Example sentences of "than [adv] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , if such a procedure were adopted by the House it would be better to have it subject to agreement between the usual channels than merely on the diktat of the Government . |
| 2 | Nor from the point of view of the speaker , is there any hard and fast boundary between these and a non-restrictive adjective used in order to make explicit some property , when it is suspected that the hearer is unaware that it is implied by the use of the noun , as with poisonous in : ( 10 ) she threw Maisie 's lunch-box out of the window because it had a poisonous red-back spider in it Note that ( 10 ) further exemplifies the fact that whether an adjective is taken as restrictive or not depends on the rest of the entity-identifying phrase rather than just on the head noun . |
| 3 | You need to stand back from what you write and explicitly present it to your reader , commenting directly on its organisation , rather than just on the ideas it contains . |
| 4 | The chief way out of this difficulty has been for empirical studies to focus on surrogates for power , rather than directly on the exercise of power itself . |
| 5 | It is perhaps not surprising that when older pupils come to sit their leaving examinations , they generally view the prospect of the examinations without much apprehension ; this may be because most decisions about their future are taken on the recommendation of their teachers rather than directly on the basis of examination results . |
| 6 | He drank with Brendan Bracken , the red-haired Irishman who many thought was Churchill 's bastard , and slept more than once on a settee in the great man 's flat in Morpeth Mansions when they had all drunk too much whisky — although never while Churchill was in town . |
| 7 | This figure will be inflated by those who have attended more than once on a Sunday , but , provided that church-going habits do not change , you will still have an accurate trend measure over a number of years , which is our primary interest . |
| 8 | But by the introduction of student loans , and the end of free tuition , it will make entry into higher education dependent more than ever on the size of a parent 's bank balance . |
| 9 | There is now more traffic than ever on the route and any hold-ups will spill on to the surrounding routes . |
| 10 | " There seem to be more fires than ever on the hill tonight , " said Louise brightly , hoping to divert Miriam from any further discussion of the Collector 's natural functions . |
| 11 | It was unshakable in its main bastion , Britain , and elsewhere the prospects of social revolution paradoxically seemed to depend more than ever on the prospect of the bourgeoisie , domestic or foreign , creating that triumphant capitalism which would make possible its own overthrow . |
| 12 | Consciousness of all these pressures did not improve Michael Banks 's concentration and , together with fatigue , ensured that the lines were worse than ever on the Friday afternoon run . |
| 13 | At the end of the last century when Impressionism was still a dirty word in England , and anyone who bought a Monet was considered as being more than half-way on the road to Bedlam , the Americans were taking to him with something of the enthusiasm which they were then displaying for the newly discovered chewing-gum . |
| 14 | H. L. Gee knew it when he said that Edinburgh is ‘ perhaps never seen to greater advantage than late on a midsummer evening , the stones crimson in the setting sun , western windows ablaze with fire ’ . |
| 15 | Every creditor wishing to attend on the hearing must give notice of his intention to the petitioning creditor not later than 4pm on the business day before the hearing . |
| 16 | In the 1980s we have seen greater emphasis than heretofore on the voice of the consumer . |