Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun sg] than [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , because tea required a more stable labour supply than coffee the plantation Tamils became more settled , though many continued to retain some ties with India . |
| 2 | The partial imputation shades into the split rate system , which treats distributed income in a more favourable tax manner than income retained by the corporation . |
| 3 | There is more to effective information retrieval than indexing , though this is certainly an essential component of the process . |
| 4 | It has been suggested that the presence of feelings of hopelessness may be a more sensitive indicator of attempted suicide risk than depression itself ( Minkoff et al. 1973 , Beck et al. 1975a , h ) . |
| 5 | Subject searching is generally , and probably correctly , seen as a richer and more important research area than investigation of author and other known-item search activity . |
| 6 | Housing is inefficiently heated because volume of construction is a more important planning indicator than fuel efficiency , not because the Soviets can not do better . |
| 7 | With methane a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide , this could be contributing as much to global warming as is caused by the CO2 emitted from gas-fired power stations . |