Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [subord] 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 | Relations between the communist states had for some time been less amicable than a common dedication to working-class interests might have suggested . |
| 5 | This was actually caused by an integrated circuit failure , though an intermittent fault such as this is less likely than a total failure . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ( 2 ) The projection can be held across a strip of behavior that is less long than a grammatical sentence … |
| 10 | But she said as it 's so terrible when a little boy her . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When mistakes are made a full apology is often less damaging than a grudging admission that events have not gone as planned . |
| 13 | Rules , and the policy institutions that apply them , are inevitably less flexible than a discretionary policy . |
| 14 | Thus they are less daunting than a large pipe organ to the ‘ reluctant organist ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The problem is so difficult because a whole range of interrelated factors are involved : the rate at which heat is lost from different parts of the growing crystal , for example , depends on their curvature , but curvature also affects the melting temperature — and so on . |
| 17 | In order to turn the National Gallery into a viable concern , he will need to find private sponsorship and patronage , but although a Friends society has been launched , attracting sponsorship will prove extremely difficult until a new tax law designed to encourage personal and corporate donations to culture and sport is introduced . |
| 18 | This is especially necessary where a high proportion of the stock of a library is on loan . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Because of the size of the data this is a large commitment to space which is only worthwhile where a large number of people want to look at a lot of the data . |
| 21 | This is especially true if a small area only has been tessellated . |
| 22 | The match angler 's fixed link-leger is less sensitive than a fixed paternoster as can be appreciated by studying Fig. 1 . |
| 23 | It did not seem so cute after a massive explosion ripped apart the pilot plant ( ironically as it was being shut down for the last time ) and killed two of Dequasie 's colleagues . |
| 24 | But Anne is unlikely to wear white and will almost certainly opt for something less formal than a traditional wedding gown for the ceremony at Crathie Church near Balmoral . |
| 25 | The arm can be in a very cramped position and the movement of the hand rather restricted if a flat surface such as a table is used ; a desk with an adjustable sloping top gives a much better angle whilst also providing storage for books . |
| 26 | Gertrude 's lush memoir might well be fanciful : what , after all , is more sentimentally alluring than a dead genius and an adolescent beach holiday ? |
| 27 | Although the wool producers seem to have borne part of the tax costs , the substantial increase in cloth production during the war is most easily explicable if a large part of the wool tax was passed on by the exporters to the foreign buyers , while the English cloth manufacturers were able to undercut their Continental rivals ( 88 , pp.39–40 ) . |
| 28 | Well i it were like a proper , er i in fact , they were more professional than a proper salon . |
| 29 | But it has never been shown that induction is logically more respectable than a formalized argument from analogy , indeed that induction from some particulars leading to deduction of others is anything else but a roundabout argument from analogy . |
| 30 | Screening of newborns for Duchenne muscular dystrophy by measurement of blood spot creatine kinase activity has been technically possible since a suitable assay was devised in the mid 1970s . |