Example sentences of "has [det] [noun sg] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | The disadvantages are that the single battery has less stamina than a pod of AAs giving the same voltage , and the female terminal can splay ( or the segments fold under if the battery is installed carelessly ) . |
| 2 | He 's uglier than Corky , fatter than Phi and has less charm than Steve — in fact he bears more than a passing resemblance to Lucy ! |
| 3 | It has less memory than the MP version , but can still be upgraded to MP capability . |
| 4 | Moreover , AT&T 's labour-relations department has less influence than it once did , before decentralisation swept the company . |
| 5 | The Bank of England which has less influence than its German counterpart has been reluctant to advise rate cuts over here . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , if it 's sexual she has less discrimination than I gave her credit for . ’ |
| 7 | The cabin is usually stabilised at less than atmospheric pressure , so its air has less oxygen than usual . |
| 8 | The inspectorate that Boris Yeltsin has put in notional charge of nuclear materials has less muscle than the mighty nuclear ministry and the military establishment . |
| 9 | If so , training has been downgraded by the Cabinet and has less priority than it once had . |
| 10 | It also has less floorspace than the current libraries in the other two towns . |
| 11 | SmithKline Beecham said ‘ BabyRibena has less sugar than fresh orange juice . ’ |
| 12 | However , a real particle close to a massive body has less energy than if it were far away , because it would take energy to lift it far away against the gravitational attraction of the body . |
| 13 | If the indices are raised , say , from 2 to , then the closed curve produced has more character than a simple rectangle or a simple ellipse … it becomes a superellipse . |
| 14 | Now that attitude is changing , most obviously on the West Coast , which has more money than other earthquake zones to experiment with new designs and materials . |
| 15 | Your daughter does n't live extravagantly enough for it to be noticed that she has more money than the average student . |
| 16 | In The Black Queen of 1961 , Mariana has more substance than in the early collages of rags , and so , being more tangible , is more a victim , of Gironella , of time , of historical circumstances ( Fig. 6 ) . |
| 17 | Mary Kingsley , her biography of the eccentric Victorian traveller , has more substance than Jella , in which the author retraces Kingsley 's voyage home from West Africa . |
| 18 | Each individual in the team considers he has more influence than he would have if the work were organised on a formal ‘ role culture ’ basis . |
| 19 | If , for example , you are discussing how to solve a problem with a person who has more experience than you , then listening would be high on your list . |
| 20 | Yet , paradoxically , in another way she has more experience than most . |
| 21 | ‘ He has more experience than the other two , and showed a great deal of improvement last year . |
| 22 | He has more experience than his rivals , more than enough determination and one of the best technicians in the GP paddock . |
| 23 | Perhaps FYT 's ministry has more significance than we realise to merit such concerted antagonism ! |
| 24 | There is no difference between government coverage and party coverage in this respect except that government has more initiative in determining the news , which means that it has more opportunity than the opposition to ensure that its coverage is favourable . |
| 25 | This reflects a Thatcherite judgment that the CSA , an employers ' association representing over 300 companies , has more clout than a chartered professional institute with 30,000 registered members . |
| 26 | He has more sense than you . ’ |
| 27 | If the reader has more knowledge than the writer has supposed , then he will tend to disregard the discourse that has been plotted in the act of writing and simply take from the text whatever best suits his purpose . |
| 28 | Essentially the nine conflicts are related by the fact that they involve situations where either one party has more information than another , a state of affairs described by economists as information asymetry ; or where one party has a monopoly power ; indeed the conflict may occur where both these two factors are simultaneously present . |
| 29 | The law does not seek to prohibit all asymmetric trades ( trades where one party has more information than another ) ; nor should it . |
| 30 | ‘ It has more dignity than charm but it has shops and is closer than Córdoba . ’ |