Example sentences of "than [art] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | gon na take forty five percent of our business at less than the cost to do the job , that do n't make good business sense . |
| 2 | Answer guide : The cost of employing a scarce resource may be greater than the cost associated with purchasing the resource . |
| 3 | But no sooner had she switched on the electric kettle than the phone began to ring . |
| 4 | Ethel and the Australians had no sooner left Maggie and Bryce than the building began rocking again . |
| 5 | The local authorities tended to be more generous in their revision than the Board desired but most of the arrangements agreed showed that the authority usually got its way . |
| 6 | Be they industrialists or Buddhist monks it is necessary to tap into those views of the future which the young people have , for they see a different perspective , and often greater opportunities , than the board does . |
| 7 | And 32 months longer than the board hopes to take . |
| 8 | Both had been taking fluticasone propionate during the trial , but the investigators considered the deaths were caused by disease activity rather than the treatment received . |
| 9 | Here is more than the chance to do a bit of direct selling or attract further commissions ; there should be the desire to communicate and work with others . |
| 10 | But he was soon to find that Tolkien had more to offer him than the chance to learn Old Norse . |
| 11 | Having raised expectations , he went on to limit that help to just 100,000 people ; and of those 100,000 , 60,000 were offered no more than the chance to work on a community scheme for next to nothing . |
| 12 | I accept that my development as myself is less important than the chance to become part of a couple . |
| 13 | The time needed to bring an innovation to the market is nearly always longer than the layman imagines and the accuracy of forecasts by those in the business leaves much to be desired . |
| 14 | Both upper and lower chains contain a series of methylated guanines being the length of the modified sequence smaller than the footprint obtained with DNaseI , known already to overestimate the length of the binding sequence . |
| 15 | As yet we have no agreed criteria for how much disruption a single lesion needs to cause for the system to be deemed interactive , although common sense suggests that an interactive system would be much more vulnerable to disruption than the brain appears to be . |
| 16 | No sooner had the Colonel stumped out , his face flushed with a moral indignation that might or might not be sustained as far as Eaton Square and the Foreign Secretary 's residence , than the telephone rang . |
| 17 | ‘ I can carry on here with Helen 's assistance — that is , if I 'm not called away , ’ Joanna said , but she had no sooner spoken than the telephone rang . |
| 18 | More to him perhaps than the relief afforded by the crude sex was the fact that he woke up in the meagre home of a real working woman , warm like a picture by Chardin ; ‘ a wooden floor with a mat and a piece of old crimson carpet , an ordinary kitchen stove , a chest of drawers , a large simple bed . ’ |
| 19 | Meillasoux places the bureaucracy within a class context , and accounts for its political dominance in terms of the instruments of power with which the bureaucracy was entrusted by the metropolitan regime , particularly expertise ; and in terms of the ‘ crisis of colonialism ’ in Mali which brought about independence before any viable political structures other than the bureaucracy had developed within the state . |
| 20 | These unimportant trivialities are no more than the girl prised out of him . ’ |
| 21 | Here the actual process of perception by the audience is less important than the knowledge resulting from perception which the playwright wants the audience to receive at this point in the play . |
| 22 | Someone more thoughtful than the rest had ordered to be shut the big river gates that were at the point where the Ankh flowed out of the twin city . |
| 23 | Thus , for example , when asked whether or not they would describe their own redundancy as genuinely voluntary , the oldest group ( those over 65 when interviewed ) were much more likely than the rest to say ‘ yes ’ ( 83 per cent compared with 46 per cent of those aged 55–59 and 65 per cent of those aged 60–64 ) . |
| 24 | For example , the B string is about half the level of the top E , and the bottom E is louder than the rest put together ! |
| 25 | A shaft of sunlight stronger than the rest engulfed the tall figure of her bridegroom , dazzling her , obscuring his features . |
| 26 | One that was more attractively worded than the rest caught her eye . |
| 27 | But the point of our ‘ numbers of planets ’ argument is that , even if the chemist said that we 'd have to wait for a ‘ miracle ’ , have to wait a billion billion years — far longer than the universe has existed , we can still accept this verdict with equanimity . |
| 28 | Something similar occurs in a bad headache and a terrible catastrophe ; notice , however , that ? a bad catastrophe is pleonastic , which suggests that the dependent item must not be weaker than the notion encapsulated in the head . |
| 29 | The choir is on a higher level than the nave built , in Italian Romanesque fashion , over the crypt . |
| 30 | All these emotions vanished when Richard came bounding towards him with scarlet cheeks and shining eyes , looking happier than the detective had ever seen him . |