Example sentences of "than [prep] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authorities were more worried about this group than about the NL and only one document about it his so far been released , despite the fact that it was successfully infiltrated by several agents . |
| 2 | The agreements with the United States had been bought at the cost of disproportionate cuts in Soviet weaponry and were clearly dictated by the need to reduce military spending , a much heavier relative burden for the USSR than for the United States . |
| 3 | The turnout was much smaller than for the Coalisland — Dungannon march , at about four hundred . |
| 4 | The concept , however , is nowhere more relevant than for the London area itself , which has recently been reaffirmed as a home of the rapidly expanding international office sector . |
| 5 | Is it any better to act for the National Rifle Association than for the Cote d'Azur Development Agency , to take one name from his appendix ? |
| 6 | Again most of these stars are red , with spectral types of M , R , N or S. Their amplitudes are less than for the Mira stars , and usually amount to little more than a magnitude . |
| 7 | The same points can also be made in the context of assessment of needs other than for the GRE . |
| 8 | If we examine the three morbidity indicators shown in table 9.3 , which do exist in the RAWP report , we see cases where the differences are consistently larger than for the SMRs . |
| 9 | Division lists for the Lords suggest that definable parties existed in the upper chamber , although the pattern here was slightly less pronounced than for the Commons . |
| 10 | One example of this is that the CEGB 's engineering costs for a new coal plant are expected to be 16 per cent higher than for the completion of the coal-fired Drax power station while for a new AGR it expects engineering costs to be 20 per cent lower than for the Heysham II prototype . |
| 11 | The latest government figures show that incidents of Salmonella , the most common type of food poisoning , reached an all-time high last month , even higher than during the Salmonella-in-eggs scandal . |
| 12 | To some extent this was inevitable given the US decision to operate through a civilian Japanese administration rather than through the US military command . |
| 13 | the engagement of supply teachers by schools direct , rather than via the LEA 's personnel section . |
| 14 | And how better to celebrate VAT than with a Vicars and Tarts Ball ? |
| 15 | They are Chinese Muslims whose ancestors came to China from Arabia as long ago as 651 and who still live scattered throughout the People 's Republic , preserving a way of life , a language and a religion that has more in common with Mecca than with the Orient . |
| 16 | More and more members of the American foreign service were coming to question the belief , strongly held at the end of the war , that the USSR was more likely to be caught up in rivalry with the British than with the United States . |
| 17 | In the northern Weald , some of these men seem to have come from large Kentish estates round Tonbridge rather than from the Sussex coast ; there must have been several centuries of discussion before Wealden boundaries were finally sorted out . |
| 18 | The old master-spy , William Casey , was said , not least by North , to have masterminded both the Iran and contra operations , and that may well be true of the broad canvas ; but the marks are those of an enthusiastic amateur in espionage , a man who had learnt his craft of secret agent more from the cinema than from the CIA handbook . |
| 19 | His undoubted personal success in the 1920s in Birmingham was not to be repeated in the 1930s , as fascism made less impact there than in the East End of London or the north-west . |
| 20 | The average length of stay at a single residential facility is markedly longer in Flanders ( 3 years and 4 months ) than in the Netherlands ( 14.6 months ) . |
| 21 | Again , the proportion of such children is significantly higher in Flanders ( 68.8 per cent ) than in the Netherlands ( 54.3 per cent ) . |
| 22 | The one exception is the European Monetary System , where member countries have continued to operate some form of managed exchange rates , although parity adjustments here have been much more frequent than in the Bretton Woods era . |
| 23 | Perhaps , one day soon , we will discover that in the most secretive Communist state of all , Kim II Sung 's Hermit Kingdom of North Korea , the Party was still more nepotic and clannish than in the Balkans or in Iraq . |
| 24 | Because the inadequate moisture levels are also highly changeable , year-to-year variation in Soviet farm output is typically three times greater than in the United States . |
| 25 | for instance , residential care in Flanders and the Netherlands seems more closely tied to psychological assessment of children and to a diagnosis/treatment approach than in the United Kingdom — at least for social services cases . |
| 26 | More Welsh homes — 72 per cent — are owned by those who live in them than in the United Kingdom as a whole . |
| 27 | Pay for leading art-historians has always been lower in Britain than in the United States , but the brain drain has got worse . |
| 28 | ( In the Soviet state more , perhaps , than in the United Kingdom , but that is not the issue . ) |
| 29 | The degree of overvaluation of a currency versus the dollar could also reflect McDonald 's attaining higher margins abroad than in the United States . |
| 30 | Bargaining occurs in all political systems , but nowhere is it more prevalent than in the United States — ‘ The necessity for constant bargaining is … built into the very structure of American government . ’ |