Example sentences of "[adj] than the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although smaller and lighter than the 7.62 Self Loading Rifles which we had used in the Territorial Army , its strength lay in its high velocity rounds and accuracy . |
| 2 | yet the gear change itself is quicker and lighter than the long throw , rubbery device that spoils the Vauxhall . |
| 3 | What happens in the blast furnace is that the slag is lighter than the molten iron and it collects on top of the molten iron and by some means that I s |
| 4 | For the purists a bag without a zip is going to be the most efficient at keeping warmth in and will always be lighter than the same bag with a zip . |
| 5 | 9.6 volt cordless drills are generally lighter than the 12 volt types , making overhead work easy |
| 6 | The hon. Gentleman was far more brave than the hon. Member for Torridge and Devon , West ( Miss Nicholson ) who has adopted the role of reading out central office briefs in the House to apologise for the Conservative party . |
| 7 | SOMETIMES you find the footnotes in a history book rather more interesting than the heavy stuff upstairs . |
| 8 | A more obvious underlying meaning , pointed out by the programme notes , is to see the ‘ round-dance ’ as a metaphor for the transmission of VD or , more topically , AIDS ; but this seems to me less interesting than the social satire whose delicate emotional nuances ( preserved in co-director Ceri Sherlock 's modernised adaptation ) give the play its wider significance and melancholy humour . |
| 9 | He looked greener than the proverbial grass to her . |
| 10 | Mike , who 'd gone greener than the minted melon balls provided for pudding , and Perdita , who was lighting one cigarette from another , could n't eat a thing . |
| 11 | In many ways this moment was infinitely more exciting than the actual race itself because these qualifying laps asked so much from car and driver . |
| 12 | Nothing can be more exciting than the first time that you are given some flowers , and particularly red roses . |
| 13 | For , to the romantic , the bird of paradise is much more exciting than the humble house sparrow . |
| 14 | Now , does n't that sound a whole lot more exciting than the next Prodigy video ? |
| 15 | The smallness of the earth was arguably felt more vividly in the medieval than the modern system , for there was then an absolute standard of comparison — the immense size of the outermost sphere . |
| 16 | the slightly foreshortened cockpit is a little less sumptuous than the newly-furnished cabin . |
| 17 | Nothing provides a better demonstration of this than the continued usage of the administrative-judicial dichotomy as a basis for determining the applicability of natural justice . |
| 18 | And I I think I must say that i it 's well certainly in Nottingham , my experience is that the church of England is and perhaps other churches , are more aware of this than the catholic church is . |
| 19 | The smoke is probably unburnt fuel If the carb is a little bit worn it will do this The Solex carb is more prone to this than the later Zenith It may also be slight oil burning which is also very common as the engine starts and only happens for a few seconds This is a ‘ feature ’ of Land Rovers and is not really cause for concern |
| 20 | Her fluency resulted in almost 100 books ; Flaubert 's entire output fits one volume no fatter than the average airport blockbuster . |
| 21 | Cleaner than the bloody Post Office anyway . |
| 22 | The fraud is always more menacing than the real thing . |
| 23 | There are still a few in New Zealand but numbers there are now very low , and the Belted variety is more popular than the standard black . |
| 24 | Trimmed down from a much nastier pilot to the duelling clowns schtick , Minder became even more popular than the true grit series like Out and Fox it originally sought to follow . |
| 25 | Disenfranchisement would mean upheavals for staff , start-up costs and teething troubles for the new contractor , and a danger that the service would indeed turn out to be demonstrably less popular than the old contractor 's or different from what was promised . |
| 26 | Examination of what is entailed and what is expected have produced ambivalent conclusions , less clear than the raw conviction that training is a good thing : but overall the evidence is favourable . |
| 27 | In this way a risk index was formed showing whether the division was relatively more or less risky than the corporate group as a whole , and the group CAPM-based yield was modified on a divisional basis . |
| 28 | The insertion of the needle is less painful than the hypodermic counterpart , but may cause an animal to arch his back or tighten his muscles . |
| 29 | Thus , the eastern shore is saltier than the western shore . |
| 30 | This makes it less relevant than it might be here , partly because the undergraduate curriculum is relatively more specialized than the secondary school one , and partly because distinctions or dimensions which are important in higher education — for example , between the pure and the applied — are less so in the schools . |