Example sentences of "than the other [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The top whorls turn reddish-brown and the stem much more densely covered by the whorls than the other Myriophyllum species . |
| 2 | We have noticed over the last few months at Cadogan Travel seem to be noticeably more expensive than the other travel agents used by Christian Aid . |
| 3 | If , on the other hand , you knew much more about what had to be done to solve the problem than the other person , then communicating clearly and testing the other person 's understanding would be higher priorities . |
| 4 | Our filter is more to blame than the other person . |
| 5 | Whether we 're bad or not so bad , whether we think we have gone beyond the pale or whether we think we 're better than the other person , we all need a saviour because we 're all sinners . |
| 6 | Shushkevich was elected by 214 votes out of a total of 312 , after three rounds of voting in the Supreme Soviet , gaining 163 votes more than the other candidate , Leonid Kozik . |
| 7 | Now , the reason why we 're getting a fairly high test statistic is that er , that distribution , although it looks normal on the left hand side , it does n't look particularly normal erm on the right and that we are missing some observations , we are missing some values of the residuals er in one area of the graph , nevertheless if we had a larger sample , right we probably erm , right it does n't look , that looks quite encouraging in actual fact , those residuals do seem to be er normally distributed er what the test statistic is doing er it 's saying it 's performing a , it 's a kiescraper two test , it 's making two restrictions , one of which is saying , is the distribution of these residuals symmetric er and also it 's testing whether there 's one of the tails is a lot larger or a lot longer than the other tail of the distribution and er test statistics fairly high but we would n't reject the null of normality at the five percent level so our test statistic is four point zero eight and the critical value is five point nine nine and that the five percent significance level , so we 've got reasonably er robust residuals . |
| 8 | I like it better than the other tag . ’ |
| 9 | Twenty years on , the phrases which she saw as indicating a deformation of values have become commonplace in the Thatcherite academy , where contemplation is regarded as idleness , rather than the other way round , and Leavis 's abominated ‘ technologico-Benthamism ’ is firmly in the saddle . |
| 10 | As Edward Pechter puts it , ‘ History does not tell us what the text is , because we decide what history is , and then put history into the text , rather than the other way round . ’ |
| 11 | Conversely , Ninagawa had trouble applying the combination of eastern and western styles to a traditional Japanese piece : ‘ It is much more difficult to bring realism into stylization than the other way round . |
| 12 | Sir : Mr Stephen Campbell ( letters , 5 October ) asks if he is alone in thinking that personal injury awards should be increased in relation to libel awards rather than the other way round . |
| 13 | It is in this context that Marx and Engels finally turn the tables on the ideas of philosophers who , like Hegel , had argued about the primacy of ideas , especially the idea of the State , as though these ideas had formed the processes of history rather than the other way round . |
| 14 | They can be seen at No. 6 Via Guastella , a street named after the college rather than the other way around . |
| 15 | The aim of the game being to find out ways in which they do things better than you do rather than the other way around . |
| 16 | Better a little fish in a big pond than the other way round ? ’ |
| 17 | It seems to me that he tries the Bible before the bar of his own mind rather than the other way around . |
| 18 | I AM a fan and an observer of dogs and before the avalanche descends on me I must shout that , like Chris Joyce , our US Editor , I am well aware of the case against dogs but also know that the relationship is to human advantage rather than the other way round . |
| 19 | The conclusion the doctors reached , given the apparently poor response to food testing , was that the psychological problems were affecting the bowel , rather than the other way round , in the majority of patients . |
| 20 | ( It must also be said that only about one in ten of the adult population in Britain in teetotal and it could be that at least some people in this group are unwell , rather than the other way round . ) |
| 21 | However , James Valentine of the University of California suggests worms may have evolved from arthropods ( jointed-legged creatures ) rather than the other way around , because they had cavities in their middle layer ( known as coeloms ) which they used as skeletons to support themselves when burrowing . |
| 22 | Make the dog wag the tail rather than the other way round . |
| 23 | Under the deal , the Community will have to prove that it should take the decision , rather than the other way round as originally feared . |
| 24 | Throughout the post-war period , the policy has been to allow the exchange rate to adjust to costs rather than the other way round . |
| 25 | ‘ Better than the other way about , Mrs Markham . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's better than the other way . ’ |
| 27 | After considerable discussion Mr Jones accepted the possibility that Olwyn perhaps did need love and attention but that it was just as likely she needed it because she behaved badly rather than the other way round . |
| 28 | The approach would have to come from they rather than the other way around . |
| 29 | Indeed , it is more likely that a small child will attempt to command an adult than the other way around . |
| 30 | Warden was enjoying himself in the background : it was a new experience to see someone else tackling Buchanan rather than the other way round . |