Example sentences of "than [adv] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly Verbivore is characteristic of its cybernetic times in that it is more ‘ user-friendly ’ than much of Brooke-Rose 's previous work . |
| 2 | The remote island of Pantelleria , off the coast of Sicily and more than halfway to Tunisia , produces a superb dessert wine . |
| 3 | Broader than all over Europe . |
| 4 | The same section of the population remarked in November ‘ that the Führer had spoken more than normally about God ’ , that ‘ apparently even among the old Nazis there 's nothing more doing without God ’ , which accorded badly , however , with the way the Party was treating the Church . |
| 5 | ‘ The wind of change ’ , that phrase coined by Harold Macmillan in 1960 , grew to have amore general application than just to Africa , or just to politics . |
| 6 | The chief minister , 70-year-old Krishnan Nayanar , claims that because people are literate , Kerala has less crime and alcoholism than elsewhere in India . |
| 7 | He says the fans are rather less impassioned than elsewhere in Italy , although I had to tell him that once , when Trevor Francis missed a penalty for Sampdoria , his car was bombarded and his son , Matthew , was struck by a stone . |
| 8 | Reasons of this sort dictate that the political impetus accompanying Ministers on arrival at their departments after an election is usually a good deal less noticeable at the Home Office than elsewhere in Whitehall . |
| 9 | Here , more than elsewhere in Soho , the atmosphere was tough and testing , with rudeness and wit the norm . |
| 10 | UK television advertising is also regarded as more sophisticated and predictable than elsewhere in Europe , making it an appealing source of revenue . |
| 11 | Although the furore about asylum has been more recent in Great Britain than elsewhere in Europe , it has on occasion been as fierce , particularly as orchestrated by parts of the right-wing tabloid press . |
| 12 | His old friend , the abbot of St Peter 's Abbey in Salzburg , noted that Leopold had been a man of ‘ much wit and wisdom ’ , whose talents went far beyond those of music alone , yet he had ‘ had the misfortune always to be persecuted ’ and was consequently held in less esteem in Salzburg than elsewhere in Europe . |
| 13 | On the other hand , Muscovy 's social élites did suffer from weaknesses which made them much less independent and their property much less secure than elsewhere in Europe . |
| 14 | Ms Harman said the gap between men and women 's wages is wider in Britain than elsewhere in Europe because of the lack of a minimum wage . |
| 15 | The whole cathedral shows a greater French influence than elsewhere in Belgium . |
| 16 | These administrative arrangements broke down some of the barriers in co-ordinating services , but grassroots co-operation has not appeared to be necessarily easier than elsewhere in Great Britain . |
| 17 | Are we right to fight for responses to be channelled through National offices , rather than directly to Waterloo . |
| 18 | On further thought it is soon evident that it is not as easy as that , because the same people are not at church every week , some come more than once on Sunday and will , therefore , be counted twice , and there is an attendance fluctuation depending on the state of the weather and the time of year ! |
| 19 | He thought more than once of Antwerp as a possible bolt-hole . |
| 20 | To Sara , more hard-pressed than ever at Lime Street , the intellectual and emotional sympathy binding Coleridge and Dorothy must have been both apparent and distressing , even if Dorothy , in De Quincey 's words , was a woman possessing ‘ no personal charms ’ : on only the second day of the visit Coleridge and Dorothy were occupied together correcting his poems for the new edition while Sara was left to carry the domestic burdens of the teeming cottage . |
| 21 | That was why , Claudia saw suddenly , Fleur had clung more than ever to Dana after their father 's death . |
| 22 | She suspected that life must be harder than ever for Sarah , left on her own with a small son to bring up and a houseful of strangers to cater for , and she made a resolution to visit Sarah more often . |
| 23 | Sara went about her business , more troubled than ever about Jenny 's imminent arrival . |
| 24 | He looked more than ever like Don Quixote confronting the most formidable of spectral windmills ; and his tenor voice blazed from a reed to a trumpet in his indignation . |
| 25 | She surveyed the scene , feeling more than ever like Dante in the Inferno . |
| 26 | Nesri qualifies this with " in the beginning of [ Mehmed II " s ] sultanate " but joins Molla Yegan with Molla Husrev ( d. 885/1480–1 ) , Molla Zeyrek ( d. 879/1474–5 ? ) and Hocazade ( d. 893/1488 ) in the sentence so that the possible inference that he died earlier rather than later in Mehmed II's reign is rendered doubtful at best . |
| 27 | At twenty she 'd rather go riding or fishing with him than up to Dublin or down to a dance . |
| 28 | The Scots finished their 50 overs on 145 for five , with Donald Orr not out 32 , off 54 balls , and Jim Govan unbeaten on 31 , off 43 balls , figures which compare more than favourably with Alastair Storie , whose 25 took him 82 balls . |
| 29 | This is a Chinese story , Maggie , and in China they used to understand dragons better than here in Europe . |
| 30 | But we er are welcoming the fact that there is a recognition of the rising population of Wales er in giving us this er this additional seat er primarily the additional population has not come in industrial South Wales which er er which er people think of perhaps as the most typically Welsh area , it 's actually in two counties of Clwyd and Dyfed that are erm growing most rapidly because of lifestyle migration , retirement migration erm into those two areas and that is why the additional seat , if you can put it that way , er takes from all the other four of course , is is the mid and West Wales seat which has been compared by the honourable member for Cornwall er tonight and it has only got a population of four hundred and one thousand but on the other hand of course it is such an extensive seat because the population sparsity in that area is much , much worse than even in Cornwall and therefore it is going to stretch from South of Milford Haven to the Llanrwst area really within probably twenty miles of the North Wales coast , it 's a who it 's the whole of two counties plus one additional very badly populated constituency erm in in the county of Gwynedd , an awkward constituency but one that we are certainly looking forward fighting and winning to give us the five out of five er now that er the boundaries are going through tonight and obviously it 's all in line really er to look at the other , the third order of course , the question of the registration of overseas voters in the nineteen ninety two election overseas voters had their first opportunity to participate in Westminster elections . |