Example sentences of "[to-vb] than the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relaxation classes , acupuncture and hypnosis are other ways of emulating the nicotine high ; statistically , they are less likely to work than the real thing . |
| 2 | Yesterday morning at Masham there was more to report than the poor reversing . |
| 3 | It can be seen that the trie was in fact faster to search than the reduced memory tree in all three cases , however it uses more memory ( approximately one and a half times as much as the reduced memory tree ) . |
| 4 | Yet the sobbing of the unfortunate women who had found lice in their hair had been easier to endure than the malicious pleasure of those who had found none . |
| 5 | Such detailed procedures required to be operated by builders involve an equivalent , if not greater , cost to administer than the traditional PAYE scheme for directly employed labour . |
| 6 | The funnel structure shown in the drawing is certainly usable but it is much more difficult to use than the ordinary funnel shown in the drawing for " efficiency " . |
| 7 | As can be seen from the example this is much easier to use than the initial typesetting format . |
| 8 | Modern gas blowlamps are cleaner and safer to use than the old-fashioned paraffin type and , for most jobs , the type which is fitted on to a disposable cartridge is perfectly adequate . |
| 9 | Then patch the surface with the special filler provided ( one-part types are easier to use than the two-part systems , where you have to mix a special catalyst with the filler paste ) . |
| 10 | The paper clamps are the long metal sprung levers found on the Bosch professional range , and these were trouble-free and certainly quicker to use than the push-lever types found on some models . |
| 11 | One set of code — ‘ a lot easier to use than the native toolkits ’ says Personal Workstations — can be used for MS-Windows , Presentation Manager , Open Look , OSF/Motif and Macintosh GUI software , and can also produce a windowing interface for character-based screens . |
| 12 | Vauxhall 's new four is said to offer better induction and combustion and be more compact and economical to build than the present unit . |
| 13 | The intention was easier to understand than the attempted execution . |
| 14 | If such an exact situation existed it would be even harder to understand than the approximate situation which does exist . |
| 15 | An easier species to keep than the Banded Coral Shrimp ( Stenopus hispidus ) the other commonly available cleaner shrimp species and so adaptable that pairs will regularly breed in captivity . |
| 16 | It would probably be true to say , however , that the long and passionate ‘ french ’ hiss is more likely to give the gonococcus a chance to spread than the toothless peck on the cheek from an aged aunt . |
| 17 | These twin problems of psychological dependence and social pressure were regarded by the majority of users as more difficult to overcome than the physical aspect of their addiction . |
| 18 | Clearly this is a much more subtle , fallible and variable aspect of the child 's visual behaviour to attempt to measure than the clinical aspects of use of vision . |
| 19 | They are also less cunning and exploratory , having less danger to face than the soft-bodied species . |
| 20 | They said it was no more difficult to maintain than the Green Sword and had up to 50 babies per brood . |
| 21 | Very heavy Syrian casualties would apparently have been deemed a lesser price to pay than the probable failure of anything less than what the general 's men say was planned : a full-scale armoured and infantry assault involving 40,000 men on five main axes along a 50-kilometre front . |
| 22 | ‘ The question of whether a pleasure flight … could , or should , be removed from the definition of ‘ public transport ’ is more complex to review than the medical situation of over age sixty pilots … |
| 23 | And Anglican laymen in America may have felt that a bishop from across the ocean would be harder to influence than the local clergy , many of whom were American by origin , though in several cases they had gone to Britain to complete their education . |
| 24 | Note that this may conflict with requirements of efficiency given above for example , a chain of subroutines takes longer to obey than the expanded code and the liberal use of remark statements to aid readability uses up a lot of valuable memory . |
| 25 | Fortunately for Mr Milosevic , public opinion in Serbia is easier to manipulate than the Bosnian Serb parliament . |
| 26 | As the Audit Commission said , it will cost considerably more to collect than the net yield to the Treasury . |
| 27 | Some taxes , such as capital taxes and land development taxes merely political in origin , are often unproductive and cost more to collect than the gross proceeds . |
| 28 | Furthermore , the sensitising effect of extensive nociceptive stimulation from surgery may prove much more difficult to block than the limited chemical or thermal stimuli used in animal models of pain . |
| 29 | Our filter is more to blame than the other person . |
| 30 | The form served on the defendant permits all these possibilities and is much easier to follow than the old forms , which were criticised as being too complicated . |