Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] other " in BNC.
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| 1 | This neutralisation is more exothermic than the others due to the precipitation of potassium chlorate(VII) , KClO4 . |
| 2 | Too frightened to speak , the man nodded vigorously , as did his men , and they walked off stiffly , none wanting to be seen to be more afraid than the others . |
| 3 | The chairman of the London Board , Harry Randall , for example , was convinced of the need for Boards to earn a more ‘ commercial ’ rate of return , and his Board consistently had bigger surpluses and a higher level of self-financing than the others . |
| 4 | Then she would go down to his cluttered little house in South Kensington with his hundreds of contacts ( for he was clever enough never to leave anything to chance ) and he would pronounce them all ‘ Absolutely Divine , ’ but at last succeed , with supreme anguish , in selecting one or two which were even more divine than the others . |
| 5 | One situation commonly encountered involves a molecule with two conformers , which are easily interconverted , with one marginally more stable than the other . |
| 6 | Equation is seen , for instance , when we recognize a picture of someone we know ; and qualification was at work when a cave painter added the last few touches which made his bison look more energetic and more nearly alive than the others already on the rock face . |
| 7 | I think it is more measured than the others , and I would rather it were not . |
| 8 | Think of examples of types of business where one method would be more appropriate than the others . |
| 9 | Michael was a short burly man with a round ruddy face , he said little but Allen thought he looked more dangerous than the others . |
| 10 | Jimmy had been shaken by those sounds , more shaken than the others , for good reason , but Cardiff could see that he was unprepared to show it as he pushed himself away from the reception counter . |
| 11 | We found that the pattern of boys ' attitudes to the police were consistent with those of adults , Blacks and Whites tending to be similar , and Asians slightly more favourable than the others . |
| 12 | I screamed vowel sounds and different registers more delicate than the others that would get me hoarser . ’ |
| 13 | Of the 12 ‘ Peer Gynt ’ sprout plants , those overshadowed by the 18in tall pea plants are rather more leggy than the others . |
| 14 | Yet another multipart game , only this time it manages to be just a little more feeble than the others . |
| 15 | The algorithms suggest one candidate to be more likely than the others . |
| 16 | The 149 ( 48% ) who answered ‘ very easy ’ were more likely than the others to have better control . |
| 17 | You find it more comfortable than the other ? |
| 18 | Two deep , mournful noises , one a little deeper and more mournful than the other . |
| 19 | For example , we could , as an experiment , allocate similar child care cases randomly to different interventions to see whether one is more effective than the other . |
| 20 | Similarly , we may contrast the ‘ before and after ’ situations of alternative interventions to see whether one is more effective than the other . |
| 21 | In such a ‘ residential precinct ’ or ‘ Woonerf ’ , wheeled traffic would have to adapt to pedestrian behaviour : as Grotenhuis put it ‘ all traffic participants in a woonerf are considered equal , and … the pedestrian is a bit more equal than the others . ' ’ |
| 22 | Emphatically , it is not this : that all men are equal in esteem — but those who are members of the union are more equal than the others . |
| 23 | To the liberal ‘ scientific ’ mind , there are two problems here of ‘ slippage ’ , one more slight than the other . |
| 24 | Losing oneself in the other when one party is more powerful than the other can only mean the one submitting to the other . |
| 25 | The reason it thinks your 486SX is a 386 is that the two processors do share many common features , it just that one is a lot more powerful than the other . |
| 26 | One thing I thought was nice was that one little boy , was more noisy than the others but it started thundering once and he came and held my hand as he was scared . |
| 27 | Carry On Cleo , in colour , seemed more adventurous than the others . |
| 28 | The desk was less neat than the others with a stack of yellowing newspapers on one corner and two piles of books about forensic science on the other . |
| 29 | Normally one of a town 's functions is more important than the others . |
| 30 | They combined erm the four hundred and fifty odd erm four hundred and seventeen sorry patients in er several M R C studies and looked at them from the point of view of erm prognostic markers for occurrence and they came up with two factors which overridingly were more important than the others . |