Example sentences of "[adj] than [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The colour of the head should be lighter than that of the body but mottled ( not wholly white ) and with dark ‘ eyebrows ’ and some brown colouring around the muzzle . |
| 2 | Monorails have always attracted inventors because the structure can be lighter than that of conventional railways . |
| 3 | We hear of other cases where the decision was based on Russian tribute being lighter than that of other overlords . |
| 4 | His palette was lighter than that of Sickert . |
| 5 | The 1s level binding energies of elements increase roughly as Z , the nuclear charge , and can of course only be used for elements lighter than that used in the X-ray source . |
| 6 | Very sort of lighter than , no lighter than that . |
| 7 | It 's a lot lighter than that . |
| 8 | This aeroplane is smaller and lighter than many piston twins ; four of us easily pushed it from Donnington Aviation 's hangar . |
| 9 | Again this is a distortion of what is generally happening in the courts , where sentences are lighter than this average , so newspaper readers have contrasting images of many acquittals and many long sentences . |
| 10 | The wines produced by these vines are lighter than those of Bouzy , but are of good quality and can be very attractive in a blend . |
| 11 | David is my fifth baby , and his birthweight was 6 lb 10oz , which was a lot lighter than any of my previous babies . |
| 12 | I used a shade that is lighter than most soils , although of course I am used to looking out of the window at our bright reddish-brown soil here in Devon ! |
| 13 | When this became general knowledge later , there was general unease at this way of measuring the background ; the neutron flux 50 metres away from the cell measured for 50 hours could be very different than that at the cell site , even if the cell had been absent , measured for a different 50 hours . |
| 14 | The process is slightly different than that for manufacturing catalysts for petrol cars . |
| 15 | they desperately want a child between them and to them a child that is born by the mother but is from a different origin than than the partner is is the next best thing an , and most of the couples , and we do n't advise them that this should all be kept secret , we leave that decision to be something that they will erm , come to later on when the child is older , and many of these couples will decide that this child will be brought as their own biological child , and I do n't really see that as being any different than many relationships where children are conceived out of wedlock , or out , with the relationship and people make a a a decision to keep this erm to themselves . |
| 16 | Their pathetic screams would be no different than those of the DEEP 's , their blood just as red . |
| 17 | It 's no different than some blokes smoking fags . ’ |
| 18 | New Order fan Paul Clayton , Bury : ‘ Morrissey is no different than any other pop star . |
| 19 | And the consequences of a latter approach could lead to accumulative change in the appearance and nature and character of the countryside so that you get something rather different than most people 's perception of a countryside being there for its own sake . |
| 20 | Both of my hon. Friends know that their constituents live in an area which for generations has had health care that has been relatively less generously funded than that provided in the central London parts of the Thames regions . |
| 21 | The public may find it hard to stomach for very long the fact that schools in one area should be much better or worse funded than those in neighbouring areas , or that age weightings should vary greatly from one area to another . |
| 22 | Following the principle of decorum ( to be found , for instance , in Horace 's Ars Poetica ) , the classical view was that the style which dealt with serious matters had to be non-realistic , in the sense of systematically eliminating references to everyday life and using a type of language much more elaborate and re fined than that of everyday usage ; non-serious subjects could be dealt with realistically , in ordinary language , but on no account could the different levels of style be mixed together . |
| 23 | This was one of the reasons why they were more prepared than many sedentary peasants to escape over huge distances in the Famine , though of course hunger was the main spur . |
| 24 | The remarkable strength of this pulsar is reflected in the mean flux density at the three observing frequencies given in Table 1 , indicating a spectral index between 430 and 2,360 MHz of -1.5 , typical of most pulsars , but less steep than those of other millisecond pulsars . |
| 25 | Thankfully business is more interesting than that . |
| 26 | The lunch-time conversation tended to be less interesting than that of Rose and Victorine in the kitchen . |
| 27 | But I talked to psychologist about it , and she said it 's a lot more interesting than that , what you 're forgetting is , that change is usually perceived as criticism , what 's wrong with the way we 've been doing things . |
| 28 | It 's a bit more interesting than that . |
| 29 | Edward 's comment is clearly correct , and could be extended : Hopkins 's letters and notebooks , for instance , contain a weight of original theorizing that is more substantial and more interesting than much recent writing . |
| 30 | A lot more interesting than many other places . |