Example sentences of "[adj] or [adv] [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The third sub-type of academic course is less easy to describe , but it is broader or more general than the two-subject degree . |
| 2 | Instead of being as high or even higher than the overall rate of self-employment , the rate of self-employment amongst temporary workers is only half that for all workers . |
| 3 | No scene , perhaps , in The Lord of the Rings is more moving or more suggestive than the one in which Sam and Frodo , in Mordor , see the wind changing and the darkness driven back , and then as if in answer to prayer come upon a trickle of water : ‘ ill-fated ’ and ‘ fruitless ’ in appearance , but at that moment seemingly a message from the world outside , beyond the Shadow . |
| 4 | It must be appreciated that , although the population of the world is about a million times larger than the population of a large village , the model needed to make a reasonable study of some major world trends and problems is not necessarily much larger or more complex than the village model . |
| 5 | Talkative , gregarious and insensitive , he attached himself as if by magnetic force to any group larger or more important than the one he was actually in . |
| 6 | Well I do n't like it very much but it has this very interesting discussion as to whether a fax was cheaper or more expensive than the telephone |
| 7 | Back in the good old days , you could manage your practice with nothing more complicated or technologically advanced than a pen , paper and adding machine , with a manual typewriter thrown in for the real forward thinkers . |
| 8 | According to the relative specialisation models , both hemispheres can perform a given function but one is faster or more efficient than the other . |
| 9 | A group is more enduring and supportive than two people interacting socially but is looser or less structured than an organization . |
| 10 | There is no particular reason ( or at least none in anything that we have discussed so far ) to expect either side in the arms race to become steadily more successful or less successful than the other . |
| 11 | Of all the treatments for obesity , none could be more physiological or less psychological than the operation known as jejeunoileostomy or ileal bypass , in which most of the small intestine is short circuited thus greatly reducing the amount of intestine available for absorbing food . |