Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the far south we have Kappa Pavonis in the Peacock , which is what is termed a ‘ Type II Cepheid ’ , rather less powerful than a classical Cepheid with the same period . |
| 2 | During the seventies , Lord Hailsham dismissed the place as ‘ arguably less persuasive than a powerful leading article in The Times , or even a good edition of Panorama . ’ |
| 3 | Quota sampling is obviously less costly than a simple random sample partly because no sampling frame is needed and no call-backs to unlocated sample members are involved . |
| 4 | But an adverse ruling from a private body is much less daunting and much less publicised than a heavy award of damages by judge or jury . |
| 5 | However , their benefits are much less tangible than a physical product in that they can not be stored or displayed and satisfaction is achieved through activities ( e.g. transportation from one place to another rather than say a seat on a train ) . |
| 6 | In 1939 nearly everyone had a direct or indirect memory of mass warfare and mindless patriotism was much less important than a conscious commitment to the idea that aggressive fascism could not be stopped by any method short of war . |
| 7 | MV Yes , but that will still be so much better than a so-called communist or socialist society , and I do n't think people here have too many illusions about capitalism . |
| 8 | What is perhaps more common than a share-for-share exchange is for part of the consideration to consist of debentures issued by Newco to vendor shareholders . |
| 9 | The relationships described here are much more complex than a simple retrospective stereotype . |
| 10 | The wattage of the tool makes it much more versatile than a basic heat gun , and a range of uses are possible — from warming plastics for bending , to soft soldering of metal pipe connections . |
| 11 | There could even be occasions then extended coverage in a large number of regional and provincial newspapers is much more useful than a short piece in The Times . |
| 12 | The row of deutzia grown as a snowy hedge in rough grass is much more effective than a single bush . |
| 13 | This alloy is naturally silvery in colour and is much more hard-wearing than a thin layer of tinning , but it requires a high degree of skill to control the casting conditions . |
| 14 | It will give us that much longer to get to know one another and it will be much more interesting than a 12-hour flight . ’ |
| 15 | Recognising that the NHS is much more fragmented than a large company , it would be highly desirable to bring human resource professionals and senior managers together across London to think through how to share best practice and learn from one another as the changes unfold . |
| 16 | Moreover , his ‘ faith ’ might entail something much more profound than a mere conviction of Cortés 's divinity . |
| 17 | The problem with such a misrepresentation was much more significant than a mere historical mistake . |
| 18 | The new Tory ministry under Harley may have been successful in changing the previous Whig majority in Parliament into a Tory one in the General Election of 1710 ; but the furore unleashed by the Sacheverell affair meant that a Parliament dominated by High Tories was returned , which was much more extreme than a moderate like Harley would have wished . |
| 19 | Only 1,860cc , it produces — on a good day — all of 38 hp , swings a prop only marginally bigger than a self-important toothpick , and makes the most incredible racket whilst it 's running . |
| 20 | Then there is the fishing cat Felis viverrina , meaning the ferret-like cat , which frequents swampy ground , has slightly webbed feet and can , as its name suggests , hook fish out of shallow water with its claws ; the flat-headed cat , Felis plamiceps , of Malaya , Borneo and Sumatra which preys on frogs , fish and small birds and the marbled cat , Felis marmorata , which lives in Sumatra and Borneo and is only slightly larger than a domestic cat . |
| 21 | The AP1-88 is only as noisy as a major road at a distance of 100 m to 200 m , and at I km is no noisier than a quiet residential area . |
| 22 | Telemine is only as large as a conventional torpedo — of which two British versions were sufficient to sink the Argentinian cruiser General Belgrano with the loss of more than 300 lives during the Falklands war last summer . |
| 23 | It is thought to have been built by the Earls of Ross in about 1590 and a new wing , including a brewhouse and bakery , added in 1623 . |
| 24 | And , to descend to crude practicalities , you are going to get very much less money for what you have done , though it is only fair to add that if you are lucky and clever enough to create a story that catches editors ' fancies then it can be anthologised time and again and in the end bring in perhaps as much as a full-length book that has failed to get wide paperback sales . |
| 25 | The sound of his low mocking laughter followed her as she took the stairs two at a time , desperate to be away from his gaze , all too aware that a scarlet flush had enveloped her entire body — aware too that the heat he had generated in her had n't only been embarrassment . |
| 26 | In the earliest versions , which date from 1959 — 60 , Gironella turns her into a sort of rag doll ; perhaps never more than a well-dressed shell , she is now simply a collage of fragments of coarse , torn cloth that appear to be pasted down with thick smears of paint ( Fig. 5 ) . |
| 27 | Although the wool producers seem to have borne part of the tax costs , the substantial increase in cloth production during the war is most easily explicable if a large part of the wool tax was passed on by the exporters to the foreign buyers , while the English cloth manufacturers were able to undercut their Continental rivals ( 88 , pp.39–40 ) . |
| 28 | Breeds develop according to local needs and fashions , so that it is not necessarily true that a large , red , short-horned breed in one area has a common ancestry with a similarly large red in another , any more than it is correct to assume a blood link between the black-eared , white-coated White Park and the similarly coloured but polled British White , or between the Gloucester and the Pinzgauer of Austria because their coat patterns are similar . |
| 29 | But constraints usually involve power over only one or a narrow range of corporate activities , so that they amount to partial control rather than control over the entire spectrum of major decisions ’ . |
| 30 | It was not much bigger than a good-sized clothes cupboard and there was one small window in the back wall with a sink under the window , but there were no taps over the sink . |