Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] than [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 31 | Typical is S. Botolph 's Church , Boston , in Lincolnshire , called colloquially the ‘ Boston Stump ’ because its top storey was added so much later than the rest of the church and for many years the tower had a decapitated appearance ( 476 ) . |
| 32 | By the late 1960s , the new social patterns , technologies and musical styles had been substantially assimilated into a reorganized music-industrial system : a transnational oligopoly of vast entertainment corporations , supplied to some extent by ‘ independent ’ producers ; serviced by mass audience radio and TV channels ( with some ‘ minority ’ shows and channels ) , by a symbiotically pliant music press and by related leisure-products businesses ; and directing itself at a series of separate audiences whose distinctness is less subcultural than a creature of market researchers ' consumer profiles . |
| 33 | Use a large landing net , somewhat larger than the size of fish you hope to catch . |
| 34 | Also I did n't have much money , and barn owls are much cheaper than a lot of birds of prey . |
| 35 | I 've always known you could be much better than the sort of parts you usually play . |
| 36 | Yeah oh yes he oh and he was erm being better educated than the majority of people in the Pleck he used to stand outside the Brown Lion to read the newspaper out to them cos they could n't read , and he attended all the weddings , all the funerals and er made the wills out and he almost was the father confessor for the Pleck , and when the old steam tram came off the lines down in the Pleck , when there was a steam train coming through there , he was the man who put it on the rails again . |
| 37 | It sounds an unsavoury task , but it is less unhealthy than the job of ‘ night soil ’ collectors who in many countries spend their nights emptying buckets . |
| 38 | In contrast with some of the other areas discussed , these are much less tax-driven than a matter of commercial advantage . |
| 39 | In a unique trial comparing a non-elemental tube fed diet with steroids , Lochs et al suggested that a peptide based diet was less effective than a combination of methylprednisolone and sulfasalazine in treating active Crohn 's disease . |
| 40 | and I was better qualified than a lot of guys in my class and yet they left college and got a job right away ! |
| 41 | But The Orb are much more than the sum of their parts . |
| 42 | Deep sleep appears to be a response to our life-style and reflects the amount of prior wakefulness much more than the time of day when sleep is taken . |
| 43 | In this milieu , academic achievement by girls was considered much less important than the development of the quality called ‘ character' , which meant the potential to become decent , responsible officers ' wives , pillars of whatever community into which their marriages would take them , pleasant to look at but not disruptively decorative . |
| 44 | After a study of academic enterprise in the US , Matthew Bullock of Barclays Bank , concludes that specific ‘ technology transfer mechanisms ’ are less important than the willingness of universities to allow their academics to work for industry ‘ on the side ’ . |
| 45 | The question of who can sue is less important than the question of who will sue . |
| 46 | In some areas the size of the shell is less important than the thickness of the shell . |
| 47 | The guidelines include a list of entry qualifications which for the most part are similar to those granting entry to the Council 's teacher-training courses for would-be school teachers ; in that respect , they do not accord with NATFHE 's belief that formal entry requirements are less important than the achievement of terminal standards . |
| 48 | But in a pragmatist society he would have to predict whether the judges would be likely to consider his case as one in which the virtues of predictability were less important than the substance of the law , and whether , if they thought substance more important , they would think a decision for him better or worse for the community . |
| 49 | The exact chronology is , however , less important than the recording of a definite Saxon tradition , the inauguration of a new political unit . |
| 50 | The fact that the public law applicant is usually challenging the exercise of a discretionary power does not mean that what is at stake for him or her is any less important than the sort of interests protected by private law . |
| 51 | However , the time of year is less important than the time of the shift . |
| 52 | The longstanding drift of people to the south is now less important than the movement of population out from the cities to surrounding smaller towns and to rural areas . |
| 53 | Given the common values of E and p in structural solids we find that the speed of sound in these substances is very high indeed : for steel , aluminium and glass it is about 11,000 miles an hour or 4,800 metres per second , which is much faster than the speed of sound in air . |
| 54 | Further evidence of rebuilding is inside , as the rear wall is of the timber framed brick infilled variety , clearly much older than the remainder of the mill , which mainly dates from the 19th century . |
| 55 | He 's really nice — much older than the rest of us . |
| 56 | The same applies to the general deterrent argument : its effectiveness depends on whether the penalty for murder affects the calculations of potential killers at all , and , if it does , whether life imprisonment is seen as significantly more or less severe than the alternative of a long , fixed-term sentence . |
| 57 | But Lij Yasu 's partiality for Islam was apparently more than a question of convenience . |
| 58 | Although it is less damaging than the removal of bulbs and plants , consistent seed snatching can still effectively wipe out a species from a locality . |
| 59 | The last part is definitely much weaker than the rest of the book . |
| 60 | ( It should be emphasized that these terms are just labels : quarks are much smaller than the wavelength of visible light and so do not have any color in the normal sense . |