Example sentences of "was [adv] [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He achieved for the COS , however , a degree of influence in government circles which was rather greater than the Society 's contribution to philanthropy . |
| 2 | By 1982 , the state 's accumulated ‘ debt ’ with RENFE was rather more than the annual operating revenue ( RENFE 1984a : 45 ) . |
| 3 | And that was rather less than the effect these fashion fancies had on Third World local economies . |
| 4 | I was saying that the proportion of advertising expenditure given was for that in the two lowest tar groups , which was rather less than the proportion of total sales . |
| 5 | The real situation was between the widow and the youngster who was effectively older than a boy , in feeling and reaction at least . |
| 6 | First he handed over a bundle of Russian paper money that was little bigger than a wad of visiting cards , and some coins jangled . |
| 7 | The footpath on the left bank of the burn was little better than a sheep track , but there were clues to its former importance as a droving road over the hills to Byrness in Redesdale . |
| 8 | Our most disastrous Rannoch cottage was little better than a derelict shack , owned by an hotel in Aberfeldy . |
| 9 | And Molly Malone was right : the gangway was little better than a ladder that clung to the ship 's side with fragile tenacity . |
| 10 | My rather innocent trust crumbled when I realized that as far as the police were concerned , I was little better than a criminal on whom they must keep tabs . |
| 11 | But it was surely unlikely that he had talked over the idea with someone who was little better than a stranger . |
| 12 | There was just enough slope in the field to give him a decent run , though she felt sure it must be frustrating for someone so skilled to be stuck on what was little better than a nursery area . |
| 13 | Yet , unlike the middle class , the worker was rarely more than a hair 's breadth removed from the pauper , and insecurity was therefore constant and real . |
| 14 | A Roman legion was somewhat larger than a modern peacetime brigade in the British Army — six thousand troops . |
| 15 | Nonetheless , she was somewhat freer than the Newham development officer to concentrate on putting in support worker help rather than liaising with other services . |
| 16 | Karadjordje himself was less sanguine than the Serbian knezovi in their expectations that the Porte would , or even could , carry out the promised reforms . |
| 17 | Even if he was less transgressive than the more notorious Ranters Coppe and Laurence Clarkson [ q.v. ] , he was associated with them and expressed a form of their Antinomianism at the height of Ranter activity . |
| 18 | In a unique trial comparing a non-elemental tube fed diet with steroids , Lochs et al suggested that a peptide based diet was less effective than a combination of methylprednisolone and sulfasalazine in treating active Crohn 's disease . |
| 19 | Even so , this was less overall than the previous bests of 1914 and 1939 . |
| 20 | However , it was an area which was less familiar than the systems presently operated north and south of the border at present . |
| 21 | But this activity was less influential than the rumours which began to circulate about the New Poor Law . |
| 22 | It was less acrimonious than the first time , but much more painful . |
| 23 | 474 set England a stiff target but the pitch was less malicious than the earlier ones and Gooch and Slack put on 127 for the first wicket . |
| 24 | Using a theoretical model originally suggested by Dixit ( 1987 ) , the UK quota has been shown to have been more restrictive than a tariff-equivalent quota , while the EC minimum import price was less restrictive than an optimal tariff . |
| 25 | Perhaps the gentlemanly tradition that prevail d at some British studios was less stimulating than the rebarbative climate created by Hollywood moguls . |
| 26 | But it was still not certain that war would come and , moreover , the reality of Berlin was less appealing than the romantic challenge seen from a basement flat in Earl 's Court . |
| 27 | The proposal itself was less controversial than the party manoeuvring which had gone before it . |
| 28 | Their mission was less ambitious than the day before : just to clear the air over the battlefield . |
| 29 | It was less well-educated than the civil service . |
| 30 | It was less demanding than the similar education given to Elizabeth or Lady Jane Grey , and Mary was undoubtedly of far less intellectual a cast of mind . |