Example sentences of "than [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That meant taking a saw to the top , higher than the tree surgeons had ever climbed before . |
| 2 | The fact that magnesium atoms are smaller than the calcium atoms they replaced has let to a reduction in the volume of the rock . |
| 3 | The argument that Sizewell will make electricity cheaper than it would otherwise be , is probably a lot weaker than the board claims . |
| 4 | As we have seen , this benefit is unlikely to be as large as the CEGB argues , and if Britain 's history on nuclear construction repeats itself more closely than the board hopes , there could be short-term costs . |
| 5 | One of the problems that the college told me about is that school children are leaving school with more computer literacy than the university teachers , so university teachers are having to run hard simply to keep up with the people they are teaching . |
| 6 | In Wales the club-v-country argument has gone on for longer even than the locust years — a constant , nagging reminder of the manifold and manifest divisions that have wrought such damage on Welsh rugby . |
| 7 | A wail more dismal than the bird cries rose up from under the horse . |
| 8 | It has a pair of small loudspeakers fitted inside , which you can connect to your PC 's sound card — much better than the Walkman speakers I normally hook up . |
| 9 | Those who were kind now would remember him in future — if for nothing else than the thank-you letters . |
| 10 | The result was a hunt for the biochemical mechanism of memory at what was a fundamentally mistaken level — that of molecules rather than the brain systems in which molecules are embedded . |
| 11 | The British rate of inflation was significantly higher than the inflation rates of its main competitors . |
| 12 | Indeed , aside from power steering , the basic Wrangler is probably less well equipped than the wartime Jeeps which at least boasted folding shovels to help the drivers dig them out of trouble . |
| 13 | Some of the palm trees look taller than the elm trees in ‘ our ’ wood , and they rise sheer , with tiny top-knots of palm-leaves at the top . |
| 14 | The band wore dinner jackets too , the girl singer more jewels than the lady guests , but Ken had sussed that one a long time ago . |
| 15 | Six theses in this category were from Imperial College , and it would be reasonable to suggest that the copies consulted , and subsequently cited by authors other than the thesis authors , were from London University 's main library , where the set of theses for inter-library loan is kept . |
| 16 | Then I came across Rousseau 's Confessions , which took a bit of reading but was more interesting than the love mags . |
| 17 | The main difference is that the solutions of the Ernst equation now contain the metric functions explicitly rather than the field potentials as in the stationary axisymmetric case . |
| 18 | Well the men tend to come to our meetings and sit in the back now because their they well what in their words they say , Oh they they 're much better than the lodge meetings . |
| 19 | We can not simply appeal to ‘ reality ’ and ‘ truth , as Miller and Swift do ; we can not root out prejudice by fiat nor make sexism disappear just by exposing it ; we have even less power to control what people say or mean than the prescriptivist defenders of sexist convention . |
| 20 | In some cases they accrue entitlements to holiday pay which they receive as a lump sum on the termination of their employment , although in the holiday camps sector these accrued holiday entitlements are less than the holiday entitlements of comparable regular staff . |
| 21 | Our results demonstrate that the clusters of basic amino acids are more important than the zinc fingers for the interactions of NC protein with DNA in vitro , although a role for the zinc fingers in specificity of interaction or in facilitating its many functions can not be excluded . |
| 22 | Subscriptions and students ' fees were not adequate to provide a properly staffed establishment , and the choice made of this method of financing the College , in preference to direct government funding ( which would have had to be much greater than the government grants received from 1795 to 1813 ) was to hamper the growth of the College well into the present century . |
| 23 | The Conservative party ignores the economic policies that we propose , although many independent commentators identify that they would be not only successful , but more successful than the Government policies — |
| 24 | Obviously the City boys are a bit fussier than the country boys about when they play . |
| 25 | One possibility is that platy minerals favoured in mylonite zones have lower seismic velocities than the country rocks and that this , coupled with their strong preferred orientation , favours reflection ( Fountain , Hurich , and Smithson 1984 ) . |
| 26 | Mr Major seemed to shake as many hands from Michigan , Brussels and Canada than the Home Counties . |
| 27 | The masker ( works like a behind-the-ear hearing-aid ) produces a constant sound which can be increased until it is louder than the head noises . |
| 28 | This led to developments in both music and the Liturgy which were probably more far-reaching than the Council Fathers anticipated . |
| 29 | For an interface where the transverse velocity in the solid is greater than CL , the velocity of the bulk wave in the fluid , the refracted angles are greater than the incident angles . |
| 30 | So I , I would n't to be drawn on that Royal Doulton was late into this cycle and it 's a little later than the publishing companies coming out . |