Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 And a couple is less conspicuous than a man on his own … ’
2 So a thirty year old service might be entirely different than a person with ten years service deferring his pension .
3 Their obsession with gathering may , at first glance , seem no different than the fanaticism of collectors of rare books or woodblock prints .
4 Discussion in the Yachting World office has taken some interesting turns lately , none more interesting than the campaign for the single black box , or the all-things-in-one instrument .
5 The prose which preoccupied Milton during the Commonwealth and Protectorate periods was to be seen as separate and certainly intrinsically less interesting than the poetry in which Parker portrays Milton participating in some universalised European humanism .
6 The truth is that they 're so often used as fast turnover test beds for review equipment , and new fishkeeping ideas , that they are probably less interesting than the majority of our readers ' tanks .
7 Black , by this time at the laboratories of Smith , Kline , and French , led a team which achieved results no less interesting than the discovery of beta-blockers , and of equal practical importance .
8 What you are achieving with such a happy mix is very much more personal and , therefore , interesting than the blandness of the careful match .
9 Perhaps even more interesting than the status of race as a demarcator of differentiation , is the absence of division around religion , and in particular around the ethnic-religious combination of Irish Catholicism .
10 Scientific discovery and the disillusionment of the twentieth century made the future look less interesting than the nature of time itself .
11 The shock to the patient was regarded as less grave than the risk of being precipitated unprepared into the next world .
12 For Hilton openness to the reality of the dark shadows of the inner world carries a promise of life more exciting than the glare of everyday physical reality " so shynende and so confortable to hem are blynde in knowynge of gostly " ( 25.92r. – 238 ) .
13 While I had liked the Colonello very much , because of his courteous way of talking to me , I never really took to Camino — who seemed more English than the English with his stiff upper lip — although subsequently he behaved very well .
14 Then he said : ‘ I 'm more interested than the rest of you to know whether he killed himself .
15 Betting is one of Britain 's top leisure activities , even more popular than a trip to the pub or eating out .
16 Once again it is clear than the concept of bureaucracy can not be used in blanket terms .
17 And hope is less clear than the dew of the morn
18 Therefore spreads are usually less risky than a position in a single futures contract .
19 Many married women whose husbands sign on for the family find themselves forced to seek work in the black economy in order to make ends meet ; this is often seen as less risky than the possibility of their husbands being caught .
20 It was no more painful than a ring through a punk 's nose .
21 Apart from the infiltration of the local anaesthetic , when the patient will feel a prick in the back , less painful than the anaesthetic for dental work , all that is felt is a pressure on the lower spine with occasionally a faint ‘ tingle ’ in one leg which simply signifies that the needle is in the right place .
22 The transition from symbol to politician was to be far more protracted and painful than the transition from soldier to symbol had been in 1940 .
23 Thoughts of the bills returning to Gomez 's alligator-skin billfold were unpleasant , but less unpleasant than the thought of being shot in the head .
24 Of course the environment is very much more simple and unpleasant than the environment from which you 've just come .
25 Recent history has , for example , a mass character more marked than the history of earlier times .
26 The fronting of objects and complements is much more marked than the fronting of adjuncts in English because objects and complements are fairly restricted in position .
27 Ah , no , I mean cos violence and drugs is more harmful than a load of girls , you know , doing stupid things on s street corner .
28 Hence his argument that ‘ the knowledge of history is no more historical than the knowledge of sugar is sweet ’ .
29 The love-sick dog went completely off his food , finding his loveable lump more appetising than a bowl of doggy chunks in gravy and soon he was reduced to skin and bone , a mere shadow of the beast his family had grown to know and love .
30 Wenger ( 1984 ) identified that the death of a sibling or friends may be harder to get over than the death of a spouse , perhaps because the longevity of the relationship goes back to earliest years .
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