Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] than [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Copper in contrast was not durable enough for big editions , and where its effects were desired it was increasingly replaced by steel ; but this was much less used than wood for works of science . |
| 2 | He also investigated the effects of the uptick rule when the future is underpriced , and found that arbitrage involving short positions in shares was less profitable and much riskier than arbitrage with a long share position . |
| 3 | Guard duty over the two women was much lighter than tree-felling in the steamy forest or sawing up the timbers into six-feet lengths , then splitting them into staves for the stockade , the master 's house , and the other habitations they were erecting in the settlement . |
| 4 | People often mention ‘ metal whiskers ’ as if they were the only kind but , as a matter of fact , metal whiskers are less common and less interesting than whiskers of non-metals and it is about these latter that we shall mostly talk . |
| 5 | And ABC 's Martin Fry — who did write his own music — was no less subversive than McLaren in accounting for his own authority . |
| 6 | Training in singing appears to be less systematised than training in voice production . |
| 7 | It will all look so much nicer than bits of tied drying holly tucked into picture frames . |
| 8 | Although nephrite is less hard than jadeite on this scale , the tight felting of its fibrous crystals makes it exceptionally tough . |
| 9 | If women were much more likely than men to be in low status jobs , and if female employees almost never went absent from work , it might seem that people doing low status jobs were no more likely or even less likely than others to absence . |
| 10 | For example , the retention of selective schools characterised by traditional pedagogy and an elitist view of the curriculum means that some schools are less likely than others to be able to meet the expectations of a project founded on essentially comprehensive principles . |
| 11 | Elsewhere , the impact of religion is small , though those who are not members of the Church of england are less likely than others in their class to support the Conservatives . |
| 12 | On the face of it , Major is less likely than Thatcher to be goaded into over-reaction . |
| 13 | Females are less likely than males to be labelled as delinquent and to be processed accordingly . |
| 14 | Although some could do this through using their savings or drawing on insurances , many could not , with women much less likely than men to be able to support themselves by these means ( Roebuck and Slaughter , 1979 ) . |
| 15 | Women are five times less likely than men to be with the same employer at 40 and eight times less likely at 55 ( Aoki 1984 p.82 ) . |
| 16 | Since women are much less likely than men to be employed full-time , to be in highly paid secure jobs or to hold managerial or professional posts , they are less likely to be members of occupational pension schemes . |
| 17 | The legs are flailing wildly — tiny stretches of insect flesh — no thicker than a hair to my naked eye , but obviously larger than life to this poor , wretched creature , who had the misfortune to interrupt my writing of the BBC WILDLIFE Nature Essay 1991 to ( or not to be ) . |
| 18 | Conclusions ranged from condemnation of general practitioner care as ‘ erratic , ’ of ‘ generally poor standard ’ and ‘ less satisfactory than care by the hospital diabetic clinic ’ to a view that organised general practitioner diabetic care ‘ can achieve a degree of glycaemic control … equal to that reached by a hospital clinic . ’ |
| 19 | They 'd be much better than glasses with this jumping across country you 're doing . |
| 20 | Some medical specialisms , especially geriatric medicine , are much better than others at arranging effective transfer . |
| 21 | They have to the Atari , right you load this in a word processing in a path games are venture and the sound is much better than Amiga on the Amiga er the graphics are better on the Amiga and but the Atari ST is slightly easier to program . |
| 22 | punchlines are much better than sort of er . |
| 23 | much better than plants in the house . |
| 24 | He turned down £1.5 million to fight someone even less credible than Foreman in April , a guaranteed £5.5m to take on Bowe for the undisputed crown next summer , an opportunity to win the titles in the ring and the star prize , a chance to fulfil his avowed lifetime ambition . |
| 25 | Johnson maintains that men are less vulnerable than women to reproductive damage . |
| 26 | Ratings of radio news were less predictable than ratings of television but they too were influenced by recent political interest , motivations for following the campaign , and degree of party preference . |
| 27 | Painters were no less involved than sculptors in the breakdown of archaic conventions , and this shows how closely they could work together . |
| 28 | One possibility is that women tend to be less involved than men in formal and public speech events where the appropriate or customary style is especially explicit , where logical connections are made on the surface and where information and argument are more important than interpersonal solidarity . |
| 29 | It would also be contentious to claim , on the basis of these two extracts , that men in general are less logical than women in general . |
| 30 | Although they are no less lethal than firearms in their potential to cause injury or even death , their considerable social utility ( indeed , the dependence of much social interaction on them ) indicates the need for a different approach . |