Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] actual [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Where the sum insured is inadequate i.e. is lower than the actual value of the total property at risk and the lost or damaged items were not in a new condition . |
| 3 | If you are building a trailer , fit a suspension rated for a trailer heavier than the actual weight . |
| 4 | More serious than the actual material damage in Schweinfurt itself were the psychological effects of the first raids . |
| 5 | Unlike the single line delta with its articulating leading edges that pivot about the cross-spar joint , the second generation stunters with cross-spars fore and aft introduced the rigid frame.As the spine retained the sail on the neutral datum centreline , the sail pattern was made larger than the actual frame plan in order to obtain the conical camber which is the characteristic of the Rogallo design . |
| 6 | ‘ The Peavey has the graphic too , ’ explains John , ‘ but with shelving controls low and high , which is better than an actual tone control . |
| 7 | The quality of care given during the visits matters more than the actual time spent with them . |
| 8 | The reverse happens when flying southerly headings and the compass will show more than the actual amount of the turn , so carry on past your actual heading . |
| 9 | In practice , the adherence to a clearly defined policy for fetal heart rate monitoring may be more important than the actual method itself . |
| 10 | A number of those on income support will find that the compensatory payments to cover their 20 per cent poll tax contribution will be less than the actual contribution they have to make . |
| 11 | But then all shopkeepers had to do was ring up less than the actual transaction … |
| 12 | If , on the other hand , the estimates are always equal to or less than the actual cost for a path , as in Fig. 8.2. , then even if the algorithm initially takes the wrong path , its actual cost will be worse than the other , optimistically estimated paths . |
| 13 | In Figure 8.2 the algorithm will initially take the leftmost path but will then backtrack and eventually take the correct , rightmost path , because the estimate for the rightmost path is less than the actual cost of any other path . |
| 14 | In this sense a stability test is never finished in less than the actual shelf-life of the product . |
| 15 | It means that the compass shows less than the actual amount of turn . |
| 16 | Although some may be quick to say that the vast majority of the book was actually written by Bullett , and not by Freud , no less than the actual intellectual framework of the book apparently seems to have been due to Freud 's input , er , Freud certainly was psychoanalytically trained , in any , in any sense of the word . |
| 17 | That meant the tyre would be that amount smaller than the actual wheel , so we had to heat up the tyre to expand it in order to get it on to the rim . |
| 18 | ‘ The reason the tyres were heated was this : when we cut out the piece of the loose tyre and welded it together it was –en smaller than the actual woodwork on the wheel . |
| 19 | The prospect of setting yourself up for this job is far more daunting than the actual work , and once you have overcome the inertia of thinking it out and making a start , the results more than justify the effort . |
| 20 | The way the media cover abuse , they tend to sensationalize events , but the emotional effect is much worse than the actual abuse . |
| 21 | All the processes other than the actual embroidery are carried out in the numerous ‘ embroidery factories ’ , most of which are located in Funchal . |
| 22 | On occasion it may be someone other than the actual adjudicator who has been involved . |
| 23 | The rule prohibits any person ( other than the actual bidder ) from trading ( or causing others to trade ) where he is in possession of material information relating to the tender offer which he knows or ought reasonably to know has been acquired directly or indirectly from a range of persons . |
| 24 | As a consequence , the claims missed the normal weekly batch-processing of data into the organisation 's mainframe computer , and the subsequent delay in receiving the expenses cheques was greater than the actual time taken to reprocess the forms within the section . |
| 25 | This may well be greater than the actual amount of data in the file , but it is the amount of space allocated to the file by the Z88 's operating system . |
| 26 | The theorem of minimum potential energy ( see , for example , Sokolnikoff ( 1956 ) ) states that the strain energy for any fictitious non-equilibrium state of distortion is always greater than the actual strain energy for the same surface displacements ( or equivalently , that the minimum strain energy is only found for the equilibrium state ) . |
| 27 | Their appearance is more worrying than the actual effect on the fish . |
| 28 | Nothing has been more ominous in the doctrinal shift of the 1980s than the actual hostility to this term which can now be found in Roman teaching . |