Example sentences of "than [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The series by Berg shown in Example 122 was obviously designed to give a lyrical melodic sweep to the melody in the second movement of his Lyric Suite for string quartet : It will be noted that Berg 's series contains three distinct tonal groups : minor chords on D and F , and four notes from G to D within the tonal zone of G. However , tonal factors are less essential to a good melodic series than variety of intervals and memorable interval relationships . |
| 2 | The rescue services have more important things to do than look for windsurfers who are comfortably seated in the bar ! |
| 3 | Government and the HSE are well aware that the promotion and enforcement of safety demands much more than reliance on individuals and management . |
| 4 | ‘ I always had better things to do than play with woggles . |
| 5 | This again throws the emphasis on to skills rather than coverage of facts , although a comprehension of the structures of subject disciplines ( even the idea that subjects have structures ) is an important element . |
| 6 | But liberationists like Regan and Clive Hollands ( 1985 ) , as we saw in earlier chapters , scorn this as requiring no more than kindness towards animals ( Hollands , for example , dismissed it as ‘ a Victorian concept ’ ) and demand a great deal more . |
| 7 | The tentative nature of this small recognition of husbands as carers ( rather than recognition of wives as breadwinners ) is under-lined by the limited changes in the Social Security Act 1975 . |
| 8 | A related point of significance in several instances is the deliberate preference for avoidance rather than confrontation in situations perceived as threatening . |
| 9 | Global competition is much more than rivalry among firms , for it involves the ‘ structural competitiveness ’ of states within the world system . |
| 10 | ‘ Punishment ’ may be no more than withdrawal of rewards . |
| 11 | And Anna Freud 's conclusion is , that all children will experience anxiety , but what they experience anxiety about will , will vary , and clearly the best thing is that they experience anxiety about things that are important and are real , rather than anxiety about things that are unimportant and unreal . |
| 12 | It was realised ( admittedly in connection with problems over legal aid payments , rather than dissolution of partnerships ) that difficulty might ensue where a solicitor continued to practise after applying for a renewal only to have his application eventually rejected . |
| 13 | They are a lottery but they probably waste less of your money than gambling on horses , and , as vices go , will not wreck your health as smoking or alcohol will . |
| 14 | Solid matter takes between 10 and 20 days to digest ( cattle waste takes longer than waste from pigs ) , and the size of the plant has to match exactly the input of slurry , which varies according to the season . |
| 15 | ‘ The problem is more one of dire under-staffing at all levels than cash for courses ’ . |
| 16 | Of the others — and this is no more than reportage of answers to the question - the ambulance services emerge reasonably well , in that they allow service by right of assessment . |
| 17 | Differs from Mute Swan in yellow base instead of orange tip to knobless bill , also in upright carriage of neck at rest , in whistling rather than throbbing of wings in flight , and in more vocal habits . |
| 18 | The bond 's conditions did not allow for this , so even if bought and transferred at less than par between individuals , they had to be redeemed by the Club in full . |
| 19 | Because of this , many people find groundwater more pleasant to drink than water from rivers and lakes . |
| 20 | In fact Peasgood suggests , in one of the few surveys which have been carried out in this area , that selection in academic libraries from the ‘ book in hand ’ was found to be no more effective than selection from lists ( effectiveness being measured in terms of subsequent issues ) . |
| 21 | ‘ Good sense about trivialities ’ , he once wrote , ‘ is better than nonsense about things that matter . ’ |
| 22 | If the concept is viewed in this broad way , then its application to any of the diverse areas mentioned above is scarcely more self-executing or clearcut than usage of terms , such as reasonableness , which it seeks to replace . |
| 23 | Many other Scottish nobles preferred subservience to English gentlemen of their own rank rather than alliance with upstarts and peasants of their own race . |
| 24 | In the short term captopril reduced microalbuminuria more effectively than nifedipine in subjects with incipient diabetic nephropathy . |
| 25 | The Athletic News snorted indignantly : ‘ As a matter of commerce , ten young recruits at £100 a piece might have paid better , and as a matter of sport , the Second Division would be more honourable than retention of places by purchase . ’ |
| 26 | The view of the company as part of a web was marked and the tendency among women was towards inclusion rather than exclusion of others . |
| 27 | Of these seven patients , six had potential aetiological factors other than use of gangliosides ; protopathic bias was detected in five , and in the remaining one it was doubtful whether the drug could be blamed . |
| 28 | Given our findings on perceptions we should expect the press to have more influence than television on attitudes . |
| 29 | We know they are different — if they were identical we would not need to consult the doctor for purposes other than access to resources — but we can not understand why they differ in these particular ways . |
| 30 | They have fewer opportunities than men to be nourished by their work , since they are more often involved in dull and repetitive jobs ; secondly , the domestic and nurturing skills in which they have usually been trained are held in lower esteem both in the home and in the workplace than administrative or management skills , so what they do is less likely to receive praise ; lastly , they are conditioned to value praise from men more highly than praise from women , who are more often their colleagues or first-level bosses . |