Example sentences of "than [art] [num] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On his return to Rangoon in mid-October , Dorman-Smith announced that he would go further than the 17 May statement : he would appoint an advisory council . |
| 2 | In the tsar 's view , the new assignment was much more important than the one Paskevich had just completed . |
| 3 | Abimelech , the Philistine king ( 26:1 ) : the name is probably a family or throne-name , this is therefore likely to have been a later king than the one Abraham encountered ( 20–21 ) . |
| 4 | The standard agreement which Copeland 's company had with such acts as Caravan , the Climax Blues Band , Wishbone Ash and Squeeze was for a 50–50 split — a worse arrangement than the one Copeland had encouraged Sting to sue Branson over . |
| 5 | The black comedy of the gallows scene in Verdi 's Un ballo in maschera is very Verdian and also very Karajanesque ; and though Karajan often made out the critics in Strauss 's Ein Heldenleben to be a nicer bunch than they probably are , I have yet to hear a more vitriolically gossipy performance of the ‘ Tritsch-Tratsch ’ Polka than the one Karajan conducted with the Philharmonia Orchestra in one of his last recordings with them in September 1960 . |
| 6 | Next out of the bag came a paper nylon petticoat with many more layers of frothy rainbow-coloured net than the one Sally carefully washed in sugar water after each wearing , and then , to Sally 's delight , a saucy little white basque , boned and trimmed with lace . |
| 7 | By this time , a better designed apparatus was available than the one Gibson and Fawcett had used . |
| 8 | It is a situation much worse than the one Smith found himself in before the game with FC Brugge two weeks ago and could involve some drastic re-organisation . |
| 9 | It had done better than the 5.30 Sunday Classic Serial and had proved an effective challenge to ITV 's Saturday afternoon serial , The Buccaneers . |
| 10 | Dressed in a pair of designer jeans that were stretched over her buttocks like clingfilm , and with blotchy skin without a trace of make-up , she looked closer to fifty than the forty Dexter knew she really was . |
| 11 | The professor is required to retire not later than the 30 September immediately preceding the 66th birthday , except that , if the successful candidate can establish a vested interest , as defined in the University 's statutes ( details available on request ) , in retirement at age 67 or later , then the date of retirement will be not later than the 30 September immediately preceding the 68th birthday . |
| 12 | The professor is required to retire not later than the 30 September immediately preceding the 66th birthday , except that , if the successful candidate can establish a vested interest , as defined in the University 's statutes ( details available on request ) , in retirement at age 67 or later , then the date of retirement will be not later than the 30 September immediately preceding the 68th birthday . |
| 13 | Finally , there was the fear that a solution based on any principle other than the 1949 Armistice Line would have destabilizing repercussions on Jordan and Israel . |
| 14 | They expect to have sold more than a million IQs worldwide by the end of 1991 . |
| 15 | There are , however , more than a million Serbs living in other republics , mainly in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina . |
| 16 | Tonight 's gig encapsulates everything The Farm are good at — simple , terrace-anthem pop which can be entertaining and more affecting than a thousand Simon Dudfield pouts . |
| 17 | More than a hundred BGS staff worked around 40 countries during the year on country specific and regional programmes . |
| 18 | During their lives , they gave work to numerous American museums , including Brooklyn , which already has more than a dozen Lowenthal pictures . |
| 19 | EXPLOSIVES smuggled in the soles of training shoes were to be used in an attempted daylight breakout by more than a dozen IRA men in a top security prison , it emerged yesterday . |