Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a couple is less conspicuous than a man on his own … ’ |
| 2 | The rear ends of their wings are elongated into long tendrils which resemble antennae and are , indeed , more conspicuous than the insect 's real antennae . |
| 3 | They are then encouraged to notice and talk about what happens , e.g. a plastic boat floats , but if filled with water , it sinks ; or paper is lighter than a stone , but when it is wet through , it sinks . |
| 4 | And that mud wagon 's lighter than a Concord . " |
| 5 | You , lighter than a feather — |
| 6 | Although individuals vary widely , the bones of the average female skeleton are smaller and lighter than the male . |
| 7 | Although individuals vary widely , the bones of the average female skeleton are smaller and lighter than the male . |
| 8 | New brickwork , where visible , is several tones lighter than the original , to distinguish the building 's newest section . |
| 9 | It 's about 1lb lighter than the HP machine , but is a little larger . |
| 10 | However , it can not be very much lighter than the pulsar , otherwise the pulsar motion would not produce such a large Doppler shift . |
| 11 | Today she 's 12 stone — a stone lighter than the target she 'd first set herself . |
| 12 | Within each convecting layer , the upgoing fluid must be lighter than the downgoing , and this implies that the heat transport is dominant over the salt transport . |
| 13 | The laminated ball is fractionally lighter than the leather one which has been used by the Scottish League under its contractual agreement with another firm , Mitre , for the last 14 years . |
| 14 | Hosiers were accused of making too little allowance for normal waste , so that they could fine knitters whose returned work was lighter than the yarn which had been given out . |
| 15 | Made from carbon fibre , they are 30 per cent lighter than the aluminium designs they replace , offering considerable savings in fuel efficiency . |
| 16 | Computers were used extensively during the car 's development , in a successful attempt to make the AX 220lb lighter than the class average . |
| 17 | So a thirty year old service might be entirely different than a person with ten years service deferring his pension . |
| 18 | And you have some way of , of , of getting in , erm and you have some way of controlling access therefore into toilets , now I do n't know whether that would totally it , overcome the vandal system , but I mean if your saying a pass would n't be any different than a coin you could devise an entrance , so that it was n't , you know , so that what you would be doing is stopping having like the total open access all the time , you know , erm . |
| 19 | The Court ruled that , even if the agencies staff were instructed to print out what they deemed to be records , the electronic material are ‘ quantitatively different than a copy printed out in paper form and , therefore the Defendants ’ record keeping system violates ( the statute ) because it does not save all the information contained in these electronic records . ’ |
| 20 | As he dismounted he looked at me over the saddle and there Was that tell-nothing expression , looking at me no different than the Way he had looked at Lamarr Dean the moment before he broke a Whisky glass against his mouth . |
| 21 | For example if you go on an overland trip trekking in erm South America , you 're clearly looking for something totally different than the person who goes on the sort of typical Club Eighteen to Thirty type holiday . |
| 22 | Their obsession with gathering may , at first glance , seem no different than the fanaticism of collectors of rare books or woodblock prints . |
| 23 | They were no more secretive or abashed than the soldier ants would have been , gnashing their way through anything that was organic , their collective mind unclouded by doubt , guilt or the smallest hint of compunction . |
| 24 | Discussion in the Yachting World office has taken some interesting turns lately , none more interesting than the campaign for the single black box , or the all-things-in-one instrument . |
| 25 | The prose which preoccupied Milton during the Commonwealth and Protectorate periods was to be seen as separate and certainly intrinsically less interesting than the poetry in which Parker portrays Milton participating in some universalised European humanism . |
| 26 | Then I came across Rousseau 's Confessions , which took a bit of reading but was more interesting than the love mags . |
| 27 | The truth is that they 're so often used as fast turnover test beds for review equipment , and new fishkeeping ideas , that they are probably less interesting than the majority of our readers ' tanks . |
| 28 | Black , by this time at the laboratories of Smith , Kline , and French , led a team which achieved results no less interesting than the discovery of beta-blockers , and of equal practical importance . |
| 29 | What you are achieving with such a happy mix is very much more personal and , therefore , interesting than the blandness of the careful match . |
| 30 | Then somehow we did get romantically linked up and some people , right near the end of the situation with that band , singled us out as potentially more interesting than the band , which I suppose was a cruel situation really . |