Example sentences of "the [noun sg] than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ideal tasting glass should be broader at the base than the top , so that the aroma concentrates around the rim — this makes it easier to appreciate . |
| 2 | At least by then some of his pupils might be converted to the idea that there 's more to the cinema than the Addams Family and Terminator 2 . |
| 3 | The law was changed in 1989 after public outrage when a judge gave a burglar who broke into a vicarage and raped the vicar 's daughter a higher sentence for the burglary than the rape . |
| 4 | Her appeal to them was more from the heart than the head , stressing the pain of being black in South Africa more than the broader strategies to be pursued . |
| 5 | I am afraid that charismatic circles are sometimes influenced more by the horror genre and the barmier corners of the Bible-belt than the Bible when it comes to the Devil and evil spirits . |
| 6 | The agency analogy is no more effective for analysing the case than the trust one . |
| 7 | There could be no better evidence that this was not the case than the careers of Murrells and of S.W. Fraser-Smith , who was District Commissioner of the Tanganyika Masai from 1952 to 1955 . |
| 8 | But nothing could more eloquently make the case than the patients Bart 's has helped with pioneering treatment , dedication and care . |
| 9 | In the reported study more action suggestions could be generated by the computer than the paper system ( 101 v 31 ) . |
| 10 | The papal ban on royal taxation of the clergy provoked ephemeral and unspecific objections from the laity , aimed more at the archbishop than the pope . |
| 11 | There is much more to the election than the party leaders ; and a prime minister does not have to be a star . |
| 12 | A full discussion of that issue is beyond the scope of this book , but I would agree with those commentators who argue that its persistence tells us a great deal more about the present than the past . |
| 13 | But i it was no , it was no stronger in the kitchen than the living room . |
| 14 | A man who became 40 just before or just after 1 January 1986 is much more likely to contribute a death to the numerator than a man who became 40 in the early days of 1985 or the last days of 1986 . |
| 15 | ‘ The relative buoyancy of this sector in the early 1990s was one reason why Scotland has suffered less severely in the recession than the rest of the UK , ’ he added . |
| 16 | I believe that Wales continues to be less severely affected by the recession than the United Kingdom as a whole , but it can not possibly shield itself from the recession both in the United Kingdom and in the rest of the world . |
| 17 | Doubtless Beatrix Potter felt it was a neater finish to the story than a vasectomy . ’ |
| 18 | At Phaistos , some of the pithoi and store-rooms from the First Temple Period survive , projecting 5 metres further to the west than the storage area of the later temple , and extending under its West Court . |
| 19 | Cooling seems to be more pronounced and more extensive in the west than the east ; for example , since 1981 ( Fig. 3 a ) there has been a decrease of more than -1°C in the upper layers to the west , compared with warming in the intermediate water to the east of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge . |
| 20 | Mansell had taken pole — a record 14th in a season — but Senna 's stunning lap , good enough for the front row , while perhaps having more to do with the driver than the car , revealed that McLaren was closer than usual this year to Williams . |
| 21 | The atmosphere was more like the Budget than an announcement on social security . |
| 22 | More for the champagne than the golf . |
| 23 | As it might be argued that this microflora is more likely to exert pathogenic or protective effects in the intestine than the lumen flora , we were interested to determine the adherent and hydrophobic properties of our mucosal E coli isolates by techniques comparable with those used by others studying faecal isolates . |
| 24 | Fast though they run , they all keep in step , so that the whole group looks more like a snake gliding through the undergrowth than a family of young mammals on an outing . |
| 25 | 3 They question the extent to which the system provides for representative governments noting not just the underrepresentation of third parties , but the fact that , in the elections of 1929 , 1951 , and February 1974 , the party which returned the largest number of MPs actually had a smaller share of the vote than the runner-up party in the Commons so that the electoral " winner " was , in fact , the governmental " loser " . |
| 26 | Whilst the reasons for this can not be established with certainty , there is evidence of some migration of the elderly out of the control area since the figures used in the selection were compiled ; there is also some reporting of general practitioners being more ready to refer patients living in the action than the control area . |
| 27 | yeah in fact that 's a fir , that 's a very good example you see , because in that situation you might well pay more for the carriage than the value of the item |
| 28 | The decision to fight or pay can not therefore have been easy , not least because the Mercians and Northumbrians , who apparently saw considerably less of the enemy than the south and east , may often have been disinclined to do either . |
| 29 | On the other hand , the historian of political philosophy J. G. Gunnell has argued that , although the Hebrews were more oriented towards the future than the Greeks , who tended to look more towards the past , ‘ the concept of linear progression is a rationalization of the Hebrew experience of temporality ’ . |
| 30 | But that act has more to do with the future than the present , as chapter 23 will make abundantly clear . |