Example sentences of "than [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ More like a motive for him to bump off Erdle than t' other way round . ’ |
| 2 | If the selling price is greater than the cost price , then a profit is made . |
| 3 | The " package " may also involve stock options — rights to buy shares at a specific value exercisable at a future date , the idea being that if the firm does well the shares will be worth far more than the exercise price . |
| 4 | British governments had no strength to resist these arguments , and as a consequence the North Sea Oil installations , working literally at break-neck speed unfettered by safety regulations comparable to those operating on-shore , had a fatality rate eleven times greater than the construction industry , nine times higher than mining , and six times greater than quarrying . |
| 5 | That meant taking a saw to the top , higher than the tree surgeons had ever climbed before . |
| 6 | The fact that magnesium atoms are smaller than the calcium atoms they replaced has let to a reduction in the volume of the rock . |
| 7 | It should be observed that the most significant contribution to compensation for injured workmen has been through insurance rather than the tort system . |
| 8 | The third sub-type of academic course is less easy to describe , but it is broader or more general than the two-subject degree . |
| 9 | They were made parties to these proceedings but , since the debt owing to the building society now exceeds the value of the property and since they can be in no better position than the building society , they have taken no part in the proceedings . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , it is unrealistic to expect clients always to seek advice on these matters from sources other than the building designer , and a basic knowledge of planning law , compensation and the individual vagaries in attitudes of planning authorities is often the basis of releasing latent development value which is of tangible benefit and for which the client is prepared to pay high rewards . |
| 11 | Industry sources say consequential loss claims could prove a greater burden than the building repair costs . |
| 12 | The argument that Sizewell will make electricity cheaper than it would otherwise be , is probably a lot weaker than the board claims . |
| 13 | As we have seen , this benefit is unlikely to be as large as the CEGB argues , and if Britain 's history on nuclear construction repeats itself more closely than the board hopes , there could be short-term costs . |
| 14 | One of the problems that the college told me about is that school children are leaving school with more computer literacy than the university teachers , so university teachers are having to run hard simply to keep up with the people they are teaching . |
| 15 | This he will normally be planning to do , but it involves him in a more considerable recasting of his planned activities than the university teacher , and brings him into contact with many more parts of the school life . |
| 16 | Erm I have to concur with that but nevertheless , er the north east sector is further away from Leeds than the south west sector of York . |
| 17 | During the recent round-the-world expedition of the NERC 's research vessel Charles Darwin , they found — crucially — that the water in the top layers of the ocean to the north of New Guinea is slightly less salty than the South Pacific , to the north of New Zealand . |
| 18 | In Wales the club-v-country argument has gone on for longer even than the locust years — a constant , nagging reminder of the manifold and manifest divisions that have wrought such damage on Welsh rugby . |
| 19 | May I draw to his attention the case of a constituent of mine , a Mr. Russell , who is paid just 6p more than the income support level ? |
| 20 | What would be the situation if the payment was higher than the income tax suffered in that particular year ? |
| 21 | This is exactly the prediction which is made by Locksley et al. , ‘ the response criterion for schema related items may be more biased in the direction of OLD decisions ( or , alternatively less biased in the direction of NEW decisions ) than the response criterion for schema-unrelated items ’ ( 1984 , p.425 ) . |
| 22 | Berni Miller , chief executive of the Farm Holiday Bureau , says she finds the report encouraging and feels that it broadly reflects the way the industry round the country is moving at the moment , although business in other regions is less seasonal than the West Country . |
| 23 | In the dark old days rugby tours never went further than the west country or Wales … but times are changing fast as the sport gets more professional … you have to think big time now to win matches and survive in the first division … that 's why Gloucester 's new full-time director Barrie Corless and coach Keith Richardson took the players off to Italy for a two match tour |
| 24 | The intermontane and continental interior deserts have greater extremes of temperature than the west coast deserts , such as the Atacama , where the moderating influence of cold currents is felt . |
| 25 | Regarding Part 1 of Table 6.11 they concluded , ‘ As can be seen , all factors are significantly greater than the chance level ( 5 % ) with particularly heavy weight on the first two . |
| 26 | Conchis was no more than the chance agent , the event that had come at the right time ; just as in the old days I might , after a celibate term at Oxford , have met a girl and begun an affaire with her , I had begun something exciting with him . |
| 27 | Clumping of cones of the same type is apparent , but is this more than the chance aggregation that arises in any random distribution ? |
| 28 | It is found mainly in timbers less than fifty years old and is a much larger insect than the furniture beetle . |
| 29 | A wail more dismal than the bird cries rose up from under the horse . |
| 30 | These claims are less vague than the logic claim , because a question or a speaking turn is easy enough to identify with precision . |