Example sentences of "and [adj] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inland areas became lower than the silty areas near the coast and lower than the river channels . |
| 2 | Instead , he seemed more calm and normal than the rest . |
| 3 | A painting of a male head , which is almost certainly a study for the figure of the sailor that Picasso originally intended to place in the centre of the composition , while it is bolder and sketchier than a work like the Self-Portrait , shows all the earlier Iberian devices . |
| 4 | And is not this medium exceedingly more rare and subtle than the air and exceedingly more elastic and active ? |
| 5 | The golden catalpa C. bigonioides aurea has bright yellow oval leaves , and the flowers of C. speciosa are larger and frillier than the type . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The sides always seem thinner and shorter than the back . |
| 8 | Scotland 's major canals were built across the country to link the western and eastern coasts providing a route which was safer and shorter than the sea passage around the northern coast . |
| 9 | Of course the environment is very much more simple and unpleasant than the environment from which you 've just come . |
| 10 | White Men Ca n't Jump is funny , touching and slushier than a wellington boot full of dog 's wee . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | After the sober belches of the shoe-gazing clique ( itself a knee-jerk reaction to the brash swagger of baggydom ) , The Franks came across like circus clowns pissing around in a casualty department , all charmingly naive , astoundingly cheerful and dafter than a boardroom of brushes . |
| 13 | Although individuals vary widely , the bones of the average female skeleton are smaller and lighter than the male . |
| 14 | Although individuals vary widely , the bones of the average female skeleton are smaller and lighter than the male . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And there could scarcely be anything more difficult and fine-textured than the affair he is having with a woman called Rose . |
| 17 | He doubted if these boys had been playing soccer — Hurstdown 's sporting young gentlemen would surely scorn such a plebeian game — and , sure enough , the boy bringing up the rear , older and taller than the rest and evidently in charge , was clutching a rugby ball to his chest . |
| 18 | Only the last was pretty , and younger than the rest . |
| 19 | About 70 per cent of new entrants were over twenty-one , half of whom lacked two A levels , and fewer than a quarter were school-leavers with these qualifications or their equivalent . |
| 20 | Of course any single checkerboard solution of an important issue will produce more instances of injustice than one of the alternatives and fewer than the other . |
| 21 | Eventually , if given enough care and space , the new cuttings will grow stronger and larger than the mother plant herself . |
| 22 | It passed in a flash of man-made , unnatural colour , glittering here and there and brighter than a winter holly tree . |
| 23 | Though stronger and brighter than the eye colours of recent seasons these shades can still be found naturally if you study the greys , blues and blacks in the iris of your own eyes . |
| 24 | The procedure before the county court is of course swifter and cheaper than an application before this court . |
| 25 | This second disc , unlike most sequels , was bigger and better than the original . |
| 26 | That was faster and nimbler than a cat , |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | If you are female and more than a stone overweight , but have already been dieting and have lost a stone or more on any other slimming method . |
| 30 | Rose of Lima 's mystical marriage to Jesus , his visits to her , her direct sense of his immediate and corporeal presence , was understood by her and her contemporaries as a direct reward , and more than a compensation , for the violence of her own purification . |