Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] than the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bland said that the cost of the borrowings was much lower than the cost of the group 's equity , which he estimated at 20 per cent per annum . |
| 2 | Enthalpies of fusion are much lower than the enthalpies of vaporisation of the corresponding liquids . |
| 3 | Karl Semper 's Animal Life as Affected by the Natural Conditions of Existence of 1881 developed the concept that would later be known as the food-chain and noted that the total numbers of predators must be much lower than the numbers of the prey organisms to maintain a stable system . |
| 4 | The actual sound ambience of this recording is less dry than the sort of sound that Philips is prepared to settle for in the same hall , and it is refreshing to hear Nicholas McGegan 's fine cast of soloists use the hall 's natural resonance to give the distinct impression that they are enjoying themselves and confirming , to one listener at least , that an important part of enjoying oneself is showing off . |
| 5 | For example , a child with language which is less advanced than the language of other children of that age would be regarded as having delayed language ; in contrast , children whose language stands out because it is deficient when compared with the way in which they perform on other social and intellectual tasks may be regarded as having a language deficit . |
| 6 | You might think that you could hardly have anything much simpler than the idea of zero or unity , or even perhaps the notion of number , erm sorry , but what , zero or unity , what Peano was proposing to do was to define these basic arithmetical ideas in terms of ideas simpler still . |
| 7 | The point , which I find persuasive , is that an appeal court which will be less full-time than the Court of Justice will be less imbued with the centralist perspective , and thus in a better position to maintain an objectivity as between the interests of the EEC and those of the nation state . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | However , one must weigh this potential change in content and focus against the benefits of rendering a smooth , natural translation in contexts where the use of the passive for instance would be stylistically less acceptable than the use of the active or an alternative structure in the target language . |
| 10 | In Fig. 4.2 , for example , the three-phase currents are quickly established at the maximum value because the phase winding time constants ( 1 ins ) are much shorter than the period of each excitation ( 20 ms at a speed of 50 steps per second ) . |
| 11 | The concept of an acquired disorder of cognition is , of course , much broader than the concept of an acquired disorder of language , but the latter concept is still extremely general ; and neurologists in the second half of the nineteenth century made it more specific in a variety of ways . |
| 12 | And hope is less clear than the dew of the morn |
| 13 | The shock to the patient was regarded as less grave than the risk of being precipitated unprepared into the next world . |
| 14 | Many married women whose husbands sign on for the family find themselves forced to seek work in the black economy in order to make ends meet ; this is often seen as less risky than the possibility of their husbands being caught . |
| 15 | Thoughts of the bills returning to Gomez 's alligator-skin billfold were unpleasant , but less unpleasant than the thought of being shot in the head . |
| 16 | Yet the statements of attainment are in most cases much less detailed than the sequences of behavioural objectives in use in many special schools . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Black , by this time at the laboratories of Smith , Kline , and French , led a team which achieved results no less interesting than the discovery of beta-blockers , and of equal practical importance . |
| 19 | The truth is that they 're so often used as fast turnover test beds for review equipment , and new fishkeeping ideas , that they are probably less interesting than the majority of our readers ' tanks . |
| 20 | Scientific discovery and the disillusionment of the twentieth century made the future look less interesting than the nature of time itself . |
| 21 | The stark events of A Fine Boy for Killing are no more and no less authentic than the events of Showell Styles 's novels or those of O'Brian and Forester . |
| 22 | However , the example of private education demonstrates that absence of single-peakedness is far from pathological , and once we move to two dimensions the corresponding conditions are extremely restrictive : they are ‘ probably not significantly less restrictive than the condition of complete unanimity ’ ( Kramer , 1973 , p. 296 ) . |
| 23 | The travels of Sir Charles Grandison are censured by his Harriet with the remark that the sight of ruins on the Tour , which most gentlemen ( including himself ) then made of Europe , is actually less instructive than the knowledge of them to be gained from books . |
| 24 | In good old Blighty , however , we knew a big story when we saw one , and they do n't get much bigger than the size of the Universe . |
| 25 | Singapore is not much bigger than the Isle of Wight , it has no natural resources and its population only numbers 3m . |
| 26 | Put this at the bottom of a deep casserole , which must not be much bigger than the piece of meat , which you should then put in with the calf 's foot on top . |
| 27 | All the same , watching the thin , lemon beam of sun catch across the postman 's bicycle bars , she let herself think it unfair that her dear friend , Faith Lavender , should have died so suddenly and so much younger than the husk of a woman left in the next room . |
| 28 | The room was considerably less cluttered than the apartments of other members of the Royal Family . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It emerged from Romanesque into a specific style , different from but no less fine than the works of the Renaissance . |