Example sentences of "[adj] than [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are cheaper than wooden coffins , lighter than coffins of lead , and as safe as the most expensive contrivance . ’ |
| 2 | People often mention ‘ metal whiskers ’ as if they were the only kind but , as a matter of fact , metal whiskers are less common and less interesting than whiskers of non-metals and it is about these latter that we shall mostly talk . |
| 3 | Although this assumption is very likely to be wrong it is still a usable forecast in the sense that it may be no more wrong than forecasts of change that get it wrong . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Seen from above in flight , primaries appear paler than rest of wing . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They are no bigger than grains of rice . |
| 8 | These are culpable acts , often regarded as being more serious than thefts of property . |
| 9 | They are ultimately more instructive than stories of nonagenarians who scale Everest or even ( enjoyable though they are ) of Lord Denning 's battles with the government from his seat in the House of Lords . |
| 10 | Fathers of children with leukaemia or non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma were more likely than fathers of control children to have been employed by the nuclear industry , but the excess was not significant . |
| 11 | Radical changes in working patterns have yet to happen : apart from doctors in accident and emergency departments fewer than 1% of doctors are working full shifts and just over 2% are working partial shifts . |
| 12 | In 1979-1980 , fewer than 30% of girls leaving school and under 20% of boys entered full-time further education . |
| 13 | This avoids mass screening and means that fewer than 5% of women will receive intrapartum chemoprophylaxis . |
| 14 | Fewer than 5% of seats changed hands in the 1970 general election . |
| 15 | Two studies have shown that general practitioners can deal with a high proportion of night calls on the telephone , but Sheldon and Harris found that fewer than 3% of night calls received by two deputising services were dealt with by giving advice by telephone without a visit . |
| 16 | The survey said that fewer than 40% of companies had collected the VAT numbers from fewer than half of their customers . |
| 17 | Fewer than 10% of respondents answered this question negatively , making it one of the most unambiguously supported proposals in the paper . |
| 18 | Control of interest rates loomed far larger than control of money supply . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | Another explanation for the relatively high proportion of those in residential homes reported to be bad tempered could be that relatives , friends or neighbours were less likely to report or perceive the person who died as being bad tempered than staff of institutions . |
| 21 | Ratings of radio news were less predictable than ratings of television but they too were influenced by recent political interest , motivations for following the campaign , and degree of party preference . |
| 22 | ‘ For me , sumptuousness of fabric is more effective than importance of shape . ’ |
| 23 | Some are better than others of course but er |
| 24 | Prohibition of drugs , they say , works no better than prohibition of alcohol did in the United States . |
| 25 | Some built sturdily of wood and iron , others no more than skins of plastic sheeting over frames of branches , they straggled north over the dunes as far as I could see . |
| 26 | The purist will point out that every aircraft accident results from human error of some kind ; even the most complex technical failure has its origin in the work of a designer , manufacturer or maintenance engineer somewhere , and so-called ‘ acts of God ’ such as structural failure in extreme turbulence beyond the limits of airworthiness criteria are no more than failures of airworthiness engineers to assess the limits correctly . |
| 27 | Often the timbers were no more than columns of sort of dampish dust because they had n't been able to breathe in this kind of brick envelope . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Apple spokesmen commented that Xerox 's software concepts were not protected by copyright any more than depictions of birds and trees are protected by the copyright on a painting . |
| 30 | The German army itself was in theory a composite force of Prussian , Saxon , Bavarian and Württemberger troops ; this diversity meant little more than differences of name and uniform , for the Prussian staff controlled the whole apparatus as a unified system and made it the best army in the world . |