Example sentences of "than [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to a government report published on Aug. 9 , cases of espionage in Switzerland involving agents from Eastern Europe continued to increase ; 65 of the 91 cases recorded from 1980 to 1988 involved these countries , most of which desired technological rather than political or security information , and over the same period 17 of the 24 diplomats and officials expelled were from Eastern Europe . |
| 2 | Barbara Coleman was proficient but being a full-time artist required more than that and Rain judged that she had no more to give . |
| 3 | Of course , it is more complex than that because allowance has to be made for convergent evolution , which is the acquisition of common characteristics by virtue of having been subjected to the same selection pressures , rather than because of sharing a common ancestor . |
| 4 | No it 's more political than that because association you 're still giving a landlord a bit of land which means |
| 5 | They have fewer opportunities than men to be nourished by their work , since they are more often involved in dull and repetitive jobs ; secondly , the domestic and nurturing skills in which they have usually been trained are held in lower esteem both in the home and in the workplace than administrative or management skills , so what they do is less likely to receive praise ; lastly , they are conditioned to value praise from men more highly than praise from women , who are more often their colleagues or first-level bosses . |
| 6 | French industrialization had been slower than German or Belgian . |
| 7 | Deeper than English or French ; not foreign ; her own . |
| 8 | Now that he came to think of it , Edward was surprised this point had never cropped up before ; Biology was obviously a dodgier area than English and History . |
| 9 | But by distinguishing clearly between them in this methodological fashion it is possible to explore how far local state action tends to fall into one type rather than another when action on any one policy is considered . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , our view of Japanese society is often supported by an underlying assumption that a tendency towards social consensus rather than social or class conflict , is what makes Japan different . |
| 11 | With respect to fixed-term contract workers , it appears that manufacturing establishments are much less likely than average and service sector establishments are rather more likely than average to make use of them . |
| 12 | With agency workers the situation is reversed : manufacturing establishments are rather more likely than average and service establishments rather less likely than average to use them . |
| 13 | Methotrexate works more quickly than mercaptopurine and azathioprine , and steroid sparing has been shown to be one of its advantages . |
| 14 | In the second of the Superbike races , which was cut short , winner Fogarty was more than delighted when clerk of the course Billy Nutt announced that the full prize money would be paid out . |
| 15 | Rangers ' early season form has been less than inspiring but manager Walter Smith has put most of the team 's problems down to so many personnel changes caused by a succession of injuries . |
| 16 | Whether the draftsman of sub-rule ( 3 ) had in mind the possibility that costs might , for contractual reasons , need to be taxed on some other basis than standard or indemnity seems to me doubtful . |
| 17 | Far more than cold and darkness it is the lack of butterflies that makes winter dreary and interminable . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , reviews within the periphery did begin to deal with the relationship between form and content in far more radical ways than left or core reviews were prepared to do and were even able to hint at possible political meanings that might be derived from this process . |
| 19 | Not only does automation lead to a heightened sense of alienation , it also , Naville suggests , enables workers to obtain a better understanding of the real determinants of the pattern of authority relations prevalent in the society , which Naville presumes to be dictated by social class rather than technocratic or efficiency considerations . |
| 20 | Another bias is in the emphasis on recognition processes , rather than linguistic and comprehension ones . |
| 21 | This guilt-anxiety-fear-anger complex may attach itself to other things than self-view or self-confidence . |
| 22 | There is little evidence to suggest that between 1935 and 1939 Nizan 's defence of the revolutionary Soviet state was anything other than unswerving and total . |
| 23 | It does allow that some religious beliefs could be defended by more rational arguments and by experience , as some people have tried to do , yet the appeal of religions for most people is emotional rather than rational and intellectual . |
| 24 | Three point one okay so this is where the model , in effect what we 've done which is a very crude way , right , of erm incorporating exogamous influences , right , we have n't said tha that the war is going to affect the income or price elasticity what we did do , right , all that we 're doing is that we 're allowing the intercept of our model to change , right , now as a result , we 've got , we can prove the st the statistical significance of all the variables in our model , right , the co the actual coefficients that we 've estimated have changed quite significant , particularly in the er the incoming elasticity , right , the incoming elasticity was less than one , right , and insignificance before was now greater than one and height of R squared has also increased dramatically our measure of explanatory power . |
| 25 | Its perpetration is a most despicable and worrying event and one that suggests that civilian rather than military or security targets guarded by armed men , may suit the IRA from a tactical and political standpoint at this juncture . |
| 26 | Surprisingly , the cost of timber Palisade is higher than Marshalite or Countryside walling , but is much easier to construct . |
| 27 | Downlights — recessed , semi-recessed , or ceiling-mounted — are good-looking and functional whatever the style of furnishings and collect fewer flies and less dirt than bowl-shaped or pendant fixtures . |
| 28 | One of their central objections was that Catholic piety incorporated elements of paganism and rendered religion little more than magic or sorcery . |
| 29 | Blue and green for instance , would seem to offer a more precise location for the meaning of a colour word like turquoise than red and yellow would . |
| 30 | Already the young men in Harare have been coming to Arthur , knowing his record in Mount Darwin and sensing a kindred spirit ; and he offers them a better way than stone-throwing and kidnapping tactics . |