Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] than [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 31 | The exact chronology is , however , less important than the recording of a definite Saxon tradition , the inauguration of a new political unit . |
| 32 | The fact that the public law applicant is usually challenging the exercise of a discretionary power does not mean that what is at stake for him or her is any less important than the sort of interests protected by private law . |
| 33 | However , the time of year is less important than the time of the shift . |
| 34 | The longstanding drift of people to the south is now less important than the movement of population out from the cities to surrounding smaller towns and to rural areas . |
| 35 | The same applies to the general deterrent argument : its effectiveness depends on whether the penalty for murder affects the calculations of potential killers at all , and , if it does , whether life imprisonment is seen as significantly more or less severe than the alternative of a long , fixed-term sentence . |
| 36 | Although it is less damaging than the removal of bulbs and plants , consistent seed snatching can still effectively wipe out a species from a locality . |
| 37 | Very soon we were to be concerned with matters less peaceful than the conduct of our kitchens . |
| 38 | For contemporaries , the charm must have been less impressive than the sense of half-realised ambitions . |
| 39 | Here outright oppression and denial of rights is less troublesome than the benevolence of a personally known and trusted employer ; a quiet word with the boss will often be preferable to calling in a more remote and impersonal organization to settle any differences . |
| 40 | Here the problem is less difficult than the estimation of absolute figures , because further kinds of evidence can be employed in the search for an answer . |
| 41 | As both W. G. Hoskins and W. E. Tate have shown , the English village as we know it is in its essentials a product of developments not much less recent than the growth of industrial towns and cities . |
| 42 | The Raman scattering due to different vibrations of a particular molecule is generally less variable than the intensity of the different IR bands , but the general level of intensity of Raman spectra varies from molecule to molecule much more than that of IR spectra . |
| 43 | In Labov 's view , for example , " the locus of language is in the community or group , and … the speech of any social group will be less variable than the speech of any individual . " |
| 44 | To remain near the screens , he and Elaine had to stand close to the strange woman called Lacuna , but even Lacuna seemed less threatening than the jungle of lines and forms that were still proliferating everywhere else in the room . |
| 45 | The obvious achievements — radar , jet propulsion , guided missiles , and the atomic bomb which brought the war to a sudden and unexpectedly early end at a price only less horrible than the continuation of war — depended on much basic research in physics and chemistry , particularly in the fields of radioactivity and nuclear energy , and of electronics . |
| 46 | In practice the length of a statute of limitations is perhaps less significant than the content of the duty of diligence imposed upon purchasers of works of art . |
| 47 | Rates reported by Arthur Young on his various Tours around 1770 suggest that regional variations were less significant than the type of cloth or the fineness of the yarn ( see Table 7.6 ) . |
| 48 | According to this perspective , interdependence between states is less significant than the dependence of all states , to a greater or lesser extent , on the investment decisions of transnational capital . |
| 49 | Historically , it is less significant than the passing of the Single European Act in 1986 . |
| 50 | He had had a charter drawn up , which presumably contained a boundary clause , but this seems to have been less significant than the authority of the witnesses . |
| 51 | But the qualified disapproval of foreign governments is less significant than the loss of Western commercial confidence . |
| 52 | The critics ' favourite accusation that Neverland looks like a theme park is fair , though hardly a criticism — most children and adults enjoy Disneyland , and the movie is no more garish than The Wizard of Oz , a great children 's film which has been rendered critically respectable by age . |
| 53 | Senior did once turn the ball into the net but David Elleray was more alert than the referee of England 's 1986 World Cup tie against Argentina and had noticed the hand of a mere mortal . |
| 54 | More striking than the provision of popular entertainment for profit was the remarkable degree to which the landed interest , the liberal professions , and even sections of the business community itself excluded commercial forces from sport . |
| 55 | It may be more hesitant than the House of Representatives about extending the death penalty , for instance for drug-dealing . |
| 56 | Before leaving the city for ever , I came across a philosopher , Jean-Jacques Rousseau , even more noted than the family of my accursed Master . |
| 57 | We have already mentioned two factors that make the entire structure more progressive than an examination of income tax alone would suggest . |
| 58 | Although economically underdeveloped by modern standards , they were more advanced than the rest of the new kingdom ( except Vojvodina ) , and especially in comparison with mountainous Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina , and with southern Serbia , including Kosovo and Macedonia . |
| 59 | A good example of this imbalance can be seen in psycholinguistics , where the study of language comprehension , being more experimental , is markedly more advanced than the study of language production , in which the investigator has less control over what happens . |
| 60 | RON ATKINSON had cause to offer belated seasonal goodwill to his fellow men last night as Aston Villa re-asserted their Championship challenge with a victory more emphatic than the margin of a Dean Saunders penalty suggests . |