Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It covers such a wide variety of conditions that it is less specific than a weather forecast . |
| 2 | Such a credulity-straining coincidence is only possible when a dybbuk pulls the strings . |
| 3 | Why should a boat be less social than a caravan , for heaven 's sake ? |
| 4 | And a couple is less conspicuous than a man on his own … ’ |
| 5 | So a thirty year old service might be entirely different than a person with ten years service deferring his pension . |
| 6 | Therefore spreads are usually less risky than a position in a single futures contract . |
| 7 | Such differences , though they may be less marked when a child is 14 , may yet be considerable . |
| 8 | The kind and amount of pollution which come to light in these circumstances are only knowable after a routine sample has been taken and analysed in an agency laboratory . |
| 9 | However , a child who forms attachments from a young age with a wide group of people , rather than just close family , feels less insecure than a baby who has been close to only one or two people , so try to introduce her to as many people as possible , right from the beginning . |
| 10 | It was a time when strikes were being blamed for most of the country 's ills , and Lord Hodson said : ‘ The injury and suffering caused by strike action is very often widespread as well as devastating and a threat to strike would be expected to be certainly no less serious than a threat of violence . ’ |
| 11 | Thus if at this moment someone said something to me about " that ugly little statue on your fireplace " and accompanied this with an appropriate gesture , I should have little difficulty in identifying the object to which he is referring , but identification may not be so easy if a reference is made to an object that is not accessible to immediate perception , or of which I have no knowledge whatever . |
| 12 | A reverberant place such as a church , empty hall or tiled kitchen is less easy than a room with some sound-absorbent furnishings , such as heavy curtains and thick carpet . |
| 13 | But not so terribly easy when a folder of crime-fighting guidance is left propped against every front door . |
| 14 | The BTU tax also has the advantage of being less unpopular than a petrol tax , partly because it is almost impossible to understand . |
| 15 | Ideally joined by a bar ( less fiddly than a chain ) , they should feature masonic crests , ‘ the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes ’ perhaps being best , in accordance with the rule that the more eccentric these groups sound , the duller they are . |
| 16 | They are less welcome than a troop of ticket inspectors . |
| 17 | What if the arguments conjured up to justify a war were false , or a king 's motives reflected factors ( naked ambition , for instance ) less worthy than a seeking after justice ? |
| 18 | And with the meditations , less perishable than a willow leaf , |
| 19 | This is especially valuable where a job has been done for a long time by the same person . |
| 20 | Professor Woolf argues that an older person purchasing a walking frame in order to remain on his or her feet is no less natural than a parent purchasing something similar for an infant learning to walk . |
| 21 | By the late 1960s , the new social patterns , technologies and musical styles had been substantially assimilated into a reorganized music-industrial system : a transnational oligopoly of vast entertainment corporations , supplied to some extent by ‘ independent ’ producers ; serviced by mass audience radio and TV channels ( with some ‘ minority ’ shows and channels ) , by a symbiotically pliant music press and by related leisure-products businesses ; and directing itself at a series of separate audiences whose distinctness is less subcultural than a creature of market researchers ' consumer profiles . |
| 22 | It must be immediately obvious that such arguments will be somewhat confused unless a definition of development can be agreed . |
| 23 | Much less embarrassing than a kissogram the perfect fantasy served up on a plate . |
| 24 | I go on to argue that , despite the underlying regularities , the behaviour of an individual animal is only predictable when a lot is known about the conditions in which the animal has grown up . |
| 25 | A demand by such an authority under an ultra vires regulation is no more or no less unlawful than a demand under a valid regulation which does not apply to the situation in which the demand is made . |
| 26 | This kick is especially useful when a fighter has been knocked to the ground and his opponent is closing in for the kill , although in training it is learned from a standing position . |
| 27 | This attitude , especially in ‘ Sophia 's ’ case , may owe something to class-distinction , that is , a duke beating a duchess with a neck of mutton might prove less illustrative than a journeyman tailor doing such a thing to his wife . |
| 28 | The top section of the mast snapped at the crosstrees as if it were less substantial than a toothpick . |
| 29 | In contrast with some of the other areas discussed , these are much less tax-driven than a matter of commercial advantage . |
| 30 | In a unique trial comparing a non-elemental tube fed diet with steroids , Lochs et al suggested that a peptide based diet was less effective than a combination of methylprednisolone and sulfasalazine in treating active Crohn 's disease . |