Example sentences of "[adj] than [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this is the Tetley Bitterworld of BIVOUAC , slightly inbred young Middle Englanders who would much rather plod their way to the top than dance with Nirvana , learns KEITH ‘ Plodcore ’ CAMERON . |
| 2 | Wood 's figures of 8–0-20–0 tell their story , but he was more wayward than Jeh in line and length . |
| 3 | Copper in contrast was not durable enough for big editions , and where its effects were desired it was increasingly replaced by steel ; but this was much less used than wood for works of science . |
| 4 | Troy did , however , use one phrase that went a long way to describe the film 's great success , for he spoke of how it illustrated that ‘ an honest documentation of familiar American actualities becomes in a Hollywood film more absorbing than intrigue in Monte Carlo or pig-sticking in Bengal ’ . |
| 5 | The Athletic News snorted indignantly : ‘ As a matter of commerce , ten young recruits at £100 a piece might have paid better , and as a matter of sport , the Second Division would be more honourable than retention of places by purchase . ’ |
| 6 | Training in singing appears to be less systematised than training in voice production . |
| 7 | Seen from above in flight , primaries appear paler than rest of wing . |
| 8 | The tiny lady in purple looking after the money , 78 years old and no bigger than twopennorth of copper , was Jess Wilson who turned out to have been a British clay pigeon champion many years ago . |
| 9 | The new crop is more resistant than wheat to diseases , especially to leaf blotch , powdery mildew , and other fungal infections such as the smuts . |
| 10 | No fabric is more comfortable than cotton and no cotton is more natural than cotton from America . |
| 11 | But even though he strives to protect his privacy , Craig 's still larger than life at work , always joking , teasing and larking about . |
| 12 | Control of interest rates loomed far larger than control of money supply . |
| 13 | This process analysed by Hindess runs deeper than disagreement over policy . |
| 14 | It is , however , no more paradoxical than speaking of John 's arm , when the arm in question is part of the John who is said to possess it ( or the chassis of the car , for ) . |
| 15 | In fact Peasgood suggests , in one of the few surveys which have been carried out in this area , that selection in academic libraries from the ‘ book in hand ’ was found to be no more effective than selection from lists ( effectiveness being measured in terms of subsequent issues ) . |
| 16 | ‘ For me , sumptuousness of fabric is more effective than importance of shape . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Good sense about trivialities ’ , he once wrote , ‘ is better than nonsense about things that matter . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Rosyth is hands-down better than Devonport for safety , development and everything else . |
| 19 | Heater probe treatment of bleeding ulcer may be better than sclerosis with alcohol for stopping acute haemorrhage . |
| 20 | Prohibition of drugs , they say , works no better than prohibition of alcohol did in the United States . |
| 21 | The eastern marches were seen as a means by which internal German social and economic pressure could be relieved , where economic expansion was far more feasible than competition with France and Britain . |
| 22 | In general terms it is suggested that determination by expert is quicker and cheaper than determination by arbitrator . |
| 23 | It 's cheaper than diesel at present ! |
| 24 | Perhaps there was something more than coherence at stake . |
| 25 | Government and the HSE are well aware that the promotion and enforcement of safety demands much more than reliance on individuals and management . |
| 26 | Western governments generally expressed sympathy for the Lithuanian cause and concern at Soviet military pressure and the economic blockade , and Prunskiene was received everywhere by heads of government , but these governments did little more than call for restraint by both sides and for negotiations . |
| 27 | Global competition is much more than rivalry among firms , for it involves the ‘ structural competitiveness ’ of states within the world system . |
| 28 | Already several of the rabbits were asleep , crouched uneasily between the thick stems , aware of the chance of danger but too tired to do more than trust to luck . |
| 29 | Those gold mines had stolen much more than gold from Africa . |
| 30 | It has even been held that presence remains no more than evidence of encouragement even when it is accompanied by a secret intention to help if necessary one of the participants in an affray . |