Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a [noun] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Going on down er , the profit and loss account , the tax charge er , is lower as a percentage than it was this time last year . |
| 2 | Reaching 50 caused Claire Gallois to turn against this way of conducting things and against the world in which ageing is much more cruel for a woman than for a man . |
| 3 | The other thing I mean to be healthy it 's more important to dry things and keep them dry for a while than to boil them . |
| 4 | Altering the diet is also far more risky for a child than it is for an adult , so there are more difficult decisions to be made before embarking on an elimination diet . |
| 5 | She 'd be far more interested in a bath than … ’ |
| 6 | The idea of recycled clothes seemed more exciting in a way than modern clothes . |
| 7 | Article 11 can hardly be said , therefore , to ‘ weaken ’ the Convention it allows States who wish to be more generous to a claimant than the minimum standards set out in the earlier articles to do so , but not for more than minimum standards to be imposed by a requesting State on a requested State . |
| 8 | He was very unbending , this young boss of hers — not even a smile , and his speech was more like that of a headmaster than a colleague . |
| 9 | The face was fine and a little gaunt , more that of a poet than a soldier . |
| 10 | If anything , you 're more intriguing as a woman than you were as a girl . |
| 11 | Surely a flashing red light would be far more visible in a tunnel than a static light ? |
| 12 | It may not necessarily impair the reliability of data in the computer that you feed in something which will produce a result more favourable to a customer than the store holder intended . |
| 13 | Many of the cathedrals are former parish churches and they retain an attitude to music which is more appropriate to a parish than to a cathedral . |
| 14 | Is taller by a Foot than she , |
| 15 | In fact , even in the lower key , the tessitura of the part is much more comfortable for a countertenor than for a soprano . |
| 16 | Usually , a two-party system is better for a country than a many-party one , because it is less liable to tie itself up in knots . |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose it 's better for a girl than a boy , ’ said Ken doubtfully , ‘ but all the same you should have asked me . ’ |
| 18 | Eleven of these studies actually show the striking reminiscence effect where recall in the arousal condition is actually better after a delay than immediately after learning . |
| 19 | My work , however , looks better in a home than a gallery , being fairly small and personal . |
| 20 | A few years ago , a Government publication entitled ’ Practical Ways to Crack Crime ’ stated : ’ A stolen car is about 200 times more likely to be involved in an accident than the same car driven by its owner . ’ |
| 21 | A stolen car is 200 times more likely to be involved in an accident than one driven by its owner . |
| 22 | Infidelity had become freshly dangerous , potentially much more lethal to a marriage than adultery had been previously . |
| 23 | No city in the world is more vulnerable to a fire than Venice and no city in the world has less adequate defences . |
| 24 | Western observers argued that Gorbachev 's stronger power base and his age ( 58 compared with Khrushchev 's 70 in 1964 ) made him less vulnerable to a coup than his reformist predecessor . |
| 25 | It was more like being present at a seance than at a lecture . |
| 26 | What she is really saying , after all this time , is that it is more important for a woman than a man to look good . |
| 27 | ‘ I was there more as a minder than anything else , ’ he explained . |
| 28 | Like Anne , Maureen had often felt uneasy about Sarah 's relationship with Terry and thought that she seemed to regard him more as a brother than a lover . |
| 29 | At £110 Alfonzo is beyond most piggy-banks , so look on him more as an investment than a bedfellow . |
| 30 | The trade unions ' ‘ golden formula ’ of action ‘ in furtherance of a trade dispute ’ looks weaker as a protection than it did . |