Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] other [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One is , however , fairly constant : the pain and discomfort of illness is frequently easier than the other kind of pain and hurt in our unconscious memories . |
| 2 | And one group is an awful lot bigger than the other group . |
| 3 | The man who climbed out of the freight car was at least six feet five inches high , a couple of inches taller than the other man , with a horrendously scarred face and a dyed blond pigtail dangling grotesquely from the back of an otherwise shaven head . |
| 4 | In big science , the national pride that sets country against country and scientist against scientist , can be even more costly than the other sort . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's better than the other way . ’ |
| 6 | Thus : ( 1 ) the said Solicitors ' Publicity Code ( which is summarised in Chapter 12 ) was introduced in 1988 , revised in 1990 , and covers the whole field ; from the general ( solicitors may hold themselves out to be good , but not to be better than the other firm down the road ; publicity must be accurate and not mislead ; a solicitor 's advertisement must identify the solicitor by name ) to the particular ( the correct designation of a solicitor 's practice , entries in legal directories , addresses to the Court and the use of the legal aid logo ) ; ( 2 ) the Law Society 's code incorporates by reference the provisions of the British Code of Advertising Practice which in its own way requires publicity material to be honest , truthful and decent , unambiguous and responsible , and contains a separate section relating to the advertising of financial services and products ; ( 3 ) the Financial Services ( Conduct of Business ) Rules 1987 also cover the advertising of financial services and products and will need to be studied by any firm carrying on investment business ; ( 4 ) solicitors will also need to be familiar with the Consumer Credit ( Advertisements ) Regulations 1989 and other secondary legislation in that connection , the whole corpus replete with the jargon unique to that area of law ; ( 5 ) the Business Names Act 1985 , which has already been referred to in Chapter 1 , requires revision of a firm 's letterheading every time there is a change in the identity of the partners , which will include any occasion when a salaried partner whose name has previously been shown " below the line " is promoted . |
| 7 | Whether we 're bad or not so bad , whether we think we have gone beyond the pale or whether we think we 're better than the other person , we all need a saviour because we 're all sinners . |
| 8 | I like it better than the other tag . ’ |
| 9 | He was right ; he was better than the other skier she 'd been so impressed by . |
| 10 | His reaction to my replies was more vigorous than the other man 's and once he even pretended to get angry . |
| 11 | Thirty percent more than the other party ? |
| 12 | The ‘ kinship defenders ’ are generally far more sceptical than the other group about the adequacy of both courts and social services agencies in making decisions about child placement and protecting the child 's interests and well-being . |
| 13 | Is n't the sea calmer than the other day ? |
| 14 | And , the narrow base erm , excludes certain types of people , therefore the rates are always higher than the other way of calculating it , erm , it 's the number of unemployed as a percentage of the number of employees in employment , in their employment , plus the unemployed . |
| 15 | Erm the two litre size now like I say once again we 're having erm problems with getting erm an economical er cost for the bottle of this so our price is actually slightly higher than the other market price . |
| 16 | Ito was subtle , shrewd and slightly more liberally inclined than the other genro . |
| 17 | Aware now that he was more naked than the other man he turned to the bed , and dragged a sheet off it to cover himself with . |
| 18 | Now , the reason why we 're getting a fairly high test statistic is that er , that distribution , although it looks normal on the left hand side , it does n't look particularly normal erm on the right and that we are missing some observations , we are missing some values of the residuals er in one area of the graph , nevertheless if we had a larger sample , right we probably erm , right it does n't look , that looks quite encouraging in actual fact , those residuals do seem to be er normally distributed er what the test statistic is doing er it 's saying it 's performing a , it 's a kiescraper two test , it 's making two restrictions , one of which is saying , is the distribution of these residuals symmetric er and also it 's testing whether there 's one of the tails is a lot larger or a lot longer than the other tail of the distribution and er test statistics fairly high but we would n't reject the null of normality at the five percent level so our test statistic is four point zero eight and the critical value is five point nine nine and that the five percent significance level , so we 've got reasonably er robust residuals . |
| 19 | Most players are pretty close in fitness but you must think you are stronger than the other bloke . |
| 20 | Since industrial anarchy was nothing other than the other side of the coin of the rapidly rising crime levels , both would be defeated by tough measures which would restore to the citizen a feeling of security and freedom . |
| 21 | But it is difficult to see how the section 5 restitutionary remedy could be available against anyone other than the other party to the transaction in question or the party to whom , under the transaction in question , the investor 's money or property had been paid or transferred . |
| 22 | Proposition Modules ( i.e. , the study of a particular aspect to a depth greater than the other course members ) |
| 23 | We have noticed over the last few months at Cadogan Travel seem to be noticeably more expensive than the other travel agents used by Christian Aid . |
| 24 | Sometimes she thought of her first husband and wondered briefly whether gross infidelity was really sufficient cause for divorce and whether faithless men were not perhaps — overall — more amusing than the other sort . |