Example sentences of "[adj] than [det] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOLLOWING an elderly taxi in London or heavy truck up a country hill , both spewing clouds of acrid smoke , makes it hard to believe that diesel exhausts can be no more harmful than those from a petrol engine that has been fitted with a three-way catalytic converter . |
| 2 | Furthermore there were furniture firms short of work and again the development time for a wooden aeroplane has always been much shorter than that for a metal one . |
| 3 | The mourning observed for Jacob was only two days shorter than that for a pharaoh . |
| 4 | Those making a decision need also to have in mind that , whilst an electronic instrument requires no tuning and very little maintenance , its life expectancy is at present shorter than that of a pipe organ . |
| 5 | Instead , as we go deeper and deeper the gaseous hydrogen gradually gets denser and denser until imperceptibly , and at pressures considerably in excess of those in Figure 9.9 , it acquires a density more characteristic of a liquid than that of a gas . |
| 6 | Phage φ29 has a linear genome whose degree of supercoiling in the cell is not known , but it is probably lower than that of a plasmid . |
| 7 | Accordingly , the policy of dismissing a woman employee solely because she had attained the qualifying age for a state pension which was lower than that for a man constituted discrimination contrary to the Council Directive . |
| 8 | The amounts required for clothing and housing were also set lower than those of a person of working age . |
| 9 | The relationship display in a thesaurus is often more extensive than that in a subject headings list . |
| 10 | She 's beautiful and cute and brighter than most for a five-year-old . ’ |
| 11 | Whilst sailing in surf you should always keep an eye out for these sets since if you do n't you may suddenly find yourself amongst the larger waves whose ‘ rinse cycles ’ are considerably more vigorous than that of a washing machine . |
| 12 | Now they would pay no more than that on a meal for two . ’ |
| 13 | Sometimes there is more than that to a lynching , as the work of Lino Jose Durrewald showed . |
| 14 | A report has recommended that logging in the ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest region of the USA be cut by more than half as a means of sustaining them in the long term and protecting their wildlife [ see EDs passim ] . |
| 15 | Inside the cabin , the Golf is now looking fairly outdated but the instruments are still easy to use and effective , four adults can be carried in reasonable comfort and the huge boot will swallow more than enough for a weekend away . |
| 16 | Appalled by the Flight 103 disaster , perhaps more than most as a result of his recent experiences , but still entirely unaware of any possible connection between his Cyprus assignment and the bombing , Coleman appeared with Tom Brokaw on NBC 's ‘ Nightly News ’ without realizing that , inactive or not , he was still expected to clear such engagements first with the DIA . |
| 17 | It is a category , as we have seen , which encompasses a range of disabilities from Down 's syndrome ( whose victims may even learn to read or write ) to microcephaly ( where the manifestations of life are no more than those of a vegetable ) and these differences are usually of account . |
| 18 | He was in good shape and in good heart , and although it was known that he did not run up to his best at Cheltenham , the conditions would suit him much more than those of a year ago and few opposed him . |
| 19 | THE two bosses who cut their own pay to less than that of a trainee to preserve jobs set a fine example in these tough times . |
| 20 | Therefore , it is quite possible that the actual amount of stamp duty paid may be considerably less than that on a share sale . |
| 21 | Otters gather a certain amount , but an otter holt is usually a natural hole between rocks or roots , and much smaller than that of a badger . |
| 22 | I have to confess at this point that my own sensitivity to psychic phenomena is scarcely higher than that of a slab of concrete . |
| 23 | The charge is likely to be higher than that for a parishioner . |
| 24 | And realised for the first time that my lot as a walker was far safer than that of a cyclist . |
| 25 | This characteristic is quite general and holds for geodesics in spaces that are less symmetric than that of a sphere , and in spaces of hi–her dimension . |
| 26 | But if a wife 's allegation of rape is true , her motive for bringing it is no more relevant than that of a householder who notifies the police about a burglary merely in order to recover insurance . |
| 27 | And the venom of the notorious black widow spider , far more potent than that of a rattlesnake , is now being utilised to treat disabling diseases of the nervous and muscular systems . |
| 28 | As for commercial reactions , they can be judged by the fact that the capital cost of a first FBR is estimated by the British nuclear industry at between 20 and 30 per cent greater than that of a PWR , and generating costs 20 per cent more . |
| 29 | Before the king 's court , she , her husband and her mother , Adelizia , maintained that the claim of a daughter was greater than that of a nephew . |
| 30 | It is difficult to account for so large a change in terms of a decrease in effective moment of inertia due to a change in the shape of the crust of the star , because for a rotation rate of 30Hz the equilibrium ellipsoid has a moment of inertia only 10 -4 greater than that of a sphere . |