Example sentences of "than [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This seems more like an eroticism created by rather than repressed by the social bond . |
| 2 | Labour was the largest party with 288 MPs ; the Conservatives , who had gained more votes than Labour in the 1929 general election , were , nevertheless , only the second largest party with , by 1931 , 262 MPs ; and the Liberals had fifty-nine MPs . |
| 3 | They got more votes than Labour in the county elections , but they won fewer seats . |
| 4 | Tory Press YOUR leading article ( Echo February 3 ) carried what must be the understatement of the year so far ‘ the Tories have more friends than Labour in the national Press . ’ |
| 5 | In a ship like this , it should n't have taken you more than eight from the central hub . ’ |
| 6 | The Sun has not been one of the newspapers which has in any way suggested that either the Queen or the Duke of Edinburgh have been other than supportive to the Princess of Wales . ’ |
| 7 | Defying the security cordon around the diplomatic area of Tirana , some 800 Albanians swarmed into the Italian mission and more than 500 into the French embassy ; smaller groups entered the Greek , Turkish , Hungarian and Czechoslovak missions . |
| 8 | The ban , initiated by the State Department and announced on 11 March by the Immigration and Naturalisation Service , is expected to affect fewer than 500 of the approximately 3000 Libyan students at American universities , and only those studying the proscribed subjects . |
| 9 | There are fewer than 500 of the shy birds left in Britain ; their numbers have been hit by earlier cutting of grass and silage , which destroyed their nests and young . |
| 10 | Now , under the direction of an elected , unpaid council , it has an income of £45 million a year and a workforce of more than 500 with a plush head office near Regents Park . |
| 11 | Boon 's run-gathering in this series — he is only the fifth Australian after Don Bradman , Kim Hughes , Bob Simpson and Border to score more than 500 in a series against India — has been a spectacular highlight in a summer of relatively poor returns from a supposedly top-flight batting line-up . |
| 12 | Nationally the Home Office would provide no more than 1,000 officers in this financial year and no more than 500 in the next year , which would give Cheshire six to seven new officers on a pro-rata basis . |
| 13 | And after analysing statistics for five developed countries and reviewing results of similar studies , one researcher concluded that , " The most recent evidence indicates that the bulk of the adverse consequences of teenage childbearing ( for the health of children ) may be of social and economic origin , rather than attributable to the effects of young age per se " . |
| 14 | They will be more than grateful to the English Poundstretcher League for the experience being gained by 13 of their 16-man squad . |
| 15 | ‘ Darling , you always were more than grateful for the smallest things that anyone did for you , but in future you 'll be able to turn to me . ’ |
| 16 | On the left a businessman is dictating a letter to be typed , pedalling at a treadle-powered Graphophone to give better speed control than possible with a hand-crank . |
| 17 | Vodafone Group Plc claims that a survey by the Office of Telecommunications shows that it provides the best quality of service available to mobile phone users : Vodafone has more than 820,000 of the 1.4m UK subscribers and in its first quality survey Oftel monitored 120 routes across the UK , finding that Vodafone had an overall success rate for call connection of 93% against 88.7% for Cellnet Mobile Communications Ltd ; some 95.8% of calls on Vodafone 's network from mobile to fixed line phones were set up and completed at the first attempt , said Oftel , compared with 92.5% on Cellnet 's network ; fixed to mobile on the same basis were 92.4% for Vodafone and 89.8% for Cellnet ; Cellnet reckons it comes out tops in trials of hand portables in the Greater London area . |
| 18 | Ministry in the home never has a lower priority than that outside the home . |
| 19 | Thus the real cost of £1,000 worth of BES shares to anybody earning more than that during the fiscal year , which starts on Monday , would be only £500 . |
| 20 | He had become used to much worse than that during the past few weeks . |
| 21 | Perkins group managing director , Tony Gilroy says : ‘ Despite the current recession in the construction industry , we expect to sell them a lot more than that under the new agreement . |
| 22 | However , in O'Reilly v. Mackman Lord Diplock argued that the present procedural regime for AJRs is more advantageous to applicants than that under the pre-1978 version of Ord. 53. and that it strikes a sound balance between the interests of applicants and respondents . |
| 23 | The amount of time , officer time taken to process an application for a modification to an existing permission is still substantial and in some cases can be even more than that per a new proposal , but in those circumstances , and this is just by way of illustration because the the actual fee regime is , is very variable , by way of illustration the fee chargeable for a a , a modification is much less than for the application as a whole er f for , for the er er working as a whole . |
| 24 | The charge is likely to be higher than that for a parishioner . |
| 25 | Furthermore there were furniture firms short of work and again the development time for a wooden aeroplane has always been much shorter than that for a metal one . |
| 26 | The average length of stay in hospital for older people is usually longer than that for a young person with a similar medical condition . |
| 27 | The mourning observed for Jacob was only two days shorter than that for a pharaoh . |
| 28 | Accordingly , the policy of dismissing a woman employee solely because she had attained the qualifying age for a state pension which was lower than that for a man constituted discrimination contrary to the Council Directive . |
| 29 | The relationship between platelet aggregation and diabetic control is even more confounding than that for the platelet-specific proteins , various studies either showing no change , increased or decreased platelet aggregation in response to improved glycaemic control . |
| 30 | Pay was better than that for the average working man , more substantial than the ten-bob dole which was the experience of many of their compatriots . |