Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | External frames are all but defunct in the UK because most have accepted that the ergonomically contoured internal frame sack is much more stable to carry than an external frame pack , even at the expense of some loss of ventilation to the back . |
| 2 | When it comes to the most sensitive and important areas of journalism , like Northern Ireland or official secrecy , British broadcasters are less free to report than a camera team arriving from Perugia or Poughkeepsie . |
| 3 | Another consideration is that monitors working in interlaced mode produce an image that generally is more prone to flicker than a non-interlaced display of the same screen resolution . |
| 4 | Vauxhall 's new four is said to offer better induction and combustion and be more compact and economical to build than the present unit . |
| 5 | Far less obvious and less easy to rebut than the imperialism of Henty and Ballantyne , Marryat 's good-humoured , unselfconscious , professional patriotism is the ultimate strength of his work . |
| 6 | They involve higher derivatives and are therefore somewhat less easy to apply than the Alfrey approximation . |
| 7 | It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan , more uncertain of success , or more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things . |
| 8 | It is in any case debatable whether the College could have survived in the face of such rapid growth in the private sector ; their lawsuits against usurping trade diminished once they realized that they had priced themselves out of the market and had little extra to offer than the trade apart from kudos and tradition . |
| 9 | The collapse of the Warsaw Pact has produced a new challenge which could be less costly to meet than the old one , but only if the right choices are made now . |
| 10 | Relaxation classes , acupuncture and hypnosis are other ways of emulating the nicotine high ; statistically , they are less likely to work than the real thing . |
| 11 | The cost of hot water is reduced in relation to the capital expenditure which can be undertaken , so that an efficient boiler system is more costly to install than a simple immersion heater , but cheaper to run . |
| 12 | Yet would a white child born into the same conditions as the most disadvantaged inner-city black ( to a drug-taking , teenage , single mother , say ) be more likely to succeed than a black ? |
| 13 | Baits need to be anchored well on the bottom and left for long periods and leger tactics are more likely to succeed than the float . |
| 14 | Being a combination , this is more likely to score than a single face punch which , as I said earlier , is often simply overlooked by the referee . |
| 15 | They can not deal with this situation by cutting quality : in a university , quality is the object of the exercise , and a university which sets out to lower quality is no more likely to survive than an army which sets out to lose its battles . |
| 16 | ‘ The question of whether a pleasure flight … could , or should , be removed from the definition of ‘ public transport ’ is more complex to review than the medical situation of over age sixty pilots … |
| 17 | That type of structural error is rather more difficult to diagnose than the type where the results are always bad . |
| 18 | He kissed me again , a different , unanguished sort of kiss which was somehow much more difficult to bear than the other . |
| 19 | Obviously some situations are much more serious and therefore more difficult to resolve than a dispute over an untidy room . |
| 20 | High kicks are inherently more difficult to use than a simple reverse punch to mid-section , so the referee panel relaxes the standards somewhat . |
| 21 | The funnel structure shown in the drawing is certainly usable but it is much more difficult to use than the ordinary funnel shown in the drawing for " efficiency " . |
| 22 | The large company is by definition more difficult to run than the small one . |
| 23 | These twin problems of psychological dependence and social pressure were regarded by the majority of users as more difficult to overcome than the physical aspect of their addiction . |
| 24 | From all the discussion so far , one would predict that BSL as a language should be no more difficult to learn than a foreign language , except , that is , for the fact that BSL is not a high status language and its users are often treated as failures . |
| 25 | They said it was no more difficult to maintain than the Green Sword and had up to 50 babies per brood . |
| 26 | ‘ IT IS A REGION more difficult to traverse than the Alps or the Himalayas , but if strength and courage are sufficient for the task , by a year 's toil a concept of sublimity can be obtained never again to be equalled on the hither side of Paradise . ’ |
| 27 | Furthermore , the sensitising effect of extensive nociceptive stimulation from surgery may prove much more difficult to block than the limited chemical or thermal stimuli used in animal models of pain . |
| 28 | Such a transformation may prove far more difficult to achieve than the chopping and changing of the past decade . |
| 29 | This precautionary demand for money will also be related to money incomes since : ( a ) the higher your regular income then normally the more expensive are the items you own , e.g. the Rolls-Royce is usually more expensive to repair than the Mini ; ( b ) if money incomes rise due to inflation then the same items cost more to replace or repair . |
| 30 | The second objection is that the community charge will be more expensive to collect than the present local rate . |