Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So a thirty year old service might be entirely different than a person with ten years service deferring his pension . |
| 2 | It was not an unhelpful intervention , Mr. Deputy Speaker , because one of the problems in dealing with the targeting of advertising is that advertisements aimed at adults will be less effective than the Minister may wish if they take account of the fact that children may be present . |
| 3 | The use of a shotgun for rabbit clearance , as opposed to the fun of the occasional shot , continues to be less effective than the rifle and especially so when it is used by individuals rather than in conjunction with an organised rough rabbit shoot . |
| 4 | And this is the cause : the productive man conceives within himself a complete image of what he wishes to reproduce ; the performance , like everything else that he brings forth , must not be less perfect than the image . |
| 5 | We began there , because the contrast between explaining and understanding is likely to be less familiar than the contrast between holism ( ‘ top-down ’ ) and individualism ( ‘ bottom-up ’ ) . |
| 6 | Darwin argued that the study of embryonic stages was important for working out these relationships because the embryo would be less affected than the adult form by the adaptive modifications upon which evolution was based . |
| 7 | The point , which I find persuasive , is that an appeal court which will be less full-time than the Court of Justice will be less imbued with the centralist perspective , and thus in a better position to maintain an objectivity as between the interests of the EEC and those of the nation state . |
| 8 | In Labov 's view , for example , " the locus of language is in the community or group , and … the speech of any social group will be less variable than the speech of any individual . " |
| 9 | That is , the specialisation of the left hemisphere for language among inverters was assumed to be less complete than the right sided specialisation of non-inverters . |
| 10 | Contrary to our knowledge today , this last was considered to be less civilized than the bronze age that preceded it . |
| 11 | Why should a boat be less social than a caravan , for heaven 's sake ? |
| 12 | The frequency of a particular kind of syntactic structure ( say a relative clause ) will probably be less important than the fact that that structure tends to occur in a particular position in the sentence ( eg at the end , or at the middle ) . |
| 13 | That prospect may be less depressing than a future dominated by the BJP , but it leaves little room for optimism . |
| 14 | It is unexplained why the radiometer readings in Bands 6 and 7 are lower in the second series , when the illumination is greater , but this was taken as grist to the mill of the idea that the radiometer method would probably be less reliable than the imaging method . |
| 15 | The barrier of poisonous gas appeared to be less penetrable than the rock that had been tunnelled through . |
| 16 | A drop in voltage can be more serious than a power cut . |
| 17 | ‘ What could be more serious than the trouble Craig is in ? ’ |
| 18 | Little can be more disreputable than a Government who hang on to their jobs while pursuing policies that guarantee that thousands of other people will lose theirs . |
| 19 | As it is not obvious that fluctuations in the galaxy distribution should exactly match those of the mass density field ( for example , if galaxies form at the peaks of the mass-density field they will be more correlated than the mass ) , we allow the variance of the two distributions to vary on large scales by the square of a bias factor , b , defined as |
| 20 | Carzo and Yanouzas suggested that if work is organised on the basis of small groups or project teams ( therefore narrow spans of control and a tall organisation structure ) group members would be able to plan their work in an orderly manner , encourage participation by all group members in decision-making and monitor the consequences of their decisions better , so that their performance will be more efficient than the work of groups in a flat structure with a wide span of control . |
| 21 | Nigel assured me that it would be more efficient than the wheel and produce considerably more electricity , and I had to be content with that . |
| 22 | Equally a group with a wider range of talents in its midst tends to be more effective than a group with a narrow range of talents . |
| 23 | They can also be seen in the popularity in France of the idea of attacks on British commerce as a means of forcing the traditional enemy to her knees , the belief that a guerre de course of this kind , avoiding large-scale engagements and making extensive use of privateers , would be more effective than a strategy which aimed at securing effective control of the seas . |
| 24 | The garden walls appear to be more archaic than the house . |
| 25 | The Language Master is likely to be more successful than a wall-chart , because the child hears the word as well as seeing it . |
| 26 | Their conversations with suspects are likely to be more intelligible than the form-filling friendliness of any number of custody officers . |
| 27 | This out-of-date remedy may be more dangerous than the plant poison . |
| 28 | But although they were terrified of the Magistrate , who in more peaceful times had so often savaged their verses , the ladies in the billiard room stoutly refused to volunteer for the banqueting hall , which they wrongly believed to be more dangerous than the Residency except for Lucy , who was generally acknowledged to have nothing to live for anyway . |
| 29 | Other boyfriends , like Alan , who describes living with Lesley and her baby daughter in the following pages , may be more supportive than the baby 's own father . |
| 30 | The terror of leaving the tot you have cared for round the clock in the hands of a virtual stranger can be more daunting than the birth itself . |