Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] than a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A mild recession may cause far more economic damage than a one-day stockmarket fall of , say , 25% , but it is much less unsettling . |
| 2 | Beggars ca n't be choosers : better to depend even on dubious private money than a criminal state |
| 3 | I suspect because Cecil , unlike David Mellor , worked out early on that appearing vulnerable was a far better ace card than a contrived display of clever-clogs defiance . |
| 4 | In practice , you will seldom find it easy to show that you have suffered in that way and , in particular , you are not entitled to compensation to reflect the emotional distress than an unjust dismissal may well cause both you and your family . |
| 5 | The latter is less a cultural capital of scientific competences than a symbolic capital , based on the prestige of the university one went to , the graduate school , one 's references , one 's membership on prestigious editorial boards , grant committees , and institutes . |
| 6 | Intended as a place where DEA and CIA agents could meet unobserved with informants and clients , as a message drop for CIA arms dealers supplying Iraq and the Afghan rebels , as a waiting room for DEA CIs and couriers from Lebanon , and as a transit point , not just for heroin , but for cash , documents and bootleg computer software moving to and fro along the Beirut — Nicosia — US pipeline , Eurame , as run by El-Jorr , was more like a low-life social club than a secret intelligence centre . |
| 7 | One wall was taken up by a great open fireplace , more suggestive of a baronial hall than a Georgian living-room . |
| 8 | The broader phonetic representation used in the RM1 front-end will produce more homophones and homophonic phrases than a fine-class representation . |
| 9 | The boom has less to do with an ageing population than a growing interest from collectors and American tourists . |
| 10 | Put another way , that means lower salaries for members a proposal more redolent of second-class citizenship than a classless society . |
| 11 | following a review by the county surveyor we suggest further things which are automatic consultation with local members and indeed this process of public consultation be brought forward to the beginning of the whole procedure of traffic managing reviews , now that , that sort of consultation will be more in the nature of a public meeting than a semi-formal enquiry , but we recommend to you that we use the same sort of terminology so that the public appreciates that they are genuinely being consulted by the County Council , now if we find that there are very contentious proposals after an order has been published , er a C C H , a County Consultant of Hearing may still be held if as members you feel that 's something you want to do , because the objective of , of this whole concept of County Consultant of Hearings is to have er flexible arrangements so that the County Council can demonstrate its commitment with consultations at a local level to demonstrate that , that members in particular are hearing what local people er say and to set up procedures within the organization to give members , particularly local members more involvement in the traffic management review process , those are the recommendations Chairman which involve in the paper . |
| 12 | Detroit , which remains on the calendar , often seems much more a social event than a real race . |
| 13 | Finally , there also seemed to be some evidence than an internal bias towards helplessness ( similar to Seligman 's concept ) was implicated at some stage , in making PMP more likely or leading to poor coping responses . |
| 14 | No disrespect to Philip Young , the conductor , or to any of the performers , but I have to agree with the member of the audience sitting behind me who commented that it seemed more of a damp squib than a big band ! |
| 15 | If he does not , you may even wish to suggest one of them yourself , in circumstances where it seems a lesser evil than a final warning or dismissal . |
| 16 | An advantage of this technique is that the teacher can decide while using the program what level of exercises to generate — the computer program offers a great deal more flexibility in this respect than an ordinary textbook . |
| 17 | Looking more like a bewildered Old English sheepdog than a thwarted child-molester , he throws himself around the place , lying on his back and waggling his feet in the air , as if by an excess of physical effort he could make up for the thinness of the script . |
| 18 | In our latest tractor assessment , we look at the Antares 130 , a tractor with more electronic features than a Royal Navy battleship . |
| 19 | Since the resurgence of the women 's movement in the early 1970s and its subsequent development into feminism ( less an activist social movement than a political body of thought and cultural practices ) , film , as Annette Kuhn and others have pointed out , has been high on the agenda of women working for social change . |
| 20 | The M1 through Buckinghamshire , The M4 and M40 were all easier going than a normal weekday . |
| 21 | Whether gossip , bickering and family feuds were or were not a more prevalent feature than a wholesome communion of the population could vary from village to village and is ultimately a matter of subjective judgement . |
| 22 | ‘ A wolf can travel faster in this country than a mounted man — and more silently , too . |
| 23 | The 1977–81 material is thought to be essentially complete , except for the exclusion of 12% who had a previous history of malignancy or had undergone gastric surgery or who were given the drug for another diagnosis than a peptic ulcer related disease . |
| 24 | This seems to indicate that the college considers that a subspecialist trainee can acquire general skills in a shorter time than an academic trainee . |
| 25 | For him , as for Neruda and others , Communism was less a political philosophy than a metaphysical need . |
| 26 | Thus Kohlberg 's theory seems more a political manifesto than a scientific statement . |
| 27 | Terry and Tom argued as well , and there often seemed to be far more serious undercurrents than a simple difference of opinion . |
| 28 | A rocky shore almost certainly provides a clearer echo than a sandy slope or mud flat . |
| 29 | What were once thought of as " mere " political " forms " are now recognized to be of far greater potential and actual importance than an exclusive concentration on economic and social power might suggest . |
| 30 | It 'll be a bigger bone than a bigger bone than ever the poll tax was . |