Example sentences of "[noun] than a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Camels operate each foreleg and its associated hindleg in unison , more like a pantomime horse than a regular quadruped . |
| 2 | The Danish eluded her but the tone of voice nearer a growl than a polite question suggested she was being asked to state her business . |
| 3 | Note that the products and are not maximized where and are maximized , because over a range a bigger share of a smaller income will represent a higher total tax revenue than a smaller share of a larger income . |
| 4 | Feeling reflective and pensive we are more likely to reach for a sensitive ultramarine or restful cobalt than a stinging chrome yellow or vivid lime . |
| 5 | How much taller was this polar bear than an average man ? |
| 6 | The noise of the pump can be reduced by reducing the output using the regulator , giving a quieter result than a small pump running flat out . |
| 7 | A company swimming pool is a far better investment than an extravagant advertising campaign . |
| 8 | With regard to second-hand values , a good pipe organ is a better investment than an electronic instrument . |
| 9 | Better ten books in good condition than a hundred cripples . |
| 10 | A relatively old rug that has been well looked after may be in far better condition than a newer item that has seen less considerate use , and some contemporary items are deliberately made to look old by the use of chemical washes ( p. 27 ) . |
| 11 | Generally , this method , however , I believe is more useful for studying the human condition than an experimental approach which looks at behaviour as the result of manipulation of variables . |
| 12 | A county court action is likely to provide a quicker hearing and one which is more convenient to the parties than a High Court hearing . |
| 13 | This gives a crisper , brighter light than a normal light bulb , and is used outside for floodlights and inside for uplighters . |
| 14 | I suspect because Cecil , unlike David Mellor , worked out early on that appearing vulnerable was a far better ace card than a contrived display of clever-clogs defiance . |
| 15 | Also , with less length of board in the water , the board becomes more manoeuvrable ( just as a short car has a tighter lock than a long estate model ) . |
| 16 | An ambiguous rule will carry much less weight than a specific one . |
| 17 | The ‘ hybrid ’ looks less like a controlled experiment than a hasty effort to balance political opposites . |
| 18 | Within this trade unions , because of their location at the point of production , have a greater potential for oppositional action than an integrative Labour Party : |
| 19 | Further , firms can create networks of joint ventures which will provide them with much richer learning opportunities than a long-term marriage to a single partner might . |
| 20 | Quite possibly another administration than a British one , less morally aspiring and less legally punctilious , would have arranged for him a quiet accident , or a fatal incarceration . |
| 21 | As reported by the chief naval engineer of the Germania yards , the rotor ship handled beautifully and was able to tack a full 20 degrees closer to the wind than a commercial sailing ship . |
| 22 | We are also at an advantage in having a Data Protection Act , which is more use in practice than a vague bill of rights . |
| 23 | The lagged dependent variables suggest that adjustment costs are of importance whilst the presence of lagged determinants of the desired stock suggests that there is more in the data than a simple first-order partial adjustment model might permit . |
| 24 | This obviously allows speedier movement of blocks of data than a programmed loop containing a single-word move instruction ( or a load and store pair ) . |
| 25 | ‘ Next to the Devil you have no more bitter , more poisonous , more vehement an enemy than a real Jew who earnestly desires to be a Jew . ’ |
| 26 | It is evident that the priests who served St Martin knew how to jade a horse and to attribute its state to the saint 's intervention ; and if Gibbon had had the slightest suspicion of how the miracle had been performed he would have used a much stronger form of irony than a mere italicizing of the word itself . |
| 27 | A rocky shore almost certainly provides a clearer echo than a sandy slope or mud flat . |
| 28 | Clearly it will be easier to treat a recessive disease using gene therapy than a dominant one , since it is only necessary to introduce the normal gene , not to remove the mutated copy . |
| 29 | It is better to have comparatively shorter consistent lists than a huge one with all the above mixed , even if you are checking a sound word initially ! |
| 30 | When he came into the labs , Corbett was already poised over a crucible of smoking liquid , looking less like a mad professor than an incompetent short-order cook . |