Example sentences of "than those that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first to hatch is inevitably stronger and more vigorous than those that hatch later . |
| 2 | We have found that within those families , the genera that eat fruit have larger brains in proportion to their body size than those that eat leaves . |
| 3 | Fruit eating primates have relatively larger brains than those that eat leaves . |
| 4 | The distinction is useful because companies that seize an opportunity in markets outside their domestic base are more likely to be successful than those that react in response to an external factor . |
| 5 | Big birds weigh more , but a smaller proportion of that weight is fat , ) Corroboration comes from the observation that males who had not formed pairs were in worse condition than those that had . |
| 6 | But animals that had received NGF as well lost fewer cells than those that had not . |
| 7 | Of course the trade papers revelled in hyperbole but the claims that were being made had a greater validity than those that had been made for music-hall . |
| 8 | Every St Kildan family owned a number of cleits and they were scattered all over the island , many of them convenient to the bird cliffs because ‘ fresh ’ birds were much heavier than those that had dried out , and everything had to be carried back to the village eventually . |
| 9 | However , anxious dreams produce smaller erections than those that bring more pleasurable fantasies . |
| 10 | Pesticides dealt with pests , weedkillers with weeds , hybridisation with the fact that some varieties were axed in favour of those which speedily produced more , rather than those that produced fewer , or less , but of better quality . |
| 11 | For example , one wonders if the doubts about the unity of geography are any less profound than those that afflict environmental science , but geography has been around for much longer and has developed powerful institutional , professional and curricular structures , not least in the schools . |
| 12 | Accidents more commonly occur in dark stables than those that have a glimmer of light . |
| 13 | If you increase the amount of reward the rats run faster than rats that have always received the large reward and if you decrease it the reverse happens ; the rats run more slowly than those that have always had the small reward . |
| 14 | Another is that co-operating individuals jointly benefited even though they were not related ; the co-operative behaviour has evolved because those who did it were more likely to survive as individuals and reproduce than those that did not . |
| 15 | However , the cancers associated with strictures in our series tended to be more advanced than those that did not cause strictures . |
| 16 | And certainly it was the case as my understanding of it anyway , is that those l er those routes that had links into Harrogate provided far greater relief than those that did n't have links . |
| 17 | At the same time , though less abrasive , the book is only intermittently less sophisticated than those that preceded it . |
| 18 | Other evolutionary games ( hawk-dove , and so on ) which recognize such chaotic or patterned spatial structure may be more robust and widely applicable than those that do not . |
| 19 | Cancers associated with strictures tend to be more advanced ( 76% stages C and D , 24% A and B ) than those that do not produce strictures ( 40% stages C and D , 60% A and B ) ( p<0.001 ) . |
| 20 | The short explanation , if you want to know why elephant seals keep er an even sex ratio and not a one to ten sex ratio , even though only one male in every ten mates , is that every male that does mate has ten times more reproductive success than those that do n't . |
| 21 | The most generally accepted mechanism of evolutionary change is the modern version of Darwinian natural selection , based on the simple propositions that ( a ) like begets like , though with minor , essentially chance , variations ; ( b ) all organisms are capable of producing more offspring than actually can survive to maturity and reproduce in their turn ; ( c ) those offspring that do survive to reproduce must in some way be variants that are better adapted to their environment than those that fail ; and ( d ) those favoured variants are likely to reproduce the favourable variation in their own offspring . |