Example sentences of "[adv] effective than [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Home Office statistics , probation practice is more efficient and no less effective than imprisonment . |
| 2 | In reactors where there is a little organic matter , the fission products are trapped on clay minerals , but these have been less effective than bitumen — about 30 per cent of the ND has been lost and other lanthanides have migrated away from the core . |
| 3 | β Blockers may be less effective than angiotensin I converting enzyme inhibitors in reducing microalbuminuria because they are less effective in reducing angiotensin II production . |
| 4 | Rather than propose ways in which representative democracy could be strengthened and improved , these authors concluded : ‘ the weight of the evidence is that a vote is much less effective than purchasing power … the market is potentially more democratic than the state ’ ( p. 65 ) . |
| 5 | According to research by Which ? magazine , many of the cold medicines on sale are no more effective than rest and lots of water to keep your fluid levels up . |
| 6 | The industry believes that research into why some people abuse alcohol and carefully targeted education programmes are more effective than blanket restrictions which apply to the whole population . |
| 7 | This is far more effective than brush application . |
| 8 | Chest x ray screening , though more costly , is more effective than skin testing . |
| 9 | In fact Peasgood suggests , in one of the few surveys which have been carried out in this area , that selection in academic libraries from the ‘ book in hand ’ was found to be no more effective than selection from lists ( effectiveness being measured in terms of subsequent issues ) . |
| 10 | Some are more effective than Rayo so it 's unlikely they would want the British system . ’ |
| 11 | Other contributors say that informal social restraints on drinking are more effective than government control , advertising does not induce excessive drinking , and random breath testing might reduce drink-driving . |
| 12 | ‘ For me , sumptuousness of fabric is more effective than importance of shape . ’ |
| 13 | The latter is also more effective than grassland or moorland at capturing particulates and aerosols from the atmosphere . |
| 14 | Evidence that total androgen blockade ( castration plus an androgen antagonist ) is more effective than castration alone has not been confirmed in two other trials . |
| 15 | Overall , however , there was a trend for prednisolone to be more effective than fluticasone propionate . |
| 16 | Only as late as 1918 was it established — by a woman doctor — that the juice of lemons is more than twice as rich in anti-scorbutic vitamins as that of the lime , for long thought to be as or more effective than lemon juice in the prevention of scurvy . |
| 17 | The effect that this current has on the rest of the dendrite , and hence in due course the cell body , depends very much on the geometry of the region around the synapse ; biophysical calculations show that spine synapses are more effective than shaft synapses in spreading the current , and in any given spine , the current flow is dependent on its exact shape . |
| 18 | She had convinced him that sometimes diplomacy was more effective than force , that anger must sometimes be tamed , and that the sword was not the clinching argument of peace . |
| 19 | If anything can be shown , it would appear that probation is more effective than prison in reducing the risk of further offending . |
| 20 | It is interesting to observe that Kuo found that the slide presentation of visual material was more effective than television presentation of the same material . |
| 21 | Having commented on the perceived need for information-giving experienced by staff , patients and relatives , it is interesting to note some recent work which shows that facilitating certain strategies for coping during stressful procedures is more effective than information per se for reducing signs of distress . |
| 22 | In this characteristically elusive passage it is not clear whether Marx means that the social relations of a smallholding peasantry make it easy to tax them ( ‘ Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy ’ ) or control them and therefore the bulk of society — uniform and routine administration being more effective than administration requiring flexibility , discretion , decentralization , and so on . |
| 23 | However , saying that dialogue was more effective than pressure , the Chinese Foreign Minister , Qian Qichen , warned against pressuring North Korea " into a corner " . |
| 24 | In the 1970s a series of controlled trials compared the drug with other neuroleptics , and whereas no other drug has ever been shown to be more effective than chlorpromazine ( Largactil ) , clozapine was found to be so in six out of thirteen studies . |
| 25 | Sadly she deceived herself : as the sanitary authorities became convinced that cholera was water-borne and could be checked by means more immediately effective than prayer , public attention became focussed more on the sanitary inspector than on the parson . |