Example sentences of "[adj] than the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Gentleman was far more brave than the hon. Member for Torridge and Devon , West ( Miss Nicholson ) who has adopted the role of reading out central office briefs in the House to apologise for the Conservative party . |
| 2 | SOMETIMES you find the footnotes in a history book rather more interesting than the heavy stuff upstairs . |
| 3 | A more obvious underlying meaning , pointed out by the programme notes , is to see the ‘ round-dance ’ as a metaphor for the transmission of VD or , more topically , AIDS ; but this seems to me less interesting than the social satire whose delicate emotional nuances ( preserved in co-director Ceri Sherlock 's modernised adaptation ) give the play its wider significance and melancholy humour . |
| 4 | In many ways this moment was infinitely more exciting than the actual race itself because these qualifying laps asked so much from car and driver . |
| 5 | For , to the romantic , the bird of paradise is much more exciting than the humble house sparrow . |
| 6 | The smallness of the earth was arguably felt more vividly in the medieval than the modern system , for there was then an absolute standard of comparison — the immense size of the outermost sphere . |
| 7 | the slightly foreshortened cockpit is a little less sumptuous than the newly-furnished cabin . |
| 8 | The fraud is always more menacing than the real thing . |
| 9 | There are still a few in New Zealand but numbers there are now very low , and the Belted variety is more popular than the standard black . |
| 10 | Trimmed down from a much nastier pilot to the duelling clowns schtick , Minder became even more popular than the true grit series like Out and Fox it originally sought to follow . |
| 11 | Disenfranchisement would mean upheavals for staff , start-up costs and teething troubles for the new contractor , and a danger that the service would indeed turn out to be demonstrably less popular than the old contractor 's or different from what was promised . |
| 12 | Examination of what is entailed and what is expected have produced ambivalent conclusions , less clear than the raw conviction that training is a good thing : but overall the evidence is favourable . |
| 13 | In this way a risk index was formed showing whether the division was relatively more or less risky than the corporate group as a whole , and the group CAPM-based yield was modified on a divisional basis . |
| 14 | The insertion of the needle is less painful than the hypodermic counterpart , but may cause an animal to arch his back or tighten his muscles . |
| 15 | This makes it less relevant than it might be here , partly because the undergraduate curriculum is relatively more specialized than the secondary school one , and partly because distinctions or dimensions which are important in higher education — for example , between the pure and the applied — are less so in the schools . |
| 16 | SPAR 's behaviour seems better if two conditions apply : that the reasoner is known to be less reliable than the linguistic part of the system , as it might be if the texts processed describe a relatively open domain ; and that , as for example , in a machine translation task , no further non-linguistic processing will be carried out on the reading accepted . |
| 17 | The power of the conscience can be built up from very early childhood by nothing more harmful than the temporary withholding of manifestations of love . |
| 18 | Clearly the replacement needs to be something desirable and/or less harmful than the original habit you are seeking to break . |
| 19 | In younger children , at all events , frightening circumstances are likely to be a lot more harmful than the sexual content . |
| 20 | She could feel the almost-accidental brush of his hand against her hair and felt herself flood with a warmth deeper and more insistent than the scalding heat of the water in which they were immersed . |
| 21 | Heres , for example ( in , " the greedy clutches of your heir " ) , denotes something perhaps rather less cosy and familial than the English word " heir " ; in many contexts it suggests nothing more than a legal designate with a contractual , post-obituary option on some hapless benefactor 's goods and chattels.5 Pietas is a notoriously difficult word to render , " piety " being the last recourse of the weary translator ; it involves " integrity " , " probity " , " purity " , " fidelity " , " devotion " , " decency " — a complex of related moral attributes which Romans sought and recognised in the upright man . |
| 22 | CLO patients who did smoke started to smoke at a slightly later age , smoked for fewer years , and accumulated fewer pack years of smoking than the severe reflux oesophagitis group . |
| 23 | It was less demanding than the similar education given to Elizabeth or Lady Jane Grey , and Mary was undoubtedly of far less intellectual a cast of mind . |
| 24 | The mediocre is less acceptable than the down-right bad because it sometimes masquerades as something worth while . |
| 25 | He was Raven Maize , a mysterious man with ‘ Together Forever ’ , a club hit in '89 , and far more soulful than the pristine work he offers at the moment : ‘ In those days I could record for nothing . |
| 26 | Such a system might have much more to offer in the way of conflict-resolution than the present system of customary principles as a loose framework within which states enter into negotiations . |
| 27 | Much nicer and far more refreshing than the bland oiliness of avocado and prawns , a combination which still baffles me . |
| 28 | The third-person narration of Lawrence is paradoxically more humanly subjective than the first-person narration of Conrad . |
| 29 | The cost of both voluntary and involuntary unemployment to the Exchequer is more readily quantifiable than the social cost . |
| 30 | Few things will the English youth find in after-life more profitable than the right use of the aforesaid letter . |