Example sentences of "than more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commission chairman , P.K. Iyengar , claims that such work is labour intensive , and hence India will be better placed to offer an economical service than more developed nations . |
| 2 | Mothers who had finished full time education before age 17 were more likely to have their membranes artificially ruptured before labour than more educated women ( 120/972 ( 12% ) v 33/422 ( 8% ) , p<0.05 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ Square ’ stones are more difficult to remove than more rounded ones . |
| 4 | They were to discover , however , that a barely literate populace found the abstract word far more difficult to absorb than more concrete visual images , for as one Henrician reformer had earlier noted : ‘ into the common people things sooner enter by the eyes than by the ears . ’ |
| 5 | Results show that interviewers who have worked for over five years have lower refusal rates than more recent recruits . |
| 6 | The table also makes it clear that older publications were not necessarily in a significantly greater state of disrepair than more recent items . |
| 7 | Indeed , Leonard 's main recollection of his father lies in that style , rather than more personal attributes or memories , and he is wont to describe him with his top hat and gloves , his cane and spats , and miniature service medals . |
| 8 | ‘ Why should you suppose me any less proud than more fortunate females ? ’ |
| 9 | Whether this simply amounts to short-term cost-effectiveness in the face of declining markets rather than more general efficient use of resources is not clear . |
| 10 | Narrow topics like " Whig reforms 1 830–41 " or " the suffragette movement " are less likely to be overburdened with detail than more general topics like British foreign policy , 1815–65 " or " Britain 's inter-war economy " . |
| 11 | Not surprisingly , less familiar shapes are named incorrectly more frequently than more familiar ones . |
| 12 | Israel began to integrate elements of the military government into its own civil ministries , proving that the kind of autonomy it had in mind implied less rather than more Palestinian control over their affairs . |
| 13 | We report here that ganglion cells near the fovea were allocated 3.3 to 5.9 times more cortical tissue than more peripheral ones , and conclude that the cortical representation of the most central retina is much greater than expected from the density of its ganglion cells . |
| 14 | The report , Indoor Pollution , concludes that the low quality of air in commercial buildings has led to " reduced health and efficiency for many people over long numbers of years ' , which may have had " greater economic impact than more life-threatening conditions " . |
| 15 | A move towards supporting business activities is likely to lead to more investment in favourable rather than more depressed economies , as the SDA attempts to assist ‘ winners ’ . |
| 16 | Similarly , the indiscriminate and thus unhelpful use of praise — rather than more judicious and exact feedback — may stem from a laudable concern that children should be encouraged and supported in their learning . |
| 17 | Linear , additive models are easier to work with than more complex mathematical models . |
| 18 | There was no evidence , however , that older material was necessarily in a greater state of disrepair than more modern publications . |
| 19 | Thus jobs which involve social interaction with other workers are generally more satisfying than socially isolated work ; monotonous , repetitive work is more likely to be linked with job dissatisfaction than more varied work ; jobs which involve responsibility and the ability to organize work time and work methods are generally preferred over those which lack these qualities , and so forth . |
| 20 | The tests can often be more effective than more expensive and time-consuming tests on mice and other animals . |
| 21 | Within families , the lower costs per unit length of streamer tails should mean that they have evolved to a greater maximum length than more expensive , graduated tails . |
| 22 | Increasingly , it is this type of study , rather than more expensive excavation , which is allowing new discoveries to be made at Pompeii . |
| 23 | The final type of classification is one that appears to be less rather than more relevant for the 1990s than previously . |
| 24 | For example , each model sees the amount of legitimacy conferred upon a dispute as influencing the way it is handled by the police ; and there is similar agreement that deep-seated ‘ ideological issues ’ are more commonly associated with disorder than more mundane ‘ material issues ’ . |
| 25 | Gordon Donaldson , Clwyd county secretary for the National Union of Teachers , said : ‘ The result of these cuts could be that more children will eat junk food , such as crisps and pop , rather than more nutritional hot meals . ’ |
| 26 | Why should more capital spending on hospitals make the National Health Service more ‘ productive ’ than more current spending on nurses ? |
| 27 | If , in a time of reduced employment opportunities , unemployed people rather than more traditional seasonal workers are filling a share of seasonal jobs , and if they develop a pattern of working in this fashion , they could be penalised by these regulations ( see Hansard , 4/2/87 ) . |
| 28 | There is evidence that general deterrence can be improved if potential offenders ' perceived likelihood of detection can be increased but little evidence that severer punishments deter any better than more lenient ones . |
| 29 | Gypsies and other travelling people retain an instinctive awareness of the significance of sites and the flow of subtle energies through the seasons in a far stronger form than more settled people . |
| 30 | The distribution of responsibilities between local , national , public and voluntary sectors has also become less rather than more clear , which reduces the possibilities of accountability . |