Example sentences of "by [art] [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More striking by the 1820s than the continuity of the theme of the incompatibility of slavery with a true moral and religious order was the much fuller expression than at the end of the eighteenth century of the precepts of economic liberalism as part of the antislavery appeal ; abolitionists now clearly departed from mercantilist policy assumptions . |
| 2 | The worst of the slimy pools of sweated and casual poverty were more likely to be filled by the native than the immigrant . |
| 3 | the Welsh Office should commission by no later than the 1995/6 academic year , an appraisal of the progress which FHE has made in the development of environmental education , and should consider further action at a national level in the light of the results ; |
| 4 | On Jan. 18 the Hungarian government had called for a complete Soviet withdrawal by no later than the end of 1991 [ for Hungarian Defence Minister 's non-committal response to a suggestion to the same effect in December 1989 , see p. 37130 ] . |
| 5 | The suggestions are that the County Council in particular should help in the development of satellites to that erm , that business link , one in Oswestry and one at Craven Arms , and we should seek to make sure those satellites are available by no later than the end of nineteen ninety four , the beginning of nineteen ninety five . |
| 6 | At the same time , the hectic expansion of war industries swelled the industrial proletariat by no less than a third , there was a massive influx of refugees from front-line areas , and the cities became increasingly overcrowded , insanitary and disease-ridden . |
| 7 | It fell even more for geriatric patients — by no less than a third in the same period ( Cm 1513 , 1991 ) . |
| 8 | This week , so I hear , I have been publicly denounced from a Roman Catholic pulpit — by no less than the Provincial of the Dominican Order of monks . |
| 9 | The sentry is claimed to have replied : " Now do n't abaht , I 've got one up the spaht … " but rushed away to get the orderly corporal who , in turn , found the situation beyond his authority , and we were only released by no less than the duty officer . |
| 10 | Without warning , Weissman and his audience found themselves separated by no more than a cardboard partition from a noisy meeting of a local school maintenance workers ' union , voting not to end its strike . |
| 11 | He had misjudged the speed of his target by no more than a fraction . |
| 12 | Old Sprout , the greengrocer , banging the door behind him as he comes out of his shop , loosens half a card-load of snow , which skids off his roof and pancakes on the pavement , missing his head by no more than a foot . |
| 13 | And within was empty darkness , fenced off by no more than a ridge of soil . |