Example sentences of "[adj] than [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are cheaper than wooden coffins , lighter than coffins of lead , and as safe as the most expensive contrivance . ’ |
| 2 | People often mention ‘ metal whiskers ’ as if they were the only kind but , as a matter of fact , metal whiskers are less common and less interesting than whiskers of non-metals and it is about these latter that we shall mostly talk . |
| 3 | The regulationist school , however , sees the structural changes that are associated with the changes in ‘ hardware ’ ( the computerization ) as broader than changes in the labour process . |
| 4 | To me they 're some of the most exciting things of Picasso 's , more exciting than things like Guernica . |
| 5 | If it was still going the third centenary would be approaching quicker than flames on dry moorland . |
| 6 | Mikael Shields , of BBC Enterprises , said : ‘ Children are far quicker than adults at spotting and rejecting cases of racism and stoutism . ’ |
| 7 | And there 's more to this than questions of individual fitness . |
| 8 | Eighteenth-century novelists , generally speaking , were no more interested than architects in the buildings that survived from earlier periods ; some , indeed , were actively contemptuous of them . |
| 9 | Cards from cats are more popular than cards from dogs . |
| 10 | TEACHERS are obviously more popular than politicians despite Kenneth Clarke 's best efforts to prove otherwise . |
| 11 | Although this assumption is very likely to be wrong it is still a usable forecast in the sense that it may be no more wrong than forecasts of change that get it wrong . |
| 12 | Are women more prone than men to finding fault ? |
| 13 | In a curious way , women are probably more prone than men to changes of mood , but are more able to manipulate them . |
| 14 | Not only were robots , at the time of the study , uneconomic to use on routine unskilled work , but they were more reliable than humans in performing skilled tasks . |
| 15 | At the same time , kin ties remained a structured link which offered the potential for mutual support , and this was probably more reliable than ties between non-kin and more acceptable than those bureaucratic forms of public support available in the period . |
| 16 | The national surveys of disability conducted by OPCS in 1985 revealed a higher prevalence of disability among women aged 75 and over than men in the same age group . |
| 17 | Some sites were clearly more dependent than others upon their own agricultural production , which encourages the belief that many small towns at the bottom end of the urban scale did not develop much in size or functional complexity beyond their large-village counterparts . |
| 18 | Women do not have equal access to them because of their location in the labour market and consequently are more dependent than men on the less generous statutory minimum payments . |
| 19 | Secondly , a much higher proportion of working-class women experiencing early loss and premarital pregnancy ( PMP ) were found to be depressed than women in the same group without PMP . |
| 20 | They were often less closely associated than colleagues from other ministries or departments ( Gérard Théry of the DGT , during the Giscard Presidency , for instance ) with policies towards communications technology and the ‘ new media ’ . |
| 21 | Wine is more profitable than bicycles in this part of France . |
| 22 | Alpha males were consistently friendlier than others towards male infants but were particularly nice if there was a chance that the infant was their own . |
| 23 | Some of Freud 's patients became more rational in their understanding of their problems , and they could therefore be said to be nearer than non-patients to the standard Freud held up as worthy of human beings . |
| 24 | This suggests that men are more cruel than women towards cats , but such an interpretation assumes that cats can distinguish between deliberate cruelty and pain inflicted for the animals ' own good . |
| 25 | Both underweight and overweight women had a lower chance of becoming pregnant than women with normal weight , although this effect was greater for the obese than for the lean women . |
| 26 | A node in a Kohonen net is simpler than nodes in perceptrons and BMs . |
| 27 | By 17 years of age the children of obese parents are three times more likely to be obese than children of thin parents . |
| 28 | Women are far more restricted than men in their access to the reward structure of society , and women are still largely restricted to the private , family sphere . |
| 29 | Write your answers on the back of a postcard or envelope no bigger than 5″ × ″ and send it to , . |
| 30 | Some of the functionality — such as technical image editing and the ability to scan in pages bigger than 11″ by 17″ — that enables it to be sold for over $10,000 , has been stripped out . |