Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] than [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought he could talk his way out of this easily enough surrounded by educated people of a less prejudiced kind than Dr Kingsley . |
| 2 | House ownership not only confers higher social esteem than council accommodation but it is also a more profitable form of investment , particularly during periods of high inflation . |
| 3 | RYAN GIGGS has the magical talent to become an even bigger star in British football than Paul Gascoigne was . |
| 4 | There were music rooms , hairdressing salons , beauty parlours , libraries , laundries , chapels , theatres , ballrooms , nurseries , and gymnasiums and health clubs armed with equipment which by modern standards appear more intent on medieval torture than health improvement . |
| 5 | Given these premises , then , and Moffat 's distaste notwithstanding that it would imply ‘ democracies reduced resort monarchy as weapon against Communism ’ , one wonders what else , apart from outright rejection , the US might have done when the French turned towards ex-Emperor Bao Dai : at least as a rallying point for non-communist Vietnamese nationalists and , of course , as someone who might be expected to be more amenable to French influence than Ho Chi Minh . |
| 6 | That was a dramatic device rather than anything to do with my mother who was a much different person than Elizabeth Reegan , as far as I can remember . |
| 7 | She is a much more down-to-earth person than Madeline Vesey Neroni , and supports her husband through thick and thin , always doing what she feels is in his best interest . |
| 8 | Since the problem of delay was considerably greater in High Court than county court actions , this proposal is discussed in relation to High Court actions . |
| 9 | It should be noted that morbidity statistics are generally of less reliable quality than mortality statistics . |
| 10 | President Bush claimed , during the election campaign , that his ‘ dog Millie knew more about foreign policy than Bill Clinton ’ and there is much evidence to suggest that it is not Clinton 's strongest card . |
| 11 | The superficial similarities might make a lesser man than Mikhail Gorbachev tremble . |
| 12 | Mr Band told the STB and Heritage Education Trust 's conference on heritage , education and tourism at Hopetoun House , South Queensferry , that many tourists thought there was little more to Scottish history than Mary Queen of Scots and Bonnie Prince Charlie . |
| 13 | The day I was there , all the children were boys , but this apparently has more to do with French culture than computer culture . |
| 14 | You do in account management is a different discipline than field sales . |
| 15 | There is a general perception that operating leases , where leased assets are not capitalised by the lessee , reduce borrowing capacity to a lesser extent than bank borrowing . |
| 16 | Also the inhibition of the glucosidase I with DNJ significantly ( p<0.001 ) reduced adhesion of HT-29 cells to laminin ( 68 ( 19 ) % ) and fibronectin ( 48 ( 13 ) % ) although to a lesser extent than DMJ treatment did . |
| 17 | The gas works operated at lower temperatures ( about 800°C ) , so coal gas was slightly richer in hydrocarbons and had a better calorific value than coke oven gas ( see Table 2 ) . |
| 18 | Among the irises , few plants have more architectural value than Iris pallida ‘ Argenteomarginata ’ . |
| 19 | It was certainly a more honest confession than George Bush ever managed , and by saying that he has been forced into this decision by an expanding deficit which has gone ‘ beyond even the worst official government estimates from last year ’ , he is also confronting Americans with some central truths about their economic situation . |
| 20 | This has no more to do with Christ and regenerative suffering than Dr Rutenspitz telling Mr Golyadkin that Licht will be provided for him where he 's going at the end of The Double . |
| 21 | In 1920 this figure dropped to twelve , despite the fact that this area suffered less in the Civil War than Smolensk guberniia . |
| 22 | In the nineteen years that I have been in Parliament , I can not think of anyone , save for Enoch Powell , who has been a more powerful advocate of liberal economics than John Biffen . |
| 23 | He considers ( 1975 : xx ) ‘ predatory street crime to be a far more serious matter than consumer fraud , anti-trust violations etc … because predatory crime … makes difficult or impossible the maintenance of meaningful human communities ’ . |
| 24 | Feldspar grains therefore have a higher diagenetic potential than quartz grains , particularly to chemical change ; mechanically , they are almost as rigid as quartz grains when fresh . |
| 25 | The sheer volume of the many assessments externally required by the Act and now under design by SEAC runs the danger of forcing the less confident teachers — indeed all of them in the first instance , as they ascend the steep learning curve — into ‘ rote teaching ’ , a much more dangerous activity than rote learning because it tends to shut down that sense of intellectual curiosity without which children are not really being taught . |
| 26 | There are few better exponents of the art of looking as though life is a complete grind than Graham Gooch , who invariably begins his day with a long-distance run , and Stewart is altogether more comfortable when the ship is being run more like a galley than the Skylark . |
| 27 | Sulphates are less subject to dry deposition than sulphur dioxide and consequently remain in the atmosphere for days , travelling up to several thousand kilometres in favourable meteorological and synoptic conditions . |
| 28 | Semi-quantitative analyses of ET-1-IR in groups A and B showed similar magnitudes of epithelial-cell staining ; however , vascular-endothelial-cell staining was greater in group B. Both groups with CFA had significantly more epithelial-cell staining than group C patients ( fig 3 ) . |
| 29 | By the early twentieth century this was undoubtedly less of a calculative relationship than Michael Anderson has described for the middle decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 30 | Miss Kyte considered herself fortunate to have finally been offered a post in a better class of household , for Sir John Merchiston 's widow sounded a much more promising prospect than Mrs Mugglesby , to whom she had last been in service . |