Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] than [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These two reasons — the public sector 's ability to spread risk more thinly and the lower after-tax interest rate relevant to resources displaced from private consumption — justify the use of a public sector discount rate that is a little lower than the interest rate inclusive of tax and risk at which private firms must borrow . |
| 2 | Mr Bryan Gould is generally rated less European than the Shadow Chancellor , Mr John Smith ; and Mr Gerald Kaufman , the Shadow Foreign Secretary , has swung round from gut anti-Europeanism to a conviction that powerful central institutions are unavoidable — and Britain should play its full part . |
| 3 | It covers such a wide variety of conditions that it is less specific than a weather forecast . |
| 4 | In our patients stone recurrence was 5.7% at one year which is somewhat lower than the recurrence rate observed by the Munich group : 11% at one year and 15% at two years . |
| 5 | Practice is , of course , even less representative than the law reports , but it does have the advantage of providing examples of the use of expert determination where there were no recorded disputes . |
| 6 | The process is very much quicker than the consensus approach . |
| 7 | Contrary to our knowledge today , this last was considered to be less civilized than the bronze age that preceded it . |
| 8 | Of course the Amsterdam incident was less grave than the Heysel disaster , which cost 39 lives and caused all English clubs to be suspended indefinitely . |
| 9 | It is unexplained why the radiometer readings in Bands 6 and 7 are lower in the second series , when the illumination is greater , but this was taken as grist to the mill of the idea that the radiometer method would probably be less reliable than the imaging method . |
| 10 | Starting in 1982 , an Autumn Statement has been made , but it is less detailed than the Procedure Committee had intended . |
| 11 | The degree of suffering involved varies according to the temperament of the individual ; but it is bound to be no less tormenting than the hair shirt of the penitent . |
| 12 | For instance , the end part of the diphthong /ai/ is less prominent than the beginning part . |
| 13 | These claims are less vague than the logic claim , because a question or a speaking turn is easy enough to identify with precision . |
| 14 | Sizes range enormously from a towed compressor to a portable unit not much taller than a litre bottle with the former capable of delivering 3000 psi from a 3 phase supply . |
| 15 | I mean th there 's one little phrase that I picked out of Good which o regarding the , the pension regulator and he actually used the word that he envisages the pension regulator and I now quote will be less pro-active than the F S A regulators . |
| 16 | Being less official than the Review Panel and the Institute 's Practice Regulation Directorate , it was better able , in a firm but cooperative style as an Institute committee and speaking member to member , quietly to ‘ promote ’ and ‘ encourage ’ the adoption of the highest technical standards . |
| 17 | A characteristic two pages of the text are given to Corot 's landscapes , five pictures being cited , though the reader is less fortunate than the lecture audience , as only two are illustrated . |
| 18 | Women referred by GPs were more neurotic and less psychotic than the comparison groups , and had more social problems . |
| 19 | A sphere of hard solid rubber not much bigger than a golf ball and jammed like a cork in the pharynx , effectively blocking the trachea , I scrabbled feverishly at the wet smoothness but there was nothing to get bold of . |
| 20 | Intel 80486DX 33MHz , 200Mb hard disk , and 4Mb of RAM in a package not much bigger than an 750g corn flake packet . |
| 21 | The BTU tax also has the advantage of being less unpopular than a petrol tax , partly because it is almost impossible to understand . |
| 22 | She was much younger than the serving women and her aura was rather more severe . |
| 23 | And with the meditations , less perishable than a willow leaf , |
| 24 | Buyers are much less likely than the sector average to buy a Clio because they ‘ always buy the same ’ . |
| 25 | Berni Miller , chief executive of the Farm Holiday Bureau , says she finds the report encouraging and feels that it broadly reflects the way the industry round the country is moving at the moment , although business in other regions is less seasonal than the West Country . |
| 26 | It is less stringent than the spin selection rule , partly because the mechanisms for getting round it are more effective . |
| 27 | Once the adult is much larger than a sperm cell , it pays some individuals to produce a small number of large gametes , rather than a large number of small ones , because a large gamete ( after fusing with a small one ) has a much better chance of surviving to become an adult . |
| 28 | It 's not really much larger than a Piper Malibu , but it has that long pointed nose extending forever forward from a rakish windscreen , ending in the quadruple petals of that mean-looking prop , and that makes a difference . |
| 29 | Furthermore , the common dispersal agents of tropical seeds are much larger than the pollination agents : few of them complete a life-cycle that would be compatible with the short flower-to-fruiting cycles of plants , more suited in this respect to close associations with insects , as in pollination . |
| 30 | Recently we have been working on other corpora , including a 26-million word corpus , much larger than the LOB Corpus , but more restricted , in that it consists of newspaper reports . |