Example sentences of "[adj -er] [conj] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arithmetic in the Lords is messier than in the Commons . |
| 2 | The grass is greener than in a commercial for lawn-mowers ; something , as at a Test match or at Wimbldeon , hangs in the air or on the hum of the crowd 's voice . |
| 3 | A collection of general medical books in a public library may deal with the same range of topics , but the indexing can be broader than in a specialist context , and the terms used for the same thing may be different . |
| 4 | In the female this tube is broader than in the male . |
| 5 | Travel has been easier than in the upper course valleys and so a few villages have grown to become market towns . |
| 6 | But the architect had agreed with her that it would make the room much lighter and in the end Matthew had assented . |
| 7 | The other was more subtle ; by housing his workers in the country , where life was far healthier than in the crowded tenements of the city , he could provide them with space to grow their own vegetables . |
| 8 | It has been suggested ; that this creates a system of judicial zoning , in the sense that the law recognises that in one particular area , near an industrial estate for example or in a rural community , certain odours are to be expected and the standard adopted will as a result be lower than in a purely residential area where odour pollution of the air is not expected . |
| 9 | Very low prices ( the retailer makes savings through bulk buying , and overheads are lower than in a central location — part of these savings is passed on to the customer ) |
| 10 | Because the service standards are likely to be somewhat lower than in a commercial operation , you might set the rate so that they were 50 per cent ( or even 60 per cent ) of the total . |
| 11 | The mitotic index in deeper distal mesenchyme ( 6–16 cell layers beneath the surface ) in -AER limbs is threefold lower than in a comparable region of contralateral +AER limbs , and twofold lower than in -AER limbs cultured in the absence of BMP-2 ( Fig. 3 ) , indicating BMP-2 inhibits cell proliferation in distal limb mesenchyme . |
| 12 | A study showed that the level of stress related illness among employees in a department which provided support as described was much lower than in a similar department that did not take such precautions . |
| 13 | In one of these studies the FVC in low birthweight children was not lower than in a reference group . |
| 14 | Their main advantages for buyers are ( a ) price , which is significantly lower than in a retail operation , and ( b ) the opportunity to buy small bulk quantities . |
| 15 | By volume , retail sales grew just 1.2 per cent in the year to August and in the latest three months they were 1 per cent lower than in the previous period . |
| 16 | The trouble was that their general educational standard was much lower than in the past . |
| 17 | TOTAL construction orders in the third quarter of 1989 were 9 per cent lower than in second quarter and 3 per cent lower than in the same period of 1988 , according to provisional figures from the Department of Environment . |
| 18 | TOTAL construction orders in the third quarter of 1989 were 9 per cent lower than in second quarter and 3 per cent lower than in the same period of 1988 , according to provisional figures from the Department of Environment . |
| 19 | In the first three months of 1990 , the guess is that they were again about 13% lower than in the first quarter of 1989 , but there are now hopes that it was the last drop for a while . |
| 20 | European component manufacturing costs are lower than in the States , and we could save the Corporation around a billion dollars a year by purchasin' components from our European plants . |
| 21 | Prices in Greece and Portugal are also up to 40 per cent lower than in the rest of Europe . |
| 22 | The general standards of safety , hygiene , fire precautions etc will generally be lower than in the UK . |
| 23 | As a result , the breccia fragments are surrounded by a mud matrix and rocks are only of marginal reservoir quality with porosities and permeabilities that are much lower than in the collapse breccias of Auk and Argyll . |
| 24 | Income tax there has been 30 per cent lower than in the old , western Länder , corporation tax 22.5 per cent lower , turnover tax 30 per cent lower . |
| 25 | The study found that accounting standards in such countries as Italy , Portugal , Spain and Greece were considerably lower than in the rest of the EC . |
| 26 | Only with the aid of a fully divided heart , with the blood pressure in the lung circuit being lower than in the body-and-head circuit , could Brachiosaurus have existed and functioned . |
| 27 | A similar system is in operation in many countries , with the key exception of the US , where book prices are much lower than in the UK . |
| 28 | On the other hand despite the increase in funding during the last forty years , the UK spending on health as a proportion of national income is lower than that in most West European countries and considerably lower than in the USA ( see Figure 7.1 ) . |
| 29 | The temperature may be lower than in the height of summer , but that 's compensated for by the peace and quiet you find out of season . |
| 30 | In contrast with doubled CO 2 and fully interactive ozone ( Fig. 4d ) , there is a clearly defined minimum in high latitudes whilst the maximum ozone amount is about 10% lower than in the other simulations . |