Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | The professional respects the parents and acknowledges their competence and expertise in knowing more about the total situation than anyone else . |
| 2 | This is primitive material , and should be approached in the pragmatic manner of the primitives who are more concerned with the total situation than with the rational or logical aspect of it . |
| 3 | She was even more aware of him in the total blackness than she had been before . |
| 4 | If , therefore , the normal population in this age group was screened at five year intervals , and assuming that the polyp/carcinoma sequence takes longer than five years , 190 cases of cancer or premalignant polyp would be found per 50000 examinations — that is , 1 in 263 : a higher detection rate in the normal population than that achieved by annual colonoscopic surveillance of extensive longstanding ulcerative ulcerative colitis . |
| 5 | A dead leaf will make a smaller contribution to the measured image than a living one but the errors arising from other sources are certainly of much greater magnitude . |
| 6 | These he sold , on the spot , to a barber in the district , more interested in the salacious aspect than the superb swelling line of his work . |
| 7 | The next generation will be even more familiar with the European scene than we are . |
| 8 | ‘ I would rather have the problems we 've got and still be in the European Cup than be without them and a place in the Champions League as well , ’ said the manager . |
| 9 | Filling the central depression is a layer of arctic deep water of temperature -0.9° to -0.5°C and salinity 34.94°C ; it is slightly warmer in the European basin than in the Canadian , and probably of Atlantic origin . |
| 10 | It says more about the concept of the European Community than any amount of leaflets and party political broadcasts can . ’ |
| 11 | It gets more money from the European Community than anybody else , but despite this its economic performance has deteriorated alarmingly . |
| 12 | I share her view that industry , commerce and individuals in this country are better off in the European Community than outside it . |
| 13 | We pay in £300 million more to the European Commission than we receive back . |
| 14 | The problems the fathers faced were more related to the nature and person of Christ and his relationship to the triune Godhead than the meaning of the cross . |
| 15 | But the irony is that a human being , with all his potential capacity for understanding , is actually so cut off from his fellow humans that a plant sometimes has better perceptions at the subtle level than he has ! |
| 16 | ‘ It is easier to control the monetary base than broader money , but it is less relevant to do so . ’ |
| 17 | The reason is simply that since its meaning is more abstract than that of see , hear , watch , etc. , it lends itself more easily to the inference-type sense than do the latter . |
| 18 | Set against this rather simplistic view of the neutrality and responsiveness of the state to the wishes of electors are pluralist writers who argue that there is certainly a necked for greater preparedness. hut that the military and the giant corporations in America have far more influence on the political system than they should and that they are a threat to liberal democracy . |
| 19 | The move means further delay in implementing one of the Conservative Party 's election promises , putting off passage of the bill until 1995 at the earliest , and it gives a clear signal that the environment , in the eyes of ministers , has become less important on the political agenda than issues such as law and order and education . |
| 20 | Who is this strategy not fair and reasonable , reflecting political maturity and a finer sense of the political art than other communities have managed to achieve ? |
| 21 | The history of the convention in England since the 1770s , however , more frequently indicated its possibilities for focusing ‘ pressure from without ’ on the political class than it pointed to a fully fledged anti-parliament . |
| 22 | Of the five most common reasons capable of establishing the legitimacy of an authority some are more appropriate to the political context than others . |
| 23 | During 1990 the government attempted to deal with the economic consequences of massive Soviet immigration , which presented a more serious threat to the Israeli economy than the Gulf crisis . |
| 24 | The use of legal paths of dispute settlement reflects the much greater role of legal regulation of labour relations in the Spanish system than in Britain . |
| 25 | Well it 's easier to recruit at the lower level than it is the upper |
| 26 | All these senses are much easier to satisfy in the paddocked horse than in the stabled horse . |
| 27 | They 're pursuing a different tack — they are less concerned with what is the economic connection than what ought to be " . |
| 28 | Voters indicated they were more interested in Mr Brazauskas ' competence in trying to drag the country out of the economic morass than in his political past . |
| 29 | By selling more outside the advanced bloc than was bought in , capitalists could have increased their assets ( in the form of third world factories , gold or financial assets ) without accumulating means of production at home . |
| 30 | The report says future policies will give even greater emphasis to protecting the rural environment than increasing the pace of economic development . |