Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun sg] than the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where it 's two males , male applicant and a male interviewer , and the prospective employee has a less prestigious accent than the interviewer , so it 's quite likely that the prospective employee would shift his accent towards a more that of the employer , due to his relative need of approval so much more than vice versa . |
| 2 | While the film was a less personal project than The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ) or A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ) , or even the subsequent The Red Shoes , the intensity of Powell 's personal relationships with both Kerr and Byron ( not at the same time ) communicates itself to the film , and its hothouse atmosphere loses nothing by the lack of wide open spaces . |
| 3 | This places the solicitor in a less favourable position than the businessman who possesses greater opportunities to exploit a commercial relationship , possibly to the detriment of the other party . |
| 4 | The body of the Commission 's report , which was written by recently recruited geographer Dr John Innes , took a less bullish line than the press release . |
| 5 | Sutton , to the alarm of Pilger and Hayling , had lined up John Hetherington of the Daily Star , a scarcely less provocative choice than the Sun . |
| 6 | The rectum has a less robust lining than the vagina and is more easily damaged . |
| 7 | Time for a bit of a news breather now and what better temporary diversion than the weather . |
| 8 | ( a ) Contents of the Register The Central Land Charges Register , like the Local Land Charges Register , was established under the Land Charges Act 1925 for the purpose of protecting various interests of a less parochial nature than the Local Land Charges Registers . |
| 9 | However , Cook expresses the view that although the research on the validity of personality tests has proved disappointing , they have no less predictive validity than the interview and they have the advantage of being cost-effective and standardised . |
| 10 | Resolving the question of whether palaeocurrent flow in Torridonian Scotland was predominantly westerly or northerly is important to those interested in Scotland 's geological history , but has less external interest than the solution of the genetic code problem had for all biologists . |
| 11 | It implies a less passive consumer than the market research model with the emphasis on market preferences and consumers ' rights . |
| 12 | The growth of wheat , the birth of a lamb , the movement of clouds , put him in awe of nature : the locomotive he sees as man 's response : the switch and throttle are his magic wands … the girl may come to the science lesson with a less eager curiosity than the boy , but she too will need to feel at home with machinery . |
| 13 | If it is still stable at temperatures in excess of 100 K above T g , the temperature dependence has an exponential form where according to the Eyring rate theory ΔH is the activation enthalpy of viscous flow and is a more representative parameter than the energy . |
| 14 | Children are seen as learning to write by direct imitation of adult models , and accurate imitation is implicitly regarded as a more advanced achievement than the child 's own attempts to represent the writing system through ‘ pretend writing ’ . |
| 15 | In effect , this means that the use of feminine forms provides more specific information than the use of masculine forms can be said to provide ; it rules out the possibility of masculine reference , whereas the use of masculine forms does not rule out the possibility of feminine reference . |
| 16 | Although the sea is a much more stable environment than the air and the habitat enjoyed by land animals , fluctuations occur which have a special influence on the shore , where the extremes are greater , and cold air temperatures can influence the fauna in winter , and the concentrated rays of the sun can make some pools uninhabitable during the summer . |
| 17 | A less religious or a more sane man than the fanatic would have shut up . |
| 18 | I suppose the difficulty about us is that so far as money and possessions are concerned we 're at a more primitive stage than the rest . |
| 19 | The dairy , when you could have it to yourself , was a far more entertaining place than the laundry , and less lonely and special than the game larder . |
| 20 | In fact The Crack is a much more interesting climb than the name would suggest . |
| 21 | Early on , however , the forerunner of the modern House of Lords emerged from the Council around the monarch and it is now over seven centuries since commoners of England ( albeit of no more lowly status than the county squirearchy ) were admitted to the Parliament of England . |
| 22 | If anything the line-out will call for more rigorous refereeing than the ruck/maul . |
| 23 | Taking a more liberal line than the bishop , Temple argued that the finger of God was to be discerned in the laws of nature , not in the current limits of scientific knowledge . |
| 24 | The UWC was a far more serious threat than the UBC had been : it was entirely outside the control of the party leaders and backed by over a hundred MPs ; it was aimed at a government that included Unionists as well as Liberals ; and it seemed likely to be a vehicle for the overthrow of Bonar Law by Carson . |
| 25 | Certainly it was an even more comprehensive defeat than the scoreline would suggest . |
| 26 | Few mystical treatises get off to a more intriguing start than The Fire of Love , which describes the first time Rolle became aware of a heat in his breast which , he insists , was not imaginary or metaphorical but which could be felt as a finger felt the heat of the flames in which it had been thrust . |
| 27 | Interestingly , what gave Hastings more personal satisfaction than the haul of points which took his international tally to 415 in 44 appearances was the fact that Scotland kept a clean sheet against the Welsh . |
| 28 | He has an appetite for land and castles I would not willingly see in the King himself , but he 's a more dangerous man than the King . ’ |
| 29 | The faces of the Argive youths have a more natural look than the Athenian , but the Attic artist has a far stronger grasp of form , of the relation of face to skull . |
| 30 | I 'd also say that the 8″ coaxial speaker with tweeter combination gives a bigger , more natural tone than the Trace 's multiple 5″ driver units , which can sound a little tizzy and synthetic to some ears . |