Example sentences of "than [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | His mother Elizabeth said debris lying around the park was more dangerous than if the area under the play equipment had been left grassed . |
| 32 | I knew then that it was more inspiring than if the sound had come from an orphean bird . |
| 33 | Thus , if the investment is defined as the initial margin , the variance of the resulting returns will be several hundred times larger than if the spot price is used as the investment . |
| 34 | The main benefit from the customer 's point of view is that he is likely to have his needs met in a more appropriate way than if the market is not segmented ie where the same product range and price are offered regardless of geographical , demographic and buyer-behaviour considerations . |
| 35 | Coun. Robson claimed this would generate more traffic along Larkspur Drive than if the estate was all bungalows . |
| 36 | And I think this social position is more apparent to the informant and the variation in role relations more marked than if the interviewer is an outsider and not in a particular relation to the speakers from the outset . |
| 37 | This should increase the probability that a review committee will be able to approve a lower budget for a given output than if the bureau were a monopoly supplier . |
| 38 | If , at the start of a difficult problem , the glass is fairly full obviously the body is more likely to signal stress than if the glass is empty . |
| 39 | Previous difficulty in maintaining a pregnancy through to a live birth will be likely to be associated with a greater risk of a third or fourth miscarriage than if the woman 's previous pregnancies had been trouble-free . |
| 40 | Section 33(3) requires the court to have regard to all the circumstances of the case and in particular to : ( a ) the length of , and the reasons for , the delay on the part of the plaintiff ; ( b ) the extent to which , having regard to the delay , the evidence adduced or likely to be adduced by the plaintiff or the defendant is or is likely to be less cogent than if the action had been brought within the time allowed by s11 or ( as the case may be ) by s12 ; ( c ) the conduct of the defendant after the cause of action arose , including the extent ( if any ) to which he responded to requests reasonably made by the plaintiff for information or inspection for the purpose of ascertaining facts which were or might be relevant to the plaintiff 's cause of action against the defendant ; ( d ) the duration of any disability of the plaintiff arising after the date of the accrual of the cause of action ; ( e ) the extent to which the plaintiff acted promptly and reasonably once he knew whether or not the act or omission of the defendant , to which the injury was attributable , might be capable at that time of giving rise to an action for damages ; ( f ) the steps , if any , taken by the plaintiff to obtain medical , legal or other expert advice and the nature of any such advice he may have received . |
| 41 | In both these examples it is clear that a major advantage of the simulation model is that answers can be more reliably obtained to questions such as ‘ how high should 1 build this bridge ? ’ or ‘ what would be the hydrological effect of building another 2000 houses in Edwalton ? ’ than if the engineer or planner were to rely solely upon rules of thumb or ‘ common sense ’ . |
| 42 | They have failed because of the tyranny which stems from a narrow curriculum rather than because the curriculum has been too broad or too diffuse . |
| 43 | The negative externality in this case arises either because the market rewards only those who are first ( rather than rewarding films on the basis of their R&D inputs ) , or because the market rewards product innovations which cannibalize existing products ( rewarding the innovator at the expense of rivals rather than because the innovator 's efforts have expanded the market ) . |
| 44 | And in a worse position than because the North they 've never done any deals , never seen anybody , national accounts , done nothing in that area in terms of deals and negotiations and things like that and it was only six months ago that where could actually find out he could do deals . |
| 45 | What essentially what you need to do how to do is if you wan na be able to work Saturdays we need to be able to prove that in fact pound per , per item of post on a Saturday is cheaper than because the productivity in the week will be lower therefore and even at time and a half , the cost of doing an hour 's overtime for the work you get out in the week is , is less productive than doing double time with what you get out on a Saturday . |
| 46 | The logic behind this rule is that if si and sj are switched on together more frequently in the desired state than while the machine is free , then we want them to correlate more ; so we increase the weight of the link between them . |
| 47 | It seems that more significant than whether a parent tells you you are beautiful is whether they give you the message that you are ‘ good enough ’ , in Deborah 's words . |
| 48 | ‘ A firm 's ability to use the money effectively should be more important than whether the company is in a designated area for special assistance , ’ said , partner with Moores Rowland , as the firm issued guidelines to the main business grant schemes . |
| 49 | Nothing became more important than whether the President had added his approval to this ‘ very strange ’ piece of paper , as Poindexter called it : a memorandum Poindexter said he had never seen before , and which Thompson found him reading the next morning over breakfast . |
| 50 | This can be traced back as far at least as Lord Mansfield , who said : ‘ In all mercantile transactions the great object should be certainty and therefore it 's of more consequence that a rule should be certain , than whether the rule is established one way or the other . |
| 51 | Many spokesmen for the Christian religion have echoed the conviction that St. Basil expressed with his statement that a life of meekness and piety knew higher concerns than whether the earth was a sphere , cylinder , or disk . |
| 52 | After training has finished the blood supply is reduced and the ‘ pump ’ disappears , resulting in the muscle being smaller than before the exercise started . |
| 53 | Basically Grinols considers how much income do individuals in the UK need at the set of prices which prevail after integration to be no worse off than before the integration took place . |
| 54 | If the objective of a democratic legislature is to inform the public about issues , to let them know what pressure groups are saying and to allow the civil service to assess public reaction before rather than after the government is committed to a line of action , then pressure groups should address Parliament . |
| 55 | Lead levels from a system with lead piping are much higher in the first few pints that come from a tap that has been left turned off than after the water has run for a few minutes , as this flushes out much of the dissolved lead . |
| 56 | Nothing is more annoying than when a dole queue fan shells out six pounds for a ticket to a show which is nothing but a huge yawn for the artist involved . |
| 57 | Thus reaction time in this situation would be slower than when a response originates from the directly stimulated hemisphere . |
| 58 | Because the relationship of the two lines within the couplet is not predetermined , the reader is more fully engaged in the process of interpretation , a more active participant in the construction of meaning , than when a text presents itself in more straightforward linear fashion . |
| 59 | He 'd always admired his superior and never more so than when a victim of his contempt . |
| 60 | Nowhere is the art of the Designer needed more than when a script calls for an entirely new world to be created , as was so often the case in Doctor Who . |