Example sentences of "than [art] [noun] between " in BNC.
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| 1 | Human language is unique to humans , and although some of the distinctive features of human speech , such as the mimicking of sounds , may be observed in other species , the resemblance between , for instance , the trained gesturing of a chimpanzee and communication via sign language among the human deaf is in some senses no greater than the resemblance between the speech of a parrot and that of its owner . |
| 2 | When talking about marking off the stretchers he seems to place more importance on the length of the tenon than the distance between the shoulders . |
| 3 | If the foliage was closely arranged around the figure this would allow for the cutter 's inability to carve deeper than the distance between its projecting edge and the body of the angle grinder that powers it . |
| 4 | The length of the bush should be 1/8in longer than the distance between the back of the centre and the front face of the tailstock casting , when fully retarded . |
| 5 | However , one will not be able to determine the position of the particle more accurately than the distance between the wave crests of light , so one needs to use light of a short wavelength in order to measure the position of the particle precisely . |
| 6 | Bearwood is so designed that the ladies get no closer to the offices than the door between the transverse and the butler 's corridor . |
| 7 | On the whole the differences in prey availability between the continents is equivocal and less important than the differences between one location and another . |
| 8 | Thus the famous " Bohemian " ( or " Hercynian " ) and " Rhenish " provinces of Devonian times are little more than the differences between a lime-mud and a sandy sea-floor . |
| 9 | The 1340–1 crisis , therefore , underlines the connections rather than the divisions between clergy and laity , church and crown . |
| 10 | In a multinational empire such as that of the tsars , the divisions between Great Russians , Ukrainians , White Russians , Poles , Georgians , Armenians , Jews and the hundred other national minorities may at different times be of infinitely more significance than the divisions between classes . |
| 11 | This most popular show , which ran for 12 years and hooked 22 million viewers at its peak , operated under all the usual constraints of economy sit-com — restricted set , small cast , tiresome re-establishment of norm every week — but somehow extracted magic from little more than the relationship between Harry H Corbett and Wilfrid Brambles . |
| 12 | ‘ Because the issue was public against private rather than the relationship between private and public , Britain has suffered from a less than fully productive public sector and a less than fully responsible private sector , neither of which were satisfactory engines for growth . |
| 13 | It is nearly a quarter of a century — longer than the periods between the first and second world wars — since Labour last had the support of as many as four votes in 10 . |
| 14 | In fact , contrary to a persistent theme in neoclassical economics , competition between giant ‘ dominant firms ’ is often fiercer than the competition between small enterprises in unconcentrated markets : increasing scale often goes along with the development of a keener rationality of profit . |
| 15 | This battle , which is still raging , is no less than the fight between good and evil : the war between God and the Devil . |
| 16 | This battle , I have argued , is no less than the fight between God and the Devil . |
| 17 | We began there , because the contrast between explaining and understanding is likely to be less familiar than the contrast between holism ( ‘ top-down ’ ) and individualism ( ‘ bottom-up ’ ) . |
| 18 | To appreciate this , imagine that you ask a friend to mark thirty numbered points randomly on graph paper ( unseen by you ) and that you are required to discover their positions , with no information other than the distances between any pairs you request . |
| 19 | No greater testimony exists to the power and resilience of positivism in modern legal thought than the debate between constitutional lawyers about the nature of parliamentary sovereignty . |
| 20 | However small they may be , the introduction of a hierarchy makes them again more important than the interval between them . |
| 21 | The reason is that they are laconically worded , and deal with problems other than the relation between legacies and trusts . |
| 22 | What the crisis certainly does not seem to have done , any more than the war between Iraq and Iran did , is to solve the more general problems of security in the Gulf , regional arms control and how to resolve conflict within OPEC . |
| 23 | The margin between them by the end of the campaign was considerably larger than the gap between Mrs Thatcher and the Labour leader five years ago : 1987Apr 7–8Now Thatcher/Major would make best Prime Minister 42 39 47 Kinnock would 31 28 21 Conservative advantage+11+11+26 Asked who they thought would ‘ make the worst Prime Minister ’ , 51 per cent of Gallup 's sample named Mr Kinnock — seven percentage points higher than the number who named him in 1987 . |
| 24 | On the book 's cover there is an appealing family portrait of a shy little girl in a pretty white dress , sitting on an elderly gentleman 's lap , with an appropriate caption : ‘ A pictorial survey of the most interesting decade in English history , when the generation gap meant no more than the gap between grandfather and grand-daughter . ’ |
| 25 | There is no better representation of that imbalance than the semi-final between Liverpool and Portsmouth . |
| 26 | It was the most strident speech Mr Major has made during the campaign and represented a further attempt to underline the differences rather than the similarities between the political parties . |
| 27 | A team benefits from the differences rather than the similarities between people . |
| 28 | It is true that females predominate in most Latin American populations , but the difference between numbers of males and females in national populations is much smaller than the difference between them in migrant populations . |
| 29 | The latest results are that , genetically , the difference between humans and chimpanzees is certainly less than the difference between the chimpanzee and the gorilla , or between the horse and the zebra . |
| 30 | ( a ) less than the difference between the total vote then credited to the continuing candidate with the lowest recorded vote and the vote of the candidate with the next lowest recorded vote ; or |