Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] than the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The physical barriers that prevent some members of the public reaching a CAB are perhaps easier to tackle than the image barriers . |
| 2 | However , neither UA1 nor UA2 has spotted a potential Zo so far , although this particle should be easier to identify than the W. It is predicted to decay into an electron-position pair , which would leave two clear tracks in the apparatus . |
| 3 | A further advantage of the projector is that it is cleaner to use than the chalkboard ( Fig. 6.2 ) . |
| 4 | This quarrel had been renewed and intensified as the modern state emerged and is easier to narrate than the shifting of the foundations of belief . |
| 5 | How can one charge be easier to prove than the other ? |
| 6 | We are docile and lethargic and much easier to govern than the French . |
| 7 | Far less obvious and less easy to rebut than the imperialism of Henty and Ballantyne , Marryat 's good-humoured , unselfconscious , professional patriotism is the ultimate strength of his work . |
| 8 | It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan , more uncertain of success , or more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things . |
| 9 | It is in any case debatable whether the College could have survived in the face of such rapid growth in the private sector ; their lawsuits against usurping trade diminished once they realized that they had priced themselves out of the market and had little extra to offer than the trade apart from kudos and tradition . |
| 10 | Baits need to be anchored well on the bottom and left for long periods and leger tactics are more likely to succeed than the float . |
| 11 | Additional information can lead to better odds and bigger returns but if the information costs more to obtain than the increase in returns the result is a net loss . |
| 12 | Aditional information can lead to better odds and bigger returns but if the information costs more to obtain than the increase in returns the result is a net loss . |
| 13 | By 1326 there were few men more hated than the Despensers and few more feared than the king . |
| 14 | As in the teaching of science or music , for example , the scientist or the musician has far more to offer than the non-scientist or the non-musician . |
| 15 | The TCCB hopes to persuade the world 's cricketing nations that England has more to offer than the sub-continent apart from hard cash . |
| 16 | That type of structural error is rather more difficult to diagnose than the type where the results are always bad . |
| 17 | He kissed me again , a different , unanguished sort of kiss which was somehow much more difficult to bear than the other . |
| 18 | Such a transformation may prove far more difficult to achieve than the chopping and changing of the past decade . |