Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] than the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | These masks were rather less elaborate than the ones in the workroom . |
2 | For Perrier the sale of soft drinks have become vastly less important than the revenue from bottled water . |
3 | The road leading to the station is called avenue Franklin Roosevelt , though the reality is a little less grand than the name . |
4 | The amount that is actually being re-used is perhaps rather larger than the public realises : PWMI estimates that 7.6 per cent of the EC 's total plastic waste of 10.7m tonnes is recycled , while the calorific value of a further 12.8 per cent is recovered by using waste as fuel . |
5 | We are , he suggests , much less economically permissive than the Victorians , constraining business enterprise , terms and conditions of employment , advertising and so on , whilst morally and sexually becoming less restrictive . |
6 | This is much less subtle than the characterization of strategy given in Bourdieu 's Outline of a Theory of Practice , and is consistent with a simplification of the concept of the object . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | This is much less systematic than the others described above , and has little claim to be representative at all . |
9 | Litter from battery hen farms is unsuitable for the plants and though turkey litter was tried last Christmas it proved much less successful than the chicken fuel . |
10 | The structure illustrated in ( c ) , where the agent is specified in a passive clause , is much less frequent than the structure illustrated in ( b ) , where the agent is left unspecified . |
11 | Real skins are much less coherent than the stereotype . |
12 | They are therefore much less resistant than the techniques introduced in this chapter . |
13 | They were much less gentle than the water-buffalo , which spend most of their lives doing nothing , wallowing up to their ears in mudpools , while pampered and scrubbed by the little boys who are assigned to look after them from birth . |
14 | Perhaps the best one can do is to say that communication from the letter detector to the word detector level , which is normally both fast and parallel , has become slow and serial , but this is a rather ad hoc explanation , and certainly much less satisfying than the interpretations offered by the model for surface dyslexia and phonological dyslexia . |
15 | She writes : ‘ The continued running of such a business is much less satisfying than the creation and setting up of it ’ , so now that it is sold her next challenge is the restoration of an ‘ old Montgomeryshire half-timbered gentleman 's residence and its apothecary 's herb-garden , dating from 1720 … |
16 | Evidence to support this speculation is available from countries such as japan where the gender imbalance is much less marked than the countries of western Europe . |
17 | They seemed so much less menacing than the crows that pecked and fought in the newly harvested fields at home . |
18 | Yet the statements of attainment are in most cases much less detailed than the sequences of behavioural objectives in use in many special schools . |
19 | In this milieu , academic achievement by girls was considered much less important than the development of the quality called ‘ character' , which meant the potential to become decent , responsible officers ' wives , pillars of whatever community into which their marriages would take them , pleasant to look at but not disruptively decorative . |
20 | Buyers are much less likely than the sector average to buy a Clio because they ‘ always buy the same ’ . |
21 | The new breakfast news station is expected to be similar in style to the TV-am format and much less formal than the BBC 's rigid Breakfast News show . |
22 | Leonora made her bed then collected her cup and started downstairs , deeply thankful that she felt so much better than the day before . |
23 | She looked so much better than the fat , spreading South London mothers around us , that I thought we had to be middle class . |
24 | things to people 's teeth and people 's teeth today are so much better than the past . |
25 | I mean we gave a certificate for St Aldate 's Courtyard for instance , because we felt it looked really very nice and so much better than the office block across the road . |
26 | Bob Dwyer , Australia 's coach , watched his side being demolished and tried to explain why Fiji were so much better than the world champions at sevens in contrast to their 15-a-side form . |
27 | I mean that is so simple to do and such a , so much better than the WordPerfect setup which |
28 | Why did we do so much better than the pundits and opinion polls predicted ? |
29 | Funny , that ; one 's so much taller than the other . |
30 | It was n't so much worse than the world . |