Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes were open , but his face was such a fearful mask of blood , foam , vomit and earth that he looked more like some demon-creature than a rabbit . |
| 2 | What they see is three men — the Hebrew makes this clearer than the English . ) |
| 3 | The contours begin at 0.125K and increase logarithmically , each step being a factor of 2 larger than the previous one . |
| 4 | ‘ The reason the tyres were heated was this : when we cut out the piece of the loose tyre and welded it together it was –en smaller than the actual woodwork on the wheel . |
| 5 | Most were about 15 minutes late , some more than an hour . |
| 6 | Do not repeat this more than a couple of times in rapid succession however , because otherwise the dog may start to interpret this as a game . |
| 7 | Is this more than a mere technical exercise ? |
| 8 | No issue has confirmed this more than the environment , where public as well as legislative pressure has helped produce a surge in environmental programmes across industries , particularly in the US . |
| 9 | Clumping of cones of the same type is apparent , but is this more than the chance aggregation that arises in any random distribution ? |
| 10 | Nothing exemplified this more than the campaign for public economy which shook the government in 1921 . |
| 11 | Suppose I can identify a range of cases in which I am wrong more than the putative authority . |
| 12 | Its first two blast furnaces employing 50 men were upgraded within four years to employ 300 more than the population of the whole parish . |
| 13 | We had known one another less than a year , all Paris knew of our passion , and he chose three months in the company of Du Camp ! |
| 14 | All polymerases bind the T7 promoter with an affinity 10-fold higher than the lac promoter and 20 to 50-fold higher than the gal promoter . |
| 15 | One comes from revelation and inspiration , and is guided by a light higher than the light of human understanding , and a truth deeper than the truth of outward existence and accepts a changing reality that ultimately leads to freedom . |
| 16 | He wrote : ‘ If someone has just stepped out of your life you 'll be better reaching for this single than a bottle , razor blade or handkerchief . ’ |
| 17 | What is this other than the ‘ Spirit far more deeply interfused ’ of Tintern Abbey , or The Prelude 's ‘ Wisdom and Spirit of the Universe ’ ? |
| 18 | Trivers argues that the chances of selection favouring altruistic behaviour in which individuals dispense a benefit to another greater than the cost of the act will be improved when many potentially altruistic situations arise in the population , when there are repetitive interactions of the same kind within a small group of individuals , and where symmetrical situations favouring the return of benefits are common . |
| 19 | Indeed it is questionable if an overall EEC policy in regard to the disadvantaged areas would be sensible other than the acceptance that problems exist , local schemes will be required and that financial assistance for support measures is essential . |
| 20 | One suspects that the language was no more beautiful in the German original than the English translation . |
| 21 | Half of the grains are coarser and half finer than the median diameter , whose size is most readily determined from the 50% line of the cumulative distribution curve . |
| 22 | There is also a polled Charolais , generally bred to be lighter boned than the traditional type , and some breeders used the Lincoln Red to introduce the polling factor . |
| 23 | Lesser known than the Bradenham , the Suffolk is also a sweet ham which is lightly smoked . |
| 24 | Is that bigger than a tennis court ? |
| 25 | Is that bigger than the Empire ? |
| 26 | They were huge wheeled galvanised cylinders , each taller than a man and of the kind that could be chained to a garbage wagon and then hoisted and inverted in one great burst of hydraulic power . |
| 27 | Not only were Arsenal the first southern club to win the title , but their 66 points were six better than the previous high of Sheffield Wednesday the year before : 28 out of 42 games were won , only four lost , and wins , draws and losses were evenly divided between home and away ; the goals total , 127 , was one less than Aston Villa 's all-time high of the same year . |
| 28 | The dominance of US business was more overwhelming in the early fifties than the statistics for exports suggest . |
| 29 | 10 What number is 7 less than The agents were using algebra to keep their numbers secret , by using letters to stand in place of numbers . |
| 30 | It 's not much more than a broom cupboard , I know , but what do you think of it ? ’ |