Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] than [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Moreover , it is the area in which emotions and feelings are educated ; it engages the effective domain in drama , song , movement , prayer , words and gestures , symbols and colour and , consequently , has a more direct emotional impact than doctrine . |
2 | The fact is that class conflict provided little or no revolutionary potential in Britain and that apathy was far more potent a force among the British working class than action . |
3 | Controlled fusion has fewer obvious negative aspects than fission . |
4 | The series by Berg shown in Example 122 was obviously designed to give a lyrical melodic sweep to the melody in the second movement of his Lyric Suite for string quartet : It will be noted that Berg 's series contains three distinct tonal groups : minor chords on D and F , and four notes from G to D within the tonal zone of G. However , tonal factors are less essential to a good melodic series than variety of intervals and memorable interval relationships . |
5 | A molecule of CFC 11 or CFC 12 is 12,000 — 16,000 times more effective as an infrared absorbing gas than carbon dioxide , and CFC molecules remain in the atmosphere for 65–90 years or even longer . |
6 | Time is possibly a more important limiting factor than storage space , and it is the subject of heavy competition . |
7 | While vitamin B12 malabsorption has been shown in some patients , it is recognised that bile acid absorption is a more sensitive test of terminal ileal function than vitamin B12 absorption . |
8 | For instance it might be suggested that action sample clients were less likely to be admitted straight away to long-term institutional care than control sample clients , for service-providers might have felt that with the Home Support Project such clients could be sustained at home whereas in its absence in the control areas they were not sustainable . |
9 | We can only give to Him what we receive from Him , and when we receive living bread and living water from the house of bread , there is no other possible response than worship . |
10 | She certainly looks a more attractive three-year-old prospect than Digression , who won the big juvenile colts ' event , the Royal Lodge Stakes . |