Example sentences of "[adj] than [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The process is slightly different than that for manufacturing catalysts for petrol cars . |
| 2 | The serotonin reuptake inhibitors seem to have similar efficacy to the tricyclic and related antidepressants , but the analysis of efficacy is less reliable than that of acceptability because intention to treat analyses were not widely used , different Hamilton scales were used , and reporting of standard deviation was inadequate . |
| 3 | The complaints in Numbers would seem less justifiable than those in Exodus . |
| 4 | The question of chemical sensitivity is no less controversial than that of food intolerance — if anything it is more hotly debated . |
| 5 | His loyalty to Lloyd George and the idea of coalition was more complete than that of Law . |
| 6 | The tawny owl assemblages are intermediate for this character , and although it has not been quantified , it is notable that the skulls present in tawny owl pellets are less complete than those in barn owl or some of the other species listed in Table 3.5 , having only the front part of the vault preserved . |
| 7 | The legal framework within which services for elderly people must be provided is less extensive than that for child care . |
| 8 | As in so many museums , the stored collections — including photographs and costume — are more extensive than those on display . |
| 9 | However , the geography of service employment growth is less uneven than that of manufacturing decline . |
| 10 | This infrequency was in part at Citrine 's choice : he could maintain it partly because the industry 's problems were less serious than those of coal . |
| 11 | Our society is much less violent than that of north America or of the Commonwealth of Australia , as the 1989 international crime survey showed in the report published in March 1990 . |
| 12 | More Mediterranean than Russian in temperament . |
| 13 | It must proceed according to a set of obstacles , a set of rules , that is , through a ‘ process of selection and combination of language ’ , which itself is more bound than mobile in language 's articulated and differential nature . |
| 14 | The adoption of the APSP materials has been far less immediate and widespread than those in mathematics . |
| 15 | Perceptions of Britain 's economic performance were more predictable than those of family circumstances , ; and perceptions of the past were more predictable than expectations for the future . |
| 16 | Spatial and temporal variations in phosphorus accumulation rates were more complex than those of mineral soil , reflecting changes in erosional processes , recycling within the lake and the input of human effluent from specific point sources . |
| 17 | In point of fact , in terms of Catholic tradition , the challenges here might be less awkward than those of phase 2 ( and to some extent John Paul II was able to recognize this ) , but the crucial ecclesiastical issue once more ( as in phase 1 ) had become the acceptability of diversity , and the curial mind had never escaped from the conviction that unity requires uniformity . |
| 18 | Membranous expression of pre-S2 is significantly more frequent than that of pre-S1 ( 48.5% or 33/68 v 25% or 17/68 , p<0.01 ) . |
| 19 | So delighted was she by this new demonstration of friendship , that she decided to have another go at winning over Rose , who was even more sullen than usual at bedtime and blew out the candle before Evelyn was stretched out upon the floor . |
| 20 | But the individual variations in the patterns of disease are less widely unpredictable than those of recovery . |
| 21 | Polymers tend to be left late in chemical education , since for example the synthesis of PVC is on paper much more complicated than that of vinyl chloride . |
| 22 | By definition , theme represents the speaker's/writer 's point of departure in each clause , which suggests that its organizational role is more important than that of rheme . |
| 23 | ( 12,000 MN/m 2 ) and the other timbers are , roughly , more or less stiff than this in proportion to their densities . |
| 24 | E coli from the control patients were marginally less adhesive than those from colitics . |
| 25 | Since the Queen was more spiderlike than humanoid in form , ‘ she ’ could safely be shown in more detail and had to be for the climactic battle , Queen versus Ripley plus power loader . |
| 26 | Epsilon ( 4.1 ) , between Beta and Lambda , is also of type M , and is decidedly orange , though to me the colour is much less pronounced than that of Mu . |
| 27 | The textile industry in particular has been experiencing very difficult trading conditions and is more susceptible than most to recession in the US economy . |
| 28 | However , and not surprisingly , no general consenus has emerged and the conclusions are no less disparate than those of theory . |
| 29 | The distribution of the burden of rates is arguably less fair than that of income tax , so the Layfield Committee was expected to study the possibilities of reforming local taxation . |
| 30 | Literally this was not so , since the emergency procedures of the Civil Contingency Unit were kept in being and it felt able to cope with almost every dispute other than that of council grave-diggers . |