Example sentences of "than that [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ministry in the home never has a lower priority than that outside the home . |
| 2 | In two Utah mining countries ( Carbon and Emery ) , the age and sex adjusted death rate for gastric cancer was 3.4 times higher than that for the rest of the state overall , and eight times higher in miners than in non-mining Utah men . |
| 3 | The procedure is much less public than that for the passage of Acts of Parliament . |
| 4 | The collection rate would be much higher than that for the poll tax and there were signs that the system was going to be much more acceptable to the public . |
| 5 | Pay was better than that for the average working man , more substantial than the ten-bob dole which was the experience of many of their compatriots . |
| 6 | The illumination of the background should be set to a somewhat lower level than that for the foreground to give depth to the scene and add prominence to the subject . |
| 7 | No one could point to an area of study , academic interest or professional expertise that was clearly his ; little or no research had been conducted in his name , and no role other than that of the building technician for general practitioners could be found for him . |
| 8 | The CBO , whose record of accuracy was greater than that of the OMB , suggested that the true figure would as great as $160,000 million or more . |
| 9 | This is what makes the job of the share analyst much more difficult than that of the bond analyst , because it makes a fair comparison between two firms extremely difficult . |
| 10 | Contrary to first impressions , it may be disadvantageous in these circumstances for firms to have ‘ home country ’ control of conduct of business rules , if the firm is authorised by a member state with a higher standard of regulation than that of the member state where the branch is established . |
| 11 | Their attitude to the course , more so than that of the physics students , was an instrumental one : the course was a means to an end . |
| 12 | In A-G 's Reference ( No. 1 of 1985 ) , above , the accused sold other beer than that of the brewery to which he was tied and made a profit for himself . |
| 13 | Also , the technique of the mosaicist(s) at Winterton is less sophisticated than that of the Horkstow craftsmen . |
| 14 | Because of its nearness to the Earth , the gravitational pull of the Moon is the stronger influence than that of the Sun . |
| 15 | One can also consider the possibility that there might be black holes with masses much less than that of the sun . |
| 16 | Eisenhower quickly learned that political life was considerably less orderly than that of the army ; but he had one great asset — enormous personal popularity . |
| 17 | A transaction is at an under value if the transaction constitutes a gift or if the value of the consideration ( in money or money 's worth ) received by the vendor is significantly less than that of the consideration the vendor provides . |
| 18 | Sir Richard Temple , father of Lt. Temple who was indebted to the plaintiffs as the maker of a promissory note , wrote to the plaintiffs offering an amount less than that of the debt in full settlement of the debt and enclosed a draft for the smaller amount . |
| 19 | We were pressed with Day v. McLea ( ( 1889 ) 22 Q.B.D. 610 ) , where the debtor himself sent a cheque for an amount smaller than that of the debt to the creditor on the terms that it should be in satisfaction of the debt . |
| 20 | But there was another invasion of the countryside , noticeably quieter than that of the motorist but equal in terms of its impact . |
| 21 | In this case it was held that when a lease is made with a Minister in his or her capacity as such , it is made with the Crown ; and that a building is occupied by the Crown even if it is occupied by civil servants from a department other than that of the Minister named as lessee in the lease . |
| 22 | It is operated in the same way as the trumpet , i.e. by means of three valves , and differs only from it in tone-quality ( owing to its wider bore and larger mouthpiece ) , which is on the whole rounder and less brassy than that of the trumpet . |
| 23 | Its articulation is easier and hence its flexibility is greater than that of the trumpet , but its proper place is the brass or wind band and it has not succeeded in establishing itself permanently in the orchestra . |
| 24 | ‘ My character 's part is actually bigger than that of the gamekeeper Mellor 's , in terms of words . |
| 25 | You can control the amount of air by fitting a cap to this pipe and cutting two half-inch slots into the top of the pipe , to a depth slightly less than that of the cap itself . |
| 26 | Even so , the Graphophone mouthpiece was not much more sensitive than that of the tinfoil phonograph . |
| 27 | Although the Gnostics claimed to offer a higher knowledge than the simple faith of the church , their teachings were highly mythological and encountered an opposition , no less vehement than that of the church , from the late pagan Platonists , such as Plotinus ( mid-third century ) and his successors . |
| 28 | Growing ecumenical co-operation and an increasingly common repertoire demand that any survey of church music today should include some reference to the music used in the worship of traditions other than that of the Church of England . |
| 29 | The female urethra is much shorter than that of the male . |
| 30 | The eugenists also argued , on the assumption that the working classes were made up of less intelligent and less healthy stock , that if their birth rate remained higher than that of the middle and professional classes then the physical and intellectual standards of the British population must decline . |