Example sentences of "[adj] than [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The middle course valleys are broader and the valley sides are less steep than in the upper course . |
| 2 | The report is more interesting than by the member for South East Derbyshire er not that there 's much sex in it but if er er i it 's more interesting er sexual favours provided by B C C I officials to certain persons affiliated er with the firm . |
| 3 | The arithmetic in the Lords is messier than in the Commons . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In the female this tube is broader than in the male . |
| 7 | ‘ I can tell you he 's running quicker than at the same time last year , ’ said the Welshman , confident that Christie is capable of matching Canadian Bruny Surin 's 1993 world best of 6.45 . |
| 8 | While this is admittedly still a lengthy period , it is significantly quicker than under the ordinary procedure . |
| 9 | For the first time in 42 years , the seven biggest companies reported a smaller rise in assets in the financial year to March 31st than in the year before , as uncompetitive savings policies matured and were not renewed . |
| 10 | The wide entitlement to reliefs and rebates , which the government insisted were more generous than under the rates ; the existence of safety nets to redistribute income between certain authorities ; and the immediate introduction of capping all fudged the relationship between councils and voters . |
| 11 | The great majority of its members were more attracted to this than to the abuse from the Communists or to the dissensions of the ILP . |
| 12 | ‘ It is more difficult to be precise about this than about the earlier phases , partly because the pictures are rarer and less accessible , and have not been adequately photographed , partly because it includes considerable variations . ’ |
| 13 | The anatomy is also more strongly stressed in this than in the earlier statue , perhaps to tell against reflections in the shiny metal ; and this is something that becomes even more marked in succeeding generations . |
| 14 | In several species , including humans , colonic VFA absorption in vivo is associated with HCO 3 - secretion and a lower luminal pCO 2 than in the absence of VFAs . |
| 15 | The exercise of new found autonomy has been more apparent in the cultural than in the diplomatic sphere . |
| 16 | More and more members of the American foreign service were coming to question the belief , strongly held at the end of the war , that the USSR was more likely to be caught up in rivalry with the British than with the United States . |
| 17 | More importantly still , the influential Finance Minister , Pierre Bérégovoy , has repeatedly gone out of his way to express interest in the British proposals , emphasising that the French view is closer to the British than to the German . |
| 18 | The British government bought a controlling interest in Anglo-Persian , which from then on operated in Iran on terms much more favourable to the British than to the Iranians . |
| 19 | It is far easier for the British than for the American executive to do this . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | On the south side of the structure the concrete was cleaner than to the north , where it was discoloured with moss . |
| 22 | Kemp 's voice was no less clear than during the phone conversation . |
| 23 | Nowhere was the call for a new attitude more clear than in the inquiry conducted at Manchester University by Michael Sadler and his associates and published in 1907 . |
| 24 | They are well practised in choosing what they believe to be the right firm to handle a particular assignment and nowhere is this more clear than in the area of specialisation . |
| 25 | In no area , colleagues , is the despair caused by Tory mismanagement more abundantly clear than in the area of welfare benefits . |
| 26 | Still , he reckons that the bigger the mainframe , the cheaper relatively it is to buy — 10% cheaper , in fact , at the top than at the bottom end of the range . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Mr Jackson adds that salaries are much more performance-related than in the past . |
| 29 | But the Board was concerned far less about the private use of ‘ blue movies ’ as an aphrodisiac than about the increasing taste for sadism and other ‘ bizarre practices ’ in films and about the worrying influx into Britain of child pornography . |
| 30 | Language work in the final year is more specialized than in the first two years and includes translation and précis writing in administrative , technical and commercial registers of the languages , as well as some interpreting . |