Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above all , it is far less retiring than the European race and often approaches human settlements in search of the rodents that are plentiful there . |
| 2 | At breakfast time the general atmosphere among the residents was still subdued , but much less strained than the previous evening . |
| 3 | Daphne recommends mustard-yellow S ‘ Crown of Rays ’ , shorter and less rampant than the weed-like S. canadensis , for house and garden . |
| 4 | Are the differences between yoked and quiet control the result of learning or of stress — and is the learning group perhaps less stressed than the yoked group ? |
| 5 | But the point remains : Mrs Thatcher was a lot less Arabist than the Foreign Office . |
| 6 | An absolute prohibition against assignment is less popular than a qualified prohibition which requires a landlord not to withhold consent unreasonably . |
| 7 | Disenfranchisement would mean upheavals for staff , start-up costs and teething troubles for the new contractor , and a danger that the service would indeed turn out to be demonstrably less popular than the old contractor 's or different from what was promised . |
| 8 | The mediocre is less acceptable than the down-right bad because it sometimes masquerades as something worth while . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | Examination of what is entailed and what is expected have produced ambivalent conclusions , less clear than the raw conviction that training is a good thing : but overall the evidence is favourable . |
| 11 | the slightly foreshortened cockpit is a little less sumptuous than the newly-furnished cabin . |
| 12 | In this way a risk index was formed showing whether the division was relatively more or less risky than the corporate group as a whole , and the group CAPM-based yield was modified on a divisional basis . |
| 13 | SPAR 's behaviour seems better if two conditions apply : that the reasoner is known to be less reliable than the linguistic part of the system , as it might be if the texts processed describe a relatively open domain ; and that , as for example , in a machine translation task , no further non-linguistic processing will be carried out on the reading accepted . |
| 14 | The insertion of the needle is less painful than the hypodermic counterpart , but may cause an animal to arch his back or tighten his muscles . |
| 15 | A more obvious underlying meaning , pointed out by the programme notes , is to see the ‘ round-dance ’ as a metaphor for the transmission of VD or , more topically , AIDS ; but this seems to me less interesting than the social satire whose delicate emotional nuances ( preserved in co-director Ceri Sherlock 's modernised adaptation ) give the play its wider significance and melancholy humour . |
| 16 | It was less demanding than the similar education given to Elizabeth or Lady Jane Grey , and Mary was undoubtedly of far less intellectual a cast of mind . |
| 17 | Clearly the replacement needs to be something desirable and/or less harmful than the original habit you are seeking to break . |
| 18 | However , it is worth noting that unstressed syllables containing , , or a syllabic consonant will sound less prominent than an unstressed syllable containing some other vowel . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The latest find is of white asbestos , less dangerous than the blue variety , provided it is not disturbed . |
| 21 | Sharpe was suffering from viral meningitis , less dangerous than the full-blown illness . |
| 22 | It 's less dangerous than the often-fatal Hepatitis B , but it can last up to four weeks , while full recovery may take three months . |
| 23 | In contrast , the tariff-equivalent of the EC minimum import price is slightly less restrictive than the optimal level of a tariff . |
| 24 | Using a theoretical model originally suggested by Dixit ( 1987 ) , the UK quota has been shown to have been more restrictive than a tariff-equivalent quota , while the EC minimum import price was less restrictive than an optimal tariff . |
| 25 | Although this will not provide sentential context it will be less localised than the current system . |
| 26 | Following their election in 1951 , the Conservatives , who in principle were less fettered than the Labour Party since they possessed no traditional commitment to early retirement , introduced a more flexible retirement policy for civil servants . |
| 27 | ( If female delinquency is less versatile than the male variety , it is also more specialized , but this habit of describing sex differences in terms of women being deficient in masculine characteristics rather than vice versa is common . ) |
| 28 | However , if the typical person running the latter group of stations ( those with additional facilities ) is also less risk-averse than the typical person running the former , then there is a conflict . |
| 29 | They considered the outburst as less serious than the disgraceful row at Cambridge University earlier in the season when Ramprakash launched a disgusting four letter tirade against the students ' Marcus Wight , and he almost came to blows with John Emburey when the stand-in skipper intervened . |
| 30 | In the course of travels to find sources of bone-ash Albright met Anton Schrötter , who had published in 1850 a method of making the red , or amorphous , form of phosphorus , which was much less reactive than the white form . |