Example sentences of "than [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( The fact that this pittance is a step up says more about the depressed position of the housewife than about the wonderful privileges of the separated . ) |
| 2 | It must be borne in mind that this distribution , while , likely to be typical of the 1910 sample as a whole , does reflect that sample sage structure : the information comes from marriages logged very largely between 1910 and 1920 and obviously tells us more about the families that sent their daughter to the trade in the 1900s than about the earlier decades . |
| 3 | ‘ It is more difficult to be precise about this than about the earlier phases , partly because the pictures are rarer and less accessible , and have not been adequately photographed , partly because it includes considerable variations . ’ |
| 4 | The magnates ruled the localities by the end of the thirteenth century as political bosses , rather than as the petty princes they had been in the twelfth century . |
| 5 | In those days I think I must have regarded many of the people dotted about my landscape more as bushes than as the human beings I now see them to have been : some dull and uninteresting like laurel bushes ; some like lavender sweetly scented ; some thorny , to be avoided ; and then rose bushes , gooseberry bushes , fuchsia bushes — but all just part of the scenery , and I withdrawn from them into my dreams . |
| 6 | Injuries in war and disasters provide numerous anecdotes of the anaesthetic effects of shock ; a doctor in the aftermath of London 's Clapham rail crash of 1988 reported having treated several victims lying or sitting by the track in a state of bewilderment and oblivious of serious wounds ; in one case an ankle was completely severed other than for a few shreds of flesh . |
| 7 | In Australia the absence of population in the great central deserts ensured that the stations were built more for the benefit of the trains than for the nonexistent passengers and goods . |
| 8 | Then there appeared to be less common sources per unit volume of space for the nearby sources than for the distant ones . |
| 9 | We found that it was cheaper for the four Europeans to travel to America than for the two Americans to come to London or Berlin . |
| 10 | Why should this principle be any less true for the development of the intellectual and moral faculties of man than for the other operations of nature ? |
| 11 | There are smaller differences between countries for this variable than for the other dependents , and the overall significant correlations are reflected to some extent in all countries except Japan . |
| 12 | The mean age of patients with cancers of the cardia , however , was significantly younger than for the other sites ( 64.7 ( 11.0 ) v 70.0 ( 11.0 ) , p=0.009 ) ( Table I ) . |
| 13 | During assessment , it was more frequently the case ( approaching significance ) for the specialist team than for the other teams that more than one visit was made to the client . |
| 14 | The difference in performance between large and small hardware firms was less marked than for the other sectors . |
| 15 | In the London suburb where I live we see plenty of foxes , and I feel far greater affection for them than for the local cats or dogs . |
| 16 | Official estimates put the turnout at 47.7 per cent of the electorate ( 5 percentage points higher than for the 1988 elections — see pp. 36347-48 ) , but independent observers claimed that the turnout was unusually low , with reports of as little as 10 per cent in some rural areas . |
| 17 | Aid officials agree that conditions are far better than for the wretched Kurds stuck on the freezing mountains . |
| 18 | Both underweight and overweight women had a lower chance of becoming pregnant than women with normal weight , although this effect was greater for the obese than for the lean women . |
| 19 | ‘ The differences in our electorate are much bigger than for the conservative parties , ’ says Heidi Wieczorek-Zeul , a member of the party praesidium . |
| 20 | This relieves earlier levels of the obligation to fully specify the phonetic characteristics of the input , and allows words to be considered as hypotheses through gradual accumulation of evidence , rather than through the binary decisions inherent in the tree structure . |
| 21 | It would guarantee continued German coal to France 's steel industry in Lorraine but would do this by a voluntary system , which Germany would join as an equal , rather than through the draconian controls which France had earlier favoured . |
| 22 | In certain regiments , however , qualifications beyond the strictly medical were demanded of the surgeons , for in Highland regiments knowledge of the Gaelic language appears to have been more seriously demanded of medical officers than of the combatant officers . |
| 23 | Elsewhere , he criticizes Mannheim 's definition of charismatic education in the consideration of the awakening of religious feeling ; since it seems neither to include the whole of the education of so-called ‘ primitive races ’ any more than of the higher races in their religious stage . |
| 24 | At first , the chicks ate more of the aposematic than of the cryptic crumbs . |
| 25 | Even until after the Second World War , the cities of Dalmatia could more easily maintain contact with each other by sea than along the tortuous roads and tracks which were the only means of land transport . |
| 26 | As a natural corollary of this initiative , extra-mural departments were permitted to provide courses at standards lower , and of shorter duration , than under the 1924 Regulations . |
| 27 | That the economy did not show signs of recovery once hostilities had ceased had more to do with the political choices made by the Franco regime than with the economic structures themselves . |
| 28 | All samples contained detectable material in assays using LW60 ; in general , concentrations measured with this antibody were higher than with the other antibodies , and in particular there were higher concentrations in tumour compared with normal tissue extracts . |
| 29 | ISIS-3 found no differences in overall mortality among the thrombolytic agents tested , although cerebral haemorrhage was significantly less frequent with streptokinase than with the other agents . |
| 30 | The applications of Papert 's ideas to the Third World had more to do with Servan-Schreiber 's priorities , than with the immediate concerns of the computer scientists the politician had gathered . |