Example sentences of "than [adv] in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Gabriel trudged on up the ladder , knowing only that he preferred to be with Izzie and her father than alone in the chapel with these stony figures against its walls , all staring with stony eyes , and all too lonely to touch one another . |
| 2 | Responsibility for developing standards will also require a greater interest than hitherto in the effectiveness of clinical care ( Williamson , 1990 ) , something that will require considerable briefing . |
| 3 | She saw more than enough in the guilt and pleasure on his face to make questions redundant . |
| 4 | The application of monoclonal antibody research in medicine is more widespread than just in the treatment of cancer . |
| 5 | And I think most women would prefer it the romantic way , rather than just in the kitchen , over the sink or whatever , like in Fatal Attraction , says a married 27-year-old estate agent . |
| 6 | Erm , well yeah I 've learnt that my wife is more use than just in the kitchen . |
| 7 | The only person there was Gran , and she was asleep , but it would be better to be with her than downstairs in the kitchen , alone . |
| 8 | After all that toil and trouble , the outcome was the same as it is more often than not in a constituency of the Republic — the same , that is to say , as if not a single vote had been transferred : the candidates elected were those who , on the showing of the very first count , had the greatest number of first-preference votes . |
| 9 | And when this happy moment arrived , it was crowned with legitimacy , because like many tribal societies the public school was a gerontocracy-an important fact obscured more often than not in the literature by concentration on the oligarchic aspect of the power exercised by favoured groups of senior boys : prefects , athletes , bloods , in slightly differing proportions according to the slightly differing character of the individual schools , but all essentially distinguished by seniority . |
| 10 | Now that the Apple Computer Inc v Microsoft Corp lawsuit has been defanged and the only thing standing between Bill Gates and world domination is the Federal Trading Commission — see page three : there may be more truth than not in the observation that Microsoft wants IBM to have OS/2 so they ca n't be accused of being a monopoly . |
| 11 | The acanthus decoration of the floral scroll is heavier to the " bottom left " of the Cupids than elsewhere in the mosaic . |
| 12 | Mercury 's orbit is fairly eccentric , and therefore a tidal bulge would be acted on by the Sun a good deal more strongly near perihelion than elsewhere in the orbit . |
| 13 | Yet since 1987 , the level of child sexual abuse diagnosed in Cleveland has been shown to be no higher than elsewhere in the country , and an increasing number of people locally take the view that she should be treated in the same way as myself — allowed to return to work as a paediatrician in Cleveland , but restricted from working in child abuse for the time being . |
| 14 | The Leeds researchers claim that the system developed there , the adjournment system , has resulted in lower truancy rates than elsewhere in the country . |
| 15 | With the labour force depleted by the military , there were jobs to be filled , and at better rates of pay than elsewhere in the country . |
| 16 | Figures for the average price of a detached house in each region for 1988 are provided in Table 9.1 ( column 6 ) and indicate that houses in the South East are much more expensive than elsewhere in the country . |
| 17 | Mr McCausland said that having made a survey of the non-drinking areas implemented by other councils he was convinced that Belfast was being treated ‘ less sympathetically ’ than elsewhere in the province . |
| 18 | Here , the platform edge appears to have been controlled by a normal fault and the belt of shallow marine sediments is much narrower than elsewhere in the basin ( Clark and Tallbacka 1980 ) . |
| 19 | Some species have benefited from the change in the downland agricultural scene , and Corn Buntings and Skylarks are now more numerous in these areas than elsewhere in the county and are the most characteristic birds of the downland . |
| 20 | Schools in mid , north east and north west Essex resort to excluding pupils far less than elsewhere in the county . |
| 21 | It 'll mean more Day Care , more Home Care , more Occupational Therapy , for people in an area of the county who get far less levels of service than elsewhere in the county . |
| 22 | Relations between the Meskhetians and the Uzbek majority had been strained for some time , largely as a result of the poor housing and other conditions in which the Meskhetians had been forced to remain ( many still lived in shanty towns , and levels of unemployment were higher than elsewhere in the republic ) . |
| 23 | The size of the oligonucleotide will determine whether it occurs more than once in a sample DNA and therefore might prime DNA polymerase activity at multiple sites . |
| 24 | Any café 'll do , but you ca n't use any of them more than once in a while or they start chucking you out . |
| 25 | That is , if the same grammatical tag is found more than once in a position it is necessary only to know that the tag occurs in that position and the best scores associated with that tag . |
| 26 | A few of our players have an awful lot to prove both to themselves and to the fans i.e. Deane ( to score more than once in a game ) , Newsome ( to defend well against good opposition ) , Fairclough ( to prove to the manager that he is one of the best man to man markers in the game ) . |
| 27 | Referring to Figure 5.7 again , a part that occurs more than once in an assembly only has its new node and box stored at second and subsequent occurrences . |
| 28 | A part that occurs more than once in an assembly only has its new node shown at subsequent entries . |
| 29 | She comforted him ; and meanwhile thought to herself that tomorrow she would go round the managers she knew , having met them more than once in the company of Papa . |
| 30 | I have no doubt that the hon. Gentleman accepts them — although it is true that he has surprised me more than once in the past by failing to agree with the most obvious proposition . |