Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] than the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bland said that the cost of the borrowings was much lower than the cost of the group 's equity , which he estimated at 20 per cent per annum . |
| 2 | The actual sound ambience of this recording is less dry than the sort of sound that Philips is prepared to settle for in the same hall , and it is refreshing to hear Nicholas McGegan 's fine cast of soloists use the hall 's natural resonance to give the distinct impression that they are enjoying themselves and confirming , to one listener at least , that an important part of enjoying oneself is showing off . |
| 3 | For example , a child with language which is less advanced than the language of other children of that age would be regarded as having delayed language ; in contrast , children whose language stands out because it is deficient when compared with the way in which they perform on other social and intellectual tasks may be regarded as having a language deficit . |
| 4 | You might think that you could hardly have anything much simpler than the idea of zero or unity , or even perhaps the notion of number , erm sorry , but what , zero or unity , what Peano was proposing to do was to define these basic arithmetical ideas in terms of ideas simpler still . |
| 5 | The point , which I find persuasive , is that an appeal court which will be less full-time than the Court of Justice will be less imbued with the centralist perspective , and thus in a better position to maintain an objectivity as between the interests of the EEC and those of the nation state . |
| 6 | This is much less subtle than the characterization of strategy given in Bourdieu 's Outline of a Theory of Practice , and is consistent with a simplification of the concept of the object . |
| 7 | However , one must weigh this potential change in content and focus against the benefits of rendering a smooth , natural translation in contexts where the use of the passive for instance would be stylistically less acceptable than the use of the active or an alternative structure in the target language . |
| 8 | In Fig. 4.2 , for example , the three-phase currents are quickly established at the maximum value because the phase winding time constants ( 1 ins ) are much shorter than the period of each excitation ( 20 ms at a speed of 50 steps per second ) . |
| 9 | The concept of an acquired disorder of cognition is , of course , much broader than the concept of an acquired disorder of language , but the latter concept is still extremely general ; and neurologists in the second half of the nineteenth century made it more specific in a variety of ways . |
| 10 | And hope is less clear than the dew of the morn |
| 11 | The shock to the patient was regarded as less grave than the risk of being precipitated unprepared into the next world . |
| 12 | Many married women whose husbands sign on for the family find themselves forced to seek work in the black economy in order to make ends meet ; this is often seen as less risky than the possibility of their husbands being caught . |
| 13 | Thoughts of the bills returning to Gomez 's alligator-skin billfold were unpleasant , but less unpleasant than the thought of being shot in the head . |
| 14 | Black , by this time at the laboratories of Smith , Kline , and French , led a team which achieved results no less interesting than the discovery of beta-blockers , and of equal practical importance . |
| 15 | The truth is that they 're so often used as fast turnover test beds for review equipment , and new fishkeeping ideas , that they are probably less interesting than the majority of our readers ' tanks . |
| 16 | Scientific discovery and the disillusionment of the twentieth century made the future look less interesting than the nature of time itself . |
| 17 | However , the example of private education demonstrates that absence of single-peakedness is far from pathological , and once we move to two dimensions the corresponding conditions are extremely restrictive : they are ‘ probably not significantly less restrictive than the condition of complete unanimity ’ ( Kramer , 1973 , p. 296 ) . |
| 18 | The travels of Sir Charles Grandison are censured by his Harriet with the remark that the sight of ruins on the Tour , which most gentlemen ( including himself ) then made of Europe , is actually less instructive than the knowledge of them to be gained from books . |
| 19 | In good old Blighty , however , we knew a big story when we saw one , and they do n't get much bigger than the size of the Universe . |
| 20 | Put this at the bottom of a deep casserole , which must not be much bigger than the piece of meat , which you should then put in with the calf 's foot on top . |
| 21 | All the same , watching the thin , lemon beam of sun catch across the postman 's bicycle bars , she let herself think it unfair that her dear friend , Faith Lavender , should have died so suddenly and so much younger than the husk of a woman left in the next room . |
| 22 | Firstly , their income is less likely than the rest of the population to come from earnings from employment ; and more likely to be derived from pensions from the state or from past employers or from savings . |
| 23 | There was a real bond of friendship and understanding between many of the great churchmen of this age and leading warriors ; it would be a nice point to decide whether the happiness of St Margaret 's marriage to King Malcolm of Scotland ( see p. 210 ) was more or less remarkable than the depth of St Anselm 's friendship with Hugh of Avranches , the first earl of Chester , the savage hammer of the Welsh . |
| 24 | The displacement looked to be of considerable extent , much larger than the chunk of 2020 which had brought me to 1816 , or the chunk of some mysterious medieval land which had arrived earlier on my front doorstep . |
| 25 | Since the wavelength of light is much larger than the size of an atom , we can not hope to " look " at the parts of an atom in the ordinary way . |
| 26 | Rory supposed it was the same thoughtlessness that had made dad and mum have him so much later than the rest of their children . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | Use a large landing net , somewhat larger than the size of fish you hope to catch . |
| 29 | I 've always known you could be much better than the sort of parts you usually play . |
| 30 | 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 . |