Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter is less a cultural capital of scientific competences than a symbolic capital , based on the prestige of the university one went to , the graduate school , one 's references , one 's membership on prestigious editorial boards , grant committees , and institutes . |
| 2 | The broader phonetic representation used in the RM1 front-end will produce more homophones and homophonic phrases than a fine-class representation . |
| 3 | What is especially surprising is that its motivation was less an emotional regard for historical associations than a belief in the value to science of archaeological remains . |
| 4 | In our latest tractor assessment , we look at the Antares 130 , a tractor with more electronic features than a Royal Navy battleship . |
| 5 | I know Wavebreaker 's got more electronic toys than a battleship , but if the electricity fails then you 're back to the sextant and the sharp pencil . ’ |
| 6 | Terry and Tom argued as well , and there often seemed to be far more serious undercurrents than a simple difference of opinion . |
| 7 | Analysts point to the fact that far more beer is drunk at home on the Continent , which provides a more conducive atmosphere for low-alcohol products than a pub or bar . |
| 8 | As a Scottish paper remarked at the time , it was not his first dismissal , ‘ Bremner has had more early baths than a miner on night-shift . ’ |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | An articulate Inspector of Accidents who has personal experience of these matters is possibly better able to make an assessment of such things than a lawyer who has little more experience than turbulence in flight spilling some of the champagne in the first class section of the cabin . |
| 11 | Whether , in operation , such a tax would have lower administrative costs than a personal income tax depends on the details of the tax . |
| 12 | As a consequence of the technical complexities of reprocessing highly irradiated oxide fuel from AGR and PWR , the Board expects to pay more for the reprocessing of a tonne of these fuels than a tonne of magnox fuel . |
| 13 | New car registrations were nearly 16 per cent higher in the latest three months than a year earlier . |
| 14 | You 'll generally find that a serif face , that 's one with the little ticks at the ends of the letters , is much easier to read in large quantities than a sans serif one . |
| 15 | Bottom last season with fewer points than a truncated triangle , the Middleton Tyas club now finds itself second , above Masham Reserves on goal difference . |
| 16 | Any high-fat , high-sugar way of eating is likely to be providing fewer nutrients than a low-fat , low-sugar regime with similar overall calorie content . |
| 17 | The immensity of geological time entitles us to postulate more improbable coincidences than a court of law would allow but , even so , there are limits . |
| 18 | I CA N'T think of anything more likely to get us through the pre-Christmas traumas than a new play by Don Hayworth . |
| 19 | Walden talked about the way in which Britain 's role had been artificially inflated by the cold war : ‘ What could be better calculated to raise the national spirits than a government holding the flag high in the face of the evils of communism , the murderous follies of buffoonish Argentinian generals , and the intrigues of the perfidious French ? ’ |
| 20 | They will initiate more effective policies than a ‘ badly-informed populace ’ . |
| 21 | It seems that problems of proof loom large here : there is a fear that the unscrupulous would manipulate any law permitting ‘ mercy killings ’ , and the argument is presumably that this would put at risk more unwilling parties than a law allowing euthanasia would benefit willing parties . |
| 22 | I glanced over , thinking that she had much better legs than a woman of her age deserved . |
| 23 | Come to that , she had much better legs than a man of Gav 's mental age deserved . |
| 24 | Also , company 1 , by focusing on decreasing margins through time , rather than the fact that it is still earning better margins than a rival , may be ‘ bearish ’ and let company 2 get established in the market too easily . |
| 25 | If he , Paul Arkwright , could make his own name again in this way it might lead to even better things than a University chair . |
| 26 | Six-monthly unemployment is worse in all regions than a year ago . |
| 27 | Top service brass , diplomats and the intelligence community all tended to look at the world in more interventionist terms than a decade earlier . |
| 28 | The wintry sun , pale yellow and barely warm , hung above the new towers at Westminster , still with their fuzzy outline of scaffolding and looking more like giant columnar trees than a work of man . |
| 29 | In tests , this gave much better results than a standard one in a red encapsulation . |
| 30 | A polite but firm approach gets better results than a rude but firm approach . |