Example sentences of "is [adv] [adj] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bob and I had all sorts of schemes for us all to meet , including asking you to come to Edinburgh as a halfway house , but we realised that actually that is rather more than halfway for you , and would n't be at all easy . |
| 2 | Jane Austen is less descriptive than either the Gothic novelists or Scott , for although her letters are full of domestic detail and she enjoins her sister , Cassandra , to omit nothing in her account of a house — ‘ For one 's own dear self , one ascertains & remembers everything ’ — novels are not written for ‘ one 's own dear self ’ , and she was not one to inflict what she did not enjoy — ‘ your descriptions are often more minute than will be liked ’ , she warns her niece , Anna Austen , an aspiring writer . |
| 3 | The point is rather that , even though knowingly taking risks with other people 's lives is usually unjustifiable , taking a slight risk is less serious than intentionally causing death . |
| 4 | Though it 's dotted with snappy slogans , the whole thing is less slangy than before , and is best described as cyberpunk prose poetry . |
| 5 | States are not the only actors ; the distinction between domestic and international societies is less clear-cut than before ; and international politics looks to be influenced increasingly less by military factors and more and more by economic issues . |
| 6 | In the end , Hoving 's tell-all tome is less scandalous than deeply sad . |
| 7 | Er , it is important too , to stress that the Agency is acting as a bridge between the purchasing er , authority , the Social Services Department , and the er , independent sector , and that er , it 's also important that er , too , that er , in many cases , er , the provider 's income er , will , will not just come from Social Services , but it may be that people are purchasing their own care , if , if they 're not eligible for public , public 's er , help through , through funding , and therefore the scheme is much wider than just looking at the purchasing intentions of the , the Social Services Department . |
| 8 | The risk of getting polio from the vaccine is much lower than otherwise . |
| 9 | What is much better than just the security levels is the User Definable menus . |
| 10 | But too much is much better than too little — at least everybody wants him . |
| 11 | Well , I , you know I totally dis I think Chinese is much better than like Indian , you know , because , you know , they just ca n't get the noodles just cooked right |
| 12 | As Mr Reed 's release seemed imminent , an unsigned statement on Tehran radio commenting on events since last week 's release , said ‘ the United States has failed to reciprocate the goodwill shown by Polehill 's captors ; in view of Washington 's position , resolving the hostage crisis is much slower than previously expected ’ . |
| 13 | Our country , as a nation , has a spirit and will — it is much bigger than merely the mechanisms of markets . |
| 14 | It is much larger than previously , giving more room tot he business of sending out carpet samples to hungry customers . |
| 15 | Certainly the scale even of French space operations , on a cost-per-inhabitant basis , is much smaller than either those of the USA or USSR . |
| 16 | Here , the platform edge appears to have been controlled by a normal fault and the belt of shallow marine sediments is much narrower than elsewhere in the basin ( Clark and Tallbacka 1980 ) . |
| 17 | When these designs were published , it was remarked that ‘ the room as left by the builder before it is inhabited at all , is already more than half finished . ’ |
| 18 | A better approach merely underlines what was said above , that the regress shows that if all justification is inferential , no belief is ever more than conditionally justified . |
| 19 | Behind the grille it is usually quieter than outside ( where you are ) , and the muffled voice may have to compete with loud background noise ; in addition the speaker 's face often can not be seen clearly . |
| 20 | He has found out one thing in the ten years that separate them , if nothing else ; that now is always better than then . |
| 21 | Germany must now reject the alien influence of Romance culture , to which she has been subservient , and develop her full creative potential ; and for this purpose , Hellenism , as an educational and cultural force in our society , is more necessary than ever . |
| 22 | The solution is more far-reaching than just changing a technique . |
| 23 | New colour and grey-tone images have resolved arcuate lineaments into separate south-east and east-south-east components , showing that the boundary of the Midlands Microcraton is more irregular than previously supposed . |
| 24 | New colour and grey-tone images have resolved arcuate lineaments into separate south-east and east-south-east components : they indicate that the boundary of the Midlands Microcraton is more irregular than previously supposed . |
| 25 | Whether these predictions are consistent with existing models for the structure of dystrophin is not clear , but they suggest that the structure is more irregular than previously described . |
| 26 | In other words , the two meanings ‘ male cousin ’ and ‘ female cousin ’ are both associated with the same lexical unit cousin , whose meaning is more general than either ; they therefore do not represent distinct senses of cousin . |
| 27 | We are now at a point in this evolution where , I believe , the climate is more favourable than hitherto to cooperation between linguists and educationalists . |
| 28 | HOLLOWAY women 's prison now has a nickname that is more telling than any it may have had in the past the Hilton . |
| 29 | Zapp is simply keeping up with the state of the art ; he is more convinced than ever that professionalism is its own justification and reward . |
| 30 | Mr Hooke says after talking to trade journalists at the Paris Air Show , he is more convinced than ever that Raytheon will move production of the 125 to America . |