Example sentences of "[verb] than the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since HWIM 's grammar was far less tightly constrained than the finite state grammar used in HARPY , the system hypothesised a considerable number of words at the beginning of an utterance . |
| 2 | The parameter values of the QPO feature are much better constrained than the red-noise part . |
| 3 | Relaxation classes , acupuncture and hypnosis are other ways of emulating the nicotine high ; statistically , they are less likely to work than the real thing . |
| 4 | The collapse of the Warsaw Pact has produced a new challenge which could be less costly to meet than the old one , but only if the right choices are made now . |
| 5 | First , there is much more serious crime being committed than the official police records indicate . |
| 6 | The female tuxedo is leaner and more finely honed than the male version , with slim-fitting , narrow-shouldered jackets . |
| 7 | Childline , Childline Den got us a Hovis loaf it looks than the other one . |
| 8 | Yesterday morning at Masham there was more to report than the poor reversing . |
| 9 | Occasionally a space divided two buildings and then I caught a glimpse of attap huts , children playing , chickens scratching in the dust , pigs rooting , the vivid red of a flame tree , coconut and breadfruit trees , more what I expected than the pink-washed ‘ retirement bungalow ’ . |
| 10 | The Law Society had greater reservations about franchising than the other bodies , except that it liked the administrative advantages and thought that they should be extended to all legal aid practitioners who satisfied quality control criteria developed by the Board and the Law Society . |
| 11 | The path to the next set of ruins was steeper and less travelled than the previous one . |
| 12 | After Melanie shopped , she helped her aunt , either serving in their own shop or writing out price tags or performing the endless task of polishing the woodwork of counter and drawers , a Forth Bridge of polishing that was no sooner completed than the messy fingers of small customers meant it must be started again . |
| 13 | It can be seen that the trie was in fact faster to search than the reduced memory tree in all three cases , however it uses more memory ( approximately one and a half times as much as the reduced memory tree ) . |
| 14 | Or will they attempt to funnel more business through their factoring subsidiaries on the grounds that they are better placed than the local branch managers to monitor the banks ' exposure to risk ? |
| 15 | The development of the Clos des Galées at Rouen , under the patronage of the French crown ( notably in the reign of Charles V ) , is matched by the steps taken by Henry V to develop a royal shipyard at Southampton , so much better positioned than the traditional one at the Tower of London , and by the appointment of royal officers to supervise its working and administration . |
| 16 | Indeed , we are now one of the least taxed nations in western Europe , though we are still more heavily taxed than the average American or Japanese . |
| 17 | The success of the second petition had turned on the fact that it included the signatures of the professors of the two schools — Sewell , Spooner and Simonds for London and Dick for Edinburgh — but no sooner had the Charter been granted than the two schools were in dispute with the Royal College . |
| 18 | But the one on the right it 's glass will cost you more to replace than the complete |
| 19 | Perhaps it is the results of such non-philanthropic attitudes that are more clearly seen than the actual attitudes themselves . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , visiting hours were an ordeal far more to be dreaded than the occasional unattractive things the doctors or nurses came and did to me . |
| 21 | But in the Cambrian or earlier the chordates no doubt included animals little more highly organized than the contemporary arthropods or brachiopods . |
| 22 | Other work in progress has examined this issue in one district where it seems that the other community services are so much less well organized than the special service that managers have found it impossible to prevent that service being undermined by lack of staff , continuity , training , and good practice leadership . |
| 23 | Less stringently regulated than the Official List operated by the Stock Exchange and open to smaller , less well-known companies , the USM is intended to promote and accommodate growth and vigour in the corporate sector of the economy . |
| 24 | Yet the sobbing of the unfortunate women who had found lice in their hair had been easier to endure than the malicious pleasure of those who had found none . |
| 25 | They are smaller and less well equipped than the large Roman establishments but , being in a much better state of preservation , have provided invaluable material for study . |
| 26 | But slaves in good households were far better fed , clothed , and housed than the free wage-labourers who formed the majority of the labour force . |
| 27 | Such detailed procedures required to be operated by builders involve an equivalent , if not greater , cost to administer than the traditional PAYE scheme for directly employed labour . |
| 28 | An oil refinery at Llandarcy ( Swansea ) was started when smaller tankers were used than the modern supertankers which dock in the deeper water of the ria , or drowned valley , of Milford Haven . |
| 29 | People forget that it was they who freed the country from Pol Pot , otherwise many more would have died than the one million who were starved , tortured , and executed between 1975-78 . |
| 30 | In both saloons moveable dining-room chairs were used and the tables also were made moveable , so that the interior of the saloons could be more easily and thoroughly cleaned than the old style of car with the fixed and upholstered furniture . |