Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] than the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thrill of sex with someone taller or blonder than the wonderful man I 've got ? |
| 2 | In either case , at the borders and with slight variation in the illumination , it is possible that the exposure is slightly higher or lower than the optimum value for the current conditions . |
| 3 | As well as showing the average or individual costs of community care under the Home Support Project it would clearly also be useful to show whether the project was or was not cost-effective overall ; that is , whether the costs of running the service were greater or lower than the total public expenditure saved through sustaining at home people who without the project would have been in institutions . |
| 4 | The feature in question is that the second half of a parallelistic couplet ( line B ) is often more precise or specific than the first half ( line A ) . |
| 5 | None was more famous or strange than the notorious Victory Arch ; and in his latest book , THE MONUMENT * , Samir al-Khalil weaves round the arch a fascinating and thoughtful study of totalitarianism and art . |
| 6 | The sieve mesh sizes , raw weights , weight percentages and cumulative percentages , finer or coarser than the specific sieve , may be displayed . |
| 7 | There is no guarantee at all that the former , simply by taking place in a teacher 's place of work , will somehow be more relevant or valuable than the latter ( a point made over a decade ago Alexander 1980 — in the context of a previous incarnation of current debates ) . |
| 8 | For a wide range of models of release ( but not all ) , trajectories as steep as or steeper than the diagonal in these plots indicate a change in the number of quanta released , whereas trajectories close to the horizontal indicate a change in postsynaptic responsiveness . |
| 9 | In the nine years he remained at school his closest companions were to include Bob Allen , Val le Grice , and Thomas Middleton ; but no friend proved more lasting or dependable than the gifted , tongue-tied Charles Lamb , son of a minor official at the Inner Temple . |
| 10 | It is a typical Karajan project because in one respect it is enormously sophisticated — the technology is elaborate , expensive , and bang up to date — and in another it is very simple , inasmuch as its ultimate aim is nothing more or less than the lucid presentation of the music . |
| 11 | If , on the other hand , the estimates are always equal to or less than the actual cost for a path , as in Fig. 8.2. , then even if the algorithm initially takes the wrong path , its actual cost will be worse than the other , optimistically estimated paths . |
| 12 | When asked to make one of two equal piles of pennies tiv , after having made one pile more or less than the other , three-to five-year-olds will do one of several things . |
| 13 | They 're very often no more or less than the exact truth . |
| 14 | According to some estimates this amounted to $3,600,000 million , or more than the annual US gross domestic product . |
| 15 | In the opposite case where the market value was greater by 15 per cent or more than the theoretical value of the P/E ratio they found that shares underperformed the market . |
| 16 | Of all the species visible in Bharatpur , none is more romantic or mysterious than the Siberian crane . |
| 17 | The clinical grading structure could give rise to some difficulties in deciding whether previous posts held were equivalent or higher than the new grades and it would be advisable to clarify your position at interview . |
| 18 | Some people from both the Libyan Jewish and Slovakian foci of inherited prion disease have been found to carry the mutation at codon 200 and yet remain unaffected at ages similar to or greater than the upper age at onset in most affected relatives.Such incomplete penetrance has not been reported in other types of inherited prion disease . |
| 19 | Yet for many employment offers social satisfaction as great or greater than the financial reward . |
| 20 | Their budget must be equal to or greater than the minimum total cost of supplying the expected output . |
| 21 | If you make PAGE less than its original value or greater than the original value of HIMEM , you will get a " Bad program " error when you try to enter a program line and you may well crash BBCBASIC(Z80) . |
| 22 | The same with nut widths and scale lengths ( both crucial to the feel of a guitar ) ; if a nut is wider or narrower than the ubiquitous 42mm we 'll state the fact , or if the scale length is not the almost universal 25½″ we 'll mention it . |
| 23 | The African wild cat , although bigger than the modern domestic cat , has a much less stocky body than the European wild cat , with an overall shape that is much closer to that of our familiar pet cats . |
| 24 | Purely tribal loyalties will eventually be neither more nor less than the regional loyalties of Europe , of the Scots to Scotland or the Bavarians to Bavaria . |
| 25 | THE death of the Dowager Duchess of Rutland has taken from us the last and most loved of our nieces ( for niece she was , although older than the present writers by five and ten years ) . |
| 26 | The manner of his death ensured that more than the usual number of people were at the funeral . |
| 27 | To allow people to comfort themselves that less than the best ( or equal best ) is good enough , is , it may be said , just a recipe for idle complacency . |
| 28 | The institute found that the global average temperature , although cooler than the previous year , was still well above the average from 1951 to 1980 and in line with values for the 1980s . |
| 29 | These findings do not confirm fears of an overall increase in the number of old people looked after in institutions , and the proportion of 4.7% remains commendably low by international standards ( and lower than the national average of 5.1% in 1971 ) . |
| 30 | This phenomenon was particularly impressive in the north , which had hitherto been far less advanced and progressive than the southern , Mediterranean countries , the seats of ancient empires . |