Example sentences of "[noun pl] than [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both are lower in calories than practically any other first course you might pick — if they are enjoyed without buttered rolls . |
| 2 | If you are still not sure , just remember that it is better to have too many books than too few . |
| 3 | This reaction attributed evolution to pure chance and held the opinion that complex animals could not be considered better adapted to their environments than more lowly forms : all represented degrees of specialization . |
| 4 | Women in second marriages are more likely to have had an affair than those in their first , and women who work full-time are , it seems , more prone to extra-curricular passions than either part-time workers or housewives . |
| 5 | While even the richest states are anxious to attract or retain TNC investment , they are more likely to be successful in imposing conditions on their operations than less developed states . |
| 6 | First , in the sense that unlike words or utterances , images signify iconically , i.e. through resemblance , and hence are less different from referents than properly linguistic signifiers . |
| 7 | Bowe 's trainer Eddie Futch , 80 , who 's probably seen more fights than even most men of his age have had hot dinners , expects it to be one of the best he 's been involved with . |
| 8 | National economic policy does not explain the whole of urban decline , but the attitudes and policies of the Treasury have a greater influence on the cities than probably all urban projects combined . |
| 9 | Mr Langdale added : ‘ He is quite clearly a ruined man — ruined in more senses than just one . |
| 10 | The SRs and Mensheviks have received more detailed treatment , and come to be regarded less as cynical saboteurs and traitors than as misguided champions of the petty bourgeoisie . |
| 11 | For low risk junctions , however , a quite different effect emerges , high risk exemplars are given significantly fewer descriptions than both medium and low risk exemplars , p<0.05 . |
| 12 | Often there are more obligations than just these . |
| 13 | The band you thought had no personality and were locked into a strait-jacketed genre have just made an album packed with more character and idiosyncrasies than practically any other released in 1992 . |
| 14 | These provide firms with product and service differentiation that allow them to compete on other bases than merely those of costs and prices . |
| 15 | Secondary females typically lay fewer eggs than either primary females or monogamously mated ones . |
| 16 | Booth ( 1985 ) identified that there are likely to be multiple regimes in local authority homes , with very frail residents likely to be more bound by regulations than more active alert people . |
| 17 | This is not always an appealing counterfactual comparison , not least because merger might be a more attractive alternative for firms than both independent and co-operative R&D . |
| 18 | Yet the primate hand , particularly in the case of man , who has retained ( or , more accurately , re-acquired ) a generalized , unspecialized hand , can be put to many other uses than merely grasping branches . |
| 19 | Soviet spokesmen naturally used various arguments to encourage the neutralists to work for the dissolution of CENTO and SEATO , but Soviet leaders may have recognised already in the 1960s that these alliances were operating more effectively as political symbols than as military structures . |
| 20 | Results show that interviewers who have worked for over five years have lower refusal rates than more recent recruits . |
| 21 | There was , amongst those sectioned , considerably less use of section 3 among women referred by GPs than either male GP referrals or other referrals of women . |
| 22 | Now that the barriers with Eastern Europe have been removed , businesses need to translate documents into many more languages than just those of the EC member states . |
| 23 | It is supposed to offer the mobile user better windowing , battery monitoring , save and resume functionality , E-mail , fax and SLIP connections than previously available . |
| 24 | Even their most common troop types have better leadership scores than virtually any other race . |
| 25 | Specifically , those situations in which drivers might normally expect to experience risk ( e.g. generally dangerous junctions or right turns ) showed the expected effect , recognition sensitivity was better for risky exemplars than less risky ones . |
| 26 | Yet this behaviour was related to wider trends than simply social class ; it concerned the balance between closeness and distance , and the nature of support networks . |
| 27 | ( An aside : After over 20 years of climbing in the Peak District I have come to the conclusion that the upper pitch of Valkyrie sees more epics than almost any other . |