Example sentences of "[adj] than the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their obsession with gathering may , at first glance , seem no different than the fanaticism of collectors of rare books or woodblock prints . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | What you are achieving with such a happy mix is very much more personal and , therefore , interesting than the blandness of the careful match . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Scientific discovery and the disillusionment of the twentieth century made the future look less interesting than the nature of time itself . |
| 7 | The shock to the patient was regarded as less grave than the risk of being precipitated unprepared into the next world . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | Then he said : ‘ I 'm more interested than the rest of you to know whether he killed himself . |
| 10 | Once again it is clear than the concept of bureaucracy can not be used in blanket terms . |
| 11 | And hope is less clear than the dew of the morn |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Recent history has , for example , a mass character more marked than the history of earlier times . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Hence his argument that ‘ the knowledge of history is no more historical than the knowledge of sugar is sweet ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Since British research in the 1 980s has consistently found that the use of cannabis , amphetamines , psychedelics and inhalants is much more prevalent than the use of opioids ( see Chapter 8 ) , the present findings imply that users of the former drugs are far less likely than opioid users to develop ‘ officially recognised ’ problems ( with the exception of legal problems , for example being prosecuted for possessing drugs ) . |
| 19 | The German conjunctions used to signal this structure ( Einerseits ‘ on the one hand ’ , aber … andererseits ‘ but on the other hand ’ ) are more transparent than the mixture of causal Because and adversative But used in the English text . |
| 20 | This is one of the reasons why they 're already far more interesting and demanding than the wave of both American and British post-Nirvana types . |
| 21 | However , one must weigh this potential change in content and focus against the benefits of rendering a smooth , natural translation in contexts where the use of the passive for instance would be stylistically less acceptable than the use of the active or an alternative structure in the target language . |
| 22 | She knew vaguely there was a wonderful person everyone was talking about , but who could be more wonderful to a wide-eyed seven year old than the sight of their own father guarding a flag with gold tassels ? |
| 23 | Before leaving the city for ever , I came across a philosopher , Jean-Jacques Rousseau , even more noted than the family of my accursed Master . |
| 24 | Senior did once turn the ball into the net but David Elleray was more alert than the referee of England 's 1986 World Cup tie against Argentina and had noticed the hand of a mere mortal . |
| 25 | It may be more hesitant than the House of Representatives about extending the death penalty , for instance for drug-dealing . |
| 26 | RON ATKINSON had cause to offer belated seasonal goodwill to his fellow men last night as Aston Villa re-asserted their Championship challenge with a victory more emphatic than the margin of a Dean Saunders penalty suggests . |
| 27 | And then we searched out the petits coins , a place described as ‘ more asleep than the rest of the village ’ . |
| 28 | I mistrust a literature that finds suicide more significant than death , and a man 's inability to communicate more sorry than the frenzy of his need to . |
| 29 | The rules of the game are rather more specific than the culture of an organisation . |
| 30 | The actual sound ambience of this recording is less dry than the sort of sound that Philips is prepared to settle for in the same hall , and it is refreshing to hear Nicholas McGegan 's fine cast of soloists use the hall 's natural resonance to give the distinct impression that they are enjoying themselves and confirming , to one listener at least , that an important part of enjoying oneself is showing off . |