Example sentences of "[adj] than [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The regulation of pension funds tends to be far lighter than for insurance companies as they are bound by trust legislation , and because the companies that offer pensions have an incentive to make sure that schemes are adequately administered as they are responsible for the benefits they have agreed upon for their employees ( even though they rarely run the fund themselves ) . |
| 2 | One of this country 's great strengths is that the burdens imposed by the Government on employing people are much lighter than in France and Germany . |
| 3 | The emphasis may be different than at Forest but the essentials are the same . |
| 4 | F.E. resourcing and staffing are more generous than for institutions under Schools ' Regulations . |
| 5 | Although European markets will be later than Britain in feeling any economic recovery coming from America , the bonus for investors is that share prices remain relatively undervalued and dividend policies , traditionally less generous than in America or Britain are now catching up , chivvied by foreign and domestic investors who are more demanding than in the past . |
| 6 | The place was a lot cleaner than in commune days . |
| 7 | Tattooing is a simple procedure , no more painful than for humans , and considerably quicker to carry out . |
| 8 | Why do my titles come out better in French than in English ? he wrote . |
| 9 | Home Office Minister , John Patten who 's also MP for Oxford west and Abingdon , says the scheme is much fairer than at present . |
| 10 | The crowd is more responsive than in LA , strange considering everyone 's heart must have sunk into their trainers . |
| 11 | The emphasis on research , however , is less marked than at Heidrick and Struggles , and there is no movement upwards from the ranks of researchers . |
| 12 | Similar choices in other languages may , on the other hand , be even more marked than in English . |
| 13 | Nowhere have these changes been more marked than in London and the South East , and the research project aims to document the two sets of changes and to examine their inter-relationships and policy implications . |
| 14 | In women it is rare for either the patient or the examining doctor to notice a primary lesion , and the next stage , that of the inguinal bubo , is usually less marked than in men . |
| 15 | With the 1989 Housing Act in effect , this will be even more strongly enforced than at present . |
| 16 | Installation is easier than with mains-voltage supplies too , because you can simply trail the cables across the ground instead of having to bury them . |
| 17 | Venturing out with a small baby is actually easier than with toddlers , who want to crawl , explore and get up to mischief . |
| 18 | As glass tubes are ideal for obtaining Raman spectra , sampling of liquids is much easier than for IR spectroscopy . |
| 19 | For market indices based on a small number of shares , such as the MMI with only 20 shares , arbitrage using all the shares in the index is much easier than for indices like the NYSE Composite , which comprises about 1700 shares . |
| 20 | But , anyway , I said yes , because I thought I could escape from him easier than from madam . |
| 21 | Communications by sea across the enclosed waters of the Adriatic has always been easier than by land routes across the mountains or along the narrow coastal strip . |
| 22 | Setting up the experiment in Utah and keeping it secret turned out to be easier than in Britain . |
| 23 | In some areas of the country , where voluntary services are well developed , substitution of voluntary for local provision would be easier than in areas where the voluntary sector is weak . |
| 24 | The war was also a business in which it was apparently no easier than in peace to obtain just treatment for seaman , whatever hardships they might be suffering . |
| 25 | Shopping could n't be easier than in Northampton 's compact central area . |
| 26 | Ground-contact time would be shorter than on concrete , they reckoned , yet step length would be increased , and with it , speed . |
| 27 | The fronds or stems are slightly shorter than in N. graminea or N. microdon . |
| 28 | Longterm survival in patients who undergo transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma tends to be shorter than in patients transplanted for cirrhosis , because of disease recurrence . |
| 29 | In summer the days are longer and warmer and the nights are shorter than in autumn . |
| 30 | Discrimination between individuals consists in making it easier for some than for others to realize their ideals of the good . |