Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] than a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their seven-wicket victory with seven overs to spare was only marginally less emphatic than a crushing 10-wicket triumph in the second match on Saturday . |
| 2 | An absolute prohibition against assignment is less popular than a qualified prohibition which requires a landlord not to withhold consent unreasonably . |
| 3 | The ceremony is much shorter than a religious one so many people like to hold a service of blessing afterwards . |
| 4 | The unspoken and unacceptable reality is that when I do decide to have a baby , my bosses will regard me as less promotable than a childless woman or a man . ’ |
| 5 | For lips that stick , and a crisper outline ( less ageing than a fuzzy one ) , outline lips with lip pencil in a shade that matches your lipstick . |
| 6 | Their only problem is that they do not convey the feeling and atmosphere of a site and often appear less authentic than a skilful reconstruction drawing . |
| 7 | It was not much bigger than a good-sized clothes cupboard and there was one small window in the back wall with a sink under the window , but there were no taps over the sink . |
| 8 | This is a very compact plane , not much bigger than a smoothing plane , weighing in at 1.6kg . |
| 9 | Relations between the communist states had for some time been less amicable than a common dedication to working-class interests might have suggested . |
| 10 | Quota sampling is obviously less costly than a simple random sample partly because no sampling frame is needed and no call-backs to unlocated sample members are involved . |
| 11 | This was actually caused by an integrated circuit failure , though an intermittent fault such as this is less likely than a total failure . |
| 12 | A child in the vitamin A group was significantly less likely than a placebo-treated child to have made several clinic visits ( p=0.019 ) ; for example children in the vitamin A group were 27% ( 95% CI 4–45% ) less likely to have attended the clinic 3 or more times during a 4-month dosing interval . |
| 13 | Each drawer , not much larger than a small matchbox , held the body of a wasp which had been through the Factory . |
| 14 | A Roman legion was somewhat larger than a modern peacetime brigade in the British Army — six thousand troops . |
| 15 | of course If the forecaster has merely averaged out considerable fluctuations to give an overall steady state that is less useful than a genuine steady state . |
| 16 | But , even allowing for the conditions , Luxton and David Pears were never much better than a lumbering link . |
| 17 | If you 're going away , wear clear or pale nail varnish — it will look much better than a dark colour with a tan . |
| 18 | Well , the studies that I 've been involved in , the computer has performed certainly as well as a consultant , and at times much better than a junior doctor in the particular situation that I 'm talking about . |
| 19 | Legalised exports of waste from rich countries to poorer ones are much better than a black market . |
| 20 | MV Yes , but that will still be so much better than a so-called communist or socialist society , and I do n't think people here have too many illusions about capitalism . |
| 21 | Now we 've got a company secretary he is er , an F C I S Chartered Institute Secretaries that 's much better than a chartered accountant , they 're no damn good as secretaries , right ! |
| 22 | I 'm afraid you 'll find that a volunteer force is much better than a pressed one . |
| 23 | However , their benefits are much less tangible than a physical product in that they can not be stored or displayed and satisfaction is achieved through activities ( e.g. transportation from one place to another rather than say a seat on a train ) . |
| 24 | The discharge is usually less profuse than a gonococcal one , often being described as a ‘ feeling of dampness ’ rather than a full-blown urethral discharge . |
| 25 | In the far south we have Kappa Pavonis in the Peacock , which is what is termed a ‘ Type II Cepheid ’ , rather less powerful than a classical Cepheid with the same period . |
| 26 | ( 2 ) The projection can be held across a strip of behavior that is less long than a grammatical sentence … |
| 27 | Types of property : A middle-terraced dwelling has to be less vulnerable than a secluded detached house . |
| 28 | ( 4 ) Hedging or speculation : A contract undertaken for hedging rather than speculative purposes is , in some respects , less regulated than a pure speculative transaction . |
| 29 | A haulier must register for VAT if there are reasonable grounds for believing that its contracts will bring in more than a certain sum per year . |
| 30 | The organizational separateness and distinctiveness of the state makes it much more than a mere mirror of , or passive receptacle for , the demands of society . |