Example sentences of "than [noun] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An obvious case for a spread ratio other than unity occurs with an intercommodity spread . |
| 2 | The prize for the year 's best book other than fiction goes to Gwyn Thomas and Margaret Jones for their third collaboration . |
| 3 | The hospital does more for Britons in a week than Windsor does in a decade . |
| 4 | Its constant , uncritical use of the concept of ‘ normality ’ and its insistence on adapting individuals rather than environments flies in the face of much social scientific and educational wisdom , and , more importantly , the expressed wishes of many disabled people who want society to change , not themselves . |
| 5 | The water is viewed by light sensitive detectors designed to pick up the so-called Cherenkov light emitted when electrically-charged particles travel faster than light does through the water . |
| 6 | Liza sings it to reverberate round the Albert Hall and the final syllable has more tone and depth than Kylie manages in a whole album . |
| 7 | In last week 's Tribune , Sawyer suggested that ballots of affiliated members in leadership contests might be made compulsory and that block votes could be split , although he expressed himself more cautiously than Gould intends to . |
| 8 | Some modern footgear and small sized chocks would have been better than acid drops on that day ! |
| 9 | That nurture is more important than nature seems to be borne out by a study published in Nature in 1989 . |
| 10 | The agency could be in business for less money than NATO spends in one hour , say its backers . |
| 11 | ‘ And the Angus men , I can tell you , were too busy to do more than yell insults at the other Angus men . |
| 12 | Actually , the use of this final pronominal element is quite transparently a way to regain attributive status for the adjective which precedes it , and its use with certain adjectives ( to be introduced below ) which do not genuinely occur in predicative position is thus much more significant than Bolinger allows for , showing that there are values attached to attributive status which are more important than mere position in the sentence relative to the verb , and that speakers will even seek to conform to these by devising an attributive construction which would otherwise not be called for . |
| 13 | More than £1m goes to Clwyd County Council for road improvement , including £554,000 for the Salop Road-Bridge Street section of the Wrexham inner ring road . |
| 14 | ‘ In the ideal I have of Art , I think that one must not show one 's own , and that the artist must no more appear in his work than God does in nature . |
| 15 | Not only does Scotland enjoy greater differences from England than Bavaria does from the rest of Germany ( in virtue of its legal system , Church and education system ) , its needs and those of Wales are dealt with by having Secretaries of State and Parliamentary Grand Committees . |
| 16 | IN the West Indies the appropriately coloured rainbow flag for friendship can sometimes be used to replace the plethora of different ensigns ( there are more ensigns than steel bands among the islands ) , but mostly it has become merely an additional flag . |
| 17 | Cooper ( 1984 ) has suggested that there is far more disagreement amongst scientists than Kuhn allows for , which may well be true . |
| 18 | No work on fuels other than charcoal appears to be in progress . |
| 19 | What I have tried to set out in the last few pages is an understanding of ‘ meaning theism ’ which embraces a rather larger area than Ayer allows for . |
| 20 | Hinting perhaps of bringing subtle pressures to bear , Watkins reminds us that SunSoft has at least 1,000 engineers working full-time on its Unix implementation , many more than USL has in its entire organisation . |
| 21 | Coghill did more than heap praises on Dymer . |
| 22 | All three options imply a cost per kilowatt-hour lower than government estimates for nuclear power . |
| 23 | In some places the needles were several inches deep and easier to rake than autumn leaves on a tended lawn ; elsewhere they were saturated and packed , or buried among tangled creepers and virulent , shining ivy . |
| 24 | For a variety of reasons — some conscious and deliberate , some accidental , some historical and political , some organisational and philosophical — difference rather than similarity appears to be the central characteristic of our primary schools today . |
| 25 | Every day she sits opposite me and breathes through her mouth for more hours than George sits opposite me and chews with his mouth open . |
| 26 | Of the two , carbon — which has the smaller atoms — is by far the more versatile : it lends itself much more easily than silicon does to the creation of intricate molecular shapes . |
| 27 | I believe that the benefits of the portfolio concept may be greater than Porter sees from his largely industrial-economics perspective . |
| 28 | And yet an Englishman 's relation to English culture and its traditions may be more tormented than Schniedau allows for , especially if the Englishman in question defines himself as , or aspires to be , an English artist . |
| 29 | But since the general feeling within the ICC is that cash rather than rotation counts for more , England could end up losing out . |
| 30 | Whatever uses it may serve within descriptive linguistics , and there is clearly some advantage in dividing up and abstracting fields of study for specific purposes , it is quite a different matter to then take such abstract categories as ‘ language-systems ’ rather than language uses as the basis for cross-cultural comparison , particularly when what is being compared is such a socially charged concept as ‘ objectivity ’ . |