Example sentences of "than [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are no central statistics on the number of fatalities on school trips , though obviously individuals have been killed in accidents less newsworthy than the Land 's End and Cairngorms tragedies . |
| 2 | Second , if an order for payment of a mortgagee 's litigation costs , made as a matter of discretion , is less favourable than the mortgagee 's contractual right under the mortgage deed , does the mortgagee have any residual rights in respect of the balance of the costs not recoverable under the order ? |
| 3 | Lower-class women who did not come into the black or immigrant categories would be expected to use the general waiting-room , rather than the ladies ' , which was largely the preserve of the well-dressed middle class . |
| 4 | For the most part , however , the solution will lie more on the managers ' side than the shareholders ' : the managers need to be given incentives that make them less likely to make the colossal errors of the 1960s . |
| 5 | ‘ What did the auditors think they were doing when they signed off the accounts ? ’ asked one shareholder , while another accused TR of acting more like ‘ the directors ' poodle ’ than the shareholders ' watchdog . |
| 6 | In a world of perfect competition it would not be possible for managers to deviate from the profit-maximization norm for any length of time even if they were tempted to pursue their own rather than the shareholders ' interests . |
| 7 | Control is vested in their hands rather than the shareholders ' . |
| 8 | DO NOT fit tyres with a lower ply rating or lower speed rating than the manufacturer 's vehicle specification as this is dangerous and illegal . |
| 9 | It is important to remember that the ongoing hygiene requirement is ultimately more important than the manufacturer 's production limitations . |
| 10 | Research seems to indicate that how parents manage the divorce process is the critical factor for children rather than the divorce per se . |
| 11 | The modern historian sees greater variety than the thesis 's defenders wished to concede . |
| 12 | These images can be re-scaled at will and always print out at the resolution of the printer rather than the computer 's display . |
| 13 | This coefficient is more sensitive than the correlation insofar as it tests the theory as a whole — that is , both the form of empirical function and the values of the parameters . |
| 14 | Ed : Chemistry in Britain , being aimed at a wider audience than the RSC 's primary and secondary publications , will continue to use the familiar ‘ sulphur ’ for the present , at least until general usage begins to reflect the change . |
| 15 | Once again it was his self that he cultivated , rather than the seminarist 's vocation , and he was expelled in May 1890 . |
| 16 | But , bit by bit , Haringey found that in setting 1989-90 's rate , it had rather more than the year 's expenditure to cover . |
| 17 | In their response to the Houghton Report which preceded the Act in 1972 , BASW argued that the law should not allow parental responsibilities to be removed ( under Section 2 of the 1948 Act ) unless there were good reason to suppose that the local authority 's judgment of the child 's interests was better than the parents ' . |
| 18 | In most recorded ‘ adoptions ’ , the new fry were smaller than the parents ' own offspring . |
| 19 | Based on extensive research , it concluded that parents ' attitudes to education were of supreme importance in influencing children 's educational success — more so than the parents ' educational or occupational status , than material circumstances at home , and than schools themselves . |
| 20 | Ramsey was unusual in that to him the priest 's ordination meant much more than the deacon 's ordination . |
| 21 | Incomers do not understand why , when public attention turns to acres of unused or underused pasture or park , the needs of sheep or the needs of agriculture in the distant future are felt by Shetlanders to be greater than the incomers ' here-and-now needs for housing , shops or recreational facilities . |
| 22 | The face is younger and tenderer than the Hestia 's . |
| 23 | But nowadays there 's more elbow room and less cigar smoke — and the shrewder restaurateurs have set out to replace their lost business regulars by constructing lunch menus that are brief , light and designed to show off the chef 's talents rather than the customer 's credit rating ; it 's hard to believe that anyone can produce a good meal so cheaply . |
| 24 | It can be argued , for example , that a supplier that commits its productive facilities for the supply of one customer is more committed to that customer and carries more risks than the customer 's shareholders , who can quickly dispose of shares in the market . |
| 25 | Increasingly these instructions are becoming more important in determining the power and flexibility of computers than the machines ' electronic parts or hardware . |
| 26 | It is now possible for a GIS to incorporate databases from many sources , while in the near future developments in networks will mean that remote access to databases at institutions other than the users ' own will become possible . |
| 27 | The downtown space is intended to allow for more diverse programming than the museum 's main building in La Jolla , as well as increasing exhibition space . |
| 28 | The British Museum had natural-history collections , but these were poorly housed and were considered less important than the museum 's artistic holdings . |
| 29 | The Ministry of Agriculture 's latest published studies show that more than a quarter of pig kidneys sampled in 1985 had residues of sulphadimidine at average levels 11 times higher than the Government 's safety limits . |
| 30 | Government suppliers do not have to follow these standards , which are international ones rather than the government 's own . |