Example sentences of "than that [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it 's more than that for the seniors . |
| 2 | In traditional society this would not be regarded as sponging or parasitism , for it was felt that one 's relationship to one 's own son was no closer than that to the sons of siblings , and most people had more nephews than sons . |
| 3 | Newco will have heavy borrowings and a large number of preference shares , which means that its ability to give guarantees is low , and will almost certainly be lower than that of the vendors . |
| 4 | At Kelham he seemed to enjoy the company of the lay brothers and the students more than that of the fathers , though I fancy he enjoyed the company of the more lively minded among them , such as Father Gabriel , a shrewd and lively thinker . |
| 5 | The strength of these movements was greater than that of the Communists and made anti-clericalism and radical land reform essential ingredients in the politics of the Spanish Left . |
| 6 | Energy is then lost to the surroundings ; so the heat content of the products is less than that of the reactants . |
| 7 | Energy is then ABSORBED from the surroundings ; so the heat content of the products is greater than that of the reactants i.e. H>H , so H is positive |
| 8 | Temperature of system falls but heat content of the products is still higher than that of the reactants as heat would have to be SUPPLIED to restore the temperature to original |
| 9 | For the moment , however , it suffices to point out that our usual conception of logic — reasoning things out from abstract first principles — resembles the behaviour of the men in Gilligan 's study rather than that of the women . |
| 10 | Even with the comparatively slight knowledge we have of Mithraism and its liturgy , it is clear that many of Paul 's phrases [ in his letters ] savour much more of the terminology of the Persian cult than that of the Gospels . |
| 11 | Although he believes the Labour vote is firmer than that of the Conservatives , the cautious conclusion in his camp is that , in the range of possibilities , a Labour majority government has a slight edge over Labour as the largest party in a hung parliament . |
| 12 | Your knowledge ( or that of your coach ) of the contents of medicines must be better than that of the professionals . |
| 13 | The emancipation of the serfs had been drawn up at a time when most of the tsar 's principal advisers belonged to the age of Nicholas I. Within a year of the promulgation of the statutes , most of the chief posts in the empire were held by people whose sympathy with the new social order was greater than that of the emancipators . |
| 14 | The trouble began with the inability of the German Government to meet their reparations obligations , and with the intransigence of the French , much greater than that of the Americans or the British , towards giving them relief on politically acceptable terms . |
| 15 | Intergenerational mobility : that is , the son or daughter has a different social position ( higher or lower ) than that of the parents ( for example , a miner 's daughter might train to become a teacher ) . |
| 16 | The number of passengers carried was 11.5 million in 1913 , 7 million in 1920 , and 12 million by 1924 : the productivity of river transport rose much faster after 1921 than that of the railways , although many problems had to be overcome , as was seen with regard to the Volga fleet in Chapter 3 . |
| 17 | Polish behaviour in the plebiscite areas , though no worse than that of the Germans , did little to dispel German prejudice and fear . |
| 18 | It is evident that the defeat of the Austrian Socialists was felt more strongly in Britain than that of the Germans , who had failed to put up an armed resistance and who were divided by the struggle between the Communists and the Social Democrats . |
| 19 | Boys ' knowledge of measurement units was much higher than that of the girls : their success rates were between 20 and 30 percentage points higher on items probing this knowledge . |
| 20 | The style , however , seems decidedly later than that of the pediments and the pertinence is not sure . |
| 21 | The mean labelling index for the upper compartment ( 4+5 ) in the polyp group was , however , significantly ( p<0.05 ) higher than that of the controls . |
| 22 | Ths survival is significantly better ( p<0.01 ) than that of the patients with high grade lymphoma whose probability of survival is limited to 52% . |
| 23 | Their armour , though skilfully made and often beautiful , was far less durable than that of the crusaders . |
| 24 | His aim was for a deeper realism than that of the illustrators and photographers who called themselves Realists . |
| 25 | But there was another reason why some places were holy — not intrinsically — but through their association with a past even more venerable than that of the martyrs : the sites of the lives of the apostles and the Lord . |
| 26 | Temperature of system RISES but heat content of the products is still less than that of the rea-cta-nts as heat wou-ld have to be REM-OVED to restore the temperature to original |
| 27 | The digestion of incisors from mammalian carnivore prey assemblages is more extreme than that of the molars . |
| 28 | Despite this increased activity the power of the kings of England in their colonies was still much smaller than that of the kings of France or of Spain . |
| 29 | The method depended on pouring molten gold with a melting-point lower than that of the pieces to be joined together into the interstices between them : on cooling the separate parts would be found to have bonded together . |
| 30 | The resolution of the infra-red detectors is much poorer than that of the eyes , and so the heat image is rather crude . |