Example sentences of "the [noun] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remove the distance piece — the softer polystyrene block is easier to remove without damaging the stem than a harder wooden block . |
| 2 | A man who became 40 just before or just after 1 January 1986 is much more likely to contribute a death to the numerator than a man who became 40 in the early days of 1985 or the last days of 1986 . |
| 3 | Doubtless Beatrix Potter felt it was a neater finish to the story than a vasectomy . ’ |
| 4 | They 're suggesting that I have a permanent security guard on duty , day and night , apart from an alarm system that would be more suitable to the Bundesbank than a private house ! |
| 5 | Fast though they run , they all keep in step , so that the whole group looks more like a snake gliding through the undergrowth than a family of young mammals on an outing . |
| 6 | The lagged dependent variables suggest that adjustment costs are of importance whilst the presence of lagged determinants of the desired stock suggests that there is more in the data than a simple first-order partial adjustment model might permit . |
| 7 | As reported by the chief naval engineer of the Germania yards , the rotor ship handled beautifully and was able to tack a full 20 degrees closer to the wind than a commercial sailing ship . |
| 8 | A county court action is likely to provide a quicker hearing and one which is more convenient to the parties than a High Court hearing . |
| 9 | Transparency itself is left as a relatively flexible concept : more of a commercial decision for the exchange than a matter of regulatory principle . |
| 10 | " Power " , for example , is an ordinal attribute in which we might want to talk about individuals having " more " or " less " power than others and to reflect this in using the power of numbers to reflect " more " or " less " of some attribute in the same way that a higher number score on a test signifies a greater ability to do the test than a lower number . |
| 11 | Also a minor marriage was a much cheaper option for the parents than a major marriage and was , therefore , considered to be socially disgraceful . |
| 12 | Lowell sensed that there was something more to the question than a further sounding-out about a commercial proposition . |
| 13 | I would n't be seen dead in a navy suit and I 'd rather give a peck on the cheek than a mock-male handshake . |
| 14 | This can be used to replace or supplement a cylinder overflow area ; it is a form of distributed free space that is more evenly available through the file than a cylinder overflow area . |
| 15 | Assuming that Sophronia is an upper servant , the poem draws no closer to the owners than a description of the room where Biron sleeps and where , Timon-like , he keeps his unread books . |
| 16 | Dexter was sure the TV reporter 's motive for leaving the room was more to check the nanny was not listening at the keyhole than a raging thirst . |
| 17 | But when the chips are down and he 's feeling blue , Charlie sees himself as ‘ The Maryhill Hermit ’ , a victim of his public image , and a man who would rather have a quiet night with the wife than a night out with the wild bunch . |
| 18 | Things had been ticking along nicely between them , just as long as she 'd been prepared to forget that she wanted more out of the relationship than a roll in the hay and a bright ‘ cheerio ’ at the airport . |
| 19 | They give better support at the edges than a sprung base so they 're a practical choice if you tend to sit on the bed . |
| 20 | There 's little evidence to suggest that being delivered by Caesarean section is any more harmful to the baby than a natural birth . |
| 21 | Martin Lee , leader of the United Democrats of Hong Kong , said that he hoped that a politician would be more receptive to the will of the people than a diplomat . |
| 22 | Carried by so small a man , the camera 's lens would often be no higher from the ground than a child 's eye and he could approach them on their own level . |
| 23 | No sooner had Vasili 's feet touched the ground than a pair of tight-fitting handcuffs was snapped around his wrists . |
| 24 | If it is by Rolle , it would seem to be more of a series of prompts for meditation on the Passion than a fully worked out structure . |
| 25 | ( Actually the ‘ stream ’ , in this case , is more likely to mean the seeping and trickling of the groundwater than a rushing open river . |
| 26 | She goes on to point out that " Nothing was more alien to the baroque than a puritanical attitude towards technique and material . |
| 27 | In the latter union these changes ‘ were less a surrender of power to the shopfloor than a formal accommodation to the reality of decentralisation which had occurred during the post-war years ’ ( Hyman , 1983 , p. 42 ) . |
| 28 | Even the most positivist anthropologist , knowing the statistical significance of categories of population , would not have been immune from a romantic curiosity , would perhaps have spent more time visiting this wastefully subsidized relic of the past than a cool assessment of scientific value could warrant . |
| 29 | No sooner had the plane risen into the air than a door flew open revealing a square of blue sea , and a concealed cargo of contraband slid across the floor . |
| 30 | The ‘ kick-point ’ related to the shape of the shaft at the point of impact ; a shaft with a low kick-point shows a greater curvature near the tip than a shaft with a high kick-point . |