Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] than [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed in some ways the proof is rather simpler than Theorem 1 , since it does not need such a complex structure of nested recursions . |
| 2 | Floor tiles are less widely used than wall tiles , but are a popular choice for heavy traffic areas such as porches and hallways , and also for conservatories . |
| 3 | It soundslike a fast , powerful car , and many would rather that than silence . |
| 4 | Leading on from this , a more general point is that where the objective of the operation is rather broader than profit maximization , shareholder control is probably far less appropriate than state control ( see , for example , Baumol , 1984 ) . |
| 5 | Peel-off masks are more gentle but less cleansing than clay . |
| 6 | Copper in contrast was not durable enough for big editions , and where its effects were desired it was increasingly replaced by steel ; but this was much less used than wood for works of science . |
| 7 | Clouds enveloping mountain-tops and coastal fogs are usually characterized by pH values much lower than rainfall ( Bridgman , 1990 ) . |
| 8 | Research showed that primary community loyalties operated at a level much lower than district boundaries . |
| 9 | The actual death rate from asthma in West Cumbria seems to be much lower than mortality statistics suggest . |
| 10 | For instance , trees bearing edible fruits were made easy to climb , being much lower than forest trees . |
| 11 | We may say , then , that line A is less precise , less specific than line B. Line A is not swallowed up in line B , however ; it is not the case that once we have line B we can dispense with line A. Rather , line B provides the clue or the context within which the uncertainty of line A is resolved . |
| 12 | Better that than discretion and gentle kindliness . |
| 13 | Gel is less sticky than mousse and works better with curly hair . |
| 14 | Although VAT is slightly progressive , it is less progressive than income tax . |
| 15 | Cereal straw is much coarser than hay , and air circulates more easily through it . |
| 16 | I say , fiction is always much stranger than reality . |
| 17 | He also investigated the effects of the uptick rule when the future is underpriced , and found that arbitrage involving short positions in shares was less profitable and much riskier than arbitrage with a long share position . |
| 18 | Shoemaker asserts that Tunguska-like explosions should be a common fate of small bolides entering the terrestrial atmosphere , provided only that they are less strong than iron objects . |
| 19 | definitely less cruel than hunting because the animal is chased and er , what it 's heart is doing while it 's being chased and it 's , really is the idea 's quite horrendous to me ! |
| 20 | For the pudding , my own weakness is a small glass of something sweet and much lighter than port which I prefer to save and have on its own or with a mince pie . |
| 21 | Guard duty over the two women was much lighter than tree-felling in the steamy forest or sawing up the timbers into six-feet lengths , then splitting them into staves for the stockade , the master 's house , and the other habitations they were erecting in the settlement . |
| 22 | Spring-tined cultivators with tines at about six-inch spacing , are much lighter than chisel ploughs . |
| 23 | As fluorine is much lighter than chlorine , the antisymmetric stretch is at a considerably higher frequency than the analogous mode of , and is therefore closer in frequency to the rocking mode . |
| 24 | You do n't have to pay for parking or petrol and it 's much quicker than walking . |
| 25 | By alloying tin with copper to make bronze we obtain a metal which is much tougher than copper alone . |
| 26 | Machinery was much scarcer than land , as has been seen . |
| 27 | And for both , morbidity statistics are less accessible and less reliable than mortality data . |
| 28 | An intellectual amusement resides in the interplay between what for simplicity 's sake we can represent as just two contrasting ranges of marked and unmarked language — although arse is undoubtedly less marked than fuck . |
| 29 | In a sense , just as out and out dementia is less interesting than neurosis and eccentricity , so the music of these episodes , with their rather obvious distortions and wrong attributions of earlier themes , is less gripping than the Passacaglia , where Grimes was still somewhat in control of his faculties . |
| 30 | Inevitably skills analysis is more general and less definitive than task analysis although many of the same procedures for extracting evidence might be used . |