Example sentences of "[adj] than [noun sg] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wood 's figures of 8–0-20–0 tell their story , but he was more wayward than Jeh in line and length . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | Training in singing appears to be less systematised than training in voice production . |
| 4 | Without time to do more than yell in protest as he set off , Sarella launched herself after him and did her utmost to keep pace . |
| 5 | In fact , contrary to what has sometimes been said about his modesty , he enjoyed talking about his work , even when it was no more than work in progress . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , that Empire which , as Dryden said , ‘ is no more than power in trust ’ , provoked a world war . |
| 7 | Gifts in kind Gifts in kind are no less important than money in family exchanges and there is evidence that these can include both goods and services , including the basic necessities . |
| 8 | Colonies were very handy bargaining counters if a state wanted to concede something less important than territory in Europe , but it was hard to imagine that any country would want to take all of its rivals ' imperial possessions . |
| 9 | To make him no more than animal is to make him less than man in God 's likeness . |
| 10 | It is even worse than heroin in terms of the dependency and hopelessness it creates . |
| 11 | Pyridinoline and deoxypyrolidine are found in collagens I , II , III , and IX , so both are found in extracellular matrix collagen crosslinks , while deoxypyrolidine is more common than pyridinoline in type I bone collagen crosslinks : the ratio of pyridinoline:deoxypyrolidine is 3.5:1 in bone collagen as opposed to 10:1 in other collagens. – 9 Released as a result of bone degradation , these markers can be measured either singly or together ( to derive a pyridinoline:deoxypyrolidine ratio ) by high performance liquid chromatography with fluorescene detection in 24 hour urine specimens and correlate well with rates of bone resorption . |
| 12 | Even more sharply , it is impossible for the majority of people to be other than black in South Africa as it became impossible to be other than Jewish for Jews in Nazi Germany . |
| 13 | Small animals are dominated by surface forces other than gravity in ways unknown and unknowable to us . |
| 14 | Nice to see Stubby again ; Good God , the power structure in a town this size was more formidable than politics in New York City . |
| 15 | Debt has been proverbially frowned on : ‘ He that borrows must pay again with shame or loss ’ ; ‘ He that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing ’ ; ‘ Out of debt , out of danger ’ ; ‘ Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt ’ ; ‘ Let him that sleeps too sound borrow the debtor 's pillow ’ ; and , but only grudgingly , ‘ Debt is better than death ’ . |