Example sentences of "and [adj] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , he seemed more calm and normal than the rest . |
| 2 | And is not this medium exceedingly more rare and subtle than the air and exceedingly more elastic and active ? |
| 3 | This is one of the reasons why they 're already far more interesting and demanding than the wave of both American and British post-Nirvana types . |
| 4 | Of course the environment is very much more simple and unpleasant than the environment from which you 've just come . |
| 5 | The transition from symbol to politician was to be far more protracted and painful than the transition from soldier to symbol had been in 1940 . |
| 6 | But this no more implies a conscious awareness of the distinctions between past , present , and future than the use of language necessitates an explicit knowledge of grammar . |
| 7 | And there could scarcely be anything more difficult and fine-textured than the affair he is having with a woman called Rose . |
| 8 | Since electrical pulses zinging down a wire are more regular and predictable than a steel cable moving inside a plastic cover , the result should be more precise control of engine revs and better fuel consumption . |
| 9 | We must look at this quest for beauty as a purpose more real and noble than the quest of the knights of old for the Holy Grail . |
| 10 | The second half of the book shows that this is also so for the State , a concept which for many , especially Hegel , was no less holy and fundamental than the family . |
| 11 | Both pen ranges use an alcohol based ink which is less offensive and injurious than the xylene used in many spirit based marker ranges . |
| 12 | She seems to have been wholly unaware that she was in fact queen of a kingdom with a justifiably high opinion of itself — so much so that it is actually supremely ironic that Mary , brought up in one of the greatest of European countries , should have found this one , smaller , but passionately European , so much less interesting and appealing than the kingdom of England , not only Scotland 's traditional enemy , but already beginning the descent into the isolation which it was to maintain for much of the seventeenth century . |
| 13 | While it was widely acclaimed by public sector authorities , voluntary organizations and professionals — though inevitably with some interagency squabbling and professional quibbling-its proposed ‘ agenda for action ’ was perceived as even more far-reaching and revolutionary than the Audit Commission report , although in fact many of Griffiths ' recommendations were themselves derived from the Audit Commission 's findings , translated into practical proposals . |
| 14 | 2.22 The calculation of the multiplier is even less precise and arithmetical than the computation of the multiplicand . |
| 15 | It is hard to think that the novelist intended the reader to find this even more gnomic and exasperating than the colleague seems to find it . |
| 16 | This , however , is not the case , for there is undoubtedly more to the distinction between given and new than the assignment of phonological stress . |
| 17 | But it is hard indeed to see how that axiom itself could be made more convincing either to a purely humanist philosophy or to a theology which maintained that God is something more and other than the obverse of our finitude . |
| 18 | ‘ You 'd think it would make them more sane and agreeable than the norm . |
| 19 | Leon laid his hands to the rod and George noticed how they were bigger , stronger , altogether more mature and experienced than the rest of him . |
| 20 | He had often wondered why he found it more offensive and ghoulish than the autopsy itself . |
| 21 | The dairy , when you could have it to yourself , was a far more entertaining place than the laundry , and less lonely and special than the game larder . |