Example sentences of "than [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pope was thus successor of St Peter , between God and man , inferior to God but above man , St Peter 's vicar , but also , as Innocent now claims , " vicar of Christ " , as St Peter had been , rather than vicar of St Peter . |
| 2 | The series by Berg shown in Example 122 was obviously designed to give a lyrical melodic sweep to the melody in the second movement of his Lyric Suite for string quartet : It will be noted that Berg 's series contains three distinct tonal groups : minor chords on D and F , and four notes from G to D within the tonal zone of G. However , tonal factors are less essential to a good melodic series than variety of intervals and memorable interval relationships . |
| 3 | This again throws the emphasis on to skills rather than coverage of facts , although a comprehension of the structures of subject disciplines ( even the idea that subjects have structures ) is an important element . |
| 4 | A fixed date action is an action which includes a claim for any relief other than payment of money , eg the recovery of goods or land , or an equitable remedy such as an injunction . |
| 5 | However , the drafter should remember that problems frequently arise where one party to a contract seeks to escape from it on the grounds that the other is in breach of a condition , and that the time for performance of obligations ( other than payment of money ) under a commercial contract is normally " of the essence " : a failure to perform on time in accordance with the contract will therefore justify the other party in terminating the contract ( see Bunge Corpn v Tradax Export SA [ 1981 ] 1 WLR 711 ) . |
| 6 | An alternative form of grafting that unites one or more buds , rather than piece of stem , to the stock . |
| 7 | Good sight lines are more important than evenness of chair layout . |
| 8 | Some say he is now no more than mayor of Mogadishu , retaining only the loyalty of his own Marehan clan and other Darode tribes . |
| 9 | From the user 's point of view , the source of a requested item is of far less interest than speed of supply . |
| 10 | But he did n't even wait to hear her protests that she was all right , and came back a minute later with two hospital pillows which he arranged for her , and she thought the faintly male , musky and intensely sensual smell of him as he bent over her was making her more faint than loss of blood . |
| 11 | In reality , centralized reward systems rely on negative rather than positive rewards ; that is , deviation from a norm rather than recognition of performance beyond the norm ; criticism for failure to reach the expected performance rather than recognition of good performance . |
| 12 | The tentative nature of this small recognition of husbands as carers ( rather than recognition of wives as breadwinners ) is under-lined by the limited changes in the Social Security Act 1975 . |
| 13 | When we turn to A Very British Coup , it is clear that the approaches which allowed mainstream critics to exclude any ‘ extraneous talk of politics ’ in reviews of Distant Voices , Still Lives could not be applied here , for this is a film which does little else than talk of politics . |
| 14 | Finally , pop consists in its own surfaces , as sound-in-itself , rather than instrument of discourse . |
| 15 | His review of world wide research into heart disease concluded , ‘ The public health measures of improving domestic housing and the working environment may produce a greater impact on the incidence of IHD than adjustment of diet , smoking and exercise . |
| 16 | She went to the block bravely , announcing to the world that she preferred to die the wife of Culpepper than Queen of England . |
| 17 | The people who had not yet moved out of hospital showed no clear trend in their level of participation in meaningful activity , strengthening the case for attributing changes in the group that moved to the community services rather than passage of time or general improvement in all services . |
| 18 | ‘ Punishment ’ may be no more than withdrawal of rewards . |
| 19 | They are concerned with purchasing care which promotes health rather than management of ill-health facilities . |
| 20 | Lysis of M1-vac-infected T2/TAP1+2 cells was again less than lysis of M1-vac-infected T1 cells . |
| 21 | It was realised ( admittedly in connection with problems over legal aid payments , rather than dissolution of partnerships ) that difficulty might ensue where a solicitor continued to practise after applying for a renewal only to have his application eventually rejected . |
| 22 | Priorities in economic policy have changed ; growth becomes more important than redistribution of wealth , and growth is encouraged by deregulation of the economy rather than by state intervention . |
| 23 | Of the others — and this is no more than reportage of answers to the question - the ambulance services emerge reasonably well , in that they allow service by right of assessment . |
| 24 | Subject searching is generally , and probably correctly , seen as a richer and more important research area than investigation of author and other known-item search activity . |
| 25 | said it was the most , said it was worse than Body of Evidence . |
| 26 | ‘ For me , sumptuousness of fabric is more effective than importance of shape . ’ |
| 27 | In 1989 Bodenham et al reported that refusal of consent by the coroner was a greater problem than refusal of consent by relatives ( 28% v 17% of failures to retrieve organs ) . |
| 28 | Prohibition of drugs , they say , works no better than prohibition of alcohol did in the United States . |
| 29 | Differs from Mute Swan in yellow base instead of orange tip to knobless bill , also in upright carriage of neck at rest , in whistling rather than throbbing of wings in flight , and in more vocal habits . |
| 30 | Seen from above in flight , primaries appear paler than rest of wing . |