Example sentences of "than [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Karen was telling me you are writing about the workforce rather than about the plant 's operational side . |
| 2 | Charges are higher than for the society 's standard dealing system because the stockbroker can not itself be paid on the deal until the end of the stock exchange account , an average of 10 days ' delay . |
| 3 | The fees for a fuller report are , of course , higher than for the society 's valuation report , because the surveyor will spend more time both inspecting the property and preparing a fuller report suitable for your needs . |
| 4 | ‘ So they 're a splinter group working for their own evil purposes rather than for the island 's status quo ? ’ |
| 5 | Fleury was beside himself with distress , but more for Louise 's sake than for the Doctor 's ( he had privately come to consider his prospective father-in-law as an opinionated old fool ) . |
| 6 | Children grew disobedient when they knew that they could not be set aside : farmers were ousted of their leases made by tenants in tail ; for , if such leases had been valid , then under colour of long leases the issue might have been virtually disinherited : creditors were defrauded of their debts ; for , if tenant in tail could have charged his estate with their payment , he might also have defeated his issue , by mortgaging it for as much as it was worth : innumerable latent entails were produced to deprive purchasers of the lands they had fairly bought ; of suits in consequence of which our antient books are full : and treasons were encouraged ; as estates-tail were not liable to forfeiture , longer than for the tenant 's life . |
| 7 | They concluded that the wary response is more characteristic of the social circumstance than of the individual 's level of development . |
| 8 | John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger was presented in a new production in 1989 as a study of a failed marriage rather than of the playwright 's early ideological concerns . |
| 9 | Take it , and in the space of only twenty miles you pass through a rapid summary of all the Pyrenean landscapes : high pasture first of all , nowhere richer than near the Col du Soul or , with a backing of the fearsome granite of the Cirque de Lit or ; then , after the village of Arbéost , dense woodland and the gorge of the river ; then suddenly open , more or less flat country , well cultivated , and you are out of the mountains for good . |
| 10 | the engagement of supply teachers by schools direct , rather than via the LEA 's personnel section . |
| 11 | Often these can provide extremely useful teaching material , despite the fact that they have been produced for the general public , rather than with a school 's audience in mind . |
| 12 | Instead , it takes the form of a guide to bookkeeping ; although the manual as a whole is more concerned with financial procedures for controlling departments ' finances than with the accounts per se . |
| 13 | As Golding was to remark in Stockholm in 1983 , on receiving the Nobel prize for literature , fiction has far more to do with the general mind of mankind than with the writer 's own quirks and obsessions : ‘ not just what the writer is thinking , but what a huge segment of the world is thinking . ’ |
| 14 | So , too , if a man teaches his parrot to slander anyone , that is neither more nor less the ordinary tort of defamation than if he prefers to say it with his own tongue rather than with the parrot 's . |
| 15 | It is basically the function of the designer to protect the client 's interest and ensure that the food service planning is carried out from a food service operator 's point of view , rather than from the architect 's or interior designer 's point of view . |
| 16 | This chapter will examine the rules of competition from the competitors ' point of view , rather than from the referees ' . |
| 17 | Once the light had been turned out again , slowly , inch by inch , Charlie continued his crab-like advance , now more fearful of a stray bullet from his own side than from the enemy 's . |
| 18 | There was more imitation ice than in The Ancient Mariner , more gilt than in a psychiatrist 's office , more rolled gold than in Acapulco . |
| 19 | At that time , more veterinary surgeons held commissioned rank in the East India Company than in the Queen 's service . |
| 20 | The questionable legality of the move may explain why two of the earliest confiscations were authorized by Gloucester personally rather than in the king 's name . |
| 21 | The questionable legality of the move may explain why two of the earliest confiscations were authorized by Gloucester personally rather than in the king 's name . |
| 22 | It would be barely conceivable to start a journey of exploration through Milan other than in the Piazza del Duomo . |
| 23 | They found primary school teachers were starting to get grips with the process of assessing pupils and many were more accurate than in the curriculum 's first year . |
| 24 | There seems to have been no clear trend in earnings over the period up to the rapid triumph of machine spinning after 1800 ; in the West of England rates per pound of wool spun were only marginally higher in the 1770s than in the century 's first decade . |
| 25 | The use of CCL as a common type of interface for many systems is based on the provision of translating software somewhere in the communication channel between host and the user , rather than in the user 's own terminal equipment , as in the previous examples . |
| 26 | Even so , I find the Christchurch trebles less robust here than in the choir 's previous Byrd discs , tending to remain within a limited dynamic range , even in the more laudatory Latin Motets . |
| 27 | This revealed that the proportionate use of custody in the Crown Court was five times greater than in the magistrates ' court , and that the average length of prison sentence was three times as long . |
| 28 | The ITN version suggests that the pickets are still largely to blame for the violence , but the police contribution to disorder is given more emphasis than in the BBC 's bulletin . |
| 29 | The density of both L1 + cells ( Table IV ) and EG2 + cells ( Table V ) was on average seven times higher in the ileal villi than in the Peyer 's patches domes . |
| 30 | Muddles in language often occur ( as is only to be expected ) in the petitioner 's question rather than in the jurist 's answer . |