Example sentences of "than [adj] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The revolution in glasshouses had surely started rather earlier than that with the radical design built in 1820 by W&D Bailey of Holborn for Lady Rolle at Bicton in Devon . |
| 4 | When the UK was in deficit with both regions , the deficit with the EC was much larger than that with the ROW . |
| 5 | Werner Niefer , the top man at Mercedes-Benz , was on hand but otherwise , German industry chiefs were thinner on the ground than usual with the unification celebrations in Berlin . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , out of 76 district planning authorities responding to the survey mentioned earlier , 30 of them granted planning permission for potential odour emitting uses subject to a condition relating to odour emission , being of the opinion that the imposition of conditions , including those relating to odour emission , were relevant to securing reasonable and proper planning objectives which complemented rather than conflicted with the responsibilities of the Director of Environmental Health in his dealing with public health matters under the public health legislation . |
| 7 | The moves up to gain the famous Bower ledge are nothing less than brutal with the corner crack first expanding to chimney-like proportions then closing again to slim finger-crack holds . |
| 8 | Ramsay was less than delighted with the task , but consoled himself with the thought that at least the journey south would take them by Dunbar Castle again , and a call thereat would be possible . |
| 9 | ‘ ECT is usually left to junior members of the staff … with little training and guidance ’ , A leading psychiatrist in the field told New Scientist that ‘ the commonest misuse of ECT is on people who are really unhappy , distressed or sad , rather than ill with a depressive illness . ’ |
| 10 | Needle-knife papillotomy is probably a safer option than pre-cutting with a sphincterotome where the wire emerges from the end , as the direction of the cut is easier to control with the needle-knife and there is less danger of damage to the pancreatic duct . |
| 11 | The crystal structure shows that CsA binds to CypA with the side chains of MeBmt-1 , Abu-2 , Sar-3 , MeLeu-9 , MeLeu-10 and MeVal-11 of CsA making contacts of less than 4 with the CypA residues Arg 55 , Phe 60 , Met 61 , Gln 63 , Gly 72 , Ala 101 , Asn 102 , Ala 103 , Gln 111 , Phe 113 , Trp 121 , Leu 122 , His 126 ( Fig. 3 a ) . |
| 12 | I cant remember who they played last night , but I think the win will mean they will be more than happy with a point . |
| 13 | We have made that clear from the start , and we have also made clear that we are more than happy with the results . |
| 14 | I have learnt enough about the Alexander Technique to realize that I have much more to learn , and that noticeable change can be a slow process , but I am more than happy with the benefits that I have received so far . |
| 15 | ‘ We are more than happy with the decision , ’ said FA spokesman David Bloomfield . |
| 16 | Bob Groves insisted there ought to be a public inquiry into the proposal , and called on Chelmsford Tory MP Simon Burns to take up the residents ' cause : they were less than happy with the MP 's response to date . |
| 17 | Mrs Whitehouse was accused at many points of being motivated by ‘ hatred ’ of homosexuals and , whilst the extract suggests that her attitude was not one of ‘ hatred ’ — indeed far from it — by including in her attitude to homosexuality such words as : undesirable , repugnant , perverse , suffering and abnormal , it is also easy to see how the gay community might be less than happy with the description . |
| 18 | DEC , which held the Dutch introduction to its new Alpha machines here , and Hewlett-Packard , had both spent a lot of money on assembling and staffing the stands , and were less than happy with the trickle of visitors descending from the various sessions down onto the show floor . |
| 19 | Certainly the Poole Advertiser are more than happy with the way in which the system has fitted in with their original working methods . |
| 20 | Our existing tenants are more than happy with the service they receive and we are confident that new tenants will be just as pleased . |
| 21 | As a result of this , rhythms with the greater external cause will appear to develop earlier in childhood than those with a smaller external cause . |
| 22 | The parents or guardians of an autistic child will encounter rather different difficulties in bringing up their child than those with a Down 's child , although there are some common themes which , it could be argued , operate for all children . |
| 23 | Carers with a dependant living in the same household spend more time caring than those with a dependant in another household . |
| 24 | The study also shows that grasslands with a high above-ground biomass lose their standing crop more rapidly than those with a lower biomass . |
| 25 | Schools where the size of the delegated budget was seen to be adequate , or even generous , were able to take more steps along the path to staff involvement in decision-making than those with a reduced budget . |
| 26 | Hamilton argued that , because selection is stronger on earlier ages , alleles with advantageous effects early in life would be more likely to be fixed by selection than those with a later age of action , an argument that implies that populations are continually adapting , and so are not in equilibrium . |
| 27 | ( 2 ) Then again it is regarded as doubtful whether there really is a specific quality of pleasure , and even of pain , which covers all experiences that people either want to have or avoid , and it is thought obviously desirable that people should have experiences they want rather than those with a certain quality . |
| 28 | Subjects with milder phenylketonuria did consistently better than those with a more severe disorder , but this advantage disappeared when allowance was made for their better phenylalanine control . |
| 29 | Patients with type B gastritis synthesised 1.0 ( 0.4–2.6 ) pg/mg , again significantly higher than those with a normal mucosa ( p<0.02 , fig 4 ) . |
| 30 | Moreover , patients with an alcohol intake higher than 100 g/day had higher lamininin concentrations than those with a lower intake ( p=0.03 ) . |