Example sentences of "[adj] than [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence the UK framework is far more lenient with regard to non-price than price restraints . |
| 2 | It seemed to Marx that nothing could be more different than kinship relations and relations in the labour market . |
| 3 | The business league proves more interesting than sport Outlook . |
| 4 | ‘ They 'd be more interesting than business letters , I 'll give you that , ’ said Joe , ‘ but no , that 's not me . |
| 5 | And where should I go to see something a bit more interesting than garden birds ? |
| 6 | Inevitably skills analysis is more general and less definitive than task analysis although many of the same procedures for extracting evidence might be used . |
| 7 | There is again the advantage for some people new to banking that the hours during which post offices are open to cash cheques are more generous than bank hours . |
| 8 | She understood now that any deal would be no more adequate than baby clothes thrown into the shade of a seagrape tree . |
| 9 | There are a number of sports that are not supported by public funding and they include angling and archery , which are more popular than rugby league . |
| 10 | How do smaller companies meet their capital raising requirements , particularly in emergence from recession ; particularly in the face of venture capitalists , many of whom have become more renowned for risk averse than risk taking strategies ; particularly in the face of clearing banks ' policy which does not exactly involve them rushing to throw loan finance about as they emerge from one of the most traumatic periods in their history ; and particularly in the face of the closure of the Unlisted Securities Market ( USM ) with no successor currently in sight ? |
| 11 | There is now a specific blood test which is far more reliable than stool tests . |
| 12 | And for both , morbidity statistics are less accessible and less reliable than mortality data . |
| 13 | And in misty conditions following a bearing will prove more reliable than path traces . |
| 14 | Stress alone can be more harmful than cigarette smoking and has been proven to operate indirectly against the fetus because of the woman 's behaviour under stress . |
| 15 | Sometimes , as in England , country girls became more literate than country boys — this seems to have happened in the 1850s . |
| 16 | Here the drive seems more claustrophobic than TV memory recalls . |
| 17 | This is more prevalent than Type I and usually presents in the over-forties . |
| 18 | It is true , as the UNHCR representative in Sarajevo Larry Hollingworth says , that road convoys are more accurate , carry more tonnage and are far more cost-effective than air drops . |
| 19 | Fiber channel proponents claim the low-latency technology is probably faster and more cost-effective than challenger FDDI . |
| 20 | For more than two months the men received full pay but did nothing more strenuous than drink cups of tea and read the paper . |
| 21 | And it is an undisputed fact at Manchester City that Dutchman Michael Vonk , signed this year , is more coherent than Scouse manager Peter Reid . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Some were obviously more interested in break-dancing than poster writing , as I witnessed for myself . |
| 24 | Although VAT is slightly progressive , it is less progressive than income tax . |
| 25 | As the foil plating was thicker it may have been found more durable than mercury plating . |
| 26 | Metal brushes are more durable than plastic ones , while a wire brush or comb can be particularly valuable during a moulting period , removing dead hair from the coat . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | If line B may be more specific than line A , we can ask , In what way can the somewhat vague language of A , , " they will change , substitute , renew ( their ) strength " , be specified further by B ? |
| 29 | These values show us that , in the first example above , magnesium oxide is more stable than carbon dioxide . |
| 30 | It also suggests that this is vital if traders are to be convinced that trading across frontiers is no more strange than doing business with the shopkeeper next door . |