Example sentences of "than [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ More like a motive for him to bump off Erdle than t' other way round . ’ |
| 2 | If the selling price is greater than the cost price , then a profit is made . |
| 3 | The " package " may also involve stock options — rights to buy shares at a specific value exercisable at a future date , the idea being that if the firm does well the shares will be worth far more than the exercise price . |
| 4 | British governments had no strength to resist these arguments , and as a consequence the North Sea Oil installations , working literally at break-neck speed unfettered by safety regulations comparable to those operating on-shore , had a fatality rate eleven times greater than the construction industry , nine times higher than mining , and six times greater than quarrying . |
| 5 | It should be observed that the most significant contribution to compensation for injured workmen has been through insurance rather than the tort system . |
| 6 | The third sub-type of academic course is less easy to describe , but it is broader or more general than the two-subject degree . |
| 7 | They were made parties to these proceedings but , since the debt owing to the building society now exceeds the value of the property and since they can be in no better position than the building society , they have taken no part in the proceedings . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , it is unrealistic to expect clients always to seek advice on these matters from sources other than the building designer , and a basic knowledge of planning law , compensation and the individual vagaries in attitudes of planning authorities is often the basis of releasing latent development value which is of tangible benefit and for which the client is prepared to pay high rewards . |
| 9 | Industry sources say consequential loss claims could prove a greater burden than the building repair costs . |
| 10 | This he will normally be planning to do , but it involves him in a more considerable recasting of his planned activities than the university teacher , and brings him into contact with many more parts of the school life . |
| 11 | Erm I have to concur with that but nevertheless , er the north east sector is further away from Leeds than the south west sector of York . |
| 12 | May I draw to his attention the case of a constituent of mine , a Mr. Russell , who is paid just 6p more than the income support level ? |
| 13 | What would be the situation if the payment was higher than the income tax suffered in that particular year ? |
| 14 | This is exactly the prediction which is made by Locksley et al. , ‘ the response criterion for schema related items may be more biased in the direction of OLD decisions ( or , alternatively less biased in the direction of NEW decisions ) than the response criterion for schema-unrelated items ’ ( 1984 , p.425 ) . |
| 15 | Berni Miller , chief executive of the Farm Holiday Bureau , says she finds the report encouraging and feels that it broadly reflects the way the industry round the country is moving at the moment , although business in other regions is less seasonal than the West Country . |
| 16 | In the dark old days rugby tours never went further than the west country or Wales … but times are changing fast as the sport gets more professional … you have to think big time now to win matches and survive in the first division … that 's why Gloucester 's new full-time director Barrie Corless and coach Keith Richardson took the players off to Italy for a two match tour |
| 17 | The intermontane and continental interior deserts have greater extremes of temperature than the west coast deserts , such as the Atacama , where the moderating influence of cold currents is felt . |
| 18 | Regarding Part 1 of Table 6.11 they concluded , ‘ As can be seen , all factors are significantly greater than the chance level ( 5 % ) with particularly heavy weight on the first two . |
| 19 | Conchis was no more than the chance agent , the event that had come at the right time ; just as in the old days I might , after a celibate term at Oxford , have met a girl and begun an affaire with her , I had begun something exciting with him . |
| 20 | Clumping of cones of the same type is apparent , but is this more than the chance aggregation that arises in any random distribution ? |
| 21 | It is found mainly in timbers less than fifty years old and is a much larger insect than the furniture beetle . |
| 22 | These claims are less vague than the logic claim , because a question or a speaking turn is easy enough to identify with precision . |
| 23 | And the quantitative distinction which is well illustrated by this photograph , which is completely typical let me get the one , hang on right , this is a photograph of a hamster ovum with a hamster sperm just fertilizing it there and you can see that the hamster sperm is a lot smaller than the hamster ovum , and this is totally typical , it 's smaller by many orders of magnitude . |
| 24 | In deepening the ponds from the traditional 0.5 m to 2.5 m , phytoplankton production occurred to depths of 1.6 m and annual production figures of 8.4 tonnes ha -1 ; were achieved , which is greater than the grain yield of rice for the same period . |
| 25 | Litter from battery hen farms is unsuitable for the plants and though turkey litter was tried last Christmas it proved much less successful than the chicken fuel . |
| 26 | The bridge of the Simonova was far larger than the Navy pattern to which he had become accustomed . |
| 27 | Better than the weekend weather that I saw ? |
| 28 | The contract ensures that if you decide to cash in after five years in April 1997 , you will not get less than the unit price on offer in April 1996 . |
| 29 | The Liberal Democrat plan would link pension increases to the rise in average earnings , which is usually higher , rather than the inflation index as at present . |
| 30 | OFTEL was instructed to ensure that , on average , the nominal price of BT phone calls rose x per cent per year less than the inflation rate of the retail price index . |