Example sentences of "than [art] [adj -er] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The economy-minded president even stayed at the four-star Buda Penta Hotel rather than the grander Grand Hotel overlooking the Danube . |
| 2 | The branched design utilizes the interactive capacity of the computer more fully than the simpler linear mode ; , |
| 3 | In doing so it used the temporary 1951–3 increase in employment of older workers rather than the wider post-war trend to earlier retirement . |
| 4 | The pure ewes ' milk cheese is of a better flavour than the cheaper mixed milk version and it also has a very dry texture . |
| 5 | In 1908 , against fierce opposition from the majority of Prussian property-owners , the Catholic Centre Party and the Union of West German Liberals , Prince Bülow equipped the Colonisation Commission with the legal power to seize Polish property , and allocated increased government funding — including a substantial bribe to the Junkers to persuade them to use German rather than the cheaper Polish labour . |
| 6 | The process involved is known as diapirism , and diapirs rise because the hot rock of which they are composed is less dense than the cooler surrounding country rock . |
| 7 | The virgins perform the most curious rites requiring far more dexterity than the earlier phallic Maypole rituals from which it seems to be derived . |
| 8 | If anything , they have subsequently been more important and have played a more central role in theological debate than the earlier orthodox/rationalist debating points . |
| 9 | Though more specific than the earlier English example , they are not unambiguous . |
| 10 | Finally , any other COB rule that expressly indicates that it is not restricted to regulated business will also apply ; the firm must therefore comply with those COB Rules that are expressed to apply to investment business ( rather than the narrower regulated business ) . |
| 11 | Easthope acknowledges that the pentameter line had qualities which made it more resourceful than the older accentual metre , since one could achieve a great range of poetic effects by counterpointing intonation against metre , which is what nearly all the major English poets have done , though supposedly imprisoned in this bourgeois strait-jacket . |
| 12 | While a new BMW 325i is clearly a finer reward than a cheaper ex-pool car , good quality nursery provision is harder to quantify . |
| 13 | erm , where I set out my interpretation of what that means , and I do n't think it 's very helpful to read that out to you , but I think you will find that it 's er erm a very broad er description of what the new settlement should be seeking to achieve , now Mr erm I think has misunderstood our position on this question of erm the appropriate size for the new settlement , and I think if I 'm correct he suggested that we were promoting a a size of fourteen hundred , the point I think I would make is that the larger the new settlement erm the greater the range and the quality of services and facilities that can be provided , and I think you have to distinguish between what developers say they are prepared to provide , on the one hand in a new settlement , whatever the size , the quality of the retail or recreational social facility that occupies that physical provision , and also its long term viability , and I would suggest that a larger new settlement of the size that we are suggesting , is much more likely to er attract a range of quality providers of services and facilities than a smaller new settlement , and also Mr Grantham er raised the issue of the question of the development program , and what might be expected in terms of services and erm during the development program , and of course I think that would be a matter for any specific proposal , or a ma a matter of discussion between the local planning authority concerned and the developer , and I would expect it to be something erm that was included within a section one O six agreement . |
| 14 | Far more than a further unsavoury tale of professional infighting for accreditation amongst the greats , the out-come — on the principle that the discoverer leaves his imprint on his discovery — has profoundly affected the subsequent tenor of both science and the humanities . |
| 15 | Remove the distance piece — the softer polystyrene block is easier to remove without damaging the stem than a harder wooden block . |