Example sentences of "than at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you do not like what happens at a school , you should discuss it with the headmaster , but bear in mind that teachers at a boarding school are acting much more in loco parentis than at a day school and may feel that very firm action is essential . |
| 2 | Until you are within a minute or two of your ETA , there is no need to call for QDMs more frequently than at a half to one minute intervals . |
| 3 | Contrary to normal practice , ‘ the most discussed football official of recent years ’ , as the Daily Mail described him , had his team training at Highbury in the week before the final , rather than at a country or seaside resort ( Brighton was later to become the favoured Cup training ground ) . |
| 4 | Where Niall was concerned , by means of careful avoidance , she had n't seen him , other than at a distance , for the past two days . |
| 5 | ‘ There was another row at Newmarket last year when Sheikh Mohammed bought In The Groove privately rather than at a Tattersalls auction . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ My name is Captain Trentham , ’ the man informed the expectant band of untrained warriors , in an accent that Charlie suspected would have sounded more in place in Mayfair than at a railway station in Scotland . |
| 7 | In addition , by having this land available at the value of its current use , rather than at a value based on speculation as to its possible development , the community will be able to provide , in the places that need them , the public facilities it needs , but can not now afford because of the inflated price it has to pay to the private owner . |
| 8 | Being at the start of a slimming programme , rather than at a midway stage . |
| 9 | Instead , cross at lights whenever possible or at a clear stretch of road where there is good visibility , rather than at a corner . |
| 10 | Arrest elsewhere than at a police station |
| 11 | The noise is louder than at a dog track . |
| 12 | The fact that it would have been tricky to die on a hill with more people around than at a Harrods sale , unless I 'd packed a gun and some razor blades , was irrelevant . |
| 13 | An elderly verger once confided to me that he felt happier at a good funeral than at a wedding . |
| 14 | It was more like being present at a seance than at a lecture . |
| 15 | It seems more likely that the decisive factor is the improvement in the antibacterial activity of amoxicillin after profound inhibition of acid secretion , because the MIC values of amoxicillin against H pylori are appreciably lower at neutral pH , for example , than at a pH of 5.5 . |
| 16 | However , her warnings are aimed less at the right than at the Communists and their 26 deputies , who would fare badly in an early general election . |
| 17 | The register may be kept at the company 's registered office or at another office of the company or at the office of professional registrars to which the company has delegated this task , but , if kept otherwise than at the company 's registered office , notice must be given to the Registrar of the place where it is kept and of any change of that place . |
| 18 | They were noticeably more outspoken than at the outset . |
| 19 | When the subject of education was brought up and it was pointed out that the girl had not been going to school he said that she was not learning anything at school anyway , that she was much safer here than at the school she had been to , where she had been threatened with knives in the playground and that she could learn all a wife needed to know better at home . |
| 20 | Laboratory tests have shown that the rates of oxygen uptake and amounts of muscle effort that volunteers could develop tend to be greater in the daytime than at the night . |
| 21 | ‘ I expect you would be a good judge of that , ’ she snapped , hating the fact that she felt less annoyed at finding him in the room than at the thought of all the other women he was comparing her to . |
| 22 | Both the P-E Inbucon annual survey of executive salaries , and the much smaller Jonathan Wren city salary survey , confirm that salary increases have been bigger at the top end of business and the City than at the bottom . |
| 23 | This page and View from City Road , page 33 Pay rises : Two surveys show that pay is rising faster at the top end of the scales than at the bottom . |
| 24 | The industry 's reaction to news of the Novell/USL negotiations ( UX No 398 ) is less one of surprise at the possibility that Novell might effectively buy Unix than at the timing . |
| 25 | If there is a twist to the plot , then it is nowhere more apparent than at the window management level where , it seems , Hewlett-Packard Co is determined to make its Visual User Environment stick . |
| 26 | If there is a twist to the plot , then it is nowhere more apparent than at the window management level where , it seems , Hewlett-Packard is determined to make its Visual User Environment stick . |
| 27 | If , for example , the landlord has the right to break at the expiry of the twelfth year of the term , rather than at the expiry of the fourteenth year of the term , the tenant 's right to compensation on quitting may be halved . |
| 28 | There are situations where the reciprocal of a rate would make more sense than the original rate : ergonomists , for example , might find it more natural to look at the time it takes a person to produce a fixed number of items rather than at the output a person produces from a machine in a fixed period of time . |
| 29 | The officer 's undress headgear was a dark blue visored forage cap of ‘ pill-box ’ shape : ‘ … the diameter at the top slightly less than at the base , the height 3¼ inches all round ; … |
| 30 | Here the colour tones overall , are more subdued than at the Cornmarket auction , with a multitude of tweed or tan flat caps and Lincolnshire green ‘ wellies ’ , bodywarmers and anoraks . |