Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] than [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Copper in contrast was not durable enough for big editions , and where its effects were desired it was increasingly replaced by steel ; but this was much less used than wood for works of science . |
2 | Training in singing appears to be less systematised than training in voice production . |
3 | Colonies were very handy bargaining counters if a state wanted to concede something less important than territory in Europe , but it was hard to imagine that any country would want to take all of its rivals ' imperial possessions . |
4 | Gifts in kind Gifts in kind are no less important than money in family exchanges and there is evidence that these can include both goods and services , including the basic necessities . |
5 | Water from Lambeth was much safer than water from Southwark further downstream . |
6 | Similar reasoning occurs in the criminal law ; for example , liability for death is much stricter than liability for theft . |
7 | Troy did , however , use one phrase that went a long way to describe the film 's great success , for he spoke of how it illustrated that ‘ an honest documentation of familiar American actualities becomes in a Hollywood film more absorbing than intrigue in Monte Carlo or pig-sticking in Bengal ’ . |
8 | Wood 's figures of 8–0-20–0 tell their story , but he was more wayward than Jeh in line and length . |
9 | The Athletic News snorted indignantly : ‘ As a matter of commerce , ten young recruits at £100 a piece might have paid better , and as a matter of sport , the Second Division would be more honourable than retention of places by purchase . ’ |
10 | The new crop is more resistant than wheat to diseases , especially to leaf blotch , powdery mildew , and other fungal infections such as the smuts . |
11 | It is , however , no more paradoxical than speaking of John 's arm , when the arm in question is part of the John who is said to possess it ( or the chassis of the car , for ) . |
12 | No fabric is more comfortable than cotton and no cotton is more natural than cotton from America . |
13 | But even though he strives to protect his privacy , Craig 's still larger than life at work , always joking , teasing and larking about . |
14 | 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 ) . |
15 | ‘ For me , sumptuousness of fabric is more effective than importance of shape . ’ |
16 | The eastern marches were seen as a means by which internal German social and economic pressure could be relieved , where economic expansion was far more feasible than competition with France and Britain . |
17 | Shape is more important than colour at night . |
18 | Good sight lines are more important than evenness of chair layout . |
19 | Editor , — Since the advent of the NHS reforms and the internal market , expedient treatment and patients ' convenience often seem more important than quality of care . |
20 | The mythic animals are an even stronger reminder that the fresco artists were depicting another world than the everyday one ; it is a symbolic world where general concepts such as fecundity were more important than accuracy of detail . |
21 | Priorities in economic policy have changed ; growth becomes more important than redistribution of wealth , and growth is encouraged by deregulation of the economy rather than by state intervention . |
22 | I find this particular facility to be more usable than Word For Windows ' text fiddling tools , purely because you can use any font you wish , as long as it is installed in Windows . |
23 | It is just a question of knowing when to use it : not , I would think , for food , or , usually , cosmetics ; but illustration appears to be more successful than photography for fashion , and it can clearly be used for most other types of product . |
24 | Specialist lay representation tended to be more successful than representation by solicitors and barristers . |
25 | Pyridinoline and deoxypyrolidine are found in collagens I , II , III , and IX , so both are found in extracellular matrix collagen crosslinks , while deoxypyrolidine is more common than pyridinoline in type I bone collagen crosslinks : the ratio of pyridinoline:deoxypyrolidine is 3.5:1 in bone collagen as opposed to 10:1 in other collagens. – 9 Released as a result of bone degradation , these markers can be measured either singly or together ( to derive a pyridinoline:deoxypyrolidine ratio ) by high performance liquid chromatography with fluorescene detection in 24 hour urine specimens and correlate well with rates of bone resorption . |
26 | The evidence about other types of kin support in the past — whether within or across households — is much more fragmented than evidence about household composition . |
27 | It is possible to be even more forgiving than Tit for Tat . |
28 | But he did n't even wait to hear her protests that she was all right , and came back a minute later with two hospital pillows which he arranged for her , and she thought the faintly male , musky and intensely sensual smell of him as he bent over her was making her more faint than loss of blood . |
29 | They are all more aggressive than treatment with laser and carry a higher risk of complications and only cryotherapy can be performed without general anaesthesia . |
30 | Nice to see Stubby again ; Good God , the power structure in a town this size was more formidable than politics in New York City . |