Example sentences of "than [art] [noun sg] ['s] " in BNC.

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1 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 ?
2 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 .
3 It is important to remember that the ongoing hygiene requirement is ultimately more important than the manufacturer 's production limitations .
4 The modern historian sees greater variety than the thesis 's defenders wished to concede .
5 These images can be re-scaled at will and always print out at the resolution of the printer rather than the computer 's display .
6 Once again it was his self that he cultivated , rather than the seminarist 's vocation , and he was expelled in May 1890 .
7 But , bit by bit , Haringey found that in setting 1989-90 's rate , it had rather more than the year 's expenditure to cover .
8 Ramsey was unusual in that to him the priest 's ordination meant much more than the deacon 's ordination .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 The British Museum had natural-history collections , but these were poorly housed and were considered less important than the museum 's artistic holdings .
13 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 .
14 Government suppliers do not have to follow these standards , which are international ones rather than the government 's own .
15 When the motion passed by one vote , no one was more surprised than the government 's opponents .
16 The Philippines ' GDP will probably grow by 1% this year at best , less than the government 's latest ( reduced ) forecast of 3.2% .
17 increase in the number of patients treated compared with last year , which is higher even than the Government 's forecast increase in patient care .
18 There could be no clearer indicator of the indifference and contempt in which the Government hold those on the lowest incomes than the Government 's exclusive concern with our tax proposals , without even a glimmer of a mention of those who will benefit from them .
19 This taxed enterprise profits at a flat rate of 45 per cent ( 10 per cent lower than the government 's original proposal ) , tax revenue being split almost equally between union and republican budgets .
20 Langbaurgh wants to spend £18.6m , £3m higher than the Government 's provisional spending level .
21 COUNCIL tax bills in Darlington are expected to be at least £75 more than the Government 's projections , councillors heard yesterday .
22 That is exactly what happened : Japan 's net exports of long-term capital soared to $130 billion a year , much larger than the country 's current-account surplus .
23 The oil and gas industry has lost more jobs since 1982 than the country 's car , steel and textile industries combined .
24 The east coast of Britain has notably less rainfall than the country 's average .
25 A new population of grey wolves has been discovered in northern Israel , larger and darker than the country 's other wolves .
26 Sometimes they were so drunk they fell asleep where they were and lay without pillows or covers until I returned from work , and then I would rage at them in Arabic , telling them that thanks to them my room was no better than the Italian 's pigsty at home ; we used to spit on the ground whenever we went near it , children and grownups alike , shouting exclamations of disgust , even though all we could see of it was the outer fence .
27 At the age of twenty-one , after some years as a clerk in a dry goods store , Marshall went to Chicago , telling his sceptical boss that he would one day own a store so big that the doors alone would be worth more than the boss 's entire business .
28 He achieved for the COS , however , a degree of influence in government circles which was rather greater than the Society 's contribution to philanthropy .
29 Prior to this date there had been suggestions from London that the miners in the north had been acting more in their own interests than the society 's .
30 There are likely to be more opportunities for prevention if the social factors themselves are of causal significance in clinical depression , rather than the person 's distorted interpretation of their threatfulness .
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