Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A mild recession may cause far more economic damage than a one-day stockmarket fall of , say , 25% , but it is much less unsettling . |
| 2 | Raised in status to a gorod ( that is , a town , a higher administrative level than an ostrog ) in 1686 , it was substantially rebuilt in 1693 with stout fortifications . |
| 3 | It is harder to predict the length of a financial-led recession than a manufacturing-led one . |
| 4 | Beggars ca n't be choosers : better to depend even on dubious private money than a criminal state |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In practice , you will seldom find it easy to show that you have suffered in that way and , in particular , you are not entitled to compensation to reflect the emotional distress than an unjust dismissal may well cause both you and your family . |
| 7 | He said I should have more adequate protection than a burglar alarm . |
| 8 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 9 | Intended as a place where DEA and CIA agents could meet unobserved with informants and clients , as a message drop for CIA arms dealers supplying Iraq and the Afghan rebels , as a waiting room for DEA CIs and couriers from Lebanon , and as a transit point , not just for heroin , but for cash , documents and bootleg computer software moving to and fro along the Beirut — Nicosia — US pipeline , Eurame , as run by El-Jorr , was more like a low-life social club than a secret intelligence centre . |
| 10 | It is more of a social club than a riding school . |
| 11 | It was more like a medieval monastery than a home , thought Sarella , but , despite that , there was something rather magnificent about it . |
| 12 | Clearly , there is more to being an informed citizen than an understanding of fixed shared values . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | One wall was taken up by a great open fireplace , more suggestive of a baronial hall than a Georgian living-room . |
| 15 | DAVID ELSWORTH will have a lot more to occupy his thoughts this winter than a certain grey steeplechaser . |
| 16 | This was represented in the very early stages by allocations of new council housing in Seaton Valley to workers of incoming firms on a much more generous basis than a simple ‘ key worker ’ system . |
| 17 | The boom has less to do with an ageing population than a growing interest from collectors and American tourists . |
| 18 | Such a right would give a monopoly in the program , thus protecting the underlying ideas more effectively than copyright , but the right would last for a shorter period than a patent , say 5 or 7 years maximum . |
| 19 | The problems presented by the Hurufi heresy , which seems to have attracted the sultan himself , were more of a religious and social nature than a political one , and to deal with them the Mufti was called in . |
| 20 | You will also need scissors , which are more convenient for this job than a knife . |
| 21 | Put another way , that means lower salaries for members a proposal more redolent of second-class citizenship than a classless society . |
| 22 | following a review by the county surveyor we suggest further things which are automatic consultation with local members and indeed this process of public consultation be brought forward to the beginning of the whole procedure of traffic managing reviews , now that , that sort of consultation will be more in the nature of a public meeting than a semi-formal enquiry , but we recommend to you that we use the same sort of terminology so that the public appreciates that they are genuinely being consulted by the County Council , now if we find that there are very contentious proposals after an order has been published , er a C C H , a County Consultant of Hearing may still be held if as members you feel that 's something you want to do , because the objective of , of this whole concept of County Consultant of Hearings is to have er flexible arrangements so that the County Council can demonstrate its commitment with consultations at a local level to demonstrate that , that members in particular are hearing what local people er say and to set up procedures within the organization to give members , particularly local members more involvement in the traffic management review process , those are the recommendations Chairman which involve in the paper . |
| 23 | It was a faint memory , usually ; more of a dim sensation than a picture , sliding imperceptibly into sleep . |
| 24 | Well like we , so we can try and e , with regards to the teams we 're probably a little bit more high profile than a lot of the other teams . |
| 25 | Bizarrely , it 's a pork butcher 's shop , and there 's more to this business than a bacon slicer and a few trays of pies . |
| 26 | A commission is an easier business than a tyde waiter or a land waiter ’ . |
| 27 | Detroit , which remains on the calendar , often seems much more a social event than a real race . |
| 28 | Finally , there also seemed to be some evidence than an internal bias towards helplessness ( similar to Seligman 's concept ) was implicated at some stage , in making PMP more likely or leading to poor coping responses . |
| 29 | The game , if game there had been , had broken the constraints of rule , and there is nothing more reminiscent of chaos and old night than a game become uncontrolled . |
| 30 | No disrespect to Philip Young , the conductor , or to any of the performers , but I have to agree with the member of the audience sitting behind me who commented that it seemed more of a damp squib than a big band ! |