Example sentences of "[noun sg] than [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Offences committed by groups may well occasion greater fear than offences committed by individuals , and it may also be true that groups have a tendency to do things which individuals might not do : there is a group bravado , a group pressure , which may lead to excesses . |
| 2 | Whitelocke replied with brutal honesty that in his opinion , ‘ it should be more to his prejudice than advantage to do so ’ , a remark that , predictably , displeased Cromwell . |
| 3 | James Logan , William Penn 's secretary , obtained for him from England Parkinson 's herbal , probably his Theatrum botanicum ( 1640 ) and made it ‘ a present to a person worthier of a heavier purse than fortune has yet allowed him ’ . |
| 4 | Earlier work which suggests that West Germany has a greater capability than Britain to deal with structural industrial crises through the cooperation of the state , employers , unions and financiers will be pursued in relation to the chemicals industry . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , it was necessary to raise and administer far more revenue than Muscovy had ever handled . |
| 6 | For the first time , traces of a stronger emotion than dislike appeared on Johnny 's face . |
| 7 | He said too much time was spent at watering places … ‘ when frequently the waters do less good than dissipation do ( does ) injury . ’ |
| 8 | However , from the gravitational influence of Mercury on the orbit of Mariner 10 a mass was obtained with 5 times less observational uncertainty than radar had yielded , to give a mean density of 5430 kg/m 3 . |
| 9 | Professor Everitt emphasizes that general comments on differences between each county carry less weight than observations based on local variations in parish type . |
| 10 | Stretched out where they had fallen , the last three members of the once invincible Hellhounds killer pack stared sightlessly after their executioner — a far more efficient and dangerous killer than Nature had ever equipped them to be at the height of their savage power . |
| 11 | He told Kennedy that many of his officers were worried that other countries received more military aid than Iran did . |
| 12 | Dr London 's pictures show that , in certain parts of the brain , addicts use less glucose than non-addicts do . |
| 13 | Advocates of capital punishment are unmoved at the prospect of the United States being increasingly isolated among developed countries : such countries , they argue , have less violent crime than America has . |
| 14 | Also , due in part to increasing media attention , delinquent-prone youths who are more interested in fighting than football see the terrace ‘ ends ’ as places to maintain and improve tough reputations . |
| 15 | Regarded as more independent of the President than Akbulut had been , his appointment as Prime Minister was nevertheless interpreted by some observers as an attempt by Özal to boost the influence within the ANAP of a secular , liberal tendency against that of the Islamic fundamentalists . |
| 16 | Then he looked up sharply and , revealing more of the contents of his mouth than Kelly wished to see , said , ‘ Well , get on with it then . ’ |
| 17 | This is a much lower figure than Hand found for his sample of 65 entomological theses . |
| 18 | The most important of these points are three in number , and I have expressed them for the sake of clarity in less technical and exact terminology than Halliday uses . |
| 19 | … a set of men who live by death and never care to appear but at the End of Man 's Life … their Business is to watch Death , and to furnish out the Funeral Solemnity , with as much pomp and feigned sorrow as the Heirs or Successors of the Deceased chose to purchase : They are a hard-hearted Generation , and require more money than Brains to conduct their Business ; I know no one Qualification peculiarly necessary to them , except that is a steady , demure and melancholy Countenance at Command : I do not know , that they take Apprentices in their Capacity as Undertakers , for they are generally Carpenters , or Herald-Painters besides ; and they only employ , as Journeymen , a set of Men whom they have picked up , possessed of a sober Countenance , and a solemn melancholy Face , whom they pay at so much a Jobb . |
| 20 | That was his reward for a brevet lieutenant-colonelcy in a cavalry regiment and it was more money than Sharpe had ever earned in his life . |
| 21 | Welcome back : For hundreds of years people with more money than sense have been putting up strange buildings on their land that seem to have no point whatsoever . |
| 22 | Now , ’ he waved a fork at me , ‘ if the guy was spending more money than Bonanza expected and Bonanza did n't seem to mind what 's the obvious thing ? ’ |
| 23 | The agency could be in business for less money than NATO spends in one hour , say its backers . |
| 24 | The subject working parties have proved more independent of mind and judgement than critics had expected : less like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern ( ‘ You were sent for : and there is a kind of confession in your looks which your modesties have not craft enough to colour ’ ) ; more , perhaps , like Polonius , given to worthy but occasionally tedious advice . |
| 25 | One of the most recent , from Sweden , revealed that statistically , pups born in the winter in that country are more likely to develop hip dysplasia than pups born in the summer … but only in some breeds , not in others . |
| 26 | While not the most encouraging offer which a Prime Minister can receive , support from outside is a time-honoured formula and one which has frequently been used with much less excuse than Asquith had on this occasion . |
| 27 | For Mill 's view is that coercion is now less of a worry than people voting on their class interest or their personal interest . |
| 28 | ‘ Poor boy , ’ he said with more tenderness than Julia had heard from him since the crisis of her illness . |
| 29 | He justifies this implicit raising of the required standard partly in order to encourage pupils to continue caring about geography lessons ( as opposed to reading the newspapers ) and partly because it would be unfair to give pupils taking geography a better chance of reaching university than pupils taking , say , physics under the war-time difficulties caused by shortage of laboratories and physics teachers . |
| 30 | Zelda West-Meads of the marriage guidance counselling service , Relate , believes it 's perfectly acceptable to change your partner in the way Madeline and Judith have done , although she would recommend you using more tact than Judith did . |