Example sentences of "[adv] [adj -er] than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their model , though vastly simpler than the real atmosphere , mimics some of its important properties . |
| 2 | All pipes connections are concealed within the length to give a neat appearance , and the surface temperature is much lower than the average radiator , so it is safe to touch and needs no bulky enclosures . |
| 3 | And the diagram is much simpler than the real neocortex , which contains 10,000 cells where only 25 are shown here . |
| 4 | The shop at fault was clearly shown on the chart as its horizontal line was much shorter than the similar line above it showing the progress of earlier operations in its manufacture , and as soon as the supply reverted to normal again , the red flag was removed . |
| 5 | However , the False Cross is not only fainter than the Southern Cross , but is also larger . |
| 6 | make the council tax far fairer than the old rates , certainly fairer than the poll tax , and much fairer than the Labour party 's proposals . |
| 7 | This puts him marginally below 6ft 3in George Bush and makes him appreciably shorter than the giant German Chancellor Helmut Kohl at 6ft 5in but otherwise he will walk tall on the world stage . |
| 8 | Polymers do not form perfectly elastic solids , as a limited amount of bond rotation can occur in the glass which allows slight plastic deformation ; this makes them somewhat tougher than an inorganic glass . |
| 9 | This is a very compact plane , not much bigger than a smoothing plane , weighing in at 1.6kg . |
| 10 | Since the working class remains much bigger than the middle class , a small proportion of manual sons provides sufficient numbers to fill many of the higher-level vacancies . |
| 11 | They come from a brewery not much bigger than the average garden shed.And , as Clare Lafferty reports , the head brewer is also the pub landlord . |
| 12 | It was much bigger than the old piano in the classroom . |
| 13 | The total increase in national income ( ) will clearly be much bigger than the initial increase in investment spending . |
| 14 | Each drawer , not much larger than a small matchbox , held the body of a wasp which had been through the Factory . |
| 15 | Is the hearing community much larger than the deaf community ? |
| 16 | Whether the clays remain as discrete particles or cluster together to form flocs or aggregates with diameters much larger than the individual component particles is often a function of these waters . |
| 17 | He was a huge dog , much larger than the average collie . |
| 18 | The lowland races , though , are not much larger than the red river hog . |
| 19 | However a rough estimate of optimum switching angle can be obtained if the three torque/speed characteristics are approximated by constant torques , effective up to the maximum speed for each angle : The time taken and number of steps executed during acceleration to the maximum speed may be calculated , since for a constant torque , For constant accelerating torque the instantaneous velocity is proportional to time and therefore the distance travelled during acceleration is simply : so for each switching angle the acceleration time and distance can be found : The time taken to travel a total distance of 60 steps can be calculated for each switching angle , e.g. if the switching angle is 6 degrees the system executes the first 25 steps in 94.3 ms and the remaining steps at a constant speed of 540 steps per second : The time taken to decelerate has been neglected in this calculation because the retarding torque ( motor braking torque + load torque ) is , in all three cases , much larger than the accelerating torque ( motor accelerating torque - load torque ) . |
| 20 | With wrestling , the ‘ opponents ’ are not simply themselves but taking on the parts of ‘ good ’ and ‘ evil ’ in a ritual that has a context much larger than the particular match . |
| 21 | The thing was hunched , but even so , Cardiff could see that it was at least nine feet tall and somehow impossibly larger than the burnt corpse he had first seen behind the wheel of that car . |
| 22 | A Roman legion was somewhat larger than a modern peacetime brigade in the British Army — six thousand troops . |
| 23 | The method proved much cheaper than the conventional equipment currently used to monitor pollution levels , and is quick enough to allow recognition of pollution hotspots and the drawing up of weekly pollution maps . |
| 24 | But , even allowing for the conditions , Luxton and David Pears were never much better than a lumbering link . |
| 25 | If you 're going away , wear clear or pale nail varnish — it will look much better than a dark colour with a tan . |
| 26 | Well , the studies that I 've been involved in , the computer has performed certainly as well as a consultant , and at times much better than a junior doctor in the particular situation that I 'm talking about . |
| 27 | Legalised exports of waste from rich countries to poorer ones are much better than a black market . |
| 28 | Now we 've got a company secretary he is er , an F C I S Chartered Institute Secretaries that 's much better than a chartered accountant , they 're no damn good as secretaries , right ! |
| 29 | Besides , they were cold and wet and the burrow , while it would n't have sounded a very comfortable proposition back at the quarry , was suddenly much better than the horrible night outside . |
| 30 | To wash the wool , pure soft water , which drained steadily from the peaty moorlands of the Millstone Grit and Coal Measures , was much better than the hard water from the areas of Carboniferous Limestone . |