Example sentences of "than [prep] [art] general [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employers , therefore , had less reason to associate for defensive purposes since although trade unionism did represent a challenge to employers ' power to manage ‘ it was manifest as a threat to specific employers in specific industries at specific times and places rather than as a general threat to employers as a class ’ ( Adams , 1981 , p. 286 ) . |
| 2 | It is said that the original Shorthorn ( as a British type rather than as a general term for short horned cattle ) was being bred by the Dukes of Northumberland in the sixteenth century and was probably descended from a mixture of red Anglo-Saxon cattle with red and white Dutch ‘ Hollanders ’ and ‘ Zeelands ’ that are typified in the Paul Potter painting , The Young Bull . |
| 3 | Table 9 and Table 10 show that RFA is significantly greater for males than for the general population and from Table 8 that RFA is greater than for females . |
| 4 | Higher percentages of the elderly than of the general adult population live in accommodation built before 1919 that is often poorly maintained . |
| 5 | The importance which Engels attributed to this came entirely from his anthropological sources and really reflects an old-fashioned type of archaeology obsessed with material remains rather than with the general way of life . |
| 6 | The link with crime found by Eysenck was that when prisoners were tested for extroversion , more extroverts were found than in the general population . |
| 7 | There is a higher proportion of people from poor rural backgrounds in prisons than in the general population . |
| 8 | More responders left school without any qualifications ( 116/800 , 15% ; 12.2% to 17.4% ) than in the general population ( 11% ) . |
| 9 | Overall , adults with cystic fibrosis seem to have difficulty in achieving independence , with only one third married or cohabiting , and a higher proportion than in the general population remain in the parental home . |
| 10 | For all types of custody the proportion of all ethnic minorities in the prison population was higher than in the general population . |
| 11 | The incidence of true psychiatric disease in patients with addictive disease is no greater than in the general population . |
| 12 | Renal stones occur more commonly than in the general population and , rarely , amyloidosis may occur . |
| 13 | With regard to HBV , markers of past or current infection have been found more commonly in patients with alcoholic liver disease than in the general population in some studies but not others . |
| 14 | The TUC evidence to the Royal Commission on Legal Services appeared to place greater emphasis upon the preservation of the union role in advice-giving than on a general expansion of legal services . |
| 15 | This is because it can often be easier to sue on a specific warranty than on a general warranty . |
| 16 | Conformity of behaviour to specific or particular situations is more likely to depend on the sanctions attached by parents to those particular situations than on the general parent-child relationship . |
| 17 | At Forncett , the average rent per acre of lands leased was markedly lower in the fifteenth century than in the late fourteenth , although one can not tell from the published figures how far the fluctuations may have been due to variations in the quality of the particular pieces of land being leased at the time rather than to a general decline in rent levels . |
| 18 | On the basis of the limited knowledge acquired from examining the 3 Institutions of higher education it would appear that there is a higher dropout in the first year of a course among non-traditional students than among the general student body . |
| 19 | ‘ Few projects for amending the condition of the needy , and for the reduction of parish rates , would be so beneficially devised as to build lodging houses in places where they were likely to be let : and in what way could money be more securely deposited than by a general subscription , in shares of fifty or one hundred pounds each : five thousand pounds would build a number of houses , worth from five to twenty-five pounds per annum , or double that sum if furnished . ’ |
| 20 | A person can obtain a controlling interest in a company by means of an issue of new shares in that company rather than by a general offer to acquire the shares already in existence . |