Example sentences of "than [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contracts other than contracts of sale of goods , are not governed by the provisions of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 . |
| 2 | Authorizing expenses , travel and recruitment are forms of bureaucratic control rather than manifestations of subordination . |
| 3 | But where , as often , there is no such difference , the fact that adverbs are far more common than adjectives in structures where a property extends a verb will discourage speakers from using the adjectival form . |
| 4 | The ability of a bigger bank to absorb a smaller one into its systems is a main reason why purchases of smaller banks bring up to three times bigger savings than mergers of equals . |
| 5 | The report looked specifically at the cluster of cases around Dounreay and concluded that they were most likely to have been caused by oil workers rather than emissions from the nuclear plant . |
| 6 | We may guess that a pipe flow with an artificially induced parabolic profile at the entry could remain laminar to even higher Reynolds numbers than flows with a normal entry length . |
| 7 | The UN will provide legitimacy for what are little more than acts of international piracy and entirely consistent with the new world order strategy of ‘ destroy and abandon ’ . |
| 8 | Events in Vietnam , in many ways comparable although obviously complicated by the factor of French colonialism , were of infinitely less interest and for the moment seemed to require only a definition of attitudes rather than acts of policy . |
| 9 | The question of why there seem to be so many more particles than antiparticles around us is extremely important , and I shall return to it later in the chapter . |
| 10 | The changing regional pattern of industrial development has entailed more than shifts between sectors . |
| 11 | The essence of your argument is sound enough — taxes on spending make better economic sense than taxes on income and investment . |
| 12 | By 1975 direct taxes on income had peaked , providing some 60% more revenue than taxes on expenditure . |
| 13 | The ratio fell substantially after that , and by 1986 direct taxes only provided some 10% more revenue than taxes on expenditure . |
| 14 | When it was pointed out to the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) that his taxes would rise , the right hon. and learned Gentleman seemed surprised : what the right hon. and learned Gentleman said , in effect , was that taxes under Labour would ’ only ’ rise higher than those in any other G7 country — lower , perhaps , than taxes in Albania , but higher than those of all our competitors . |
| 15 | However , given the previous discussion of the patriarchal roots of the ideology of suburbia , does it matter that poor women without husbands and with children will find themselves increasingly dependent on flats in decaying inner-city areas rather than houses in the leafy suburbs ? |
| 16 | The desk was anonymous and modern , blockboard veneered with mahogany , the legs no more than sticks of black metal . |
| 17 | Many university professors were paid less than labourers in the eighteenth century ; if not clerics , they were forced , as were academics throughout the nineteenth century , to seek outside work to gain a living . |
| 18 | At the grassroots , health initiatives and programmes are seen as ways to strengthen organizations rather than reasons for building them . |
| 19 | However difficulties arise simply because we are dealing with patients in a hospital rather than products in a factory . |
| 20 | Offa 's Dyke , covering lines some 150 miles long , although at points perhaps relying on rivers rather than ramparts for defence , is a work which reveals a tremendous ability to organise labour : the Danish Danevirke is child 's play compared with it . |
| 21 | Write your answers on the back of a postcard or envelope no bigger than 5″ × ″ and send it to , . |
| 22 | The officials chosen to represent her on intermittent and shortlived embassies were usually ignorant of the languages of the countries to which they were sent and often ‘ Moscow Germans ’ ( descendants of foreigners who had settled in Russia ) rather than Russians by ancestry . |
| 23 | In addition , it is hard to tell how much of the cash and sayings comprise everyday cash-flow rather than investments for income or gain . |
| 24 | Discourses of ‘ race ’ , sexuality , age , or class , may in some circumstances be more important influences on psychologists ' work than discourses of gender . |
| 25 | Research workers tried to find carcinogenic materials in kitchens , but further analysis of the data showed that people paid to work in kitchens have less cancer than housewives in spite of spending twice as much time in them . |
| 26 | Recently , British milk producers have received less for their milk than most of the other countries in Europe , and the housewife has paid more for milk on the doorstep than housewives in Europe . |
| 27 | All these may be no more than attempts of testing control while there may be an underlying awareness that all is not well . |
| 28 | Although attempts to inject a more strategic element into economic management were made in the aftermath of the fuel crisis of 1947 , in practice they went little further than attempts at greater co-ordination . |
| 29 | Options are more sophisticated than futures as instruments for hedging and speculation . |
| 30 | I began to think erotically of Alison again ; of the dirty week-end pleasures of having her in some Athens hotel bedroom ; of birds in the hand being worth more than birds in the bush ; and with better motives , of her loneliness , her perpetual mixed-up loneliness . |