Example sentences of "than [adj] at [art] " in BNC.
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1 | No Talmudic saying was nearer to him than that at the end of the Kiddushin : ‘ When a man faces his Maker , he will have to account for those ( God-given ) pleasures of life which he failed to enjoy , ’ and the Mezeritzer Rabbi commented , albeit a little more warily , ‘ You may reach a compromise between evil and good by enjoying legitimate bodily pleasure and serving God at the same time . ’ |
2 | When this became general knowledge later , there was general unease at this way of measuring the background ; the neutron flux 50 metres away from the cell measured for 50 hours could be very different than that at the cell site , even if the cell had been absent , measured for a different 50 hours . |
3 | No , there had always been routes through from Earth into the Dominions , other than that at the Retreat . |
4 | The two categories of CO adsorption heats are based on the K precoverage being higher or lower than that at the work function minimum . |
5 | It 's a proposal , nothing more than that at the moment , Derek from Barnet , good morning . |
6 | ‘ No , I have a little flat of my own , although I have been spending more time than usual at the villa since the kidnapping . |
7 | ‘ They hired a sieve analysis company to take the cuttings and analyse the different grain sizes — giving us a much more accurate description of the reservoir than normal at an early stage ’ . |
8 | The project has now taken the population from 18 animals to more than 300 at the end of the 1991 breeding season . |
9 | Erm I think we probably envisage those as no bigger than six at the outside people in any one house , domestic scale housing is what is envisaged there . |
10 | I was more than delighted at the great success he achieved with his exhibition at Cliffe Castle Art Gallery , a success which was richly deserved for the poetic quality and atmosphere of his highly individual work . |
11 | The population of more than 300,000 at the time of Cook 's arrival had plummeted to less than 40,000 by the end of the nineteenth century . |
12 | They came into the possession of my son Hilbert John Adam Verne-Smith under my uncle 's will , bypassing myself , though my son was no more than nineteen at the time of my uncle 's death . |
13 | She was seized and held in a crushing embrace before she could do more than tense at the look on his face . |
14 | In many cases a group would divide into sub-groups and work on more than three at a time . |
15 | She spoke quite often of snowy landscapes glimpsed through carriage windows and small hands curled up in a muff made of grey fur , even though she could not have been more than three at the time . |
16 | Circulation , which peaked at more than 100,000 at the height of Ulster 's violence , had fallen to around 20,000 after the rival Sunday Life , owned by Thomson Regional Newspapers , started publishing a few years ago . |
17 | What a wonderful night : thousands of people , many of them young , black and white , all there is to thank an elderly man who had been in prison longer than many at the concert had even been alive . |
18 | You know , he ca n't be more than twenty-three at the most . ’ |
19 | Needless to say , Mr Kilfedder , 63 , is less than happy at the intrusion of the Conservatives into his feifdom . |
20 | Observations made to date indicate that , on the average , the concentrations at the Allan Hills are denser and the specimens somewhat larger than those at the Yamato Mountains area . |
21 | The showrooms of the House of Oliver were smaller and less grand than those at the House of Mattli but the décor was newer and fresher , pale grey drapes , ultra modern black furniture and a great deal of gleaming stainless steel . |
22 | The disparities at the retail level are much bigger than those at the wholesale one . |
23 | BA wants to put Gatwick-based pilots , cabin crew and ground staff on lower rates of pay than those at the airline 's main base at Heathrow . |
24 | Very frequently people closer to today 's marketplace than to the board are more realistic about the possibilities for their business than those at the top . |
25 | It is a reasonable assumption — though little more than an assumption that ads in the categories at the lower end of the scale as it appears on the page will be more closely studied , and more thoroughly and consciously used by purchasers , than those at the upper end of the scale . |
26 | The boat hull and light aluminium masks and white roller jibs have to come down in tone to a light grey , and the varnished wood spars have to be darker ochre than those at the top . |
27 | Finally , it is possible , where the stony surface lies above a weathered soil profile , for the whole thing to be due to differential weathering , the stones in the lower part of the profile being weathered more rapidly than those at the surface due to the greater likelihood of a damp environment below . |
28 | The basic components of Maslow 's theory are often presented as a pyramid , but this seems to imply that those needs situated at the top of the pyramid are more important than those at the bottom . |
29 | There are several spine-like papillae at the apex of the jaw , distal to these papillae the jaw appears to be covered by irregularly spaced oral papillae which are smaller and more rounded than those at the apex . |
30 | Primary-school teachers have to work harder at reducing their remoteness from large aspects of policy than those at the secondary or FE stages . |