Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] than [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remembered the dagger thrown during the banquet and decided it would be safer to return through the crowded town than venture into the marshy wooded countryside . |
| 2 | The conclusion from all these studies , that processing of Kanji is less dependent on the integrity of the left hemisphere than processing of Kana , is supported by electrophysiological findings ( Hink , Kaga and Suzuki , 1980 ) and by results obtained with three patients who sustained partial commissurotomy in the course of removal of pineal gland tumours ( Sugishita , Iwata , Toyokura , Yoshioka and Yamada , 1978 ) . |
| 3 | Further , although incorrectly terminated , the input impedance of a section terminated with resistance is much closer to the characteristic impedance than resistance . |
| 4 | Britain may not need to flaunt nationalism in the way characteristic of the United States but its education system can no more ignore the task of sustaining the national identity than education systems in any other nation-state . |
| 5 | Yet during his day he featured as a significant Afro-Asian leader , a ‘ charismatic ’ personality like Nehru who made a far greater impact on the international scene than Nu with his disarming frankness and humility . |
| 6 | The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society , a British group , now hopes to demonstrate to the Japanese that whale-watching is more profitable in the long run than whaling . |
| 7 | This approach is typified by Mackay , who has argued that because injury reduction was more realistic in the short term than accident prevention , one should think of the front end of a car ‘ primarily as a structure with which to hit a pedestrian ’ . |
| 8 | Then when we have a difficult relationship at home or work it 's easier to blame the other person than look at what we did . |
| 9 | Equally , there was more behind the successful launching of the SR party at the beginning of the new century than nostalgia for the romantic populism of a bygone age . |