Example sentences of "[adj] than the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah well they 're different than the other policemen . |
| 2 | Now you were saying just then that erm parts of the were different than the other parts . |
| 3 | The hon. Gentleman was far more brave than the hon. Member for Torridge and Devon , West ( Miss Nicholson ) who has adopted the role of reading out central office briefs in the House to apologise for the Conservative party . |
| 4 | But we do n't mind hearing about a few ‘ weeds ’ — they are often more vigorous and more interesting than the cultivated varieties . |
| 5 | These ladies deserve careful listening , but there are patches , as on Nocturne , where the music is far less interesting than the well-written and atmospheric lyrics . |
| 6 | Perhaps more interesting than the individual entries is the way in which they are cross-referenced to so many other entries in the encyclopedia . |
| 7 | SOMETIMES you find the footnotes in a history book rather more interesting than the heavy stuff upstairs . |
| 8 | More interesting than the vertical connections are the horizontal connections ( indicated by dotted lines ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Do not judge these industrial towns by their faces ; they are the most alive places in England ; they are more interesting than the little dead country towns which we so like to look at : think of Manchester , Birmingham with their concerts , theatres , parks and art galleries … |
| 10 | — This trend to professional academic specialization is confirmed by G. B. Harrison , writing in 1940 on the Review 's first fifteen years : " It will hardly be denied by anyone who looks through the files of the Review that the earlier numbers were more interesting than the later " , which he put down to the " increasing specialization in English , as in all forms of study " . |
| 11 | A more obvious underlying meaning , pointed out by the programme notes , is to see the ‘ round-dance ’ as a metaphor for the transmission of VD or , more topically , AIDS ; but this seems to me less interesting than the social satire whose delicate emotional nuances ( preserved in co-director Ceri Sherlock 's modernised adaptation ) give the play its wider significance and melancholy humour . |
| 12 | But the new grassland is less environmentally interesting than the previous permanent pasture , and the money wasted on the whole ten-year cycle of grass-grain-grass has been very considerable . |
| 13 | In many ways this moment was infinitely more exciting than the actual race itself because these qualifying laps asked so much from car and driver . |
| 14 | Nothing can be more exciting than the first time that you are given some flowers , and particularly red roses . |
| 15 | If the purpose of sex is to have children , then , is there a special sort of casual , slightly illicit sex with near-strangers which has nothing to do with procreation and is also more exciting than the other steady sort ? |
| 16 | For , to the romantic , the bird of paradise is much more exciting than the humble house sparrow . |
| 17 | Now , does n't that sound a whole lot more exciting than the next Prodigy video ? |
| 18 | This second language is less expressive than the first . |
| 19 | If — as happens too often — the new methods are even more inconvenient than the old then a change-over is difficult , because to the basic inconvenience of the new pattern must be added the inconvenience of learning it . |
| 20 | The smallness of the earth was arguably felt more vividly in the medieval than the modern system , for there was then an absolute standard of comparison — the immense size of the outermost sphere . |
| 21 | the slightly foreshortened cockpit is a little less sumptuous than the newly-furnished cabin . |
| 22 | If , as is becoming increasingly common , the contract gives a female executive maternity leave rights which are more generous than the minimum legal requirement , the employer must of course comply with those terms . |
| 23 | The present scheme has , in recent years , been made substantially more generous than the previous one . |
| 24 | The Government 's claim that the new income support scheme is more generous than the now-defunct supplementary benefit system will be considered below . |
| 25 | There has also been considerable development in sail design in recent years with the result that sails are now far more controllable than the earlier types which resembled blown-out bedsheets . |
| 26 | The input word far would never be correctly recognised , since the sequence ‘ fo ’ is approximately three times more common in English than the di-gram ‘ fa ’ . |
| 27 | The Press enclosure was in the Members ' Stand and the scene around us was indescribable as the staid ‘ more English than the English ’ burghers of Adelaide and their wives stood up booing and shaking their fists . |
| 28 | Miklós wanted to know why the Scots seemed more at ease as British than the Irish . |
| 29 | The fraud is always more menacing than the real thing . |
| 30 | There are still a few in New Zealand but numbers there are now very low , and the Belted variety is more popular than the standard black . |