Example sentences of "[adj] than [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , although the Gothic novel was largely escapist , its plebeian characters tended to be much more conspicuous than Jane Austen 's servants , and to have a distinct character of their own . |
| 2 | Spring-tined cultivators with tines at about six-inch spacing , are much lighter than chisel ploughs . |
| 3 | Trent let go jib sheet and halyard ; the heavy canvas flashed free , disappearing into the rain curtain as if lighter than tissue paper . |
| 4 | Hence the UK framework is far more lenient with regard to non-price than price restraints . |
| 5 | It seemed to Marx that nothing could be more different than kinship relations and relations in the labour market . |
| 6 | Somewhere a little more interesting than Wimbledon Hill . |
| 7 | For some days he had been mulling this over , trying to come up with something more interesting than Wyvis Hall . |
| 8 | And such adventure was far more interesting than Kent Nagano 's mundane performance of Prokofiev 's Sixth Symphony . |
| 9 | The business league proves more interesting than sport Outlook . |
| 10 | Gradually a long lie on a Saturday comes to mean rising at 5 p.m. in time for the Brookside omnibus , your rucksack quietly grows grey mouldy bits at the back of a dark cupboard , and The Face seems more interesting than Tom Weir 's ‘ My Month ’ . |
| 11 | Now I know what you 're thinking , but I mean to drink ; something more appealing to women than the Carlsberg Special Brew brigade , something more interesting than Piesporter Michelsberg . |
| 12 | ‘ They 'd be more interesting than business letters , I 'll give you that , ’ said Joe , ‘ but no , that 's not me . |
| 13 | And where should I go to see something a bit more interesting than garden birds ? |
| 14 | Inevitably skills analysis is more general and less definitive than task analysis although many of the same procedures for extracting evidence might be used . |
| 15 | Wage evidence could also be noted , but it is even scarcer than price data , and it remains as yet uncertain whether any particular trend swill be discernable . |
| 16 | Or , are they explicitly broader than MSC courses and based on the liberal or social purpose model ; and if so , to what extent are issues of unemployment brought into the course and stereotypes challenged ? |
| 17 | Leading on from this , a more general point is that where the objective of the operation is rather broader than profit maximization , shareholder control is probably far less appropriate than state control ( see , for example , Baumol , 1984 ) . |
| 18 | Ageism , so defined , is broader than age discrimination . |
| 19 | There is again the advantage for some people new to banking that the hours during which post offices are open to cash cheques are more generous than bank hours . |
| 20 | His idea of the freedom East Europeans can safely be allowed is far more generous than Brezhnev s , let alone Stalin 's . |
| 21 | No one was more aware of this than Francisco Franco . |
| 22 | The ITC guidelines make it clear that it does n't see ‘ sanitised ’ violence as innocuous and Ferman expresses greater concern about Lethal Weapon 2 than Reservoir Dogs . |
| 23 | She understood now that any deal would be no more adequate than baby clothes thrown into the shade of a seagrape tree . |
| 24 | Smith , by contrast , appears almost drab ; greyer than John Major , fatter than Ken Clarke , more smug than Chris Patten . |
| 25 | A Hannoverian duke became our own George I. This historical link does n't mean Hannover is any more British than Buck House is German , but then nobody visits Hannover for cucumber sandwiches . |
| 26 | And there is no way of checking that bottled water is any cleaner than tap water . |
| 27 | They hired him after research proved he was more popular than Rik Mayall and Rowan Atkinson among the young drinkers they were targeting He 's already appeared in US adverts for Shell Oil , Ford and Coors beer , but says of the Red Rock series : ‘ This is a different kind of thing because it 's comedy and fun . |
| 28 | In 1979 Labour decisively lost the election , although Mr Callaghan was more popular than Mrs Thatcher ( and his party ) . |
| 29 | There are a number of sports that are not supported by public funding and they include angling and archery , which are more popular than rugby league . |
| 30 | It was less popular than Peter Rabbit because itat Christmas |