Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This version is lighter than a traditional Christmas pudding but it has all the flavour . |
| 2 | Although smaller and lighter than the 7.62 Self Loading Rifles which we had used in the Territorial Army , its strength lay in its high velocity rounds and accuracy . |
| 3 | 9.6 volt cordless drills are generally lighter than the 12 volt types , making overhead work easy |
| 4 | Mike , who 'd gone greener than the minted melon balls provided for pudding , and Perdita , who was lighting one cigarette from another , could n't eat a thing . |
| 5 | For , to the romantic , the bird of paradise is much more exciting than the humble house sparrow . |
| 6 | Now , does n't that sound a whole lot more exciting than the next Prodigy video ? |
| 7 | Her fluency resulted in almost 100 books ; Flaubert 's entire output fits one volume no fatter than the average airport blockbuster . |
| 8 | Cleaner than the bloody Post Office anyway . |
| 9 | Trimmed down from a much nastier pilot to the duelling clowns schtick , Minder became even more popular than the true grit series like Out and Fox it originally sought to follow . |
| 10 | This puts him marginally below 6ft 3in George Bush and makes him appreciably shorter than the giant German Chancellor Helmut Kohl at 6ft 5in but otherwise he will walk tall on the world stage . |
| 11 | I use Glodex glazing plastic ( from DIY stores ) which is more rigid than a commercial condensation tray , and also does not discolour if used under a hood fitted with light bulbs . |
| 12 | CLO patients who did smoke started to smoke at a slightly later age , smoked for fewer years , and accumulated fewer pack years of smoking than the severe reflux oesophagitis group . |
| 13 | None was more famous or strange than the notorious Victory Arch ; and in his latest book , THE MONUMENT * , Samir al-Khalil weaves round the arch a fascinating and thoughtful study of totalitarianism and art . |
| 14 | LUXURY TOUCH : He ordered decorators to coat the walls with an expensive marble-effect finish — about three times dearer than the standard chip paper and emulsion he had chosen earlier . |
| 15 | In practice , says the review , ‘ such securities are more liquid than a fixed-period bank deposit with a maturity of less than three months , although the latter falls within the definition of cash equivalents ’ . |
| 16 | Generally speaking , it is less common for a woman to join a rural than an urban trade union and women who do participate are not so conscious of their exploitation at work and in the home . |
| 17 | Daphne recommends mustard-yellow S ‘ Crown of Rays ’ , shorter and less rampant than the weed-like S. canadensis , for house and garden . |
| 18 | If the system is so ‘ sophisticated ’ that outside organisations are handling our magazine and problems like the one in Autumn occur why bother with that system ? why not go back to good old postage stamps ? … the reason is because we commenced distribution by Royal Mail 's ‘ Presstream ’ at the beginning of 1992 which involves the sender sorting all its UK mail into postcode order , the benefit being considerable savings from two discounts , firstly the Presstream pricing is lower than the standard postage rate and secondly an extra discount is earned because we have done the sorting instead of Royal Mail . |
| 19 | Does not the fact that our inflation rate is lower than the European Community average offer a real opportunity to British industry to improve its competitiveness ? |
| 20 | The early mortality for elected admissions was point four percent and this was found to be significantly lower than the early mortality rate for emergency admissions which was two point four percent , some six times higher . |
| 21 | This means that short-term interest rates on loans due to mature in a year tend to be generally lower than the long-term interest rate on loans of longer maturity . |
| 22 | This protection is paid for by chargepayers in areas which would otherwise have charges lower than the average rate bill per adult . |
| 23 | If investors assume that the expected level of demand will be lower than the so-called equilibrium position ( the position that yields what economists term ‘ warranted growth ’ ) then the level of savings in the economy will exceed investment , and therefore demand will be lower than expected . |
| 24 | Gross domestic product ( GDP ) growth rate in 1989 was estimated at just over 10 per cent , slightly lower than the 1988 growth rate of 11 per cent . |
| 25 | McLaughlin 's ( 1991 ) study showed clearly that the personal incomes of ex-carers were around £40 lower than the 1988 Family Expenditure Survey ( FES ) per capita average , while the incomes of two-adult households containing an ex-carer were £144 a week lower than their FES counterparts . |
| 26 | The net redemption yield is lower than the gross redemption yield . |
| 27 | This stimulation is nevertheless much lower than the 50 fold activity observed in the deletion analyses shown in figure 1 . |
| 28 | In computing values for cumulative distributions it is normal to consider values in terms of the percentage coarser than a given grain size . |
| 29 | There are few more striking than the slim sergeant major with the dark eyes , pronounced eyebrows and nose , and dark hair rolled at the nape of her neck . |
| 30 | The Reverend is no more dated than the stereotypical class snob Colonel Mustard or the proverbial scarlet woman , Miss Scarlet . |