Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] rest " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he said : ‘ I 'm more interested than the rest of you to know whether he killed himself . |
| 2 | There might well be a guard at its door also , but , it was to be hoped , no more alert than the rest . |
| 3 | Instead , he seemed more calm and normal than the rest . |
| 4 | And then we searched out the petits coins , a place described as ‘ more asleep than the rest of the village ’ . |
| 5 | The tongue was impossibly extended , pointed and wet and more alive than the rest of the thing . |
| 6 | One that was more attractively worded than the rest caught her eye . |
| 7 | It would be easy to be intimidated here on first acquaintance , for this part of the crag is less friendly than the rest . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Someone more thoughtful than the rest had ordered to be shut the big river gates that were at the point where the Ankh flowed out of the twin city . |
| 10 | He 'd been more clever than the rest , luring her with an ill grandmother rather than with promises of extravagance , but now the truth was out . |
| 11 | It looked the same as the other one to her , except perhaps that the knuckle bone of the little finger was more prominent than the rest and the finger itself rather stiff . |
| 12 | There is certainly a marked similarity between the fossilized skulls of early lions , leopards and the cave lions , though the tiger 's is rather more dome-shaped than the rest . |
| 13 | Usually , one or two of the band are more chatty , outgoing or just plain pretentious than the rest . |
| 14 | The old are more frequently ill than the rest of the population and more frequently suffer from physical disabilities such as partial loss of hearing or arthritic joints . |
| 15 | What is the point of all that careful breeding with suitable people , all that specialised education and upbringing , if not to produce people who are somehow nobler and more self-sacrificing than the rest of us ? |
| 16 | Firstly , their income is less likely than the rest of the population to come from earnings from employment ; and more likely to be derived from pensions from the state or from past employers or from savings . |
| 17 | Thus , for example , when asked whether or not they would describe their own redundancy as genuinely voluntary , the oldest group ( those over 65 when interviewed ) were much more likely than the rest to say ‘ yes ’ ( 83 per cent compared with 46 per cent of those aged 55–59 and 65 per cent of those aged 60–64 ) . |
| 18 | Students of communications , instrumentation , special applications and ( marginally ) computing were more likely than the rest to be seeking work . |
| 19 | ‘ What job is it you have here that makes you so much more likely than the rest of your family to attain a Mercedes ? ’ |
| 20 | These priests may have been more affluent than the rest of the population , but one has evidence of flesh-eating in the artisan class too . |
| 21 | Blank and rugged it stared back at him , no more informative than the rest . |
| 22 | Then , as her eyes swept over the crowd clustered round the stage , she did a double-take , spotting one figure much larger and more powerful than the rest . |
| 23 | Nationalized industries tend to be much more capital-intensive than the rest of the economy , and it is precisely the presence of these large capital costs that generates the economies of scale that make many of these industries natural monopolies . |
| 24 | Like , are they more sussed than the rest of us ? |
| 25 | One profession which sees more of the bereaved than the rest of us are undertakers . |
| 26 | Certain individuals stand out as more perceptive , sensitive , far-seeing than the rest of us , and we recognize their value judgements as maturer than our own ; but they differ from experts in that we can learn from them only how to evaluate more maturely ourselves . |
| 27 | Also it might be that those who suffer from SAD differ from most people only because they are more susceptible than the rest of the population to feeling ‘ under the weather ’ when they do not see daylight , particularly in the morning . |
| 28 | Why would they target you for this surveillance unless they thought you were more susceptible than the rest of us ? |
| 29 | Perhaps Guildford schoolboys are more gentle than the rest . |
| 30 | Bar 1 is less dissonant than the rest , and contains very brief quasi-triadic groups such as the diminished 7th chord C , E♭ , F , and the following minor 9th and minor 7th chords on the last beat . |