Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] than the [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the infiltration of the local anaesthetic , when the patient will feel a prick in the back , less painful than the anaesthetic for dental work , all that is felt is a pressure on the lower spine with occasionally a faint ‘ tingle ’ in one leg which simply signifies that the needle is in the right place . |
| 2 | In Switzerland the limitation period is five years , i.e. is neither more nor less favourable than the average for a dispossessed owner . |
| 3 | Many hundreds of cousins , the majority of the proliferation that linked the Fairleys to the other great families of England , the Pagets , the Cavendishes , the Churchills , the Devonshires , and the Spencers , did not choose lives predicated totally on loyalty to the ruling house ; those who did entered a circle in which birth and wealth were of some consequence but far less important than the taste for maintaining the moral code of the élite in all its ramifications . |
| 4 | Unemployment on the estates themselves is much higher than the average for the surrounding areas . |
| 5 | All that said , the case for taking him was still not all that much stronger than the case for leaving him out . |
| 6 | It is not obvious what counts as ‘ simple ’ , ‘ complex ’ and ‘ precise ’ ; indeed , the example for Level 3 is less precise than the example for Level 2 . |
| 7 | As a result , my telephone and fax bill is much greater than the bill for board and lodging . |
| 8 | Neglecting the input current of the operational amplifier in the circuit of figure 10.11(b) compared with the current through resistance R This time , if and for the sinusoidal component of highest frequency present in the equation reduces to Clearly the circuit of figure 10.1 l(b) acts as a differentiator when , which condition is much more easily satisfied than the condition for the corresponding passive circuit of figure 4.11(a) to act as a differentiator . |
| 9 | Discussion in the Yachting World office has taken some interesting turns lately , none more interesting than the campaign for the single black box , or the all-things-in-one instrument . |
| 10 | By a majority of 56 per cent to 22 per cent , citizens found television more useful than the press for providing issue-information ( a further 22 per cent found them equally useful ) . |
| 11 | By a smaller majority of 48 per cent to 30 per cent , they found tele-Vision more useful than the press for providing information about party leaders ( with 22 per cent , once again , rating the two sources equally useful ) . |
| 12 | This result could have been spelled out more clearly in the statutes but it seems to me to follow from the provisions of the statutes as they stand and , contrary to the argument of Mr. Page , to be no more curious than the alternative for which he contends . |
| 13 | The demand for narrow money M0 or M1 is likely to be more elastic than the demand for broad money M3 , M4 or M5 . |
| 14 | But with respect to foreign economic policy ( excluding the issues of our membership of the European Economic Community ) and stabilisation policy the evidence for continuity is rather more plain than the evidence for discontinuity . |
| 15 | The search for general information is more difficult than the search for specific information because all directions are relevant . |
| 16 | Easton 's district is more prosperous than the norm for these two council districts , with an overall unemployment rate in 1981 of 9.2 per cent , compared with 19.5 per cent for the two district council areas . |
| 17 | In other words , managers ' salaries have to be made incentive-compatible , so that the penalty for sending a false ‘ good ’ signal is always greater than the penalty for sending a true ‘ bad ’ signal . |
| 18 | Hence , the investor might conclude that Commercial Union was slightly more volatile than comparable firms and earned slightly less than the average for the sector . |
| 19 | There was an unspoken religious respect for another man 's possessions far stronger than the respect for property in normal society and correspondingly more unpleasant . |
| 20 | Economic indicators show that Cheshire claims to be one of the richest counties in the North of England , with hourly earnings considerably higher than the average for England as a whole . |
| 21 | According to the Labour Force Survey , the proportion of agency workers working on a temporary basis because they do not want permanent jobs is considerably higher than the average for all temporary workers and that the proportion of agency secretarial/office workers doing so is still higher ( see Table 5.1 ) . |