Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] than [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 For all his silence , he was passionate , not desolate ; if there was a sadness or loss there , it was bigger or deeper or stranger than the loss of one person .
2 The incremental cost of implementing either regimen ( US$0.08 per dose for OPV and US$0.35–0.50 per dose for IPV ) is similar to or lower than the cost of mass vaccination campaigns ( US$0.68–3.60 per dose ) , and would also be less than expansion of the routine immunisation schedule to provide even more doses .
3 It was then as if the rotting maggot-infested flesh , or the tags of matted clothing , had already become part of the earth which clung to and enclosed them , no more unnatural or frightening than a clump of compost or a drift of decaying leaves .
4 The commissions are to strive to ensure that no constituency varies from this quota by more or less than a quarter of it .
5 Nor did it escape the notice of other critics of the Association that a handbill , lengthily entitled " A Dialogue between Tom and Harry on the Duties of Seamen and the Just and Equitable Rewards for their Services " , was in practice nothing more or less than a statement of union policy on bargaining with shipowners and published in this form only to avoid the appearance that the Standard was more than an innocent friendly society .
6 Thus investment spending by firms may be greater or less than the volume of saving , government spending may be greater or less than tax receipts , and exports may be greater or less than imports , but it must be the case that a deficit or surplus in one sector is exactly offset in one or more of the other sectors .
7 The direction of the correction depends on whether the demand elasticity , , is greater or less than the elasticity of factor substitution in the corporate sector .
8 This is nothing more or less than an abuse of your professional integrity . ’
9 Brontosaurus was 25 metres long and weighed 30 tons , while Brachiosaurus was a long-necked , lizard-hipped creature weighing 80 tons ( or more than the weight of sixteen elephants ) .
10 Three cases of the conchoid arise : with the fixed distance less than , equal to or greater than the distance of A from the fixed line .
11 In early studies it was called the residual — as such , it had more direct meaning , being no more nor less than a bundle of factors which can not be quantified individually .
12 ‘ It represents nothing more nor less than the imposition of the temple architecture of an extinct Mediterranean civilization upon the house design of a northern people ’ , remarks Olive Cook in her English House Through Seven Centuries .
13 It is maintained here that the constitution is nothing more nor less than the outgrowth of the ‘ realities ’ and not , as Lord Sankey and many others of us tend to assume , something distinct from them and which can therefore be contrasted to them .
14 This is one of the reasons why they 're already far more interesting and demanding than the wave of both American and British post-Nirvana types .
15 After the sober belches of the shoe-gazing clique ( itself a knee-jerk reaction to the brash swagger of baggydom ) , The Franks came across like circus clowns pissing around in a casualty department , all charmingly naive , astoundingly cheerful and dafter than a boardroom of brushes .
16 But this no more implies a conscious awareness of the distinctions between past , present , and future than the use of language necessitates an explicit knowledge of grammar .
17 We must look at this quest for beauty as a purpose more real and noble than the quest of the knights of old for the Holy Grail .
18 Brooks Brothers ' past success was based on the personal touch and more than a soupcon of snobbery .
19 WITH CHARACTERISTIC PRECISION AND MORE THAN A SOUPÇON OF INSPIRATION , THE SWISS CREATED THE DUROMATIC
20 During this time we organized two national conferences for students with disabilities and more than a handful of steadily more accessible conferences for lesbians and gays .
21 Certainly he came under such guidance from within his family which clashed with his own predilections , for his varsity life seems to have been plagued by vocational uncertainty and more than a touch of its weakening indifference .
22 The smile was still there , but behind it now was a hint of trouble , and more than a hint of tiredness .
23 A fruit and vegetable mixture with a delicately balanced flavour and more than a hint of summer .
24 I simply do not know , at least not if the properties are to be non-trivial , and more than an acceptance of certain machines into the category of human beings by fiat or polite convention .
25 At present north Belfast and Newtownabbey contain less than five per cent of the office space in Greater Belfast : much less than is contained in the small area around the university and less than a quarter of that found in east Belfast .
26 She seems to have been wholly unaware that she was in fact queen of a kingdom with a justifiably high opinion of itself — so much so that it is actually supremely ironic that Mary , brought up in one of the greatest of European countries , should have found this one , smaller , but passionately European , so much less interesting and appealing than the kingdom of England , not only Scotland 's traditional enemy , but already beginning the descent into the isolation which it was to maintain for much of the seventeenth century .
27 2.22 The calculation of the multiplier is even less precise and arithmetical than the computation of the multiplicand .
28 This , however , is not the case , for there is undoubtedly more to the distinction between given and new than the assignment of phonological stress .
29 But it is hard indeed to see how that axiom itself could be made more convincing either to a purely humanist philosophy or to a theology which maintained that God is something more and other than the obverse of our finitude .
30 Leon laid his hands to the rod and George noticed how they were bigger , stronger , altogether more mature and experienced than the rest of him .
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