Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this modification may be more of a public relations coup than a genuine therapeutic improvement . |
| 2 | The meeting with Mr Terreblanche — ‘ ET ’ as he is popularly known — is seen more as a public relations gesture than a meaningful initiative . |
| 3 | There have been no studies yet in diabetics showing that a group with really good glycaemic control has a lower incidence of coronary artery disease than a well-matched control group . |
| 4 | Surely , this war is doing greater damage to global oil supplies than a hard currency starved Iraq would have done . |
| 5 | Comments : tastes more like a standard fruit cake than a rich one ( it 's a ‘ healthy ’ cake made with wholemeal flour and vegetable margarine ) . |
| 6 | A fat 60 kilogram person will have less lean tissue in total body mass than a thin 60 kilogram person , the difference being the excess fat . |
| 7 | Note that the products and are not maximized where and are maximized , because over a range a bigger share of a smaller income will represent a higher total tax revenue than a smaller share of a larger income . |
| 8 | All the commands are dealt with but seemingly in as few words as possible , it 's more a quick reference guide than a piece of documentation . |
| 9 | Nevin probed for openings on the right hand side of the park while Tommy Boyd was more of a left midfield player than a member of Scotland 's back four . |
| 10 | Janine watched her daughter sweep her hair away from her face with a gesture that was more fitting to a sexy movie star than a four-year-old girl . |
| 11 | In addition , hosts in sympatry were less likely to reject a mimetic model egg than a non-mimetic one . |
| 12 | An office worker who has two weeks of intense sunbathing is at greater risk of developing skin cancer than a construction worker labouring outdoors and subjected to longer , but less intense doses of sunlight . |
| 13 | Elements of a Sundays-style understated Englishness peek through occasionally , but Rachel has more in common with a manically abrasive Kristin Hersh than a rose-tinted Harriet Wheeler . |
| 14 | station chimneys falling in the rain where it damages trees and kills fish seems to us more like second-rate science fiction than a description of real events … |
| 15 | What better way to liven up these lazy summer days than a little trade-up rumpus between Sun Microsystems Inc and Hewlett-Packard Co . |
| 16 | It 's more like a simplified Gibson arrangement than a Fender one , and there 's no coil-tapping facility . |
| 17 | Making comparisons of crude death rates across time or between populations is problematic as the rate is obviously influenced by the age composition of populations : a population with a large component of older people will illustrate a higher crude death rate than a population of the same size including a lot of younger people . |
| 18 | The account hovers on the brink of farce , and must surely have been intended as a spine-chiller more analogous to a modern horror film than a literal description of something which was to be believed in . |
| 19 | That 's a tricky one , but one thing 's for sure : it 's much , much harder to make a worthwhile Rickenbacker copy than a worthwhile Fender copy , and I should imagine that Rickenbacker themselves view these particular replicas as a bit of an insult . |
| 20 | It is often easier to assess a continuous probability distribution than a set of specific values . |
| 21 | It is often easier to assess a continuous probability distribution than a set of specific values . |
| 22 | The scene at the offices of BAeSEMA , the hi-tech computer design group , may have been more like a Blue Peter set than a serious example of the latest in navy design , but Adml Eaton appeared suitably impressed . |
| 23 | Sherman and Buzzie B. climb into a totally white BMW which looks more like a modern bathroom cabinet than a car . |
| 24 | Henry would have you think he 's a real no-nonsense type — more the rugged Bryan Brown than a glamorous Mel Gibson — but upon entering Robert 's car , I had my chin joyfully slurped by the rising star himself . |