Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event Labour received marginally more votes than the Tories , in an election in which the two parties took a larger share of the total votes than ever before , but because of the geography of electoral support in relation to constituency boundaries it was the Tories who gained the majority of seats in Parliament and formed the next government . |
| 2 | The professional respects the parents and acknowledges their competence and expertise in knowing more about the total situation than anyone else . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She was even more aware of him in the total blackness than she had been before . |
| 5 | In Cooper 's own survey , the test scores of the houseproud housewives were closer to those of the normal women than to those of the obsessional patients . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The next generation will be even more familiar with the European scene than we are . |
| 10 | It can be observed , however , that minimum late fetal mortality falls more frequently in the 20–24 years age group in the European countries than in countries of other continents where the nadir more often occurs at ages 25–29 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It says more about the concept of the European Community than any amount of leaflets and party political broadcasts can . ’ |
| 14 | It gets more money from the European Community than anybody else , but despite this its economic performance has deteriorated alarmingly . |
| 15 | I share her view that industry , commerce and individuals in this country are better off in the European Community than outside it . |
| 16 | We pay in £300 million more to the European Commission than we receive back . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ! |
| 19 | ‘ It is easier to control the monetary base than broader money , but it is less relevant to do so . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Of the five most common reasons capable of establishing the legitimacy of an authority some are more appropriate to the political context than others . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | As a result of the recent excavations , however , we know a great deal more about the 12th-century buildings than we did before . |
| 29 | All these senses are much easier to satisfy in the paddocked horse than in the stabled horse . |
| 30 | They 're pursuing a different tack — they are less concerned with what is the economic connection than what ought to be " . |