Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] than the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Militant councillor , Willie Griffin , accused Labour rather than the Government of forcing through the closures , adding that the £172,000 that would be saved annually from the Faskally closure was ‘ paltry ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Because the issue was public against private rather than the relationship between private and public , Britain has suffered from a less than fully productive public sector and a less than fully responsible private sector , neither of which were satisfactory engines for growth . |
| 3 | It may be — although we can not be sure because our knowledge is so uneven — that many of the frequently expressed fears of the effects of expanding leisure opportunities on the countryside are exaggerated , that well-publicized cases of overcrowding and ecological damage in the Lake District , in parts of the Derbyshire Peak District or on the Downs in Kent and Sussex are localized and atypical rather than the shape of things to come elsewhere . |
| 4 | Much has been made of the need to question the impact of elderly medical care but it is clear that , unlike other areas of counselling , it is the counsellor who has to do this rather than the counsellee . |
| 5 | The 1976 Salzburg Easter Festival Lohengrin , the designs based on fourteenth-century illuminated manuscripts and lit with a rare luminous aura , must rank as one of the most beautiful of all Wagner productions in recent memory , ; but , in a sense , it is invidious to single out this rather than the Ring or the Tristan , the Parsifal , or even the menacingly spectacular designs , half real , half fantastic , for the 1982 production of Der fliegende Holländer . |
| 6 | But as the girl in the post office said erm it 's usually different here than the weather forecast which is probably is , the gulf stream |
| 7 | The drawers slide smoothly in and out without a sound ; one of the perks of picking on the well-off rather than the chipboard classes . |
| 8 | Early microprocessors ten years ago were erm nothing much more than the calculator type of erm performance . |
| 9 | But this face was bigger ; swollen and bigger still than the horror in the car . |
| 10 | ‘ Bigger even than the Bank of America . |
| 11 | True to the Romantic tradition from which this belief sprang , the imagination was valued more than the analytical intelligence , the specific more than the general , experience more than discourse , connaitre more than savoir . |
| 12 | Similarly , for spatial questions it was predicted that more correct responses would occur in association with eye movement to the left rather than the right . |
| 13 | At the long wavelengths he observed , the Galactic Centre turned out to be the brightest object in the sky , brighter even than the Sun . |
| 14 | It is one of the world 's fastest growing industries and if it maintains its present rate of growth it will be the world 's biggest industry by the year 2000 — larger even than the oil industry . |
| 15 | As part of the denial of their own " family disease " they may believe that they themselves or the way in which they attempt to help others is what is inadequate rather than the capacity of the primary sufferer to receive the message of recovery . |
| 16 | The jury is still out on the Criminal Justice Act , even if it is swinging towards the negative rather than the positive . |
| 17 | In the main such errors are easy to detect because the charges face the heraldic sinister rather than the dexter , but occasionally , if the charges are non-directional and the arms are impaled , the historian can be misled as to which was the husband and which the wife , and hence infer the wrong family name . |
| 18 | Fewer matches will be missed by England players , seven out of 17 rather than the present 12 out of 22 . |
| 19 | The causal explanation must be that old age causes poverty , not that poverty causes people to be old ; in a cross-tabulation of age by poverty , it is more natural to examine the proportion of each age group who are poor rather than the proportion of each income category who are old . |
| 20 | The prohibition of cannabis is no more effective now than the prohibition of alcohol has been in the past . |
| 21 | ‘ My apologies to Attila , ’ Clemenceau once said , ‘ but the art of arranging how men are to live is more complex even than the art of massacring them . ’ |
| 22 | Hearing the noise of a car 's engine , she looked up to see approaching headlights , and a feeling of dread , colder even than the snow , settled over her like a heavy cloak . |
| 23 | More powerful even than the scent of newly-mowed grass or flickering glimpses of sky was the scent of my mother in her peach halter , her back slender and white , and the forever-ish trickly sound of her high giggle , the giggle of delight and fresh sloping green hills . |
| 24 | She thought again what a point of defence the tower was , commanding the countryside , and then she saw that there was a back road leading away from the tower , narrower , bumpier even than the drive to the front door , which snaked quickly down the hill and out of sight . |
| 25 | It 's permanently overcast , with frequent squalls of rain that burns like acid , more deadly even than the stuff that history says helped to kill Old Earth . |
| 26 | But the economist added : ‘ Our analysis are much more negative even than the samizdat literature . |
| 27 | Equally , breeders are passing over animals which they now feel are no better genetically than the dairy replacements they have at home . |
| 28 | It is the prestige of winning this historic race that is important rather than the prize money , as the winner usually receives less than the runner-up . |
| 29 | The watershed mark is thought to be the point at which a user could get hold of such a board at a couple of hundred dollars or more less than the cost of buying a complete PC solution . |
| 30 | I now feel as if I 'm in control and the intensity of the contraction seems to die away more quickly than the monitor suggests it should be . |