Example sentences of "than [art] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can be no more than the crutch on which the imagination , and freedom , are supported . |
| 2 | The USSR must not be given the chance to persuade Germans that it had more to offer than the West on the subject of unification and neutralization . |
| 3 | Yesterday 's denoument will also turn out to be good for Edwards , who will be able to sell his stake for a good deal more than the £10m on offer . |
| 4 | As parasitic tissues generally depend for survival on a more rapid synthesis of nucleic acid than the tissues on which they prey , anything which stopped the synthesis of nucleic acids had a chance of harming parasites more than their hosts . |
| 5 | The pattern of sex differences was that girls generally scored better than the boys on the money and number pattern items and boys on the measures . |
| 6 | Names on the map tell us a great deal about the ancient undrained landscape , and none is more telling than the presence on the Ordnance Survey Map of the lowlands of the word ‘ moor ’ : Morton or Moortown ; Sedgemoor ; Otmoor ; Moorgate , the gate in London 's city wall which opened on to Moorfields , the marsh which William Dugdale , in his seventeenth-century classic on drainage , describes as a favourite resort of Londoners for skating . |
| 7 | In the final analysis it has to be said that the Macintosh is a better system for desktop publishing than the PC on both technical and user grounds . |
| 8 | The nearby River Great Ouse was higher than the level on the streets . |
| 9 | Who is my neighbour ? becomes a difficult question to answer for people who feel they know the characters in Dallas better than the folk on the floor beneath them in the multi-storey . |
| 10 | This royalty shall not be less than the royalty on sales of the unadapted Video |
| 11 | This royalty shall not be less than the royalty on sales of the unadapted Video |
| 12 | [ But ] the general picture of community care presented by this evidence on the fate of short stay patients following the closure of long stay hospitals is much more disquieting than the evidence on the planned discharge of long stay patients . |
| 13 | The pattern is not greatly different from that reported by Jevons for Victorian Britain — the family on $35 000 paying , if anything , a lower percentage than the household on $10000 a year . |
| 14 | So you can actually er say that someone at sixty five will live slightly longer than the figures on the on the board here . |
| 15 | She twisted in the seat to peer at every building , her eyes seeking the upper windows above shops rather than the goods on display , as if she were looking for someone . |
| 16 | The French have generally been more reticent than the Germans on this point , aiming their efforts at economic and monetary union instead . |
| 17 | Exactly , ’ he continued , without waiting for any answer other than the look on Ace 's face . |
| 18 | Our results imply that the effects of vitamin A supplementation on the immune response to infection after the epithelial barrier has been breached are of greater functional significance than the effects on the integrity of the epithelial barrier itself . |
| 19 | It has been found that the stretched tendon becomes hotter within the inner core up to 10–20°C warmer than the fibres on the edge of the tendon . |
| 20 | Essentially what Darwin realized was that sexual dimorphism , particularly where it makes the male spectacularly different from female is not always the outcome of inter-male conflict , very often it is , we saw examples of the films of stags , of erm elephant seals , those kinds of animals where the dimorphic differences appear to be the result of inter-male conflict , for instance elephant seals are seven times heavier , the males are seven times heavier than the females on average because sheer weight is what wins those astonishing battles they have on the beaches when they , they kind of lunge at each other . |
| 21 | For Pound all dates are important but none more so than the date on the calendar above the critic 's desk . |
| 22 | Larger sizes than the ones on the table can be ordered , as can aquarium bacteria units . |
| 23 | A series of dots sits in the middle of the screen , set out to give the impression that they 're painted onto an invisible ball — the dots ‘ nearest ’ to you are thus larger than the ones on the back of the ‘ sphere ’ . |
| 24 | Floy looked with interest at the fields and pastures and thought that , although they were much larger than the ones on Renascia and the crops and vegetables were not quite the same , there was not so very much difference , really . |
| 25 | However , sexual history records remarkable cases of feminine pubic hair that has grown to be longer than the hair on the owners ' heads . |
| 26 | It becomes clear from Boswell 's descriptions that this family were considerably less Anglicised than the Macdonalds on Skye , and still remained on the side of the Gaels . |
| 27 | In addition the Budget made the tax on diesel supplied by firms for employees ' private motoring lower than the tax on petrol . |
| 28 | RUGBY is about much more than the game on the pitch . |
| 29 | Those aged over 55 now have a purchasing power of more than £25 billion annually , spending 13 per cent more than the average on holidays , cars and durables . |
| 30 | There are occasions when you get an odd fish that weighs a couple of pounds more or less than the average on that day , but to expect this to happen is foolhardy . |