Example sentences of "[adj] than [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another is that commercial property is intrinsically less liquid than even distressed third-world debt . |
| 2 | Some of the strategies entered in Axelrod 's tournament were much more sophisticated than either Remorseful Prober or Naive Prober , but they too ended up with fewer points , on average , than simple Tit for Tat . |
| 3 | Freud 's notion of sexuality was more inclusive than just sexual reproduction , but he was not unique in pointing out that sexuality was an important biological instinct . |
| 4 | The consensus thus established is much more likely to create an environment which reflects the now in education ; it will certainly be more effective than either radical revolution , deschooling or free schooling . |
| 5 | In spite of Virtues 's dogma , cleanliness is neither essential nor effective against an established infestation , and gamma-benzene hexachloride or benzyl benzoate are preferable and more effective than either carbolic acid or tobacco . |
| 6 | She did not teach much , for Fanny describes her own educational level as " no better than very vulgar reading ; or rather spelling , an illegible scrawl , and a little ordinary plain work " . |
| 7 | None of the libraries in this group had a staff establishment higher than 130 , so it appears to be the smaller authorities in particular who found it difficult to allocate more than largely nominal responsibility . |
| 8 | I still wanted to believe that he had been fooling me , or testing my credulousness in a more than averagely cruel manner . |
| 9 | We are concerned , then , with more than simply linguistic competence . |
| 10 | By Sunday evening , when it was time for them to leave and the three of them were piling into the Bentley , what she felt inside her , by any definition , was far more than simply sexual excitement . |
| 11 | It is precisely this capacity for renewed interpretation that makes literature of more than simply historical interest . |
| 12 | Diane had n't been a stunner , but she 'd had a pleasant face and a more than tolerably decent body . |
| 13 | This was a more than slightly retouched version of his record . |
| 14 | Yet the training provides more than just technical skill . |
| 15 | However , the value of a company is based on more than just short-term profitability . |
| 16 | Becoming the world 's foremost brewer takes more than just good business sense . |
| 17 | We believe it will take more than just gentle persuasion to bring an end to over-specification and waste . |
| 18 | We believe it will take more than just gentle persuasion to bring an end to over-specification and waste . |
| 19 | The public-interest objective is harder to reject , because it is eminently reasonable that public policy should be concerned with more than just economic efficiency , though it clearly generates considerable uncertainty for firms about what they may and may not do . |
| 20 | Harry Eyres discovers that the Grands Crus of Alsace are more than just reliable wine bar whites |
| 21 | It is important to bear in mind , however , that muscle tension can be the result of more than just bad posture or wrong use of the body . |
| 22 | But more than just physical damage had been incurred . |
| 23 | more than just physical reason I , I mean a lot of people are grossly overweight they , you know , people usually say oh it 's the |
| 24 | It 's more than just beautiful wrapping , more than lovely façades . ’ |
| 25 | If so , we English Poundians , even as we castigate our countrymen for clinging to the norm of the amateur in an age when that norm is unserviceable , may well spare more than just wistful nostalgia for this ideal that survives among us only in a debased and anachronistic version . |
| 26 | More internal training emphasizes very clearly the importance of having a training co-ordinator , ( who has more than just nominal responsibility for training ) . |
| 27 | This is more than just instrumental self-aggrandizement , because this ‘ market forces ’ approach is an important ideological device in ‘ recommodification ’ , but the form of involvement is highly instrumental for many participants . |
| 28 | Somerset is more than just pretty scenery |
| 29 | Christina probed , certain now that Elaine was worried about more than just impending motherhood . |
| 30 | We are ‘ involved ’ in the most thoroughly mediated war in history but now more than ever vicarious contact with the front line via blanket news coverage fails to guarantee comprehensibility , still less access to the truth . |