Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because this diffusion was not even , and was far more marked where levels of literacy were comparatively high , it resulted in the growth of two cultural zones : on the one hand , French-speaking regions receptive to ‘ foreign ’ ideas , and on the other , rural areas which retained the old language and the old ways of life . |
| 2 | They are cheaper than wooden coffins , lighter than coffins of lead , and as safe as the most expensive contrivance . ’ |
| 3 | Guard duty over the two women was much lighter than tree-felling in the steamy forest or sawing up the timbers into six-feet lengths , then splitting them into staves for the stockade , the master 's house , and the other habitations they were erecting in the settlement . |
| 4 | These findings suggest that fixed-term contract workers and agency workers are not always direct substitutes for one another ( in other words , that resort to one might be made for reasons very different than resort to the other ) . |
| 5 | People often mention ‘ metal whiskers ’ as if they were the only kind but , as a matter of fact , metal whiskers are less common and less interesting than whiskers of non-metals and it is about these latter that we shall mostly talk . |
| 6 | The regulationist school , however , sees the structural changes that are associated with the changes in ‘ hardware ’ ( the computerization ) as broader than changes in the labour process . |
| 7 | To me they 're some of the most exciting things of Picasso 's , more exciting than things like Guernica . |
| 8 | If it was still going the third centenary would be approaching quicker than flames on dry moorland . |
| 9 | Mikael Shields , of BBC Enterprises , said : ‘ Children are far quicker than adults at spotting and rejecting cases of racism and stoutism . ’ |
| 10 | And there 's more to this than questions of individual fitness . |
| 11 | Eighteenth-century novelists , generally speaking , were no more interested than architects in the buildings that survived from earlier periods ; some , indeed , were actively contemptuous of them . |
| 12 | Cards from cats are more popular than cards from dogs . |
| 13 | Opinion poll results showed that he was consistently more popular than Bolger with the electorate , and many commentators expected him to launch a challenge for the party leadership . |
| 14 | The Virgin has always been more popular than Christ in the New World ; indeed in the sixteenth century certain churchmen had argued that while the East was the domain of Christ , the newly discovered West was that of his mother . |
| 15 | TEACHERS are obviously more popular than politicians despite Kenneth Clarke 's best efforts to prove otherwise . |
| 16 | For this is the Tetley Bitterworld of BIVOUAC , slightly inbred young Middle Englanders who would much rather plod their way to the top than dance with Nirvana , learns KEITH ‘ Plodcore ’ CAMERON . |
| 17 | The ex-Manchester United star admitted : ‘ I 'd rather quit at the top than drop to a lower level . |
| 18 | Although this assumption is very likely to be wrong it is still a usable forecast in the sense that it may be no more wrong than forecasts of change that get it wrong . |
| 19 | Are women more prone than men to finding fault ? |
| 20 | In a curious way , women are probably more prone than men to changes of mood , but are more able to manipulate them . |
| 21 | Until recently , European countries have been far more willing than America for the public sector to pay much of the cost for cleaning up . |
| 22 | Never been further than London in its life . |
| 23 | Not only were robots , at the time of the study , uneconomic to use on routine unskilled work , but they were more reliable than humans in performing skilled tasks . |
| 24 | At the same time , kin ties remained a structured link which offered the potential for mutual support , and this was probably more reliable than ties between non-kin and more acceptable than those bureaucratic forms of public support available in the period . |
| 25 | This is because of the great importance of infant mortality , the weightiest component of life expectancy and general mortality in developing countries , and also because a large body of observations concerning the effects are available not only from developed but also from developing countries and which are much more reliable than data on fetal mortality . |
| 26 | This author believes that the expert procedure is better suited than arbitration to what is essentially a valuation exercise . |
| 27 | Wood 's figures of 8–0-20–0 tell their story , but he was more wayward than Jeh in line and length . |
| 28 | She was shorter than Jimmy by a foot ; perhaps five foot three , and her long dark hair was cut to fall around her face in an old-fashioned sixties manner . |
| 29 | The national surveys of disability conducted by OPCS in 1985 revealed a higher prevalence of disability among women aged 75 and over than men in the same age group . |
| 30 | Some sites were clearly more dependent than others upon their own agricultural production , which encourages the belief that many small towns at the bottom end of the urban scale did not develop much in size or functional complexity beyond their large-village counterparts . |