Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] than [noun prp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was less popular than Peter Rabbit because itat Christmas |
| 2 | Wet weather has meant a delayed start on preservation activities this year , since Glenburrell Bridge is less accessible than Horderley Station . |
| 3 | Appreciably larger than Sandwich Tern , adult distinguishable from Lesser Crested only by size , heavier and yellower bill and darker grey plumage , but immature apparently lacks black wing-bar. 19 in. ( 48 cm ) |
| 4 | Charles was no less hurt than Alex Household at losing his part in The Hooded Owl , but his way of showing the hurt was different . |
| 5 | PS Ryan Giggs is much sexier than Gary Speed |
| 6 | IBM because Novell is less threatening than Microsoft Corp and a divided marketplace will be easier for the Taligent Pink operating system to negotiate . |
| 7 | Within the first month of the battle the effect of this non-stop bombardment , by so mighty an assemblage of cannon , their fire concentrated within an area little larger than Richmond Park , had already established an environment common to both sides of the Meuse that characterised the whole battle of Verdun . |
| 8 | With television — unless one lived near a frontier — there was no choice ; with radio , there was choice , nationwide : the three ‘ peripheral ’ radio stations , Europe 1 , RTL , RMC were more popular than ORTF radio stations . |
| 9 | For some days he had been mulling this over , trying to come up with something more interesting than Wyvis Hall . |
| 10 | Emerged out of the clouds at the Fenêtre to find it more crowded than Blackpool beach . |
| 11 | By many indicators Knowsley is as deprived as Hackney and both Knowsley and Cleveland are more deprived than Waltham Forest . |
| 12 | Smaller and more rufous than Calandra Lark , with much smaller black neck patches . |
| 13 | Festuca ovina is more frequent than F. rubra . |
| 14 | You will note that it is a typical example of Viennese Baroque — so much more severe than Prague Baroque . |
| 15 | That is also true of the Stanford Concerto , less ambitious in scale , and Emma Johnson is again even freer and more fluent than Thea King . |
| 16 | They were marginally more modern than Croydon Corporation 's Nos. 1–35 supplied earlier by Milnes . |
| 17 | Yet newspapers and PEBs scored only marginally lower than ITV news on usefulness . |
| 18 | If hunting were banned on all of that it would only have a small marginal effect but we can as Mr said only ban hunting on land we both own and control , land in hand , that actually totals a hundred and fifty eight acres , slightly smaller than Victoria Park but that includes road , bridleways , land with no access , S S S Is , Sites of Special Scientific Interest , land awaiting disposal the land capable of being hunted and in hand totals fifty two acres about as much of Victoria Park as I can see from my front window . |
| 19 | The amount of oil spilt was twice as much as the Exxon Valdez which ran aground off Alaska in 1989 , and slightly more than Aegean Sea which ran aground off the Spanish coast in December [ see ED 65/66 ] . |
| 20 | In 1985–86 a further reduction in employment , to 621,000 , was more rapid than in UK-owned plants and showed a net reduction in jobs of a full third compared with 1978 , slightly more than UK industry . |
| 21 | More thought BBC-TV news was biased yet it scored marginally higher than ITV news on all three aspects of usefulness . |
| 22 | For those who want a little more than Dulux Silk Emulsion , may we recommend ‘ Colefax & Fowler , the Best In English Interior Decoration ’ , a publication lauding the USM-listed interior decorator . |
| 23 | Undoubtedly , it was the great monasteries which set the style , with an importance far beyond their immediate locale ; the priory church of St Pancras in Lewes was far larger than Chichester Cathedral , and its monks major landlords . |
| 24 | These stones were even harder than Millstone Grit , and were often used for grinding wheat , while the Derbyshire stone was retained for oats and barley . |