Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun sg] than the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Snobbery may provide one answer : in his supposed solidarity with his own kind , he may not have wished to suggest that a tenant farmer could prove more generous of spirit than the laird . |
| 2 | Other significant phenomena which have emerged from such studies are that simple reversals of the numbers are a common form of error , accurate reproduction is facilitated by deliberate grouping in twos or threes and the ends of a span seem to be less prone to error than the middle . |
| 3 | Lenny Sinken , a lawyer for the Washington-based Christic Institute , wants the mission delayed for 18 months while Nasa studies alternative power sources or arranges for Galileo to leave Earth on an unmanned rocket , less prone to failure than the shuttle . |
| 4 | Yet it is hard to see why this defendant who has succeeded in terrorising a victim into submission should be any less guilty of rape than the man who threatens a woman that if she does not submit he will , there and then , overcome her resistance . |
| 5 | News of the final terms caused the shares to bounce 31p to 558p yesterday as it became clear that they were much more favourable to Kingfisher than the market feared when negotiations between the two sides came to light earlier this month . |
| 6 | Rosettes , mats , cushions and tussocks create internal microenvironments that are more favourable to growth than the world outside ; temperatures and humidities measured among growing shoots in spring are usually higher than ambient , though soil and root temperatures may remain lower . |
| 7 | Hardwood frames are stronger and more resistant to decay than the softwood variety , but good protection is still required for best results . |
| 8 | The overlap area is difficult , and it is therefore better to insist on the rigorous separation of the two methodological approaches than to mix them up in a compromise , or to treat one as logically more worthy of respect than the other . |
| 9 | The casual informality of Robert 's Bistro attracts a clientele altogether more human in appearance than the designer handbag brigade who strut the Konigsallee . |
| 10 | As a result the north-east corner of the island had become much more distinctly Protestant in population than the rest , though Protestant landlords owned property in a good deal of the rest of the island . |
| 11 | The leaflet shows a straight-sided bottle , which might hold more fish and be more accommodating to equipment than the teardrop option , which is probably best suited to just a couple of goldfish . |
| 12 | Branch plants in regions far from head office may be more vulnerable to closure , while the more routine production work which is carried out in them may be more vulnerable to automation than the work done centrally . |
| 13 | As yet we have no agreed criteria for how much disruption a single lesion needs to cause for the system to be deemed interactive , although common sense suggests that an interactive system would be much more vulnerable to disruption than the brain appears to be . |
| 14 | There was a rapid improvement in pH and PaCO 2 for the NIPPV group , and for the first 3 days they were less short of breath than the control group . |
| 15 | Because comparison is generally more important in science than the determination of an absolute value , we are generally involved in observing either the same sample at two different points of time between which X occurs , or two different samples at the same point in time , only one having been subjected to X. |
| 16 | Buchheim , professor at Dorpat in the 1860s , is said to have rated the botanical characteristics of drug-containing plants as no more important to medicine than the case in which a surgeon carried his scalpels was to surgery . |
| 17 | Estate owners had begun to find the grazing of animals more profitable per acre than the tenanting of farmers . |
| 18 | The trouble with atheism was that it was no more susceptible to proof than the notion that God was a bearded gentleman of advanced years . |
| 19 | The European Economic Community , which came into being on 1 January 1958 , was much less supranational in form than the ECSC . |
| 20 | Convention is less disastrous to culture than the nature of women unrestrained … ‘ |
| 21 | Cressid , I love thee in so strained a purity , That the blest gods , as angry with my fancy , More bright in zeal than the devotion which Cold lips blow to their deities , take thee from me . |
| 22 | The Syrian speech , delivered by Al-Shara , was generally perceived to be more militant in tone than the Palestinian . |