Example sentences of "[noun] than [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Underlying the Unionist acceptance of coalition in 1918 was a darker attitude to the future than appeared in the coalition programme . |
| 2 | I mean , what we 're trying to do in the visual arts is to spend what limited money we have to produce a better situation for the visual artist and for the public who gets pleasure and enlightenment from visual arts than exists at the moment , so rather than just prop up the status quo , which is what is would be very easy to do if one just kept the pot boiling so to speak by giving a few grants to artists here and sitting at the centre of a spider 's web in Tunbridge Wells waiting for applications to come in to us and then responding . |
| 3 | The new row follows plans by BC to seek voluntary redundancies at Point of Ayr to reduce the workforce from 467 to around 150 , about 100 more job losses than envisaged under the new working regime . |
| 4 | He commented on the results : Even God came out of the thing with a more credible characterization than offered in the original … |
| 5 | presents than worry about the tree at the moment . |
| 6 | Some take the profoundly defeatist view that the kicking and screaming which would accompany a successful revolt would do even more damage than sticking with the lady . |
| 7 | Even his fond parents do n't call him that when he rampages through the flat creating mayhem , and Joyce was recently heard to declare that she 'd rather do Rob 's tax returns than look after the baby . |
| 8 | I think I 'd rather live in the park than go to the smelly old place . |
| 9 | More people were put to death in Ireland than died in the French revolutionary Terror of the time . |
| 10 | ( Incidentally , it was harder to work out that there was a question than to think of the answer ! ) |
| 11 | Are not 51 days in the Gulf more of a training exercise than running around the sand dunes at Barry with thunderflashes ? |
| 12 | Gross profit margins were lower than budget though , he said , which resulted in a ‘ less than satisfactory return on sales ’ — high sterling levels during most of 1992 and higher costs than anticipated during the early development phases of Series 3 had a negative impact , while modest sales levels to the traditionally lucrative UK corporate market meant that margins were below expectations . |
| 13 | The spectra of solid samples often contain more bands than expected on the basis of the molecular symmetry of single , isolated molecules . |
| 14 | The regional materials of each area , once so varied , began their slow demise as bricks , for instance , became cheaper to import from the Midlands than to bake in the village kiln . |
| 15 | It 's something very close to what I 'm saying erm and erm I 'm saying perhaps one thing in addition , which is that just as when we look into the future , which , as a historian , I 'm asked to do more often , I think , these days than looking at the past , but when we look into the future , we have different versions of what that future will be . |
| 16 | In all this work he functions as a kindly nurse who has no other business than to care for the well-being of her charge . |
| 17 | In absolute terms , there were three extra households for every extra member of the population over this period , generating a very much higher level of new housing need than reflected in the overall population figures . |
| 18 | Even capacity expansion co-operation has been carried out in such a way as to allow substantial continued internal competition and even greater market share changes than occurred in the United States . |
| 19 | For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness . ’ |
| 20 | If , on the other hand , businessmen are generally optimistic and see the increase in demand as a signal for further increases , they may actually buy more machines than predicted by the accelerator theory . |
| 21 | Teachers were always busy , and many schools put GIST on a rather lower priority than dealing with the impact of unemployment , school reorganization , discipline or curricular problems . |
| 22 | Britain is in between with more constraints upon the media than happens in the USA , but more press reponing than in many Scandinavian countries . |
| 23 | Actually , it felt no more of a wasted morning than wandering round the Guggenheim would have done , and I still managed an afternoon 's lingerie shopping . |
| 24 | ‘ But as much as I 'd like to continue playing for the North , I suddenly thought there 's more to life than sitting on the M1 . |
| 25 | A new national organisation he believed should be on a smaller and more economical scale than required by the struggle up to 1833 ; functioning as a watchdog over legislation and supplying information to ministers and public its style had to be ‘ very prudent and discreet ’ . |
| 26 | Producers were so busy fighting their own corner , and so mesmerized by the success of Hollywood , that they did n't have the strength to argue that keeping the industry fragmented and flexible , learning from Hollywood 's example without simply imitating its outward forms , might be a better way of catering for a market the size of Britain than heading up the road of monopoly . |
| 27 | An external observer at rest who detects the flash at the moment that it reaches the roof would see it Doppler shifted to a lower frequency than observed in the source frame . |
| 28 | He seems more concerned with settling scores with rival music critics than getting behind the jolly , extrovert exterior that Mr Cliburn has always presented to the public , and , apparently , to his friends as well . |
| 29 | Abstract internationalism had a strong role to play in rationalizing much more sinister forces than appeared in the rhetoric of Petrograd . |
| 30 | Financial : Paying for the consequences of the addictive disease of the primary sufferer can be exceedingly expensive and families may even be much more willing to pay Court fines than to pay towards the costs of treatment — The disgrace and deprivation of prison are commonly felt to be consequences that are best avoided whereas they may in fact be the crucial turning point that bring the primary sufferer and the family member into full realisation of the seriousness of addictive disease and the need to seek recovery . |