Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] than [pron] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sinopoli 's interpretation of Elgar 's First Symphony is less controversial than his treatment of the Second ( 2/89 ) . |
| 2 | Our knowledge of morbid mental states is much less definite than our knowledge of many physical disturbances . |
| 3 | His Ravel , while less unfortunate than his recording of the Left-hand Concerto , hardly counts among his most distinguished offerings . |
| 4 | Gordon 's erudition , based on the use of primary sources , extended to Europe , and his acquaintance with minor Protestant groups , such as the Mennonites , Collegiants , Anabaptists , and Familists , was hardly less intimate than his knowledge of tiny English sects , such as the Traskites and the Muggletonians . |
| 5 | Mrs Blakey , only a little less sceptical than her husband of this line of talk , nevertheless recalled how Timothy Gedge had affected her when he 'd come on to the telephone with a woman 's voice , and her bewilderment when the silence had first begun in the house . |
| 6 | But while Francis and Mary fussed about the situation in Edinburgh , setting up an enquiry into what had happened to the burgh council , in February 1560 the Protestant lords did something ideologically much less courageous than their deposition of the regent , but in practical terms infinitely more crucial : they made the Treaty of Berwick with England , and were assured of English help . |
| 7 | But psychology generally views qualitative methods ' social validity as less important than their lack of reliability . |
| 8 | It is assisted by the tradition of knowledge that values perception and disdains sensation , maintaining that what we feel is less important than our awareness of reality . |
| 9 | Councillor David Begg , Chair of Lothian Regional Council 's Finance Committee , said ‘ We hope that the introduction of the Council Tax can be less problematic than our experience of the poll tax . |
| 10 | He conveys our variousness because he includes the parts of our life that he hates , as well as those he loves , and notices the many almost unknowable communities in our midst , people only a little less mysterious than his group of Aztecs who came over in stone boats . |
| 11 | It would appear from these results that children 's grasp of the deductive mode is less secure than their grasp of the empirical and intentional modes . |
| 12 | No part of Russia 's social fabric is more durable than its network of people with research at heart . |
| 13 | It is no more partisan than my description of what has happened in the universities . ) |
| 14 | More remarkable than his treatment of the mistress as recipient or subject-matter of the sonnets is Shakespeare 's treatment of the man who fills that role in the first 126 poems . |
| 15 | ( Retinal cells are not all the same , so the eye is a bit more complicated than our idea of the algorithm , but the difference is not too great . ) |
| 16 | None was more evident than her grasp of all the issues of Government as she answered questions twice a week in the House of Commons . |
| 17 | Not so : the recruit of today is generally better educated and more enquiring than his counterpart of previous decades . |
| 18 | But more surprising than his lack of academic prowess was his failure to make any other sort of impact . |
| 19 | His critique of the alternative is more convincing than his defence of the status quo . |
| 20 | But even writers who have no historical sense , like Mrs Radcliffe ( who provides Emily in 1584 with what is clearly a cottage ornee , complete with greenhouse , ‘ two excellent sitting rooms ’ and a rustic hall ) , are much more observant than their predecessors of different types of houses in the landscape . |
| 21 | The exclusion of votes for very small parties is responsible for another slight deviation : it means that — as the figures given at the beginning of this chapter showed — the other patties secure a percentage of seats marginally greater than their percentage of all the votes . |
| 22 | If anything disastrous should happen to him , such as being dismissed from his job , the urge to seek solace in the whiskey bottle might be far stronger than his strength of will . |