Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] than [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lloyds is no more outlandish or intrusive than Tower Bridge and much less so than the monstrous and melancholy Battersea Power Station , a sublime work of imperious architecture that Londoners once loved to hate but now admire . |
| 2 | Whether the before-tax competitive share of labour is increased or decreased depends on whether the elasticity of substitution between capital and labour is greater or less than unity . |
| 3 | Thus investment spending by firms may be greater or less than the volume of saving , government spending may be greater or less than tax receipts , and exports may be greater or less than imports , but it must be the case that a deficit or surplus in one sector is exactly offset in one or more of the other sectors . |
| 4 | This should arguably supply a greater surface for bacteria than gravel — internal and external as the media is porous — and wo n't cost a great deal more or less than gravel . |
| 5 | The Minister was engaged in nothing more or less than casuistry . |
| 6 | It is the amount of this payment which determines whether the business is being hived up at less or more than cost or market value for the purposes of the value-shifting provisions described above . |
| 7 | Consider the argument of Nicos Poulantzas who asserts that nations are as old as or older than class society ( as if the two modes of analysis are not mutually reinforcing ) , will persist after the State disappears , and possess a ‘ transhistorical irreducibility ’ . |
| 8 | Was it better than school or worse than school ? |
| 9 | At its most ludicrous , this makes the ‘ Envoi ’ to Hugh Selwyn Mauberley suspect , or worse than suspect , simply because it alludes to Edmund Waller , whereas the okay authors from Waller 's period , among pedestrian readers of Eliot 's essays , are taken to be Donne and Marvell . |
| 10 | When he was no more than knee high and as slender as a pencil , I dug him out of the wild river bank and planted him in a virginal garden , half an acre of island that consisted of nothing more luxurious or exotic than brick rubble , tilled chalk and grass seed . |
| 11 | The number of printable characters since the last new-line ( COUNT ) is compared with X. If X is equal or greater than COUNT , sufficient spaces to make them equal are printed . |
| 12 | Charnos have taken the microfibre story and turned it into different leg looks — shiny , matt and suede — using the softer , finer handle and textures now available , the products can achieve that smoother than silk feel . |
| 13 | It was nothing more nor less than propinquity . |
| 14 | Nevertheless liberalism succeeded in destroying the fueros and it was only after its triumph that conservative liberals challenged the maxim that ‘ centralization is neither more nor less than liberty itself ’ . |
| 15 | It is obvious that more than modesty is at stake . |
| 16 | Advocates of animal rights believe that more than reform of the system is needed . |
| 17 | It has argued that greater than forecast levels of infill demonstrate the soundness of the Structure Plan strategy ; reflect the real nature of the needs of the housing market and thereby m materially contribute to the adequacy of the regional five year land supply . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The first replicators were probably cruder and simpler than DNA . |
| 20 | An addict only stops when he personally comes to the conclusion that his addiction is bringing him more trouble and suffering than pleasure . |
| 21 | Influenced by Chicago house as well as the unlikely European sounds of Kraftwerk , Yello and Depeche Mode — Saunderson , May ( who uses the names Mayday and Rythim Is Rythim ) and the original techno-master Atkins ( Cybortron and Model 500 ) , created a music that was sparser , leaner and harsher than house . |
| 22 | Cambridge Veterinary Sciences , Littleport , Cambs , has launched a rapid five-minute Mastcheck 24-test pack for subclinical mastitis detection , claimed to be more accurate and reliable than cell counts alone . |
| 23 | devalue the role of ideology and signification , on the grounds that they are more distant and theoretical than consciousness . |
| 24 | ‘ On a milky , fatty , meaty diet British girls and boys became taller , fatter , and broader than nature intended . ’ |
| 25 | Hide : the skin of a full grown animal from which a leather is produced that is heavier and tougher than calf . |
| 26 | Trent let go jib sheet and halyard ; the heavy canvas flashed free , disappearing into the rain curtain as if lighter than tissue paper . |
| 27 | Dyneema fibres are ten times stronger than steel and lighter than water . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | More intimate and relaxed than synagogue services — whoever felt inclined could take it on himself to lead the responses — these minyanim were held in the front rooms of the tiny houses and anyone passing along the street at the time would be assailed by a chorus of incantations like the sound of bees swarming in a hive . |
| 30 | ‘ Like the man , the house and its contents are bold and larger than life , ’ said Sotheby 's director James Miller . |