Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] than [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even if one considers those women in the modern western world who are less fortunate , they still have , for example , an entirely different legal status than had a first-century woman . |
| 2 | It must be better to be an alone child than to have a brother like Augustin . |
| 3 | A defamatory statement of fact must be justified ( ie proved true ) — which is a much more onerous task than defending a defamatory comment on the basis that it was made honestly . |
| 4 | You are better eating just a small snack than hurrying a main meal . |
| 5 | Clearly , it would be more convincing to argue a case for exploiting animals to develop a life-saving vaccine than to produce a dispensable commodity such as a new lipstick . |
| 6 | The results show that , generally it is easier for most pupils to draw a named shape than provide a name for a shape . |
| 7 | Some saw the press as an industry and had no other object than to sell a product , provide employment and make a fair profit . |
| 8 | Any picture of such a tree , with ordered lists of children , conveys a much more thorough image than does a picture of an average graph , because the picture can exhibit the order in each list of children . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , Medick 's linking of new forms of recreation to the early period of adjustment to a money wage and to well-noted irregular rhythms of labour offers a more convincing explanation for the commercialisation of working-class leisure than does a simple downward percolation of middle- class forms . |
| 10 | It is easier and safer to free up an ordered society than to re-order a chaotic one . |
| 11 | Watching a film on TV or renting a video was still a more desirable option than visiting a cinema for many . |