intonation or the word darling ) is used more by one sex than the other , or if norms and standards differ from one group to the next ( for instance , it is less acceptable for women to swear ) then we are dealing with a sociolinguistic sex difference . |
| 9 | Whereas most differences are of a sex preferential kind — that is , certain forms are used significantly more by one sex than the other — a number of languages have what are called ‘ sex-exclusive markers ’ : forms that are used only by women , or only by men . |
| 10 | For both regional and world-wide studies , archaeological interpretation is based more on an assessment of evidence and arguments put forward by other archaeologists than an assessment of primary data . |
| 11 | Because regional health authorities will be concerned to prioritise resources , especially in the market-driven planning now prevalent in the national health service , they are more likely to be influenced by financial consideration than the clinical needs of a nursing staff trained in all specialties . |