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

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1 True , they have feeble strength and toughness , but with three wounds they are more resilient than the same frontage of Goblins or Orcs .
2 Training may sometimes unintentionally be squeezed out as being superficially less urgent than the many emergency day-to-day situations that arise in a bureau .
3 Marginally more credible than the same label 's Oceanic , they 're still hugely annoying on the appalling ‘ Startouchers ’ .
4 Therefore , a continuous sound , even though it might vary in its pitch , is less distracting than the same sound interspersed with silence .
5 It is now common in most accounts to begin with the proviso that the designation ‘ nouveau roman ’ is merely a convenient quasi-journalistic or even marketing label attached to an otherwise heterogeneous collection of writers , sharing little other than the same publishing house at one time or another ( Editions de Minuit ) .
6 The extent of circulation and the prominence given to defamatory remarks are factors which will influence the final award : a libel in the national press comes more expensive than the same libel in a small local newspaper .
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