Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] than [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If women were much more likely than men to be in low status jobs , and if female employees almost never went absent from work , it might seem that people doing low status jobs were no more likely or even less likely than others to absence . |
| 2 | Ratings of radio news were less predictable than ratings of television but they too were influenced by recent political interest , motivations for following the campaign , and degree of party preference . |
| 3 | Faculties of agriculture may be less important than faculties of planning and community development and the facility to suspend disbelief . |
| 4 | Pupils in action schools became markedly less stereotyped than pupils in control schools . |
| 5 | Although this assumption is very likely to be wrong it is still a usable forecast in the sense that it may be no more wrong than forecasts of change that get it wrong . |
| 6 | On this theory some potencies would contain more shape-specific molecules than others and some would contain longer chain polymers than others , so some potencies might be expected to be more efficacious than others in treatment . |
| 7 | These are culpable acts , often regarded as being more serious than thefts of property . |
| 8 | This finding supports that of Milner ( 1962 ) who found that right brain damaged subjects were more impaired than patients with left sided damage on certain items of the Seashore test of musical abilities . |
| 9 | Fathers of children with leukaemia or non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma were more likely than fathers of control children to have been employed by the nuclear industry , but the excess was not significant . |
| 10 | Requests for a place as midshipman , or if that was impossible , as a captain 's servant with prospects of future advancement to that rank or that of master 's mate , another stepping stone to commissioned rank in the Royal Navy , were much more frequent than requests for aid in freeing a man from the press . |
| 11 | And that too seems related to the solidarities of kinship and to the training in respect which comes with belonging to a lineage : in a sense , both cadres and ordinary Libyans seemed to share the assumption that loyalties of descent and domesticity were more important than differences of opinion . |
| 12 | Lives should be , and are , more important than profits through exploitation . |
| 13 | It is more complicated also than ( a ) as studied in New York ( Labov , 1966 ) , and more complicated than descriptions of /ae/ in present-day RP ( Gimson , 1970 , etc . ) . |
| 14 | Many people find summer tea parties with scones and strawberries served on the lawn very appealing and much more romantic than mugs of coffee and biscuits in the kitchen . |
| 15 | For mums who want something more convenient than hanks of cotton wool , Púr has come up with Little Tearaways , sheets of flat , highly absorbent 100% cotton wool . |
| 16 | The poor do n't possess The Paupers Cook Book or Good Food on a Budget or magazine pull-outs of cheap casseroles — for a start , a " pauper 's " cuisine is always more expensive than beans on toast and if you 're a pauper you ca n't buy books and magazines anyhow . |