Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] than [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smaller and less variable than Desert Lark , from which readily distinguished by dark bar at tip of shorter tail . |
| 2 | I sit in front of the television and impress my girl-friend by pointing out all the faults of the players ; it is much more comfortable and less dangerous than participation , and my girl-friend thinks I am wonderful . |
| 3 | Call louder and less shrill than Buzzard . |
| 4 | Besides , even those who argue that the answer to women 's dependency/op-pression in the home is for them to take outside jobs ( as if the sort of jobs open to most women were in any way more congenial and less exploitative than housework , except in so far as they are paid ) and put their children into publicly funded day-care centres , must surely allow that some women ( as well as men , of course ) would choose freely to look after children , otherwise how are the centres to be staffed ? |
| 5 | And for both , morbidity statistics are less accessible and less reliable than mortality data . |
| 6 | But the public character of science is more complicated and less benign than Popper 's theory hoped ( see Chapters 7 and 8 ) . |
| 7 | Inevitably skills analysis is more general and less definitive than task analysis although many of the same procedures for extracting evidence might be used . |
| 8 | Prevention is always more sensible and less costly than cure . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | For the pudding , my own weakness is a small glass of something sweet and much lighter than port which I prefer to save and have on its own or with a mince pie . |
| 11 | Crushing batches of eggs on stems or leaves is quicker and more efficient than spraying . |
| 12 | Fiber channel proponents claim the low-latency technology is probably faster and more cost-effective than challenger FDDI . |
| 13 | Alloy is lighter , stronger and more expensive than fibreglass , which tends to be used in budget tents . |
| 14 | Audubon , however , was outraged : ‘ Here there are at present three Works publishing on the Birds of Europe ’ , he wrote to his friend Rev. Bachman , from London in 1835 , ’ — one by Mr Gould and the others by no one knows who — at least I do not know — Works on the Birds of all the World are innumerable — Cheap as dirt and more dirty than dirt … ’ |
| 15 | Even the most modern dental cements are very much weaker and more brittle than tooth substance . |
| 16 | During the eighties , and now during the nineties , more and more stars , directors and behind-the-scenes boys , have turned to using cocaine , Angel Dust and other substances that are stronger , harder and more dangerous than marijuana . |
| 17 | It is rounder and more pungent than soya sauce . |
| 18 | These deep and very broad rivers are characteristic of the Empire , where travel by boat is often faster and more practical than travel along the primitive roads . |
| 19 | They should also recognise that writing is often more formal and more impersonal than speech : lexical and grammatical features of language both reflect and create these contrasts . |
| 20 | They were heavier and more noisy than wood — and quite hard on the tummy when they were pushed into the ground . |
| 21 | Oat and barley straw is softer and more palatable than wheat and rye , and thus the most suitable for feeding in the sheaf . |
| 22 | The stranger was older and more experienced than Angel . |
| 23 | RACHEL : Yes , and more definite than medicine as well . |
| 24 | It 's safer , less violent and more pleasant than booze — and jailing people is one hell of a way of fucking up their lives . |
| 25 | It 's safer , less violent and more pleasant than booze — and jailing people is one hell of a way of fucking up their lives . |
| 26 | Firstly , since free labour was cheaper and more productive than slave labour , East Indian sugar could be sold , if allowed to compete on equal terms , at a lower price than West Indian in both the British and European markets . |
| 27 | The glycocalyx of platelets is thicker and more dense than surface coats of other blood cells and is rich in glycoproteins ( Berndt & Phillips , 1981 ) , which is not surprising bearing in mind the number of receptor functions and transport mechanisms active at the platelet surface . |
| 28 | Adam 's eyes were closed , in some state that looked colder and more complicated than sleep . |
| 29 | In comparison with accountants , bank managers , NHS doctors and estate agents , they were found to be as easy to talk to as bank managers and easier to talk to than all the others bar NHS doctors , to be easier to understand than accountants and estate agents , to be more efficient than accountants and estate agents , to be more hardworking than accountants , bank managers and estate agents , to be as dependable as bank managers and more dependable than accountants and estate agents , to be as up-to-date as accountants and more up-to-date than estate agents . |
| 30 | Although this procedure ( known as bonorum distractio ) was both fairer and more convenient than bonorum venditio , it had none the less been admitted only in exceptional cases under formulary procedure . |