Example sentences of "[adj] than [noun] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | People are so much more varied and interesting than birds or badgers or any of the other creatures naturalists watch with such exemplary patience . |
| 2 | It is far more popular than rice or pasta , and is an ingredient which is an essential item in every Cypriot store cupboard . |
| 3 | This is why in most cases an eyewitness account is more reliable than rumour or hearsay , or why the conclusions of a scientific experiment are likely to be accepted above the claims of a spaced-out acid head . |
| 4 | Its appeal to the spirit and the imagination is more direct than novels or poems . ’ |
| 5 | It 's certainly tougher than Bohème or Tosca from a technical point of view . |
| 6 | If M and N are any two positions , then say fc(M)>fc(N) if either all entries in fc(M) are strictly positive , and fc(M) is shorter than fc(N) or fc(M) and fc(N) have the same length , and the first few entries in fc(M) and fc(N) are equal and the next entry of fc(M) is larger than that of fc(N) . |
| 7 | Rigel is only marginally fainter than Capella or Vega , and is much more luminous than either . |
| 8 | Generally this must be not lower than cost or market value . |
| 9 | Further problems arose because the aisles were narrower and lower than nave or choir , and it was difficult to reconcile these variations with the use of a semi-circular arch . |
| 10 | The numbers of little auks which winter in the tidal streams round the islands , and the occasional Brünnich 's guillemot which turns up , are of northern origin , the Brünnich 's breeding no nearer than Iceland or the north tip of Norway , and the little auks from the area of Spitsbergen . |
| 11 | This immediately raised the question of whether documentary realism is therefore inherently more political than fiction or avant-garde cinema — a useless question as it turned out . |
| 12 | Crueller than owl or eagle |
| 13 | Presentational infidelity is less clear-cut and less readily identifiable than selectivity or measurement distortion . |
| 14 | This book seeks to present social anthropology as a humanistic discipline which , by its very nature , claims to be less ethnocentric and insular than history or sociology but which has strong and significant links with both these subjects as well as with social psychology and psychiatry . |
| 15 | Leila looked up and saw the man standing in the doorway , recognising him immediately for a creature less human than Sindy or any of her contemporaries . |
| 16 | Not only is the end product more valuable than slurry or FYM , but it can be spread much thinner ( 7 or 8 tons to the acre as opposed to 15 tons of FYM ) . |
| 17 | If you look at Algol and find that it is no brighter than Epsilon or Zeta , you may be sure that an eclipse is in progress . |
| 18 | Afro-Caribbeans were more likely to know the offender well and were more likely than Asians or whites to be victimised by other Afro-Asians . |
| 19 | Latvia — or at least Riga — is more sophisticated than Leningrad or Moscow . |
| 20 | Protozoa are much larger than bacteria or viruses , although still not visible to the naked eye . |
| 21 | They are much larger than parishes or townships . |
| 22 | By the end of the project , evaluation of each new step was beginning to become second nature and exchange was deeper than pleasantries or focusing only on a specific child . |
| 23 | A dark-legged pipit with well marked races occupying two distinct breeding habitats , mountain ( Water Pipit ) and coastal ( Rock Pipit ) , all appreciably larger and greyer than Meadow or Tree Pipits ( p. 209 ) . |
| 24 | Real concrete problems , such as the fact that Germany is the biggest trading nation in Europe , 50% more populous than France or Britain , that she holds half of the Soviet Union 's debt and has lent more money in government-guaranteed credit to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union , can not be made to disappear with words . |
| 25 | The latter is also more effective than grassland or moorland at capturing particulates and aerosols from the atmosphere . |
| 26 | Was it better than school or worse than school ? |
| 27 | I think he 's a charming man and he 's certainly better than Major or Kinnock , who both give me the creeps . |
| 28 | Polyunsaturated fats may reduce the amount of fatty deposits in the arteries which cause atherosclerosis , and unsaturated fats , such as vegetable oils , are safer than animal ( saturated ) fats ; soft margarine is better than butter or hard margarine . |
| 29 | Originally called Beecom — ‘ it sounded better than Acom or Ceecom ’ — the company boasts 170 staff working as computer consultants for a range of blue chip clients . |
| 30 | ‘ No , something more lethal than tabun or sarin . |