Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [adj] than [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The current levels of service are perceived to be ‘ good ’ with response times rated a little higher than availability times . |
| 2 | He had been hoping they might be filled with something a little stronger than tobacco … having heard stories about Scandinavian teenagers … but was disappointed when they turned out to be regular cigarettes . |
| 3 | In winter plumage ( as we mostly see them in Shetland ) they are brown waders with a ‘ scaly ’ appearance , a little larger than redshank . |
| 4 | No , a little more than luck . |
| 5 | I 'd call it a little more than guidance ! ’ |
| 6 | There is evidence to suggest that victims of these other forms of serious sexual assault regard them as no less serious than rape ( narrowly defined ) . |
| 7 | According to Home Office statistics , probation practice is more efficient and no less effective than imprisonment . |
| 8 | Gifts in kind Gifts in kind are no less important than money in family exchanges and there is evidence that these can include both goods and services , including the basic necessities . |
| 9 | She had seen it far too often : the self-inflicted divorces , the ones you had to talk to before lunch because the rest of their day was an alcoholic marsh , those shunted to a not-too-responsible job in the Registry or an early pension — ; Peace hath its victims no less renowned than war . |
| 10 | ‘ I have neither money or influence , ’ he hold Thelwall , ‘ & I suppose , that at last I must become a Unitarian minister as a less evil than starvation — for I get nothing by literature . ’ |
| 11 | But then consider folk-dance , ordinarily less developed , formally , than ballet ; indeed often no more developed than ballroom dances . |
| 12 | It also suggests that this is vital if traders are to be convinced that trading across frontiers is no more strange than doing business with the shopkeeper next door . |
| 13 | Glaxo 's scientists say omeprazole should be used sparingly because it might cause cancer ; Astra believes its drug is no more dangerous than ranitidine and has worked hard to prove it . |
| 14 | It 's no more dangerous than chalk . |
| 15 | According to research by Which ? magazine , many of the cold medicines on sale are no more effective than rest and lots of water to keep your fluid levels up . |
| 16 | In fact Peasgood suggests , in one of the few surveys which have been carried out in this area , that selection in academic libraries from the ‘ book in hand ’ was found to be no more effective than selection from lists ( effectiveness being measured in terms of subsequent issues ) . |
| 17 | As had been widely predicted by criminologists and other commentators , the detention centres with the new harsher regimes were no more successful than detention centres with unmodified regimes in terms of the reconvic-tion rates of their ex-inmates ( Home Office , 1994b ) . |
| 18 | She understood now that any deal would be no more adequate than baby clothes thrown into the shade of a seagrape tree . |
| 19 | On 22 July , the Water Authority had admitted for the first time that aluminium had been involved by placing a small advertisement in the local press saying ‘ that the water was no more acidic than lemon juice ’ . |
| 20 | Environmental groups have welcomed them , but say that they 're no more sophisticated than milk floats . |
| 21 | It is , however , no more paradoxical than speaking of John 's arm , when the arm in question is part of the John who is said to possess it ( or the chassis of the car , for ) . |
| 22 | Progress or improvement is no more likely than decline : he now repeatedly disowns any necessary historical logic of progress ; its incarnations will always , strictly speaking , be accidental ones in relation to the objectives which were at the origin of praxis : |
| 23 | This sounds like an idle life I know , but these long hours of staring were no more idle than Boy 's long journeys around the city on foot had been aimless . |