Example sentences of "than [art] [noun] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hall was bigger than the Cromarty Hall in the village ; it could accommodate more local people and more of the television cameras that by now were multiplying daily , along with their crews , reporters , producers , and the army of newspaper journalists and feature writers that by this time had gathered in Orkney . |
| 2 | This is exactly the prediction which is made by Locksley et al. , ‘ the response criterion for schema related items may be more biased in the direction of OLD decisions ( or , alternatively less biased in the direction of NEW decisions ) than the response criterion for schema-unrelated items ’ ( 1984 , p.425 ) . |
| 3 | In deepening the ponds from the traditional 0.5 m to 2.5 m , phytoplankton production occurred to depths of 1.6 m and annual production figures of 8.4 tonnes ha -1 ; were achieved , which is greater than the grain yield of rice for the same period . |
| 4 | The bridge of the Simonova was far larger than the Navy pattern to which he had become accustomed . |
| 5 | The contract ensures that if you decide to cash in after five years in April 1997 , you will not get less than the unit price on offer in April 1996 . |
| 6 | OFTEL was instructed to ensure that , on average , the nominal price of BT phone calls rose x per cent per year less than the inflation rate of the retail price index . |
| 7 | The survey predicted that France would have lower inflation and higher growth than the OECD average in 1990 for the first time since 1970 , with retail price inflation expected to be 2.9 per cent and growth estimated at 3.1 per cent in 1990 . |
| 8 | Oliver 's sharp sensitive features and figure adapted well to Sam Weller , but tonight he wished he 'd chosen anything rather than the trial scene from The Pickwick Papers to read . |
| 9 | One can talk of an object presenting an appearance to an unoccupied point in space , and of the presentation appearance of an object itself being larger or smaller than the presentation appearance of another to that point . |
| 10 | The presentation appearance of the horizontal moon , for instance , can properly , though falsely , be said to be larger than the presentation appearance of the meridian moon . |
| 11 | And David quite got his bearings right , full toss that one , I 've , I 've been watching this summer this slope at Lord 's can play havoc with bowlers and I always get the impression that er , he 's , he bowls better than the nursery end at Lord 's , David Lawrence . |
| 12 | The apparatus is then pumped out and sealed under vacuum at the point A. Sufficient mercury is then added to enclose the polymer and extend into the capillary , after which the tube is sealed at B , and placed in a thermostat at a temperature somewhat higher than the melting temperature of the polymer . |
| 13 | Phil said : ‘ Recent monitoring shows that a further gradual improvement is taking place , with the level for 1990 recorded at 0.2 ppm — substantially better than the EC standard of 0.3 . |
| 14 | In the end , areas were to be selected for three years ( at NUTS Level III ) according to the following conditions : an unemployment rate higher by at least 15 per cent than the EC average during the previous three years , and industrial employment as a percentage of total employment greater than the EC average in every year of the previous fifteen years . |
| 15 | Italy could also perform better than the EC average of 3% as could Spain — with the admitted advantage of starting from a smaller base . |
| 16 | In the end , areas were to be selected for three years ( at NUTS Level III ) according to the following conditions : an unemployment rate higher by at least 15 per cent than the EC average during the previous three years , and industrial employment as a percentage of total employment greater than the EC average in every year of the previous fifteen years . |
| 17 | Pleased you raised that , Councillor , 'cos we 're still two million short than the government assessment within the S S A. |
| 18 | In the case of the high head , the stressed syllable which begins the head is high in pitch ; usually it is higher than the beginning pitch of the tone on the tonic syllable . |
| 19 | In the low head the stressed syllable which begins the head is low in pitch ; usually it is lower than the beginning pitch of the tone on the tonic syllable . |
| 20 | The Lay Observer has been replaced with a Legal Services Ombudsman with rather wider powers than the Law Observer under provisions contained in Part II of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 . |
| 21 | THe local area network business is growing much more quickly than the PC industry as a whole . |
| 22 | I am proud to do so , because it holds out very much more opportunity for resolving our problems than the centralist control of which the Opposition are so fond . |
| 23 | The life of a river has nothing to show more resonant of changeless change than the life cycle of the mayfly , a genus known even in the dry language of science as Ephemera . |
| 24 | It must also be borne in mind that when breeding takes place in an ‘ unsuitable ’ pH than the sex ratio of the fry may be affected — in A.cacatuoides it appears that the more alkaline the water the more males are produced , though I do not know if this is true for other species . |
| 25 | It had no practical need to reach down further than the drought level of the river which had to leave a gap of at least two or three feet . |
| 26 | This is more , much more , than the Washington tradition of listening to lobbyists , although the White House has done that , too . |
| 27 | The Albanian birth rate was much higher than the birth rate of Serbs and Montenegrins , and the composition of the population steadily shifted in their favour . |
| 28 | An alternative scheme for a ‘ brown-field site , costing £16 million — £9 million less than the capital cost for the favoured project — has been lightly dismissed . |
| 29 | Containing a greater proportion of secular matter than the Church history of Eusebius , it was based partly on written material and partly on the memories of men still living . |
| 30 | On May 31 he had urged President Hosni Mubarak to submit to parliament legislation better targeted at combating Islamic fundamentalism than the emergency legislation in force since late 1981 . |