Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Court ruled that , even if the agencies staff were instructed to print out what they deemed to be records , the electronic material are ‘ quantitatively different than a copy printed out in paper form and , therefore the Defendants ’ record keeping system violates ( the statute ) because it does not save all the information contained in these electronic records . ’ |
| 2 | SIR — Your agricultural correspondent 's report on the goats of Snowdonia and their origins ( April 2 ) is less exciting than the folklore related to me as a small boy by a Welsh shepherd . |
| 3 | Whereas fascists and anti-semites were free to libel Jews as a group in the most foul language in their publications , the Jews were supposed to be more English than the English according to Morrison . |
| 4 | Mrs Thatcher yesterday had the honesty to admit that inflation is ‘ far too high ’ , but she no more deigned to explain what has gone wrong than the Chancellor had the day before . |
| 5 | ‘ What could be more manly than a man holding a woman in his arms ? ’ |
| 6 | Many National Savings instruments pay tax free interest as this is more sensible than the government paying a higher gross rate of interest and then having the administrative cost of collecting the tax on those interest payments . |
| 7 | The traditional grandeur of Kitzbuhel , Austria — the skiing is less demanding than the scenery suggests |
| 8 | The new establishment was to be more durable than the experiment envisaged by Athaulf and attempted by Constantius and Aëtius , where a traditional Roman government was supported by barbarian arms . |
| 9 | Where the nature of the disability is less specific than the example shown ( e.g. backache , virus etc ) the progress of the claim should be monitored very closely . |
| 10 | The proposal itself was less controversial than the party manoeuvring which had gone before it . |
| 11 | One that was more attractively worded than the rest caught her eye . |
| 12 | That is , the specialisation of the left hemisphere for language among inverters was assumed to be less complete than the right sided specialisation of non-inverters . |
| 13 | Arguments such as this are in principle more respectable than the argument based on sheer , naked incredulity . |
| 14 | Mr Mellor has never been given proper credit for showing sufficient resolution during the passage of the Broadcasting Bill to persuade his colleagues that ITV deserved to have its future determined by something more subtle than a contest to see who could stuff the most pound notes into a brown envelope earmarked for the Treasury . |
| 15 | Someone more thoughtful than the rest had ordered to be shut the big river gates that were at the point where the Ankh flowed out of the twin city . |
| 16 | Whether or not the private sector does use resources more productively on average than the government remains a contentious issue . |
| 17 | It is less resistant than the technique shown in this chapter . |
| 18 | ‘ I am surprised the judge did not think this matter a great deal more serious than the sentence appears to suggest . ’ |
| 19 | Another advantage of growing tropical waterlilies is that some of the varieties open their blooms after dark , and these night bloomers are normally far more fragrant than the day blooming varieties . |
| 20 | There was also an awful type of unbranded ‘ floss ’ yarn that was even more unpopular than the nylon sold by the well known names in the hand knitting world . |
| 21 | For Acheson , who became Secretary of State in January 1949 , as for most of the Administration , Congress and probably most of the American people , and as a straight and simple choice , France was more important than Vietnam or Indo-China and more valuable than a party aspiring to be government which , in spite of impeccable anti-colonial credentials and its ability to present itself as all things to all men , was beginning to look more and more like an affiliated communist state . |
| 22 | Professor Woolf argues that an older person purchasing a walking frame in order to remain on his or her feet is no less natural than a parent purchasing something similar for an infant learning to walk . |
| 23 | There is no sharp division of duties between senior lecturer and lecturer , but a senior lecturer is , in general , more likely than a lecturer to hold such posts as dean or head of department , or to chair university committees . |
| 24 | It would be possible to resolve the pronoun here by reasoning that a dog biting a vet is much more likely than a vet biting a dog ( or , indeed , of either of them biting himself ) . |
| 25 | Thus , for example , when asked whether or not they would describe their own redundancy as genuinely voluntary , the oldest group ( those over 65 when interviewed ) were much more likely than the rest to say ‘ yes ’ ( 83 per cent compared with 46 per cent of those aged 55–59 and 65 per cent of those aged 60–64 ) . |
| 26 | People with disabilities are more likely than the non-disabled to experience poverty , have lower incomes and fewer assets . |
| 27 | Of all the treatments for obesity , none could be more physiological or less psychological than the operation known as jejeunoileostomy or ileal bypass , in which most of the small intestine is short circuited thus greatly reducing the amount of intestine available for absorbing food . |
| 28 | He nodded , and a shaft of pain more piercing than a sword sliced into her heart . |
| 29 | how long the employment was going to last in the absence of sickness ( a short-term contract is more likely to be frustrated than a job expected to last for the foreseeable future ) ; |
| 30 | When examining a sculptural form , a symmetrical examination of opposite sides by left and right hands simultaneously is more informative than a single handed action . |