Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their model , though vastly simpler than the real atmosphere , mimics some of its important properties . |
| 2 | All pipes connections are concealed within the length to give a neat appearance , and the surface temperature is much lower than the average radiator , so it is safe to touch and needs no bulky enclosures . |
| 3 | This stimulation is nevertheless much lower than the 50 fold activity observed in the deletion analyses shown in figure 1 . |
| 4 | Above all , it is far less retiring than the European race and often approaches human settlements in search of the rodents that are plentiful there . |
| 5 | And the diagram is much simpler than the real neocortex , which contains 10,000 cells where only 25 are shown here . |
| 6 | At breakfast time the general atmosphere among the residents was still subdued , but much less strained than the previous evening . |
| 7 | Daphne recommends mustard-yellow S ‘ Crown of Rays ’ , shorter and less rampant than the weed-like S. canadensis , for house and garden . |
| 8 | Are the differences between yoked and quiet control the result of learning or of stress — and is the learning group perhaps less stressed than the yoked group ? |
| 9 | But the point remains : Mrs Thatcher was a lot less Arabist than the Foreign Office . |
| 10 | An absolute prohibition against assignment is less popular than a qualified prohibition which requires a landlord not to withhold consent unreasonably . |
| 11 | Disenfranchisement would mean upheavals for staff , start-up costs and teething troubles for the new contractor , and a danger that the service would indeed turn out to be demonstrably less popular than the old contractor 's or different from what was promised . |
| 12 | The mediocre is less acceptable than the down-right bad because it sometimes masquerades as something worth while . |
| 13 | The shop at fault was clearly shown on the chart as its horizontal line was much shorter than the similar line above it showing the progress of earlier operations in its manufacture , and as soon as the supply reverted to normal again , the red flag was removed . |
| 14 | The unspoken and unacceptable reality is that when I do decide to have a baby , my bosses will regard me as less promotable than a childless woman or a man . ’ |
| 15 | Examination of what is entailed and what is expected have produced ambivalent conclusions , less clear than the raw conviction that training is a good thing : but overall the evidence is favourable . |
| 16 | However , the False Cross is not only fainter than the Southern Cross , but is also larger . |
| 17 | the slightly foreshortened cockpit is a little less sumptuous than the newly-furnished cabin . |
| 18 | In this way a risk index was formed showing whether the division was relatively more or less risky than the corporate group as a whole , and the group CAPM-based yield was modified on a divisional basis . |
| 19 | Some items were also tried out with Imperial units and these were often much easier than the same question with metric units . |
| 20 | SPAR 's behaviour seems better if two conditions apply : that the reasoner is known to be less reliable than the linguistic part of the system , as it might be if the texts processed describe a relatively open domain ; and that , as for example , in a machine translation task , no further non-linguistic processing will be carried out on the reading accepted . |
| 21 | make the council tax far fairer than the old rates , certainly fairer than the poll tax , and much fairer than the Labour party 's proposals . |
| 22 | The insertion of the needle is less painful than the hypodermic counterpart , but may cause an animal to arch his back or tighten his muscles . |
| 23 | A more obvious underlying meaning , pointed out by the programme notes , is to see the ‘ round-dance ’ as a metaphor for the transmission of VD or , more topically , AIDS ; but this seems to me less interesting than the social satire whose delicate emotional nuances ( preserved in co-director Ceri Sherlock 's modernised adaptation ) give the play its wider significance and melancholy humour . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It was less demanding than the similar education given to Elizabeth or Lady Jane Grey , and Mary was undoubtedly of far less intellectual a cast of mind . |
| 26 | Clearly the replacement needs to be something desirable and/or less harmful than the original habit you are seeking to break . |
| 27 | Polymers do not form perfectly elastic solids , as a limited amount of bond rotation can occur in the glass which allows slight plastic deformation ; this makes them somewhat tougher than an inorganic glass . |
| 28 | However , it is worth noting that unstressed syllables containing , , or a syllabic consonant will sound less prominent than an unstressed syllable containing some other vowel . |
| 29 | Their only problem is that they do not convey the feeling and atmosphere of a site and often appear less authentic than a skilful reconstruction drawing . |
| 30 | The latest find is of white asbestos , less dangerous than the blue variety , provided it is not disturbed . |