Example sentences of "for [art] [adj] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main reason for the better than expected results appeared to be a delay in expenditure by the regional governments but in the longer term he said that cuts in public expenditure had helped to reduce the budget deficit from a peak of almost 13 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) in 1982 to 7.8 per cent in 1988 and 6.6 per cent in 1989 . |
| 2 | In common with the financial markets in which they invest their funds , they are essentially short-term in their outlook , and would rather invest in secure compounds for the rich than extra public spending on the improvement of housing , education and job prospects in the urban ghettos that occasionally trouble them . |
| 3 | Bulmer ( 1975 ) , following Kerr and Siegel ( 1954 ) , has characterized mining communities as isolated and homogeneous , and with a much weaker ‘ exit ’ option for the dissatisfied than is typical of other industrial settlements . |
| 4 | The final type of classification is one that appears to be less rather than more relevant for the 1990s than previously . |
| 5 | But it may be a lot more useful for the latter than the former . |
| 6 | An unexpected side effect of Cromer 's reform of the prison system was to make conditions inside prison better for the poor than they often were outside . |
| 7 | In other words , after a certain point , education becomes more a form of consumption for the individual than a form of investment for increasing his earnings further . |
| 8 | Both underweight and overweight women had a lower chance of becoming pregnant than women with normal weight , although this effect was greater for the obese than for the lean women . |
| 9 | This should include a torch ( the batteries of which should be checked regularly for deterioration ) , a box of nightlights , which are safer for the elderly than candles , and a box of safety matches . |
| 10 | In both the United States and Great Britain more people die in hospitals and homes for the elderly than in their own houses . |
| 11 | We probably spent more time watching what happens in facilities where care is provided for the elderly than anyone has done before . |
| 12 | While every clothes store carries a petite range , there is n't one range for the taller than average woman . |
| 13 | Overall , it seems fair to conclude that the right hemisphere does possess some word processing capacity , probably more so for the written than for the spoken word , for concrete or early-learned rather than abstract or later-learned words and for receptive rather than executive aspects of language . |
| 14 | And many American women see Hillary Clinton as much more of role model for the Nineties than the white-haired Barbara Bush . |
| 15 | Not only that , but there are at least half-a-dozen versions vying for pole position at present , to which this new recording from Tadaaki Otaki and the BBC Welsh can safely be added ( the halfstar is only dropped , incidentally , for the less than ideal internal clarity and rhythmic definition of the recording , which is otherwise tonally pleasing and possesses a warm ambience ideal for this particular work 's lush textures ) . |
| 16 | He knew that a conspiracy ( exposed with the maximum publicity ) to murder the king and Parliament in one horrific holocaust would cause public opinion to recoil into solid support for the less than popular James I and himself . |
| 17 | It is far easier for the British than for the American executive to do this . |
| 18 | More accurate perception of orientation was found for the left than for the right hand , at least among right handers ( Benton , Levin and Varney , 1973 ; Varney and Benton , 1975 ; Benton , Varney and Hamsher , 1978 ) . |
| 19 | b , Mature males have a higher mortality when searching for a female than on a female 's web . |
| 20 | Patricia , 17 , goes to a sweatshop in Rio to work for a less than minimum wage . |
| 21 | But , although they nearly ran out of steam and were forced to settle for a less than emphatic 27–24 margin of victory as the ‘ Boks came back at them , Sean Fitzpatrick 's side — with the Jones boys Ian and Michael , Zinzan Brooke and Frank Bunce outstanding alongside their skipper — were worthy of being the only New Zealand side ever to go through South Africa undefeated , albeit on an abbreviated tour . |
| 22 | For some time now , the SARA Executive has been seeking input more generally from the rowing population for the updating of its Development Plan , but what might have been a good idea to achieve this seems set for a less than successful conclusion . |
| 23 | A key UDF demand was for the general election , currently scheduled for no later than June , to be postponed until November , in order to give opposition parties more time to organize . |
| 24 | It is characteristic of the novel that climate and vegetation should count for no less than its comedy of manners , in which the Jewish businessman Harry de Tunja plays an enjoyable part , and that neither of these two elements , so far as they can be distinguished from the rest of the novel , should count for less than the opinions which they help to convey . |
| 25 | She had actually thought of asking for no less than John now proposed ; so why did it feel like a slap in the face ? |
| 26 | From 1334 to 1343 the clergy voted for no fewer than eight tenths , or from the combined provinces — and at a conservative estimate — roughly £140,000 ; in the next decade almost as much , seven tenths or some £124,000 were conceded ; during the second half of the 1350s only two tenths were granted , £35,000 ; the peace of Brétigny brought a respite from royal taxation until 1370 , after which until the end of the reign £100,000 was raised by traditional subsidies , £50,000 was sought as a special grant in 1371 ( though little of this was effectively collected ) and a graduated poll tax was imposed in 1377 . |
| 27 | Moving onshore , at McDermott 's oil industry construction yard in Ardersier , we cater for no fewer than 3,000 people on site . |
| 28 | Really slam into the punch bag , hitting it with a constant barrage of punches as fast and as hard as you possibly can for no more than 15–20 seconds . |
| 29 | First , Steffi admitted ‘ The women 's event does n't really start before the second week ’ after most of the top seeds had advanced for no more than the loss of a few games . |
| 30 | But he hesitated for no more than a moment before stepping inside and when the door was closed he took refuge in clowning . |