Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nuclear will increase by 120% ( a far lower level than previously projected — see Nuclear Power ) , coal use will grow by some 70% while gas consumption will register a slight fall . |
| 2 | Although the demand for rabbit meat has shown some improvement , the general attitude of the consumer has helped to keep demand at a much lower level than previously . |
| 3 | Women in second marriages are more likely to have had an affair than those in their first , and women who work full-time are , it seems , more prone to extra-curricular passions than either part-time workers or housewives . |
| 4 | ‘ I know some people are saying we will hit somebody for five or six goals sooner or later , but I 'd rather we had a nice , successful run of 1-0 wins than just a one-off . ’ |
| 5 | Volunteers need greater counselling skills and better personal emotional support than ever before . |
| 6 | Also , it has somewhat different political perspectives in terms of a ‘ persistent leftism ’ ( Adams , 1983 ) rather than pragmatic reformism , and is more committed to direct political action than elsewhere . |
| 7 | Of course , if such a procedure were adopted by the House it would be better to have it subject to agreement between the usual channels than merely on the diktat of the Government . |
| 8 | Existing member states , such as the UK , therefore were to receive relatively less in terms of regional aid than previously , although this could in part be compensated by the general increase in the size of the Structural Funds . |
| 9 | The consumer must accept that , with organic systems , some fruits and vegetables will not look perfect and they will continue to be more expensive because organic farming is more labour intensive and the land usually produces lower yields than conventionally farmed land . |
| 10 | At the same time Emily Faithfull modified the length and pay of apprenticeships , and the workers had extremely good conditions and shorter hours than elsewhere . |
| 11 | Weobly , lying among gentle hills , its church spire visible from miles away , boasts more and finer black and white medieval houses than anywhere in the county . |
| 12 | The Tories say they campaigned harder in this election than ever before . |
| 13 | Essentially , this debate concerns those projects which are undertaken by other than the trading organizations within the public sector and which involve broader considerations than simply , for example , the replacement of worn out equipment . |
| 14 | Unionists of the time would scarcely have recognized the terms of the debate , for in 1922 the party was still embroiled with Ireland and the House of Lords , held a smaller share of the popular vote than ever before , and was still split as it had been since 1902 ; few Unionists would have seen the war as a turning-point for the better in the party fortunes . |
| 15 | But if you do believe it then you must also believe the rest of it and realise that our relationship is destined to move along quite different channels than purely business ones . ’ |
| 16 | The Labour party first committed itself to abolition of the House of Lords in 1910 , yet it has done less to diminish the power of hereditary peers than either the Liberals or Conservatives . |
| 17 | According to OECD studies the proportion of elderly people killed and injured is greater in residential areas than elsewhere in urban areas . |
| 18 | It is fair to say that international organizations are much more sensitive to this accusation than formerly . |
| 19 | Now there is more to this passage than either the story that it heralds , poignant and memorable though that is , or the condescending tone of the last sentence , for the innocence Davin embodies brings to Stephen as a brute fact from the real world the missing half of a truth which Stephen has known but so far been unable to admit even to himself , and which will go on mattering to Joyce for many years . |
| 20 | The whole cathedral shows a greater French influence than elsewhere in Belgium . |
| 21 | It would have been unlikely were it not for the introduction of the microcomputer , and in the UK the installation of microcomputers in large numbers of secondary schools has stimulated perhaps more of this work than anywhere else . |
| 22 | In these other bodies of law we see more influence of foreign law than elsewhere in our legal system . |
| 23 | 1 It is much more effective to carry out media relations activities within the framework of a detailed plan than simply to publicise events as they happen and haphazardly respond to media enquiries . |
| 24 | I would like to suggest that an answer to this question should address broader concerns than simply a desire to make a representation of appearance . |
| 25 | Risky investments do usually have higher yields , and do therefore pay more direct tax than less risky investments . |
| 26 | Once again there are different ways in which such data are used , but all share the object of analysing the data anew , using them for different purposes than originally intended . |
| 27 | … There 's more of public relations in this job than probably — that does n't come down in print . |
| 28 | There was more to this canal than just a final obstacle , however . |
| 29 | Duration of onset was recorded in a sub-group , and showed Asians had a shorter duration than both other groups , but particularly when compared with Afro-Caribbeans . |
| 30 | C , in which it is shown that the introduction of continuous compounding leads to more complicated no-arbitrage conditions than otherwise . |