Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] than [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whitegates have knocked £6,000 off this larger than average semi in Access Road , Liverpool 12 . |
| 2 | I like this better than that duffel coat one . |
| 3 | Gazing at the blue fabric , she noted that Ivan , ever present when least wanted , was intently watching this less than interesting encounter from a position just behind and below Henrietta 's left shoulder . |
| 4 | But this log-jam is going to take some more than human effort , however sincere and weighty , to break through . |
| 5 | History repeats itself in some less than mysterious ways . |
| 6 | Yet we can not claim that our sensory reality is more real than theirs : that we see it the ‘ right ’ way and that they see it in some less than real manner . |
| 7 | Students with limited time to complete an essay would do well to begin here , although they are likely to get a British perspective and , inevitably , some less than comprehensive coverage . |
| 8 | This has been a source of some less than harmonious comments from my beloved . |
| 9 | It was disappointing that the positive achievements of some activities were undermined by some less than satisfactory results and commercial and technical contract performances in others . |
| 10 | The ludicrous premise the film establishes — a nice Mafia man drawn intuitively to some preppy WASP — is pushed just far enough to make this more than abject pap , while leading lady Penelope Ann Miller , as Sabatini 's daughter Tina , simply has the looks to pull her part off . |
| 11 | The ludicrous premise the film establishes — a nice Mafia man drawn intuitively to some preppy WASP — is pushed just far enough to make this more than abject pap , while leading lady Penelope Ann Miller , as Sabatini 's daughter Tina , simply has the looks to pull her part off . |
| 12 | Nobody rails against this more than environmental groups . |
| 13 | Its been another less than startling year for London-based cables and construction group BICC Plc with pre-tax profits down 4.9% at £77m on turnover that fell 3.8% to £3,647m . |
| 14 | We may have members who been unemployed longer than eighteen months . |
| 15 | These are calculated for our sample of 1608 men who were unemployed longer than 28 days and did not give retirement as their reason for their pre-cohort entry job . |
| 16 | Lawrence will announce a series of pre-season friendlies next week , with the standard tougher than last year . |
| 17 | Before the war , Unionists had pointed to the huge disparity between the smallest and largest seats ( in 1910 Kilkenny had an electorate of a few hundred and Romford an electorate of over 50,000 ) , and had noted that Unionist constituencies were on average larger than Liberal constituencies , far larger than those of Nationalists in Ireland . |
| 18 | A well-known picture book of Italian art alone contains more than 4,000 reproductions , yet histories of art , as we have seen , contain fewer , sometimes much fewer than 1,000 plates . |
| 19 | Is it not the case that in the east midlands , my area , for example , unemployment is 30,000 fewer than five years ago ? |
| 20 | Male larger than male Sparrowhawk , with grey not rufous cheeks and paler grey upperparts contrasting more with black wing-tips . |
| 21 | Where it 's two males , male applicant and a male interviewer , and the prospective employee has a less prestigious accent than the interviewer , so it 's quite likely that the prospective employee would shift his accent towards a more that of the employer , due to his relative need of approval so much more than vice versa . |
| 22 | At the classroom level , the teaching and learning methods have to be organised to allow for much more than simple coverage of the topic . |
| 23 | Despite evidence that reading encompasses much more than simple character recognition little of this language information has been exploited in text recognition systems . |
| 24 | The dedication to their appearance of stars such as the luminous , fiftyish , Catherine Deneuve , sixtyish socialites such as Marie Helene de Rothschild or Helene de Mortemart and political wives such as Bernadette Chirac and Claude Pompidou , may be much more than simple vanity and may involve no self-admiration at all . |
| 25 | Ions are deflected according to : a ) mass — lighter ions are deflected more than heavier ions b ) charge — 2 ions are deflected much more than 1 ions . |
| 26 | Making allowances for variations in people 's familiarity with each type of credit ( judged by how often they applied any labels to each type ) , some types of credit were labelled as expensive much more than other types . |
| 27 | Best of all , the safety mattress does not cost much more than standard foam . |
| 28 | It should be noted , however , that heads were on the whole reluctant to ascribe much more than moderate success to their coordinators in respect of any of these aims . |
| 29 | I do n't quite know why , but he gave me the impression , without uttering more than a few words , that he had much more than superficial knowledge , and an amusing touch of the sardonic as well . |
| 30 | Toughened glass costs much more than normal float glass and it must be ordered cut to size . |