Example sentences of "than [noun] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carol 's dancing and her sister Suzette 's acting provided the inspiration for the Minogue sisters — Danielle or Dannii as she was known in the clan was also showing signs of talent — and the pair loved nothing better than play acting at home . |
| 2 | Such clinics burgeoned under the 1991 general practitioner contract , but there is no evidence that they detect or deal with disease more effectively than case finding within ordinary consultations . |
| 3 | And yet , in real terms , the percentage share of the market that desktop publishing software occupies is very small , less than 10% according to some of the market research , compared with such stalwarts as word processing , databases and spreadsheets . |
| 4 | She took on Richard Burton and it is impossible that she did not know — quite soon — that there were flaws : she knew about theatrical affairs and knew that most of them were no more than vessels bumping in the night or for the run of the play . |
| 5 | The inhabitants ' concerns were primarily economic and environmental rather than matters relating to security . |
| 6 | It is , by itself , little more than window dressing on the part of the Government . |
| 7 | It was classified as high security , and there were more guards than engineers working in the compound . |
| 8 | It is easier to visualise Oxford rather than Cambridge coming from behind , and here the experience of Oxford 's Cal Maclennan , in his third Boat Race , and Peter Bridge could be crucial . |
| 9 | This is due probably to the fact that people suffering from aphasia are more likely to come to the attention of a neurologist than individuals suffering from certain kinds of right hemisphere damage which may pass unnoticed by the individual himself such that he does not seek medical attention or is not referred for neurological investigation . |
| 10 | By ‘ brainstorming ’ , groups can generate far more and better ideas than individuals working on their own . |
| 11 | Japanese work organization is premised on self-managing teams rather than workers striving against each other under an individualistic and competitive payment and production system . |
| 12 | The errors possibly arising from voltage variations are however clearly much less than variations arising for other , explained and unexplained reasons and it was decided to abandon this idea . |
| 13 | The commission recommended , as a step towards integration , that a number of public schools should accept some of their pupils ( eventually at least half ) from maintained schools , using criteria of comprehensive selection and social needs ( rather than selection according to ability ) ; these pupils would receive financial assistance . |
| 14 | Clearly agencies dealing with executive appointments will have more time for discussion and advice about career moves and development than agencies dealing with general office staff . |
| 15 | ( 6 ) The provisions of this Act and of any byelaws or regulations made thereunder , other than provisions relating to permitted hours , shall apply to the sale of alcoholic liquor under subsection ( 1 ) above as if the sale took place on licensed premises and to the sale of alcoholic liquor under subsection ( 2 ) above as if the sale took place in the registered club . |
| 16 | Although consumption grew faster than output leading to a rapid expansion of imports , the generally improving terms of trade rendered the trade gap small . |
| 17 | I can think of nothing worse than Kinnock coming into power . |
| 18 | Researchers who studied attitudes towards extra-marital sex , relative to the size of the community , found that in general , people living in rural areas are less tolerant of extra-marital sex and are less likely to engage in it than people living in large cities . |
| 19 | They have allowed their care in the community policy for ex-mental patients to amount to no more than people drifting within a community of hostels , in which one finds people who have fallen through the safety net and ended up homeless on the streets . |
| 20 | For Mill 's view is that coercion is now less of a worry than people voting on their class interest or their personal interest . |
| 21 | If big shops tended to offer a wider range of credit facilities than small ones , then people shopping in the urban centres where big shops are round would have a wider choice of credit types than people shopping in small rural centres . |
| 22 | ( b ) Transfer to the county court A magistrates ' court may transfer any public law case ( other than proceedings relating to emergency protection orders , contribution orders ( see Chapter 16 , 5 ) and certain appeals relating to privately fostered children ( see Chapter 18 , 6 ) , child minders and day care facilities ( see Chapter 19 ) ) to a county court care centre where it is in the child 's interests to do so because : ( i ) the case is exceptionally grave , important or complex ; ( ii ) it is appropriate for the case to be heard with other family proceedings pending in the county court ; or ( iii ) transfer is likely significantly to accelerate the determination of the proceedings ( APO , art 7 ) . |
| 23 | Rather than George running to Lennie 's aid , he shouts at Lennie to defend himself . |
| 24 | In most respects , using wave lift is far safer than cloud flying for attempts at Gold and Diamond heights . |
| 25 | For example , children going to former white schools in Harare , now known as ‘ Group A ’ schools , are likely to get a far better education and have much better facilities than children going to most of the schools , known as ‘ Group B ’ schools , in the ‘ high density suburbs ’ ( formerly segregated black townships ) . |
| 26 | Although at first sight , therefore , it seems that there was a strong age-related gradient in the overall net income of elderly people , the effect was largely accounted for by the dissolution of married-couple households when husbands died , leaving widows significantly worse off not only than married couples , but also than men living on their own . |
| 27 | From having similar rates in the early part of the study period , men residing in the capital area in 1983–7 had approximately 2.5-fold more anal cancer than men living in the rest of Denmark . |
| 28 | In addition to sex-based inequalities in income and household resources , older women , in general , are more disadvantaged than men according to a range of other indicators of deprivation . |
| 29 | More problematic than issues relating to the calculation of these statistics are the assumptions upon which they are based . |
| 30 | damage to property other than property belonging to or in your custody or control . |