Example sentences of "[adj] than a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This version is lighter than a traditional Christmas pudding but it has all the flavour . |
| 2 | Sit at the back of a bluegrass concert in 80 of Kentucky 's 121 counties , and you will drink nothing more alcoholic than a tall glass of orange juice . |
| 3 | It will give us that much longer to get to know one another and it will be much more interesting than a 12-hour flight . ’ |
| 4 | Planning as a local authority responsibility has its origins in the public health and housing policies of the nineteenth century , but from the outset the objectives were broader than a simple emphasis on the efficient use of land . |
| 5 | The surgeons had to join blood vessels of only two millimetres in diameter and use suturing materials no broader than a human hair . |
| 6 | Also [ WEA branch members ] have the reputation in official circles of being so ‘ dreadfully earnest ’ — more an indication of the frivolous attitude that all education must be made palatable to be consumable than a valid criticism of their activities . |
| 7 | The sight of such an expanse of tiny squares , flowing up and around his massive elevation , produced more of an architectural than a sartorial impression . |
| 8 | There 's more to this than a missing husband , is n't there ? ’ |
| 9 | The monk , nun or vicar could , for example , be described as a more involved member than the old lady who attends Matins each Sunday ; she , in turn , is more involved than those who go to church only at Christmas and Easter ; and they are probably more committed than the sailor who , when he fills out C of E on a form , is more likely to be making a cultural than a religious statement . |
| 10 | An absolute prohibition against assignment is less popular than a qualified prohibition which requires a landlord not to withhold consent unreasonably . |
| 11 | The unspoken and unacceptable reality is that when I do decide to have a baby , my bosses will regard me as less promotable than a childless woman or a man . ’ |
| 12 | Believe me , when you are hungry , really hungry , so that your stomach clings to your backbone , nothing is more tasty than a succulent rat or a well-roasted leg of cat ! ] |
| 13 | The Dover Harbour Board argued in the early 1980s that ferries would be both cheaper and more reliable than a fixed link , a stance later adopted by the Flexilink consortium of ferry companies in its attempts to convince Parliament that the Channel Tunnel would be a financial disaster . |
| 14 | Even as you were ordering the march of your troops you made some of those sudden discoveries which throw more light than a painstaking analysis . |
| 15 | The highest infant mortality was reported in those cases where the preceding birth interval was less than two years and , in many communities , especially high , if the inter-birth period was shorter than a full year . |
| 16 | The researcher engaged in the social study of baptism may well decide at an early stage of the study that in modern British society baptism is more of a social than a religious ceremony . |
| 17 | The initial hypothesis suggested above about baptism being more a social than a religious ceremony is so general and broad that it obviously can not be tested without being broken down into its constituent parts . |
| 18 | I use Glodex glazing plastic ( from DIY stores ) which is more rigid than a commercial condensation tray , and also does not discolour if used under a hood fitted with light bulbs . |
| 19 | Though each portrait was essentially a straightforward head-shot , we are given far more to muse over than a strange face . |
| 20 | Arguably , though , the achievement of five O levels at a sitting was more demanding than a piecemeal collection of A levels . |
| 21 | Well i it were like a proper , er i in fact , they were more professional than a proper salon . |
| 22 | He opens with a history of homebuilts dating from Sir George Cayley ( who would have approved the sage advice to get an experienced hand to make the first test flight of your creation , though in his case the unfortunate man was more adept at handling a coach-and-four than a flying machine ) and proceeds through the Flying Flea era to the post-war rebirth in France and the USA , thence to Rutan and the foam/fibreglass revolution , and on to the 1980s emergence of IFR-capable alabaster-smooth hot-rod kitplanes that will blow the socks off anything Vero Beach and Wichita are ( or more accurately are n't ) building . |
| 23 | Gertrude 's lush memoir might well be fanciful : what , after all , is more sentimentally alluring than a dead genius and an adolescent beach holiday ? |
| 24 | Most modern nutritionists would advise that , in our sedentary society at least , a low-meat diet is considerably healthier than a high-meat diet . |
| 25 | In practice , says the review , ‘ such securities are more liquid than a fixed-period bank deposit with a maturity of less than three months , although the latter falls within the definition of cash equivalents ’ . |
| 26 | A woman would be quite prepared to accept a wage lower than a male compositor 's , since it would probably still be a great improvement on what she could earn elsewhere . |
| 27 | In terms of use , the status of e-mail messages ( excluding mailed WP documents ) , in most companies , is somewhere higher than a telephone call or a hand-written note but lower than a formal memo or report . |
| 28 | But it has never been shown that induction is logically more respectable than a formalized argument from analogy , indeed that induction from some particulars leading to deduction of others is anything else but a roundabout argument from analogy . |
| 29 | Long clones such as yeast artificial chromosomes — YACs ( 6 ) and P1s ( 7 ) will require fewer hybridisations than cosmid clones to link them , but the resulting map will be coarser than a cosmid map would be . |
| 30 | In computing values for cumulative distributions it is normal to consider values in terms of the percentage coarser than a given grain size . |