Example sentences of "than [art] [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The nearby River Great Ouse was higher than the level on the streets . |
| 6 | This royalty shall not be less than the royalty on sales of the unadapted Video |
| 7 | This royalty shall not be less than the royalty on sales of the unadapted Video |
| 8 | [ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Exactly , ’ he continued , without waiting for any answer other than the look on Ace 's face . |
| 11 | For Pound all dates are important but none more so than the date on the calendar above the critic 's desk . |
| 12 | However , sexual history records remarkable cases of feminine pubic hair that has grown to be longer than the hair on the owners ' heads . |
| 13 | In addition the Budget made the tax on diesel supplied by firms for employees ' private motoring lower than the tax on petrol . |
| 14 | RUGBY is about much more than the game on the pitch . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Herta is no more than the string on the parcel in which the baby sleeps . |
| 18 | Whatever it was on the bottom of the loch it was no more strange than the atmosphere on that boat . |
| 19 | As PSR J0437–4715 is so close , however , it should be possible to detect a companion about 25 times less luminous than the limit on PSR B1855+09 . |
| 20 | Whether the picture is seen as a staircase viewed from above or a staircase viewed from below seems to depend on something other than the image on the retina of the viewer . |
| 21 | In the example above , Smith would have a laterality coefficient of 0.20 while/ones would have a coefficient of only 0.14 It does not matter whether the score for the left side is larger or smaller than the score on the right since the sign of the coefficient , negative or positive , indicates the direction of any lateral advantage . |
| 22 | It will cost more to repair the burnt valve seats and valves than the saving on fuel . |
| 23 | The Principal responded initially by agreeing to redesignate courses as full-time , and explaining that the Academic Board had come into existence after departments had been constructed to match DipTech requirements , but had in fact gone a long way towards the Council 's view — further than the report on the June quinquennial visit had acknowledged . |
| 24 | If the right hemisphere is merely slower than the left on this task , then the more matches that have to be made the greater the relative right hemispheric disadvantage should be . |
| 25 | This was better than the label on the bottle of Camp coffee . |
| 26 | In the example quoted , where higher rates of interest were available in sterling , compared with the US$ , then the forward rate would be lower than the spot on the day the contracts were entered into . |
| 27 | Since these two tend to go hand in hand , anyone whose home is worth less than the mortgage on it , would welcome a little inflation . |
| 28 | And how much closer to home can one get than the revelation that one in five houses bought in the past five years is now worth less than the mortgage on it , an unhappy phenomenon known as ‘ negative equity ’ . |
| 29 | Gravity gets weaker the farther you are from the star , so the gravitational force on our intrepid astronaut 's feet would always be greater than the force on his head . |
| 30 | It looks as though this would involve quite a bit more work than the seat on Snowhill and I would need to put your estimate to the next meeting of the Parish Council on Thursday 17th June . |