Example sentences of "[adj] than [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The range of public library services , as was noted at the beginning of this chapter , is now much broader than merely books and readers , and perhaps these logos should have made more attempt to reflect this greater concern for information services in the widest sense . |
| 2 | But there may be more to this than comradely debate . |
| 3 | He is more popular than either Margaret Thatcher or Neil Kinnock . |
| 4 | This year 's Sixteenth Biennale Internationale des Antiquaires , to be held in the Grand Palais in Paris from 18 September to 4 October , will be more theatrical than ever thanks to Italian stage designer Pier Luigi Pizzi who has been hired to create a neo-classical Italianate mise en scène for participants to show off their wares . |
| 5 | If the biochemical change is the consequence simply of the experience of tasting the bead , then the level of fucose incorporation in E should be the same as that in D and F , and higher than in all the water groups A — C. If , however , the increased incorporation is associated with memory , then E should be equivalent to B and lower than either D or F. We needed , of course , to repeat the experiment with enough birds — eventually , a dozen in each group — to be sure of the results — but when we analysed the data , they were unequivocal , and I ca n't resist showing them in Figure 10.8 . |
| 6 | While the Midland had expected that its reserves would be lower than either Barclays or NatWest , both newly merged , it was horrified to learn that the true capital of Lloyds , a bank it had always looked down on , was £266m , £73m higher than its own . |
| 7 | It was n't a question of social security payments being too high , it was a question of wages being lower than even government estimates of subsistence ! |
| 8 | This is lower than both types of silicon-based cell , but the thin-film cell is much cheaper to make . |
| 9 | Nature , however , proved more subtle than even Maxwell had imagined . |
| 10 | And Branson knew that Virgin stood a better chance of achieving that than either EMI or A&M had done . |
| 11 | It barely represented the true drama of the moment , though Nicholson was better informed than most on the subject because apart from being a friend of Polanski , he gleaned first-hand accounts by attending the trial of Manson and his disciples , whose story proved to be more gruesome than even Hollywood could either manufacture or exploit in a movie . |
| 12 | I finally turned to Kent , not because of what had already been discovered there but because it was on my doorstep and a lot more accessible than either France or Wiltshire . |
| 13 | Stewarts and Crazy Prices supermarkets are cashing in on the schooltime purchases with a bigger than ever range of bags and stationery . |
| 14 | Its qualifications for taming England supporters look from this distance more compelling than even Sardinia 's . |
| 15 | I had to sleep with it closed because if I left it open the cat would jump in and more likely than not land from ten feet on to my face — a nasty way to wake up . |
| 16 | When Safdarjung arrived from Persia , Aurangzeb was still Emperor and Delhi was still the richest , most magnificent and most populous city between Istanbul and Edo ( Tokyo ) ; with its two million inhabitants it was far larger than either London or Paris . |
| 17 | I think it 's true to say that , certainly at my school , about the age of fourteen of fifteen the girls suddenly decide that they ca n't do maths and there 's no way that they could understand anything scientific , but that , I think , is a lot deeper than just encouragement at school anyway . |
| 18 | More confused than ever Mungo had picked up The Forest and the Fire , turning to page 119 . |
| 19 | This case is rather more complex than either Dubbingtons or Hardy Hall , and you probably need to use a more structured approach within the sections . |
| 20 | When it is not , it is better than both clergy and congregation resort to speech . |
| 21 | Comparative studies in volunteers have shown that activated charcoal is better than either syrup of ipecacuanha or gastric lavage in reducing drug absorption . |
| 22 | It 's commonly held that instruments are generally better made these days — even the cheap ones — and one of the prime benefits of this is that the purchaser has a better than even chance of buying a worthwhile instrument , regardless of cost . |
| 23 | Well she could n't of had it colder than when dad was in hospital ! |
| 24 | Cheaper than anywhere Norm |
| 25 | She knew more than either Defries or Daak about sliding rogue instructions into computerized systems . |
| 26 | But as the South-East Asian boom has gathered pace , so the area has become something more than simply Japan 's backyard . |
| 27 | Chatterjee wondered about this as it began to seem more than simply coincidence . |
| 28 | At the time when the Hundred Years war broke out , a defender had a more than even chance of beating off an attack . |
| 29 | It was not at all necessary to say that I hoisted French colours , and therefore took the schooner unawares , or that at the time most of her men were on board of the Indiaman ; the great art in this world is , to know where to leave off , and in nothing more than when people take the pen in their hands . |
| 30 | The liquidity squeeze ( predicted to affect only 10 per cent of the population directly ) immediately limited withdrawals from interest-bearing money-market accounts ( estimated to total $70,000 million ) to 20 per cent and those from private savings and current accounts to no more than approximately $1,000 . |