Example sentences of "than [art] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Command of the aircraft rests with the more experienced pilot , rather than the one of higher rank , so that the situation can arise Where a recently promoted sergeant is making the tactical decisions for a relatively senior captain . |
| 2 | The king 's concession that the cost of troops should fall on the rich and powerful rather than the poor of the community was insufficient to placate the commons , and in the October parliament of the same year they presented a petition entitled ‘ La demande de la Commune ’ in which they called for the abolition of the maltote , the punishment of purveyors who took prises without making payment , and pardon for debts . |
| 3 | As with the pre-colonial chitumukulu of the Bemba , heads of state will fear members of their senior council more than the dispossessed of the shanty town or the rural hamlet . |
| 4 | They walked on either side of me and talked to each other , jabbering utter nonsense as though it was all so important , and I , with more brains than the two of them put together and information of the most vital nature , could n't get a word out . |
| 5 | It was much more elaborate than the first of the famous series of astronomical clocks in Strasbourg Cathedral that was installed about the same time , 1350 . |
| 6 | In the light of the judgment in that case we would uphold the applicant 's objection to the proposed interview on the third rather than the first of the grounds put before us . |
| 7 | Around the mid century the new complex fashion comes in from East Greece , but later than the first of these is the last of the old , the exquisite ‘ Peplos kore ’ ( 679 , fig. 39 ) . |
| 8 | Compaq Computer Corp 's first quarter earnings were better than the highest of Wall Street estimates and some analysts said that if it were not for a negative impact from currency translations , profits would have been a bit higher still . |
| 9 | Other than the four of them , and the Secretary-General , the only other person who knew about it was Jacques Rust , head of UNACO European operation , based in Zurich . |
| 10 | Send to What 's Brewing , CAMRA , 34 Alma Road , St Albans , Herts , AL1 3BW to arrive not later than the 15th of the month . |
| 11 | It is filled in each month and sent ( no later than the 15th of the following month ) to the Co-ordinator/National Secretary . |
| 12 | We called at the cottage at night , and found he was very ill , and it was not till the factor assured him he was joking , and that he had swallowed none other than the best of whiskey , that he rose from bed , and Donald was himself again . |
| 13 | Second , it seems on this criterion that we shall never have more than the slenderest of reasons to believe that we know something ; for in believing this we are believing that when all the truths are in , our justification will remain , and it looks as if much more is required to support that belief than is required to support an ordinary claim to know . |
| 14 | He is more than the greatest of stroke-players and he was patient enough to take advantage of Robertson 's flagging energy and win 12-15 , 9-15 , 15-5 , 15-12 , 15-8 . |
| 15 | Every American city had its multiplicity of freight stations , with more sidings , land , and staff lavished upon them than the greatest of the passenger terminals . |
| 16 | Dear people who could hardly write for arthritis , who had to send aged husbands staggering out in the frost to find something suitable , people whom I had hardly seen and had exchanged no more than the shiest of glances were sending me pictures of daffodils , valleys , seas and mountains . |
| 17 | Hilton 's attempt to revive the idea of Lollard influence on the revolt by redefining Lollardy as something more than the following of Wyclif ( 78 , p.213 ) disregards the general character of later Lollardy , which only rarely developed revolutionary tendencies . |
| 18 | But Somalia 's refugees may have suffered a less appalling fate than the hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian refugees in Somalia , who have existed in desolate camps for nearly 10 years . |
| 19 | This week , so I hear , I have been publicly denounced from a Roman Catholic pulpit — by no less than the Provincial of the Dominican Order of monks . |
| 20 | If they rarely had much chance in the more skilled manual jobs , unless apprenticed to some craft at home , they were probably better off than the poorest of the city-born . |
| 21 | In the context of hospitality and friendship , little and often is worth more than the grandest of annual social jamborees . |
| 22 | It was early in the season yet , and he probably had long periods of inactivity to fill up between visitors ; but he was not going to be left at leisure for long this time , for in the gravelled car park outside the enclosure a large bus was just disgorging a load of loud and active schoolboys , shepherded by a frantic youth hardly older than the eldest of his charges . |
| 23 | The ‘ development media theory ’ has generated a far more vigorous debate than the second of the new theories . |
| 24 | There is a Nazi in everyone , so schoolmaster Golding suggests , and there since childhood ; and civilisation is no more than the thinnest of thin veneers , as Hitler showed , masking a base , innate craving to rule and be ruled . |
| 25 | It was a smashing exhibition , that looked more like the charge in a one-dayer than the eighth of 15 available sessions in a Test . |
| 26 | ‘ I promise you it wo n't go any further than the three of us , ’ Sabrina said . |
| 27 | Some estimates put the close of year figure at 2,050 — 150 points lower than the worst of last week 's pessimists . |
| 28 | In other words , we would have the best rather than the worst of both worlds . |
| 29 | The perfectionism in the demand is more destructive of genuine faith than the worst of doubts could ever be . |
| 30 | If this is the face of your soul , then you are more evil than the worst of the stories about you . ’ |