Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] than a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An absolute prohibition against assignment is less popular than a qualified prohibition which requires a landlord not to withhold consent unreasonably . |
| 2 | The unspoken and unacceptable reality is that when I do decide to have a baby , my bosses will regard me as less promotable than a childless woman or a man . ’ |
| 3 | Their only problem is that they do not convey the feeling and atmosphere of a site and often appear less authentic than a skilful reconstruction drawing . |
| 4 | This is a very compact plane , not much bigger than a smoothing plane , weighing in at 1.6kg . |
| 5 | Relations between the communist states had for some time been less amicable than a common dedication to working-class interests might have suggested . |
| 6 | This was actually caused by an integrated circuit failure , though an intermittent fault such as this is less likely than a total failure . |
| 7 | A child in the vitamin A group was significantly less likely than a placebo-treated child to have made several clinic visits ( p=0.019 ) ; for example children in the vitamin A group were 27% ( 95% CI 4–45% ) less likely to have attended the clinic 3 or more times during a 4-month dosing interval . |
| 8 | Each drawer , not much larger than a small matchbox , held the body of a wasp which had been through the Factory . |
| 9 | A Roman legion was somewhat larger than a modern peacetime brigade in the British Army — six thousand troops . |
| 10 | But , even allowing for the conditions , Luxton and David Pears were never much better than a lumbering link . |
| 11 | If you 're going away , wear clear or pale nail varnish — it will look much better than a dark colour with a tan . |
| 12 | Well , the studies that I 've been involved in , the computer has performed certainly as well as a consultant , and at times much better than a junior doctor in the particular situation that I 'm talking about . |
| 13 | Legalised exports of waste from rich countries to poorer ones are much better than a black market . |
| 14 | Now we 've got a company secretary he is er , an F C I S Chartered Institute Secretaries that 's much better than a chartered accountant , they 're no damn good as secretaries , right ! |
| 15 | However , their benefits are much less tangible than a physical product in that they can not be stored or displayed and satisfaction is achieved through activities ( e.g. transportation from one place to another rather than say a seat on a train ) . |
| 16 | In the far south we have Kappa Pavonis in the Peacock , which is what is termed a ‘ Type II Cepheid ’ , rather less powerful than a classical Cepheid with the same period . |
| 17 | ( 2 ) The projection can be held across a strip of behavior that is less long than a grammatical sentence … |
| 18 | The organizational separateness and distinctiveness of the state makes it much more than a mere mirror of , or passive receptacle for , the demands of society . |
| 19 | Today likewise Piraeus ' importance makes it much more than a mere annex of Athens and it has its own political traditions , regularly voting communist . |
| 20 | In 1939 nearly everyone had a direct or indirect memory of mass warfare and mindless patriotism was much less important than a conscious commitment to the idea that aggressive fascism could not be stopped by any method short of war . |
| 21 | When mistakes are made a full apology is often less damaging than a grudging admission that events have not gone as planned . |
| 22 | Rules , and the policy institutions that apply them , are inevitably less flexible than a discretionary policy . |
| 23 | You will need the smaller 2″ diameter template supplied with Warhammer — the catapult is much smaller than a regular stone thrower so the template is smaller too . |
| 24 | A local farmer is , shall we say , somewhat less than a complete admirer of the railway . |
| 25 | Thus they are less daunting than a large pipe organ to the ‘ reluctant organist ’ . |
| 26 | The Germans had no idea who she was and the villagers from whom she had been begging food had not betrayed her ; she was allowed to go without suffering anything much worse than a slapped face and an hour 's sarcastic , sneering interrogation . |
| 27 | Alternative ( indirect ) models are less probable than a direct contact model involving the C-terminal part of α and the 156–162 loop of CRP at lac . |
| 28 | But an adverse ruling from a private body is much less daunting and much less publicised than a heavy award of damages by judge or jury . |
| 29 | At the same time both syllabus and materials would emphasise that the primary curriculum is seen as something much wider than a mere list of topics to be covered in class . |
| 30 | The match angler 's fixed link-leger is less sensitive than a fixed paternoster as can be appreciated by studying Fig. 1 . |