Example sentences of "than [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ministry in the home never has a lower priority than that outside the home . |
| 2 | Thus the real cost of £1,000 worth of BES shares to anybody earning more than that during the fiscal year , which starts on Monday , would be only £500 . |
| 3 | He had become used to much worse than that during the past few weeks . |
| 4 | Perkins group managing director , Tony Gilroy says : ‘ Despite the current recession in the construction industry , we expect to sell them a lot more than that under the new agreement . |
| 5 | However , in O'Reilly v. Mackman Lord Diplock argued that the present procedural regime for AJRs is more advantageous to applicants than that under the pre-1978 version of Ord. 53. and that it strikes a sound balance between the interests of applicants and respondents . |
| 6 | The relationship between platelet aggregation and diabetic control is even more confounding than that for the platelet-specific proteins , various studies either showing no change , increased or decreased platelet aggregation in response to improved glycaemic control . |
| 7 | Pay was better than that for the average working man , more substantial than the ten-bob dole which was the experience of many of their compatriots . |
| 8 | Between VR 0.4 and 1.2 the hydrocarbon yield is 50% greater than that for the Palaeozoic coals . |
| 9 | The evidence for the second point of view is limited , but certainly stronger than that for the first . |
| 10 | The illumination of the background should be set to a somewhat lower level than that for the foreground to give depth to the scene and add prominence to the subject . |
| 11 | The decrease was , however , less than that for the carbon-free granulites , B1 and B2 ( Fig. 1 a ) . |
| 12 | We found that the electrical conductivity of the electrolyte-saturated carbon-bearing samples increased more steeply with temperature than that for the electrolyte-saturated carbon-free samples ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 13 | The procedure is much less public than that for the passage of Acts of Parliament . |
| 14 | However , when subjects had to concurrently remember 2,4 or 6 words the reaction time for both hemispheres improved , but that for the right hemisphere more than that for the left hemisphere , which resulted in a LVF superiority . |
| 15 | This figure is a great deal better than that for the consecutive spill method of handling overflows , and even chained records randomized to individual addresses show an advantage over consecutive spill . |
| 16 | For example , expectation of life at birth for Aborigines is some 15–17 years less than that for the total Australian population , and infant mortality is three times greater . |
| 17 | If we believe in the idea that the most economical hypothesis is the best , then Daly should win , but it seems at present as though the evidence in favour of the subsidence theory , with its ad hoc lowerings of islands , is considerably greater than that for the Glacial Control theory . |
| 18 | higher than that for the current year . |
| 19 | The standard deviation for the samples of 4 , represented by , will be much smaller than that for the individual observations because of the averaging effect within each sample . |
| 20 | Disabled adults of working age are a significant and identifiable minority group , experiencing a rate of unemployment far greater than that for the general population . |
| 21 | The standard deviation for the samples of 4 , represented by , will be much smaller than that for the individual observations because of the averaging effect within each sample . |
| 22 | In two Utah mining countries ( Carbon and Emery ) , the age and sex adjusted death rate for gastric cancer was 3.4 times higher than that for the rest of the state overall , and eight times higher in miners than in non-mining Utah men . |
| 23 | Here the seventh-century evidence is actually more suggestive than that for the sixth . |
| 24 | Our GDP per head is 78.5 per cent of the EC average , which is actually lower than that for the Highlands and Islands . |
| 25 | The collection rate would be much higher than that for the poll tax and there were signs that the system was going to be much more acceptable to the public . |
| 26 | I think it 's more than that for the seniors . |
| 27 | In traditional society this would not be regarded as sponging or parasitism , for it was felt that one 's relationship to one 's own son was no closer than that to the sons of siblings , and most people had more nephews than sons . |
| 28 | , is officially described as office cleaner , but became much more than that to the people who knew her during her 33 years with the company . |
| 29 | The visibility , lower than that of the drier climate of many parts of China , has caused the artist in Japan to be more concerned with the strength of outline than with the subtleties of depth sought for by his Chinese neighbour . |
| 30 | The execution , however , and this is typical of the 17th century Dutch masters , is more minute ; and the composition , completely determined by a diagonal , is stricter than that of the English painters . |