Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though they were made just a little lower than the angels , they were stamped with God 's character , bearing his image and divine likeness . |
| 2 | These two reasons — the public sector 's ability to spread risk more thinly and the lower after-tax interest rate relevant to resources displaced from private consumption — justify the use of a public sector discount rate that is a little lower than the interest rate inclusive of tax and risk at which private firms must borrow . |
| 3 | Applying this procedure to the data from this experiment would give a correlation of 0.16 , still rather lower than the figure from Watts and Quimby . |
| 4 | The score for American women is also strikingly lower than the 8% reached by their British sisters . |
| 5 | Their model , though vastly simpler than the real atmosphere , mimics some of its important properties . |
| 6 | A third type of spectrometer , fundamentally simpler than the other two , uses a tunable monochromatic source ; instruments using IR-emitting diodes have been produced , but are not yet able to replace interferometers . |
| 7 | Sand was cleaner than water , the desert dead cleaner than the drowned dishevelled things which I had seen thrown up on shores . |
| 8 | We can ready quickly , we can learn things quickly , we can cope , we can act on the whole rather better and rather quicker than the Continentals . |
| 9 | Mr Bryan Gould is generally rated less European than the Shadow Chancellor , Mr John Smith ; and Mr Gerald Kaufman , the Shadow Foreign Secretary , has swung round from gut anti-Europeanism to a conviction that powerful central institutions are unavoidable — and Britain should play its full part . |
| 10 | Degreasers can , with care , be applied to aluminium surfaces as silicates are less corrosive than the caustics . |
| 11 | Real skins are much less coherent than the stereotype . |
| 12 | However , the effect of experience on temperament is still limited by the horse 's genetic traits — for example , if both the naturally placid horse and the naturally nervous horse were brought up in the same rough environment , then the placid horse would still be less timid than the nervous one . |
| 13 | Mr Bland said that the cost of the borrowings was much lower than the cost of the group 's equity , which he estimated at 20 per cent per annum . |
| 14 | Our panel rated PEBs much lower than the press or television news for providing information on issues , but similar to the press for providing information on leaders , and close behind the press and television news for helping them decide how to vote . |
| 15 | All pipes connections are concealed within the length to give a neat appearance , and the surface temperature is much lower than the average radiator , so it is safe to touch and needs no bulky enclosures . |
| 16 | For effective filtering , the ripple frequency must be very much lower than the frequency at which the series inductance becomes troublesome , and ideally the ESR must be less than the ratio of the specified ripple voltage to the ripple current . |
| 17 | But it begs the question who are they doing it with , if the female averages are really so much lower than the male ? |
| 18 | The profit margin on one sheet was much lower than the other and Emily drew in her breath sharply . |
| 19 | The percentage of older people living in institutional settings increases with age but is always very much lower than the percentage living in the community ( Figure 2.3 ) . |
| 20 | This stimulation is nevertheless much lower than the 50 fold activity observed in the deletion analyses shown in figure 1 . |
| 21 | Karl Semper 's Animal Life as Affected by the Natural Conditions of Existence of 1881 developed the concept that would later be known as the food-chain and noted that the total numbers of predators must be much lower than the numbers of the prey organisms to maintain a stable system . |
| 22 | ‘ I suppose you want me to go first , ’ said Caspar as they stood looking up at the open window , which was grimy and smeary , but much lower than the other windows . |
| 23 | But the most important fact requiring explanation is the depth at which the bases of the reefs occur : in other words some mechanism is required to provide for the depth at which coral is found , because this is much lower than the depth at which reef-building corals flourish . |
| 24 | Enthalpies of fusion are much lower than the enthalpies of vaporisation of the corresponding liquids . |
| 25 | It covers such a wide variety of conditions that it is less specific than a weather forecast . |
| 26 | In most secondary schools , TVEI has laid the necessary foundations ; but TVEI criteria are ( sensibly ) less specific than the statutory requirements of the National Curriculum , and planning for the latter will need to be sharper . |
| 27 | Where the nature of the disability is less specific than the example shown ( e.g. backache , virus etc ) the progress of the claim should be monitored very closely . |
| 28 | It would be easy to be intimidated here on first acquaintance , for this part of the crag is less friendly than the rest . |
| 29 | ‘ Better that than a coffin , ’ he whispered , adding as he leaned in to retrieve his fiddle : ‘ And if my coffin is half as comfortable ‘ t is a smooth journey I 'll be having to Paradise . ’ |
| 30 | Above all , it is far less retiring than the European race and often approaches human settlements in search of the rodents that are plentiful there . |