Example sentences of "[verb] than a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Altogether more of a Second Empire kind of guzzle than a Roman treat , that invention . |
| 2 | They 're harder to see than a high-speed mouse . |
| 3 | These posts take longer to arrange than a full term pregnancy : a cot death could therefore also deprive a mother of her domestic commitment before her job has finally been arranged . |
| 4 | External frames are all but defunct in the UK because most have accepted that the ergonomically contoured internal frame sack is much more stable to carry than an external frame pack , even at the expense of some loss of ventilation to the back . |
| 5 | Another consideration is that monitors working in interlaced mode produce an image that generally is more prone to flicker than a non-interlaced display of the same screen resolution . |
| 6 | An in-house lawyer is usually better placed than an outside lawyer to give the advice which will most benefit his client ; he should have sufficient knowledge of his employer 's structure , resources and commercial objectives to enable him to give advice geared specifically to his client 's needs , which will not always be the same as the ‘ standard ’ legal advice . |
| 7 | took longer to sort than a same meaning pair like : |
| 8 | How old paint cures , so that a 17th-century painting is in fact much easier to clean than a 19th-century one ( this also surprised him ) . |
| 9 | The cost of hot water is reduced in relation to the capital expenditure which can be undertaken , so that an efficient boiler system is more costly to install than a simple immersion heater , but cheaper to run . |
| 10 | A national election victory gives a stronger moral claim to rule than a local election . |
| 11 | She started to think that she had a vocation for taking heroic decisions , but it was really nothing more sustaining than a rabid kind of recklessness that erupted suddenly and then left her feeling bleak and inept . |
| 12 | The machinery which keeps the wall from melting is complicated , but despite this , Alp'Roc claim it will cost no more to buy than a normal climbing wall . |
| 13 | ACE 3000 will cost no more to buy than a modern diesel engine , and if every US railway converted tomorrow , they would save a third to half of their fuel costs each year , say American Coal Enterprises , giving a good return on investment . |
| 14 | A berserker was a fine thing if you just wanted to kill the enemy ; but if you wanted to manoeuvre , he was harder to handle than a charging bull . |
| 15 | The prescription of a conflicts rule , though more readily agreed than a substantive rule , is very much the second best solution . |
| 16 | A hedging transaction will be much easier to justify than an outright speculation . |
| 17 | They may , however , not be exactly what the author would have preferred , as a colour plate which is readily available ( perhaps having been used in another publication ) is much cheaper to use than a new plate which has to be commissioned . |
| 18 | High kicks are inherently more difficult to use than a simple reverse punch to mid-section , so the referee panel relaxes the standards somewhat . |
| 19 | A manual typewriter is physically harder to use than an electric keyboard . |
| 20 | The experts say a good manmade holt can be better appreciated than a natural one |
| 21 | The experts say a good manmade holt can be better appreciated than a natural one |
| 22 | The attitudes of deaf people to its use is that it is no easier , and possibly more difficult , to understand than a foreign sign language . |
| 23 | The term is more a measure of the sort of living a holding will provide and the labour involved than a mere acreage . |
| 24 | Being a combination , this is more likely to score than a single face punch which , as I said earlier , is often simply overlooked by the referee . |
| 25 | In fact , although this passage sounds rapid and colloquial it is still easier to analyse than a full-speed conversational interchange . |
| 26 | After all , a large screen TV showing video in a 16 per cent window will be more easily viewed than a small screen television showing full frame video . |
| 27 | Two wheeled carts are easier to balance than a single wheeled barrow , but tend to be more difficult to manoeuvre . |
| 28 | From all the discussion so far , one would predict that BSL as a language should be no more difficult to learn than a foreign language , except , that is , for the fact that BSL is not a high status language and its users are often treated as failures . |
| 29 | It is a straight-down-the-middle view of the work , and given the number of rough edges I have to wonder whether it has anything more to offer than a dozen more successfully recorded alternatives . |
| 30 | Now it is true that all these examples of Christian virtue had other things to offer than a rigorous asceticism and a rather overt and physical way of acting this out . |