Example sentences of "[adj] than the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rear ends of their wings are elongated into long tendrils which resemble antennae and are , indeed , more conspicuous than the insect 's real antennae . |
| 2 | Their obsession with gathering may , at first glance , seem no different than the fanaticism of collectors of rare books or woodblock prints . |
| 3 | For example if you go on an overland trip trekking in erm South America , you 're clearly looking for something totally different than the person who goes on the sort of typical Club Eighteen to Thirty type holiday . |
| 4 | Yeah well they 're different than the other policemen . |
| 5 | Now you were saying just then that erm parts of the were different than the other parts . |
| 6 | The picture which has emerged over the last five or six years it is very different than the one painted above . |
| 7 | As he dismounted he looked at me over the saddle and there Was that tell-nothing expression , looking at me no different than the Way he had looked at Lamarr Dean the moment before he broke a Whisky glass against his mouth . |
| 8 | They changed that , so the money er it 's a bit different than the Maxwell , the money has n't been erm a switched over to the Cayman Islands and all over the place , it 's it 's stayed in , in the but of course we 're told by the trustees and by our legal advice that nothing illegal 's taken place , the money 's been used to st er finance early voluntary retirement etcetera , etcetera . |
| 9 | The hon. Gentleman was far more brave than the hon. Member for Torridge and Devon , West ( Miss Nicholson ) who has adopted the role of reading out central office briefs in the House to apologise for the Conservative party . |
| 10 | They were no more secretive or abashed than the soldier ants would have been , gnashing their way through anything that was organic , their collective mind unclouded by doubt , guilt or the smallest hint of compunction . |
| 11 | It now seems no more dim than the adverts for new paint , new tiles . |
| 12 | Both inspectors are presented as more interesting than the colleagues and suspects they move among . |
| 13 | These ladies deserve careful listening , but there are patches , as on Nocturne , where the music is far less interesting than the well-written and atmospheric lyrics . |
| 14 | Eugene Malou and Frank Friedmaier are far more interesting than the people by whom they are condemned : the fact that they come to sticky ends is Simenon 's fig-leaf , his nod in the direction of conventional morality . |
| 15 | Black , by this time at the laboratories of Smith , Kline , and French , led a team which achieved results no less interesting than the discovery of beta-blockers , and of equal practical importance . |
| 16 | But the new grassland is less environmentally interesting than the previous permanent pasture , and the money wasted on the whole ten-year cycle of grass-grain-grass has been very considerable . |
| 17 | But we do n't mind hearing about a few ‘ weeds ’ — they are often more vigorous and more interesting than the cultivated varieties . |
| 18 | The truth is that they 're so often used as fast turnover test beds for review equipment , and new fishkeeping ideas , that they are probably less interesting than the majority of our readers ' tanks . |
| 19 | Then somehow we did get romantically linked up and some people , right near the end of the situation with that band , singled us out as potentially more interesting than the band , which I suppose was a cruel situation really . |
| 20 | In my view it 's even more interesting than the Soane museum in Lincoln 's Inn Fields ; a perverse neo-classicism I suppose you 'd call it . |
| 21 | More interesting than the vertical connections are the horizontal connections ( indicated by dotted lines ) . |
| 22 | — This trend to professional academic specialization is confirmed by G. B. Harrison , writing in 1940 on the Review 's first fifteen years : " It will hardly be denied by anyone who looks through the files of the Review that the earlier numbers were more interesting than the later " , which he put down to the " increasing specialization in English , as in all forms of study " . |
| 23 | Perhaps even more interesting than the status of race as a demarcator of differentiation , is the absence of division around religion , and in particular around the ethnic-religious combination of Irish Catholicism . |
| 24 | The claim that none of our beliefs about the future are ever justified is more important and more interesting than the claim that although our belief that the sun will rise tomorrow is quite probably both true and justified , we can not really be said to know that the sun will rise tomorrow . |
| 25 | Then I came across Rousseau 's Confessions , which took a bit of reading but was more interesting than the love mags . |
| 26 | The debate about whether unemployment , poverty and deprivation are causally related to crime is perhaps less interesting than the observation which we discussed more fully elsewhere that crime , and in particular , street crime , becomes highlighted during times of economic crisis . |
| 27 | ‘ Do not judge these industrial towns by their faces ; they are the most alive places in England ; they are more interesting than the little dead country towns which we so like to look at : think of Manchester , Birmingham with their concerts , theatres , parks and art galleries … |
| 28 | Discussion in the Yachting World office has taken some interesting turns lately , none more interesting than the campaign for the single black box , or the all-things-in-one instrument . |
| 29 | And unfortunately , tonight the audience were far more interesting than the band . |
| 30 | What you are achieving with such a happy mix is very much more personal and , therefore , interesting than the blandness of the careful match . |