Example sentences of "[adj -er] than [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This fat — invariably in the form of ( — is lighter than water , and so improves buoyancy ; and also ensures that planktonic creatures , as a group , tend to be highly nutritious . |
| 2 | They are lighter than water and consequently float up to the bubble nest . |
| 3 | The result , because the gas is lighter than water , is that the fish floats — often in obscure positions . |
| 4 | Dyneema fibres are ten times stronger than steel and lighter than water . |
| 5 | For the pudding , my own weakness is a small glass of something sweet and much lighter than port which I prefer to save and have on its own or with a mince pie . |
| 6 | Cane and wicker will look lighter than wood ; white-painted pieces will look less conspicuous and therefore less space-consuming than dark . |
| 7 | Both are lighter than cotton but neither are as durable , nor as watertight . |
| 8 | lighter than thistledown |
| 9 | The Dream Ashton 's interpretation of Shakespeare : Titania ‘ lighter than air' ( Antoinette Sibley ) ... |
| 10 | Guard duty over the two women was much lighter than tree-felling in the steamy forest or sawing up the timbers into six-feet lengths , then splitting them into staves for the stockade , the master 's house , and the other habitations they were erecting in the settlement . |
| 11 | Spring-tined cultivators with tines at about six-inch spacing , are much lighter than chisel ploughs . |
| 12 | There is no light and shade and this way of using the pointes has nothing to do with giving a finishing touch to such dances as those fur Petipa 's Aurora and the Six Fairies in The Sleeping Beauty to make them seem lighter than air . |
| 13 | No heavy shagpiles here , these carpets are lighter than air . |
| 14 | a glutinous helmet , lighter than air . |
| 15 | But I have some secret bubble of amusement in me and it 's lighter than air . |
| 16 | And there 's no wonder it 's blowing away cos it 's just lighter than air . |
| 17 | Firstly , gas is lighter than air and leakages dissipate in the atmosphere rather than forming a local hazard . |
| 18 | Yves Saint Laurent 's Opium , now in Secret de Parfum , lighter than perfume , stronger than eau de toilette ( £52 ) . |
| 19 | As fluorine is much lighter than chlorine , the antisymmetric stretch is at a considerably higher frequency than the analogous mode of , and is therefore closer in frequency to the rocking mode . |
| 20 | Trent let go jib sheet and halyard ; the heavy canvas flashed free , disappearing into the rain curtain as if lighter than tissue paper . |
| 21 | As plastic is lighter than glass , fuel consumption in transport is reduced . |
| 22 | Of great interest , Mr Raggett says , are sophisticated aluminium metal matrices which are lighter than aluminium yet stronger than steel . |
| 23 | A second reason why dieting makes you fat is that fat is lighter than muscle … |
| 24 | Is steel lighter than iron ? |
| 25 | No other packaging material can be greener than cork . |
| 26 | Machinery was much scarcer than land , as has been seen . |
| 27 | Wage evidence could also be noted , but it is even scarcer than price data , and it remains as yet uncertain whether any particular trend swill be discernable . |
| 28 | Leading on from this , a more general point is that where the objective of the operation is rather broader than profit maximization , shareholder control is probably far less appropriate than state control ( see , for example , Baumol , 1984 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ On a milky , fatty , meaty diet British girls and boys became taller , fatter , and broader than nature intended . ’ |
| 30 | The preventive duty is broader than Section I of the 1980 Child Care Act , but it is owed to a restricted group of children ( Masson , 1990 ) . |