Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun sg] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that I might do some washing — I 'd rather do a little each day than a large amount at once . |
| 2 | Her disadvantages are : I. That she has less technical skill than a man and is not so useful all round . |
| 3 | It was considered the less discreditable way than a commission of bankruptcy , said Thomas Gisborne . |
| 4 | Thus a peroxide-bleaching process produces a less obnoxious effluent than a kier-boil-hypochlorite bleach , and change to the peroxide method might be advantageous provided that the resulting textile product and the costs were acceptable . |
| 5 | This gives much better reliability than a truly absolute method . |
| 6 | As a woodwork teacher for many years I consider this design to be dangerous because power drills run at a much higher speed than a brace and consequently the feed is too fast for accurate control . |
| 7 | Once again , however , the volunteer with powerful friends to reinforce his claims for advancement was in a much stronger position than a volunteer without influence . |
| 8 | Moreover , an older lady should need a companion for a much longer period than a girl on the catch for a husband . |
| 9 | ( 1976 ) did not generate reliably less latent inhibition than a control procedure in which the subjects received exposure to S1 and S2 presented uncorrelated with one another . |
| 10 | Jamie Marston , the youngest competitor , struggled hard to make headway in a leaking canoe borrowed from the host club while Peter Weeks showed much greater confidence than a year ago when he was the youngest sailor . |
| 11 | A mild recession may cause far more economic damage than a one-day stockmarket fall of , say , 25% , but it is much less unsettling . |
| 12 | Most Koi keepers will claim that their larger ponds require more advanced filtration than a box unit . |
| 13 | The Tannoy announces the opening of the buffet , and up we get , not stopping for an instant to reflect that even standing in line for seven hours outside Moscow 's GUM department store in pursuit of half a mouldy cabbage would be a more profitable venture than a futile pilgrimage to a British Rail catering outlet . |
| 14 | Or is the Department of the En Environment looking for something a more specific area than a district ? |
| 15 | The essential difference , I feel , is that they are operated by humans in a much more direct way than a computer or beatbox . |
| 16 | Whether gossip , bickering and family feuds were or were not a more prevalent feature than a wholesome communion of the population could vary from village to village and is ultimately a matter of subjective judgement . |
| 17 | Albert remarks , a touch sniffily : ‘ An evening at the Crazy Horse Saloon will always make for more compulsive viewing than a day in the life of a Benedictine monastery . ’ |
| 18 | Quite possibly another administration than a British one , less morally aspiring and less legally punctilious , would have arranged for him a quiet accident , or a fatal incarceration . |
| 19 | This was represented in the very early stages by allocations of new council housing in Seaton Valley to workers of incoming firms on a much more generous basis than a simple ‘ key worker ’ system . |
| 20 | Well like we , so we can try and e , with regards to the teams we 're probably a little bit more high profile than a lot of the other teams . |
| 21 | When it comes to earning a living there is no more enticing environment than a pub . |
| 22 | I have discovered , Miss Honey , during my long career as a teacher that a bad girl is a far more dangerous creature than a bad boy . |
| 23 | There was no more devalued currency than a Conservative election promise . |
| 24 | This allows you to make a more considered approach than a telephone call and to use the job matching list you have drawn up to bring to the employer 's attention the reasons why you are suitable for the job and why you should be seen for interview . |
| 25 | The candle of hope is to me a more satisfactory symbol than a sickly stanza . |
| 26 | If there is such an outlet in the neighbourhood , it will be a more satisfactory source than a mail-order nursery , because you can see what you are buying , you can check that it is the plant as named on the label , and you can make sure of getting a strong healthy specimen free from pest or disease . |
| 27 | ‘ Mister , I do n't know 'ow to thank you , honest I do n't , you 've got more human kindness than a bishop . |
| 28 | And during the campaign , Ashdown 's ceaseless inflating of coalition conditions made the insistence on PR seem more self-interested calculation than a principled policy for a more plural and representative political system . |
| 29 | The people interviewed would not be experts , but would simply be key participants with useful knowledge , whose interviews would yield far more useful information than a random survey of the community . |
| 30 | In the great tit , then , males sing to keep intruders out of their territories , and a repertory of songs is a more effective deterrent than a single song . |