Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It now seems no more dim than the adverts for new paint , new tiles . |
| 2 | The work of a senior local government officer is , therefore , far broader than the confines of a single department or even a single local authority . |
| 3 | In the hitherto unpublished Leeds University evaluation of the 1991 Key Stage One National Curriculum Assessment , teachers rated the tasks they gave to children as rather more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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ The shock waves will be felt a lot further than the streets of Tyneside . ’ |
| 6 | Yet the statements of attainment are in most cases much less detailed than the sequences of behavioural objectives in use in many special schools . |
| 7 | It is also a living resource centre stocked with a range of information on the English language that is wider and more detailed than the contents of any one of its publications ( or anyone else 's publications ) , and able to adapt and respond to the requirements of the non-specialist language user . |
| 8 | Men die to win democracy for their countries , which after a while is taken grudgingly ; and its practitioners come to be seen as less skilled , worthy and entertaining than the aristocrats of sport . |
| 9 | Evidence to support this speculation is available from countries such as japan where the gender imbalance is much less marked than the countries of western Europe . |
| 10 | The changes have clearly been more marked than the changes in the distribution of income . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought it would take too long to do but it was easier than the problems of printing . ’ |
| 12 | Processing times are also much reduced due to the lists of words being shorter than the lists of grams . |
| 13 | They were no more testable than the claims of Paley and the other advocates of natural theology . |
| 14 | A socialist government was less vulnerable to communist propaganda , and was more acceptable than the Tories in the colonies . |
| 15 | This unstable identification — much more unstable than the forms of identification usually associated with cinema — is reinforced by the much looser rules of engagement implied by television 's interruptable time . |
| 16 | Truly , there is nothing worse than a world-weary hippie , and nothing more strictly self-superior than the elders of the benevolent-beat-bohemian class . |
| 17 | Paul , her husband , generally left before seven and had lunch out with one of his friends , while she used her free day to take care of a thousand chores more annoying than the duties of her job : she had to go to the post office and fret for half an hour in a queue , go shopping in the supermarket , where she quarrelled with the saleswoman and wasted time waiting at the check-out , telephone the plumber and plead with him to be precisely on time so that she would n't have to wait the whole day for him . |
| 18 | Are we to say that God 's assurance is no more assured than the fluctuations of our feelings ? |
| 19 | Living organisms are much more stable than the molecules of which they are composed . |
| 20 | The vapour is a mixture of the more volatile component A and the less volatile component B. The particles of the more volatile component have a greater tendency to escape from the liquid than the particles of the less volatile component . |
| 21 | Further , what could be more homogenous than the creations of C. P. Snow ? |
| 22 | As regards Yugoslav exports , the values reported by Yugoslavia were usually lower than the values of imports from Yugoslavia reported by the partner countries — but frequently so much lower as to be implausible . |
| 23 | This is startlingly lower than the figures of over half reported from eastern Europe and the Far East ; and it also looks as if co-residence was much more common in southern France , and also in post-colonial America . |
| 24 | As Ian Jones at the National Institute for Economic and Social Research has pointed out , benefits in the first year of operation are lower than the figures for net effective cost imply . |
| 25 | If the thresholds from logogen system to cognitive system were sometimes or always lower than the thresholds from logogen system to cognitive system , one could then explain subception ( gaining access to the meaning of a word without being able to report the word ) and also semantic errors which occur in the condition known as deep dyslexia in which single printed words are often incorrectly read as semantically related words , e.g. reading storm as thunder . |
| 26 | Karl Semper 's Animal Life as Affected by the Natural Conditions of Existence of 1881 developed the concept that would later be known as the food-chain and noted that the total numbers of predators must be much lower than the numbers of the prey organisms to maintain a stable system . |
| 27 | This barrage was much closer and more concentrated , the shells passing over appeared lower than the shells from the Naval guns , and the noise more intense , the guns appeared to be firing from the bottom of the orchard . |
| 28 | Enthalpies of fusion are much lower than the enthalpies of vaporisation of the corresponding liquids . |
| 29 | We could lie propped up against wide pillows edged with lace , the legs of the bed rooted in a froth of cow parsley , convolvulus thrusting through the wrought-iron bedstead , the blue sky and the clouds more solid than the rows of houses underneath . |
| 30 | And second , perhaps even more subtle than the dangers of making misjudgements about the early ulema and hierarchy under the influence of the distinctive character of the later hierarchy , one must avoid the danger of being led by the nature of the biographies themselves to dehumanize the ulema , a danger present in all the sources hut perhaps particularly in Ata'i . |