Example sentences of "[noun sg] than [prep] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was more exciting and comfortable to travel in the back of a Ford car than on any part of a bus , even top front . |
| 2 | This is achieved by assigning a higher weight to the actual terms in the search than to any see also terms , regardless of the direction of the relation . |
| 3 | The scope for bringing influence to bear and exerting power , in the best sense of the word , is probably greater at midlife than at any other time . |
| 4 | Husayn proceeded in the belief that he could discard the PLO , which was in a weaker condition than at any time since 1967 . |
| 5 | Malloy and Ellis ( 1970 ) included in their experiment control procedures of the sort I have already discussed ( groups given no pre-training , allowed simply to observe the stimuli , and so on ) but the proper interpretation of the results from such control procedures is no more secure in this experiment than in any other . |
| 6 | Women in lonely places are there more in the dark than at any other time of the year . |
| 7 | It was ironic that 1989 saw the centenary celebration of the Fabian Essays of Webb , Shaw , and their comrades ; this came at a time when Britain seemed in more complete reaction against the imperatives of Fabian rationalism than at any time for a century . |
| 8 | In the characters of the divided dorsal arm plates and the oral papillae O. retecta bears a closer resemblance to Ophiochondrus armatus than to any of the other species of Ophiolebes . |
| 9 | Big Percy Cherrett fed off him for two seasons but it was Peter Simpson who benefited most from the work of the talented left-winger and it is no coincidence that Peter scored more goals in each of the three seasons in which Clarke was his team-mate than in any of the succeeding campaigns . |
| 10 | The AOI set out to change all that and has succeeded beyond anybody 's expectations , illustration in the UK is better in quality and greater in quantity and variety than in any other European country . |
| 11 | They well illustrate a quality which is perhaps more necessary in farce crime fiction than in any other branch of the art , the need to set up a cracking pace . |
| 12 | The remainder were taken up in the amalgamations of 1974 , which coincided with the creation of the Metropolitan Councils , and today 's amalgamated forces often seem to owe as much to local and national political opportunity than to any operational logic ; and even two decades after the first melding together of the small forces , attempts to standardize uniform and systems of operation has consistently failed to dislodge many localized , small-scale beliefs and practices . |
| 13 | Most directors take more interest in the negotiation of the service contract than in any other document , and understandably so . |
| 14 | A person in their eighties today has lived through a century of more change than at any other time in history . |
| 15 | It meant bad weather played a bigger part than in any of the previous four competitions . |
| 16 | More foreign gods were admitted into the Greek pantheon than at any time since prehistory . |
| 17 | The Rayner Review stated : ‘ Particular attention needs to be paid to all information collected or costs incurred primarily to meet demands outside central government … in general there is no more reason for govermment to act as universal provider in the statistical field than in any other . |
| 18 | As we argued here on 17 April , Labour 's failure in the 1992 election was more to do with its inability to mobilise its traditional base of support than with any inability to reach out to newer social groupings . |
| 19 | The days lost in strikes rapidly fell to a much lower level than at any time since 1918 . |
| 20 | Once or twice Allen loosed off an arrow at a scampering squirrel , more in play than with any idea of hitting it , and then scrabbled about in the undergrowth to recover the shaft . |
| 21 | Works of authority tend to be consulted more frequently in the field of constitutional law than in any other branch of English law . |
| 22 | In an election dominated by the unification issue , it was notable that combined share of the vote won by the CDU and its Bavarian sister-party , the Christian Social Union ( CSU ) , was only 43.8 per cent , a smaller percentage than in any of the West German general elections except that of 1949 . |
| 23 | His decision to do so , however , appears to have been motivated more by his belief that he had been personally insulted by the Spanish during the earlier marriage negotiations and by a romantic desire to restore his sister and brother-in-law to their inheritance than by any wish to display solidarity with the Protestant cause , which was crumbling away before the seemingly irresistible progress of the Hapsburg armies . |
| 24 | The rudder will certainly be overbalanced and it will require far more force to apply the full opposite rudder than at any other time in flight . |
| 25 | To her surprise , he wrote to her more that winter than at any time before and she was touched to find him attempting more than the sweet but stilted compositions he had managed previously . |
| 26 | Feminist issues , in particular sexual harrassment , abortion and the role of women in politics , have been more central to this election campaign than in any previous one . |
| 27 | Therefore , to re-echo Reiman : you stand more chance of being killed avoidably at work than in any other sphere of your life , including being at home ! |
| 28 | However , national and international figures are available and they show that a greater proportion of this country 's work force is in work than in any other European Community country except Denmark . |
| 29 | Hyacinth came with them , more for company and the irrefutable excuse to avoid work than from any religious inclination . |
| 30 | Particularly noteworthy was the case of 19th Century publications , of which more than one in four ( 27% ) were in need of attention — a higher proportion than for any other group , including those of earlier date ( although it is acknowledged that the figures for earlier publications were in some cases based on comparatively small samples ) . |