Example sentences of "in the [noun] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are three times as many arrests in the capital than in the rest of the country . |
| 2 | It sometimes seemed that the Government was less interested in broadcasting from the point of view of fulfilling the three aims mentioned in the plan than in what it could and should do to publicize its own policies and activities . |
| 3 | Er can I just respond briefly to Mr 's first point to confirm that we 've absolutely no objection to a more detailed set of criteria being included in the plan than is contained in P P G three . |
| 4 | Moreover , mystical movements are no more prevalent in the West than they have ever been from the Dionysian rites to the temple of Aimee McPherson . |
| 5 | Cooling seems to be more pronounced and more extensive in the west than the east ; for example , since 1981 ( Fig. 3 a ) there has been a decrease of more than -1°C in the upper layers to the west , compared with warming in the intermediate water to the east of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge . |
| 6 | Painted terracotta decorations for architecture are found in all areas of Greece in the archaic period and later ; figure-work too , but that is far commoner in the west than in the rest of Greece and reaches its acme in Etruria . |
| 7 | Alexander Rodchenko , a pioneer of constructivism , whose work has possibly had more impact in the West than any other Russian photographer . |
| 8 | It is also noticeable that pan Atlantic species have a shallower upper bathymetric limit in the west than in the east , possibly due to the effects of the Western Boundary Current . |
| 9 | The web of diplomatic contacts which had developed in western and central Europe over the last 200 or more years was now being extended further east by the full incorporation in it for the first time of the great new emerging state of Russia : henceforth events in eastern Europe were to be far more significant in the calculations of statesmen in the west than ever in the past . |
| 10 | SYRIA expressed a strong desire yesterday to resume Middle East peace negotiations as soon as possible and the United States said it would play a more active role in the talks than in the past . |
| 11 | The finding that adaptation is more profound in the LVF than the RVF , on the other hand , would be consistent with the results of Meyer ( 1976 ) , who found a stronger McCollough effect in the LVF , but would not support the findings of Beaton and Blakemore ( 1981 ) who observed no hemispheric difference in extent of adaptation or orientation selectivity in either of their two well-practised subjects . |
| 12 | ( 1977 ) reveals that the torque producing capability for a given motor volume is greater in the hybrid than in the variable-reluctance motor , so the hybrid motor is a natural choice for applications requiring a small step length and high torque in a restricted working space . |
| 13 | This ratio was 1.5 ( +/-0.31 ) times higher in the mutant than in the wild type strain . |
| 14 | Yet he sits more firmly in the saddle than ever . |
| 15 | I think that I am probably a bit sharper in the burst than over the long distance but during the two ‘ B ’ games I felt really sharp and I have been working on my speed and strength with the SRU fitness specialist , David McLean ’ . |
| 16 | I believe we are better placed in the BBC than anyone to do it . |
| 17 | This is not surprising — Labour offered far more to those in the cities than did the Conservatives . |
| 18 | The urban poor also find they can make more in one night treading coca leaves in makeshift drug factories in the jungle than an office employee earns in a month in the city . |
| 19 | Although further London spine points have been introduced and the amount of extra pay given to people working in London has therefore increased , there is more flexibility in the system than there used to be . |
| 20 | Although the need for one organization of policy-making for curriculum and examinations had been recognized as long ago as the mid-1960s ( through the establishment of the Schools Council ) , it had been abandoned in the early 1980s in favour of centralized curriculum-making and a blanket acceptance that the assessment of individual pupils ' achievement would lead to greater improvements in the system than the development of logically connected public examinations and national qualifications . |
| 21 | Now , if we consider the moon and the earth as a big system gravitational system there is now more gravity in the system than there was because the moon is supplying the of gravity of it 's own . |
| 22 | Rushmere spent 71 balls over his 29 , and at times it seemed as if Wessels and Kirsten were more interested in spending much-needed time in the middle than trying to set a challenging target . |
| 23 | Nay-sayers are more likely to surface in the middle than at the beginning because now the project is more of a threat , more a challenge to their own perceived status . |
| 24 | The first point to note is that we in the UK import more walnuts ( and Brazils ) in the shell than out . |
| 25 | Scientists discovered , in an experiment with overweight people , that when allowed to eat as much as they wanted , they ate considerably fewer peanuts in the shell than peanuts provided ready-shelled . |
| 26 | We got better food in the RAF than most people in wartime Britain but it did n't compare with the Darrowby fare . |
| 27 | But they commanded a stronger sense of political direction and greater willingness to take an active part in the zemstvos than the more conservative majority . |
| 28 | Through his telescope Galileo observed more things in the heavens than had ever been dreamed of : moons of Jupiter and myriads of stars invisible to the naked eye . |
| 29 | In HGT-1 cells , specific binding of [ 3 H ] omeprazole was significantly greater in the presence than in the absence of 1 mM histamine ( 4.17 ( 0.45 ) pmol/mg cell protein v 2.08 ( 0.48 ) pmol/mg cell protein , p<0.05 ; n=3 , measured in triplicate in both cases ) . |
| 30 | Linking hands , they whispered their love for one another , and although they were kept physically apart by those old granite stones , they were in another sense brought close together by them , for it is curiously easier to give your heart away through a hole in the wall than to swear your fidelity between the sheets of a feather bed . |