Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun sg] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | These studies have shown that the labelling index was significantly lower in normal mucosa than in benign and malignant tumours , and that of malignant tumours was significantly greater than that in benign tumours . |
| 2 | It would have been better to have remained in total ignorance than to know , yet not know , and have no means of finding out . |
| 3 | Britain 's bosses are getting twelve point three percent more in total remuneration than they were last year , their workforce is getting nine point eight percent . |
| 4 | Was it better paid whe in private nursing than in midwifery ? |
| 5 | The Hot Autumn also marks a greater turning point in economic performance than occurred elsewhere . |
| 6 | The conclusions of this Lecture are perhaps concerned more with developments in economic theory than with the incidence of taxation , and we have emphasized throughout the Lectures that the study of taxation can be no more soundly based than the models that are employed ( explicitly or implicitly ) . |
| 7 | He wrote with equal assurance both for ensembles of men 's voices and for full choir in up to six parts ; his work is extended in scale , virtuosic in the demands which it makes on its performers , and no less imaginative in melodic invention than in the sonorities drawn from his ensemble . |
| 8 | An inspection of the results for individual questions shows that although fewer pupils in the bottom third obtained the correct answer in each case than did other pupils , a substantial proportion did so in many cases . |
| 9 | It was a strange position for a Rank film to adopt and , after the launch of the Sunday night series , ‘ Armchair Theatre ’ , in 1956 , television presented dramas with more grit in each minute than many feature films had in their whole duration . |
| 10 | ( As Table 8.2 will show , expenditure on education was higher in each year than the figures shown in Table 8.1 , but it also had a declining trend as a proportion of social product up to 1983 . ) |
| 11 | Under this Government , the income of retirement pensioners as a whole has increased more in each year than it did throughout the Labour Government 's administration . |
| 12 | Labour in Japan does tend to work for fewer employers over a typical career and does therefore tend to stay longer in each firm than in the West , but there are very significant variations depending on age , firm size and gender . |
| 13 | The figures are broadly similar although a slightly greater number of students is involved in each practice than is the case among Schofield 's group . |
| 14 | The pluralist perspective will not help us deal with these problems because it is more interested in political behaviour than in the role of ideas in society . |
| 15 | Rangers have five wins and two draws from their games since the first round of the European Cup in September and respond to the fact that opposing teams are keener to attack them in that competition than they are in the Premier Division . |
| 16 | Yet he was unwilling to take leave , treating his engagement as settled , without some more conventional glance in that direction than he could find an opening for in the manner of the large , affable lady who sat there drawing a pair of soiled gants de Suede through a fat , jewelled hand and , at once pressing and gliding , repeated over and over everything but the thing he would have liked to hear ( 2 ) . |
| 17 | Although the break was a nasty one , McCracken came back successfully at the beginning of 1921–22 when the Palace made their debut in Division Two and he played more games for us in that division than anyone else during our four year tenure there 1921–25 . |
| 18 | Given the centralised nature of Soviet politics and the dominant position of the Communist Party , a change in party leadership is likely to have more significance in that country than in political systems elsewhere . |
| 19 | So I would prefer them to be assessed in that way than to post them off , and I 'm glad we 've got that choice … |
| 20 | I seem to be more nervous in that way than I once was . |
| 21 | Heseltine 's campaign team courted the media more assiduously and performed more effectively in that arena than Mrs Thatcher 's . |
| 22 | In 1738 Bartram journeyed to Williamsburg in Virginia with a letter of introduction from Collinson to John Custis : ‘ In the vegetable kingdom perhaps you will find him more knowing in that science than any you have met with . |
| 23 | This supposition conflicts with the conclusions of students of the geomorphology of the lands , who usually regard sea level as being much higher in that period than it is now . |
| 24 | And I 'm not saying that 's the reason but clearly that is er factor and and certainly some of the points we were making about distribution of traffic er on the western side of harrogate er clearly that would n't have had the benefits of providing that that connection on the western side , it would have concentrated all connections between Harrogate and Knaresborough and given rise to more concentrated local traffic effects in that area than would be the case er with an outer western er relief road . |
| 25 | Er … yes , perhaps just a few more condom and illicit sex gags turned up in that show than normal . ’ |
| 26 | Office software , interactive video and expert systems offer a great deal more hope in that regard than does ‘ traditional ’ cal . |
| 27 | I thought that once , when I did my first removal because the boss was away , and I went to a house wh and they had more more mirrors in that house than I s ever seen since , and because I was only learning and I had n't been taught I put all the other furniture in and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors till at the end there was so much furniture in there was n't room to put the mirrors on the floor and I had to come back a second time to actually do that because I did n't dare put them anywhere else . |
| 28 | If there is another problem , in that the soloist seems less interested in that theme than the orchestra and prefers to go his own way , it is resolved before the end of the work . |
| 29 | If there is another problem , in that the soloist seems less interested in that theme than the orchestra and prefers to go his own way , it is resolved before the end of the work . |
| 30 | His grasp of foreign languages was causing Paul to consider asking him to translate some of his work , and knowing Nathan to be more help in that matter than she , Dinah , would ever be , she left the pair of them to their task , and herself enjoyed the jaunts in the carriage sent by the devoted amateurs of the locality . |