Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] than [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | People often mention ‘ metal whiskers ’ as if they were the only kind but , as a matter of fact , metal whiskers are less common and less interesting than whiskers of non-metals and it is about these latter that we shall mostly talk . |
| 2 | It will all look so much nicer than bits of tied drying holly tucked into picture frames . |
| 3 | Ratings of radio news were less predictable than ratings of television but they too were influenced by recent political interest , motivations for following the campaign , and degree of party preference . |
| 4 | The temples were much more than centres of worship . |
| 5 | Faculties of agriculture may be less important than faculties of planning and community development and the facility to suspend disbelief . |
| 6 | Although this assumption is very likely to be wrong it is still a usable forecast in the sense that it may be no more wrong than forecasts of change that get it wrong . |
| 7 | They are ultimately more instructive than stories of nonagenarians who scale Everest or even ( enjoyable though they are ) of Lord Denning 's battles with the government from his seat in the House of Lords . |
| 8 | These are culpable acts , often regarded as being more serious than thefts of property . |
| 9 | Fathers of children with leukaemia or non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma were more likely than fathers of control children to have been employed by the nuclear industry , but the excess was not significant . |
| 10 | Though the available data on the contribution record of workers from different socio-economic groups is inadequate in several ways , it can be justifiably claimed that members of the lower socio-economic groups are more likely than members of the higher socio-economic groups to be among the non-qualifiers and , in the years when they existed , to be receiving lower-earnings-related benefits . |
| 11 | It means that ‘ attributes of the individual which are biological or constitutional are likely to be more powerful than properties of the immediate social environment or other ecological variables ’ ( Henderson , 1982 , p. 228 . ) |
| 12 | But it is the family 's version which the texts privileges and recounts in full detail , for this view of events is entirely consistent with the cultural assumptions of an isolated rural people and , indeed , is regarded as more credible than wonders of modern technology , such as the cinema . |
| 13 | And that too seems related to the solidarities of kinship and to the training in respect which comes with belonging to a lineage : in a sense , both cadres and ordinary Libyans seemed to share the assumption that loyalties of descent and domesticity were more important than differences of opinion . |
| 14 | Polymorphisms of the genes encoding enzymes involved in the metabolism of collagen , such as the collagenases and their inhibitors , or genes controlling the transcription of collagen may ultimately prove to be more important than polymorphisms of the collagen genes themselves in determining individual susceptibility to the fibrotic effect of alcohol . |
| 15 | Representative Lee H. Hamilton of Indiana , who co-chaired the congressional joint investigation of the Iran-contra affair , declared that those hearings , because they affected current US foreign policy , were more important than questions of individual criminal liability . |
| 16 | Bowles , however , concluded slightly differently from his review of American data : social class background was more important than years of schooling in deciding a person 's earnings . |
| 17 | Far more dramatic than rumours of who had offered what in terms of cash was the wholehearted support which the Daily Mail and Lord Rothermere gave the Fascists as 1934 began . |
| 18 | It is more complicated also than ( a ) as studied in New York ( Labov , 1966 ) , and more complicated than descriptions of /ae/ in present-day RP ( Gimson , 1970 , etc . ) . |
| 19 | We had been advised that its latest English translation by Eivor Martinus was more robust than versions of it generally current here — an unnecessary warning as things turned out . |
| 20 | The point also holds for those postgraduate courses which are hardly more than programmes of professional training . |
| 21 | On the tides of Dublin or London they were hardly more than specks of froth but together they were the aristocratic Morans of Great Meadow , a completed world , Moran 's daughters . |
| 22 | Many people find summer tea parties with scones and strawberries served on the lawn very appealing and much more romantic than mugs of coffee and biscuits in the kitchen . |
| 23 | In experiments on convection , particularly free convection , measurements of the temperature field are usually both easier and more accurate than measurements of the velocity field . |
| 24 | The first factor helps to explain why simulations of physical systems are often more successful than simulations of social , demographic or economic systems , for physical systems are generally easier to isolate , identify and characterize . |
| 25 | For mums who want something more convenient than hanks of cotton wool , Púr has come up with Little Tearaways , sheets of flat , highly absorbent 100% cotton wool . |
| 26 | Sarah Cunningham-Burley finds Aberdeen grandfathers much more uncertain than grandmothers of what their role should be . |
| 27 | The language of peace implied groups , and memories of the peace embodied in marriages which created kinship for successive generations were more enduring than memories of quarrels . |
| 28 | Thirdly , several of the studies focusing on mothers of people with schizophrenia showed them to be more likely to be psychiatrically disturbed , and in particular , more schizoid than mothers of normal children . |
| 29 | Feminist psychologists have been more aware than others of the ambiguous significations of psychological practices . |
| 30 | The fact that the men on the Area Boards were appointed directly by the Minister ( and not by the Central Authority — though the Organising Committee and later the Central Authority were consulted ) meant that the Boards were something rather more than subsidiaries of the larger entity . |