Example sentences of "of [noun] than have " in BNC.
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| 1 | As stated earlier , less attention has been paid to the factors that determine the readability of illustrations than has been given to the readability of text . |
| 2 | Partly as a result of this , it has been found that digestion in falcons causes greater modification of bones than has been found in owl prey assemblages ( Yalden & Yalden , 1985 ) . |
| 3 | Though open opposition , as the ‘ White Rose ’ showed , was futile against the might of the Gestapo and resistance groups were necessarily compelled to continue their work in secrecy and isolation , their hostility to the Nazi regime was now far less out of touch with the climate of opinion than had been the case even a few months earlier , before Stalingrad . |
| 4 | Addington 's form of income tax introduced the novel principle of deduction at source , which enabled much better anticipation of outcome than had Pitt 's own assessments . |
| 5 | It was characterized by a determined display of party unity , although this was tempered with a greater degree of realism than had been apparent in 1988 . |
| 6 | The efforts of Anthony Thompson and his friends , including contingents of willing helpers provided by the St Bede 's Link with Romania , have gone a long way towards enabling Lotsi to achieve his goal and the project has now reached the stage where it will benefit from a greater degree of organisation than has been necessary so far . |
| 7 | The programmes of study give greater emphasis to oral communication , to planned cooperative work amongst pupils and to talk as a medium of learning than has perhaps generally been given in the past . |
| 8 | It is suggested therefore that in the event of their failure such systems might be capable of a finer degree of control than has previously applied and that control facilities should be considered which permit the integrated use of all protective features . |
| 9 | But others would claim with equal sincerity that Mr Gorbachev is a pragmatic leader who is giving the reconstruction of the Russian economy a greater degree of priority than have his predecessors . |
| 10 | In recent years Conservative administrations have faced greater opposition from the House of Lords than have Labour Governments , partly because there is probably a greater fear of a Labour Government curtailing still further the powers of the Lords should it be faced with opposition from that quarter . |
| 11 | For example , the island of Singapore has more native species of palm than has the whole of the African continent . |
| 12 | However , the Committee did emphasize the need for a much wider range of accommodation than had been provided before the war , and so they were drawn into the sharp debate about densities and preferences as between flats and houses — and this is where the link with the Ministry of Town and Country Planning proved so important . |
| 13 | These engines required much better fit of components than had Newcomen 's ; parts bought in had to fit exactly , and then those putting up the engine and its house on site required to know just what to do . |
| 14 | No past rival of Western democracies , not even Hitler 's Germany , has presented to the outside world a more opaque image of policy-making than has the USSR , and in no sphere does this arouse greater confusion and concern than defence policy . |
| 15 | When Friends of the Earth researched the tapwater survey of England and Wales run in the Observer in 1989 , they found that lead exceeded the legal limit in a far larger and more widely distributed number of supplies than had previously been supposed . |
| 16 | ‘ Television could be a fair greater waste of time from a developmental or social learning point of view than has been recognised . ’ |