Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prose which preoccupied Milton during the Commonwealth and Protectorate periods was to be seen as separate and certainly intrinsically less interesting than the poetry in which Parker portrays Milton participating in some universalised European humanism . |
| 2 | In the hitherto unpublished Leeds University evaluation of the 1991 Key Stage One National Curriculum Assessment , teachers rated the tasks they gave to children as rather more challenging than did observers , and were rather more generous than the observers in their estimates both of the frequency of open questions and of the opportunities they gave pupils to volunteer opinions . |
| 3 | By looking at the diagram though , you will probably see that the smaller sleeve length is also narrower at the top than the measurements in your size . |
| 4 | Therefore spreads are usually less risky than a position in a single futures contract . |
| 5 | The changes have clearly been more marked than the changes in the distribution of income . |
| 6 | A socialist government was less vulnerable to communist propaganda , and was more acceptable than the Tories in the colonies . |
| 7 | it is more private than a hearing in the civil courts — the press and public are not entitled to be present |
| 8 | House closings in 1992 amounted to 695 units , marginally lower than the number in 1991 . |
| 9 | ‘ I think I see something deeper , more infinite , more eternal than the ocean in the expression in the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning , and coos and laughs because it sees the sun shining in its cradle . ’ |
| 10 | Alan had been in the third coach of the second train and was therefore luckier than the people in the first and second coaches , several of whom were dead |
| 11 | Moreover , reform is ruled out because either the new second chamber would be less democratic than the Commons in which case it should not be able to delay legislation , or if it was just as democratic then there is no point in having two chambers , the more so since there is the potential problem of constitutional deadlock between them . |
| 12 | Hambros Jersey 's contention , if correct , would mean that the jurisdiction of the English court under the sections would be much more restricted than the circumstances in which an individual may be adjudged bankrupt or a company may be wound up by the English court . |
| 13 | The explosion , much bigger than the ones in the holes , and with almost nothing to muffle it , cracked across the dunes like a whip , setting my ears ringing and making even me jump a bit . |
| 14 | In terms of sheer size they are sometimes bigger than the countries in which they operate ; they are estimated to control over a quarter of world output ; and their ‘ inter-firm ’ shipments of goods from one country to another account for nearly one-third of recorded trade ’ . |
| 15 | The danger is the convert being more zealous than the Pope in suddenly believing that we can abdicate on all issues of policy . |
| 16 | If you have ever tried growing anything taller than a lettuce in a grow-bag , you will have encountered the problem of floppy stakes . |
| 17 | Statistics also show that while the crime rate has increased regularly for all groups , the rise in female crime has been far steeper than the rise in male crime . |
| 18 | The will and ability to stand is one of the most basic manifestations of the life-force , almost more basic than an interest in food and water . |
| 19 | Free-spending Mexicans are now rarer than a tamale in Lapland . |
| 20 | An ‘ albatross ’ , three shots below par , was one of the rarest phenomena in golf , even rarer than a hole in one . |
| 21 | ‘ An albatross , as I was saying , is one of the rarest phenomena in golf , even rarer than a hole in one which of course we have also seen today . |
| 22 | Since a right visual field advantage was still found when the word in the right field was exposed 20 msecs. later than the word in the left field it was subsequently concluded that temporal factors were not importantly involved ( McKeever and Huling , 1971 b ) . |
| 23 | A moorland parish will obviously be larger than a parish in a fertile area that was densely settled in early times ; a church that was an Anglo-Saxon missionary centre will usually have a larger parish than one that was founded later . |
| 24 | In the case of a severe burn , that is one that is larger than an inch in diameter , the rule is the same : cool first , cover later , and in this instance start to cool as quickly as possible to prevent the burn spreading into the surrounding tissue . |
| 25 | The Tertiary sector was already larger than the Primary in 1841 and provided virtually half of all jobs by 1961 : it advanced most markedly between 1911 and 1931 . |
| 26 | Need a good scientist who say that last July went and discovered a planet larger than the earth in another solar system and now said , oh it was all a mistake ! |
| 27 | These masks were rather less elaborate than the ones in the workroom . |
| 28 | Medication Imipramine ( a tricyclic antidepressant , Tofranil ) is the only drug that has been shown to be significantly more effective than a placebo in reducing wetting frequency . |
| 29 | The version in figure 9.4 is smoother than the version in figure 9.3 , and each is smoother than the raw data plotted in figure 9.2 . |
| 30 | Well it 's better than a kick in the teeth is n't it ? |