Example sentences of "[det] [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes were open , but his face was such a fearful mask of blood , foam , vomit and earth that he looked more like some demon-creature than a rabbit . |
| 2 | He wrote : ‘ If someone has just stepped out of your life you 'll be better reaching for this single than a bottle , razor blade or handkerchief . ’ |
| 3 | What is this other than the ‘ Spirit far more deeply interfused ’ of Tintern Abbey , or The Prelude 's ‘ Wisdom and Spirit of the Universe ’ ? |
| 4 | Stu , I mean I live in Glasgow , the chances of me leaving Glasgow are pro , pre pretty slim but yeah , I certainly do n't want to stay in Scotland because of any loyalty , that I do n't think it 's given me very much other than a lot of experience , a lot of struggle , a lot of opportunities to stand alongside working class people and fight against , you know , the injustices . |
| 5 | What are these other than the very stuff of economic development ? |
| 6 | The Government had forced itself into a corner for no reason at all other than the Prime Minister 's stubbornness . |
| 7 | The most modest proposal would be to place a cash limit on all the non-structural tax allowances ( that is , on all other than the personal allowances ) and to couple this policy to a commitment to use the increase in tax revenue which results to reducing the rate of tax and increasing child benefit . |
| 8 | There are few more striking than the slim sergeant major with the dark eyes , pronounced eyebrows and nose , and dark hair rolled at the nape of her neck . |
| 9 | It may not be perfect but it 's 90% more perfect than no ‘ cat ’ at all . |
| 10 | At £518m , this was £6m more valuable than the £512m spent by Rhone Poulenc , the French industrial group , in acquiring RTZ chemicals . |
| 11 | To the liberal ‘ scientific ’ mind , there are two problems here of ‘ slippage ’ , one more slight than the other . |
| 12 | The common instinct for survival has shown itself more powerful than the urge to take risks on behalf of national interest . |
| 13 | The thing is , if they always give you and you , your , nine times out of ten what they do is like , is either , they either put a can over there or a beer or something , they put it over the end of the , the weapon pull the trigger and that , even with a flash that can go like that , and then they show you one with the , the erm flashes right which have more powerful than the and they 've actually got same again same charge as a life grenade in , but it just plain cardboard so , obviously no trap , but if you lay on them ooh er , you get or something you do n't throw what they do now is they put one they light one , put the helmet over the top of it and make it lit , it runs like buggery and it 'll go a hundred , a hundred and fifty foot up in the air and inside it looks like its been and where its been in the thing it 'll be like er , six seventy foot off the ground , I mean I laid on one once and I , landed about two foot too my left so I 've rolled over , rolled , rolled , and rolled , as I 've rolled I 've rolled over on my back and I 've had all loads of over , like the , I had a roll there its like the er |
| 14 | It estimates that the 60MHz chips are 10% less powerful than the 66MHzs , at least on integer performance which measures 64.5 Specint92 and 56.9 Specfp92 . |
| 15 | It estimates that the 60MHz chips are 10% less powerful than the 66s , at least on integer performance which measures 64.5 Specint92 and 56.9 Specfp92 . |
| 16 | She was gabbling , her voice breathy and barely under control , because she 'd raised her eyes to his face only to find the expression there more disturbing than the casual masculine pose he 'd adopted , and which had already reminded her of the night she 'd spent in his bed . |
| 17 | However , the second and third layers were 20–30 per cent less compact than the first . |
| 18 | Is it not strange that , while foreign companies invest in this country , British companies which are aware of the position here have invested £40 billion more overseas than the foreigners have invested here ? |
| 19 | When she turned , there was no one , but she hurried on , though she no longer knew what she should do , what she should tell her sister , if she should report this request for an assignation somewhere more secret than a church , more private than a byre . |
| 20 | This side of the argument concerning the freedom of the press in Africa is rarely put by those other than the governments concerned . |
| 21 | However , if a double page spread ( DPS ) is 75 per cent more expensive than a single page , or a 40-second TV spot is 33 per cent more expensive than a 30-second spot , is the resulting ad going to be 75 per cent or 33 per cent more effective ? |
| 22 | However , if a double page spread ( DPS ) is 75 per cent more expensive than a single page , or a 40-second TV spot is 33 per cent more expensive than a 30-second spot , is the resulting ad going to be 75 per cent or 33 per cent more effective ? |
| 23 | On balance , traditional methods of training are up to 40% more expensive than the open learning techniques such as those practised by the Open Business School . |
| 24 | The new models are about 20% more expensive than the models they replace , but are about three times more powerful , which it reckons works out at an average 2.5-fold improvement in price-performance . |
| 25 | The new models are about 20% more expensive than the models they replace , but are about three times more powerful , which it reckons works out at an average 2.5-fold improvement in price-performance . |
| 26 | I could see them clearly in the light of the foyer but they could n't see me cloaked in the anonymity of Armstrong — and what more anonymous than a black London cab ? |
| 27 | You might care to discuss with your friends : ( i ) Is the word " rule " any more self-explanatory than the word " function " ? |
| 28 | So they actually bench marked the maintenance phase of the project and found this approach to be three hundred percent more productive than the approach we showed on the previous slide . |
| 29 | And you have some way of , of , of getting in , erm and you have some way of controlling access therefore into toilets , now I do n't know whether that would totally it , overcome the vandal system , but I mean if your saying a pass would n't be any different than a coin you could devise an entrance , so that it was n't , you know , so that what you would be doing is stopping having like the total open access all the time , you know , erm . |
| 30 | A dissection of the relationship between employment , means of production and output does not , of course , explain the boom in any other than a purely statistical sense . |