Example sentences of "than [det] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had become used to much worse than that during the past few weeks . |
| 2 | Thus the real cost of £1,000 worth of BES shares to anybody earning more than that during the fiscal year , which starts on Monday , would be only £500 . |
| 3 | However , in O'Reilly v. Mackman Lord Diplock argued that the present procedural regime for AJRs is more advantageous to applicants than that under the pre-1978 version of Ord. 53. and that it strikes a sound balance between the interests of applicants and respondents . |
| 4 | Perkins group managing director , Tony Gilroy says : ‘ Despite the current recession in the construction industry , we expect to sell them a lot more than that under the new agreement . |
| 5 | The amount of time , officer time taken to process an application for a modification to an existing permission is still substantial and in some cases can be even more than that per a new proposal , but in those circumstances , and this is just by way of illustration because the the actual fee regime is , is very variable , by way of illustration the fee chargeable for a a , a modification is much less than for the application as a whole er f for , for the er er working as a whole . |
| 6 | The average length of stay in hospital for older people is usually longer than that for a young person with a similar medical condition . |
| 7 | If we believe in the idea that the most economical hypothesis is the best , then Daly should win , but it seems at present as though the evidence in favour of the subsidence theory , with its ad hoc lowerings of islands , is considerably greater than that for the Glacial Control theory . |
| 8 | The evidence for the second point of view is limited , but certainly stronger than that for the first . |
| 9 | Disabled adults of working age are a significant and identifiable minority group , experiencing a rate of unemployment far greater than that for the general population . |
| 10 | We found that the electrical conductivity of the electrolyte-saturated carbon-bearing samples increased more steeply with temperature than that for the electrolyte-saturated carbon-free samples ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 11 | The standard deviation for the samples of 4 , represented by , will be much smaller than that for the individual observations because of the averaging effect within each sample . |
| 12 | The standard deviation for the samples of 4 , represented by , will be much smaller than that for the individual observations because of the averaging effect within each sample . |
| 13 | higher than that for the current year . |
| 14 | The decrease was , however , less than that for the carbon-free granulites , B1 and B2 ( Fig. 1 a ) . |
| 15 | For example , expectation of life at birth for Aborigines is some 15–17 years less than that for the total Australian population , and infant mortality is three times greater . |
| 16 | The relationship between platelet aggregation and diabetic control is even more confounding than that for the platelet-specific proteins , various studies either showing no change , increased or decreased platelet aggregation in response to improved glycaemic control . |
| 17 | However , when subjects had to concurrently remember 2,4 or 6 words the reaction time for both hemispheres improved , but that for the right hemisphere more than that for the left hemisphere , which resulted in a LVF superiority . |
| 18 | This figure is a great deal better than that for the consecutive spill method of handling overflows , and even chained records randomized to individual addresses show an advantage over consecutive spill . |
| 19 | Between VR 0.4 and 1.2 the hydrocarbon yield is 50% greater than that for the Palaeozoic coals . |
| 20 | Here the seventh-century evidence is actually more suggestive than that for the sixth . |
| 21 | Belpan 's tax base was less than that of a medium-sized European market town , which made running the country a financial nightmare . |
| 22 | At the same time , he reckons , in the pubs they keep , the big companies would rather sell the product of a small brewery like Belhaven than that of a major competitor . |
| 23 | All self sacrifice is good , but one could like it to be in a somewhat nobler cause than that of a diabolical law which chains a man body and soul to a putrefying carcass . |
| 24 | I find it difficult to imagine a form of development which would have a much more significant impact than that of a new settlement . |
| 25 | If their commitment and reliability are seen to be less than that of a paid worker then the stereotype will be reinforced and the many totally committed and reliable volunteers will be misjudged . |
| 26 | The occurrence of nearly-equal roots is more common than that of a defective matrix ; hence tests to see whether homologous elements yield , in ( 2 ) , consistent results should be applied first when convergence is slow . |
| 27 | For example , if I look at a round globe then the image on my retina will be circular , and there will be no reason to suppose that the idea imprinted in my mind will be anything other than that of a flat circle . |
| 28 | The door was permitted to be of the cottage order , double , the bottom half , lower than that of a stable door , was designed to keep children in and chickens out — not that chickens were approved , their appearance was not conducive to the small dignity of the Gate Lodge . |
| 29 | namely Thucydides ) , but voting techniques were not : there was no counting of votes at all ( something which would have taken several hours when the agenda was as crowded as that given at the beginning of Demosthenes ' fiftieth speech of 362 BC ) , and the ‘ consensus ’ was determined by a show of hands , which tellers then adjudicated , in a fashion no more precise than that of a modern shop-steward who ‘ counts ’ a sea of hands at a trade union mass meeting . |
| 30 | Tied by a child , never having done a job other than that of a temporary chauffeuse to army officers , what could she do ? |