Example sentences of "than [adv] in the [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 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 .
9 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 .
10 The acanthus decoration of the floral scroll is heavier to the " bottom left " of the Cupids than elsewhere in the mosaic .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 The Leeds researchers claim that the system developed there , the adjournment system , has resulted in lower truancy rates than elsewhere in the country .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 ) .
18 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 .
19 Schools in mid , north east and north west Essex resort to excluding pupils far less than elsewhere in the county .
20 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 .
21 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 ) .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 Each calls for political decision , frequently more than once in the course of hammering out a policy .
25 For the avoidance of doubt , no asset or liability or provision shall be included more than once in the completion accounts .
26 For the avoidance of doubt , no asset or liability or provision shall be included more than once in the completion accounts .
27 Hence , fathers are counted once only in the birth certificate analysis , but may appear more than once in the interview analysis .
28 Managers are more than ever in the public eye ; the scientific approach , in tactics , medical treatment , ground improvements , is commonplace ; floodlighting , numbered players , the ten-yard semi-circle are taken for granted .
29 The web of diplomatic contacts which had developed in western and central Europe over the last 200 or more years was now being extended further east by the full incorporation in it for the first time of the great new emerging state of Russia : henceforth events in eastern Europe were to be far more significant in the calculations of statesmen in the west than ever in the past .
30 But at least she did not squint and his cast seemed more noticeable than ever in the morning , as if sleeping refreshed it .
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