Example sentences of "[adj] than [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grass is greener than in a commercial for lawn-mowers ; something , as at a Test match or at Wimbldeon , hangs in the air or on the hum of the crowd 's voice . |
| 2 | A collection of general medical books in a public library may deal with the same range of topics , but the indexing can be broader than in a specialist context , and the terms used for the same thing may be different . |
| 3 | Mrs Hill was a small , plump , middle-aged woman , with fine frizzy hair which she encased in a fine frizzy hair net ; she always wore a purple and blue flowered pinny , a garment more in keeping with an aunt or a cleaner than with a lover of science . |
| 4 | In such cases failure is even more painful than with a home student , and one has heard rumours of failed candidates having to return several years of fees to their government , and suffering even worse penalties . |
| 5 | What can be easier than for a manufacturer to limit his sales to those members of the public who fulfil the qualification of being this or doing that ? |
| 6 | Notice that holding the intermediate result of a calculation in the accumulator not only shortens the instruction length , but also increases the instruction execution speed , since the access time to a processor register is shorter than to a store location . |
| 7 | In spite of the visual evidence , Lam is presented less as a modernist than as a rebel against modernism , as the outsider who challenges Europe on its own terms and wins . |
| 8 | The police bureaucracy is also organized hierarchically , but the paramilitary aspect of its role means that the hierarchy is far more disciplined and rigid than in a civilian bureaucracy . |
| 9 | The system is further complicated by the fact that on many issues a Flemish socialist is far less likely to agree with a French-speaking fellow-socialist than with a conservative fellow-Fleming . |
| 10 | David Boole of Jaguar Cars describes the medium-term as healthier than for a long time' . ’ |
| 11 | Diffusion is much slower through a liquid than through a gas . |
| 12 | The payments on a lease will normally be lower than on a contract allowing for the purchase of the asset , although sometimes the difference is small and then a rebate is made when the term of the contract finishes and the plane is sold . |
| 13 | Although the sexual risks between female partners are far lower than between a male/female couple ( because infected semen does not enter the woman 's body ) , they can not be completely ignored . |
| 14 | It has been suggested ; that this creates a system of judicial zoning , in the sense that the law recognises that in one particular area , near an industrial estate for example or in a rural community , certain odours are to be expected and the standard adopted will as a result be lower than in a purely residential area where odour pollution of the air is not expected . |
| 15 | Very low prices ( the retailer makes savings through bulk buying , and overheads are lower than in a central location — part of these savings is passed on to the customer ) |
| 16 | Because the service standards are likely to be somewhat lower than in a commercial operation , you might set the rate so that they were 50 per cent ( or even 60 per cent ) of the total . |
| 17 | The mitotic index in deeper distal mesenchyme ( 6–16 cell layers beneath the surface ) in -AER limbs is threefold lower than in a comparable region of contralateral +AER limbs , and twofold lower than in -AER limbs cultured in the absence of BMP-2 ( Fig. 3 ) , indicating BMP-2 inhibits cell proliferation in distal limb mesenchyme . |
| 18 | A study showed that the level of stress related illness among employees in a department which provided support as described was much lower than in a similar department that did not take such precautions . |
| 19 | In one of these studies the FVC in low birthweight children was not lower than in a reference group . |
| 20 | Their main advantages for buyers are ( a ) price , which is significantly lower than in a retail operation , and ( b ) the opportunity to buy small bulk quantities . |
| 21 | This surely suggests that in the more distant demes — Eleusis with its great sanctuary and fortifications , or Rhamnous and Sounion with their temples of Nemesis and Poseidon ( ML 53 = Fornara 90B for the treasury accounts of Rhamnousian Nemesis ) — the city 's magnetic pull was less strong than in a deme close to the city , like , say , Kolonos . |
| 22 | Dickens 's Will Fern , with first-hand knowledge of life inside one , complains of this female tendency : ‘ It looks well in a picter , I 've heerd say ; but there a n't weather in picters , and maybe ‘ t is fitter for that than for a place to live in . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Guys like Stefan and Boris will be more pumped up for that than for a preparation tournament . ’ |
| 24 | This programme will not be transmitted until 8.30am on Sunday , January 10 , 1993 , when the reflection on the Christmas and Epiphany messages , which the script highlights , will seem more appropriate than on a wet November evening . |
| 25 | Indeed , Braveman and Jarvis ( 1978 ) , having argued that their results imply separate mechanisms for the two phenomena , go on to acknowledge the possibility that their results might simply reflect the use of a test procedure that was less sensitive as a measure of conditioning than as a measure of neophobia . |
| 26 | Lord McLaren at p309 stated : It seems to me that in such a case the deduction would be no more claimable than in a case where an individual partner having money in many concerns chooses to employ a private secretary for the purpose of keeping an account of his income and his expenditure . |
| 27 | In principal , twice the number of phosphate rotors need to be restricted in forming the duplex than in a single strand helix , although experimentally the adverse entropy change is essentially the same in the two cases . |
| 28 | However , a spring sowing of such seed will produce some plants , though the number will be fewer than from a summer sowing . |
| 29 | But she passionately wanted to get on with him ; she made every effort to entertain and to captivate , for in proximity he was even more dazzling than from a distance . |
| 30 | Selecting a carpet from the roll is always better than from a pattern book to get clearer idea of how the carpet will look . |