Example sentences of "and [adj] than [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he looked at Pipkin , huddled into a fold of sand , more panic.stricken and helpless than any rabbit he had ever seen . |
| 2 | Soars , often with angled wings , but normal flight more buoyant and harrier-like than Black Kite 's or Buzzard 's . |
| 3 | In the centre , taller and broader than any man there , his greying head bare , stood Siward their leader , Kalv 's nephew . |
| 4 | This aeroplane is smaller and lighter than many piston twins ; four of us easily pushed it from Donnington Aviation 's hangar . |
| 5 | This is considerably cheaper and lighter than cast iron and the different makes ( although not always compatible with each other ) are all simple to join . |
| 6 | Power filters are generally more efficient and versatile than simple undergravel filtration . |
| 7 | But he offers a brilliant rendering of Do n't Put Your Daughter On The Stage , Mrs Worthington rising to heights of boiling , brick-red rage on ‘ She 's a vile girl and uglier than mortal sin . ’ |
| 8 | Smaller , slimmer and paler than Ringed Plover , with rufous crown , less black on cheeks and only incomplete black breast-band ; bill black , legs blackish . |
| 9 | Larger and greyer than Tawny Pipit , with longer bill , darker legs , no moustachial stripe , faint streaks on breast wing coverts less strongly marked and buff outer tail feathers . |
| 10 | Another goose-like duck , varyingly grey and buff-brown , slightly larger , longer-necked and longer-legged than Ruddy Shelduck , and so looking more upstanding ; also has white shoulders instead of winy-patches and dark chocolate patches round eye and on lower breast , as well as pink bill and feet . |
| 11 | For example , in his national survey of household resources and standards of living , Townsend found that a higher proportion of older lone women than lone men had less than £100 worth of assets and fewer than six consumer durables . |
| 12 | This came from Morton 's Italian subsidiary and used to have a good market in Eastern Europe , though this has recently collapsed , and is widely used in sport shops and luggage , being washable and breathable — and cheaper than real leather . |
| 13 | There is nothing more encouraging and stimulating than successful communication . |
| 14 | We argued for a more discriminating balance of questions , statements and instructions ; for fewer pseudo-questions and more questions of a kind which encourage children to reason and speculate ; for more opportunities for children themselves to ask their own questions and have these addressed ; for oral feedback to children which without being negative is more exact and informative than mere praise ; for both questioning and feedback to strike a balance between the retrospective function of assessing and responding to what has been learned so far , and the prospective function of taking the child 's learning forward ; and for much more use to be made of structured pupil-pupil interaction both as a learning tool and as a means of helping teachers to function in a more considered manner and therefore more effectively . |
| 15 | This supports Labov 's claim that vernacular speech is more consistent and regular than corrected speech ( see 3.4 ) ; but however reasonable the claim , the original methods were not designed to show up such patterns in the data ( cf. 6.2.1 ) . |
| 16 | Any unavoidable threats with potentially disastrous consequences , and any with serious consequences and more than low probability of happening , would require preventive measure , protection , insurance and contingency planning as essential courses of action . |
| 17 | In almost two years that expectation has evaporated , and now Hick is thought of by many as a mere one-day specialist , someone whose England place has survived only because of his limited-overs achievements ( 697 runs from 23 internationals at an average of 38 ) and his all-round ability as a fielder and more than useful off-spinner . |
| 18 | The underlying idea here is that reason can be more than going through the techniques and operations that reason demands ; and more than paying attention to particular truth claims . |
| 19 | UI will oversee conformance testing via its Architectural Review Board and more than likely brand everybody 's stuff . |
| 20 | So , we could be sure the unborn child was given a full and more than adequate food and oxygen supply throughout . |
| 21 | In jest or earnest , such a man would not wish to leave this human and more than human mystery unresolved . |
| 22 | The light is much stronger and whiter than normal tungsten , but , like normal bulbs , they can be used with a dimmer switch . |
| 23 | Restrictions upon treaty-making power and less than complete autonomy in the conduct of foreign affairs can prevent a State from entering into international organisations . |
| 24 | She knew a little about my brief and less than glorious foray on to the amateur circuit . |
| 25 | The performances of Beethoven 's Coriolan Overture and Haydn 's London Symphony ( no 104 in D ) were both tired-sounding and unfocused , with flabby articulation in the fast music and less than perfect ensemble . |
| 26 | In analysing the ways in which informal care in the context of an existing familial relationship is both more than and less than personal assistance , she opens up the rather sterile debate about ‘ burden ’ , ‘ dependency ’ and residential care . |
| 27 | This investigation considered the education of pupils between 13 and 16 of average and less than average ability . |
| 28 | First came Professor Johan Claassen , the legendary South African lock of the Fifties and Sixties and less than legendary manager in New Zealand in 1981 . |
| 29 | Someone who believes that abortion is murder will think that the checkerboard abortion statute produces more injustice than outright prohibition and less than outright license ; someone who believes women have a right to abortion reverses these judgments . |
| 30 | Chief call a rapid far-carrying clipped ‘ hoo-hoo-hoo ’ , less musical than Cuckoo ( p. 175 ) and less drawn-out and quavering than Tawny Owl ( p. 183 ) . |