Example sentences of "are [adv] [adj] than [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many are little more than effluent channels , while some , by an accident of catchment , contain water fit for potable supply . |
| 2 | But military analysts in Bangkok pointed out that casualty figures are low , many of the positions along the sparsely-populated Route 69 are little more than bamboo huts sheltering two or three soldiers , and no big towns have been threatened . |
| 3 | Licence fees are little more than department administration costs . |
| 4 | punchlines are much better than sort of er . |
| 5 | You can not put stock around them because trees are much tastier than grass . |
| 6 | Spring-tined cultivators with tines at about six-inch spacing , are much lighter than chisel ploughs . |
| 7 | In the classical limit when the gravitational field is weak and slowly varying where all the components of the tensor h are much less than unity . |
| 8 | As would be expected , own solicitors are less available than duty solicitors and rota schemes perform better than panels . |
| 9 | Some of their policies — notably on taxation — are less moderate than Labour 's . |
| 10 | Shoemaker asserts that Tunguska-like explosions should be a common fate of small bolides entering the terrestrial atmosphere , provided only that they are less strong than iron objects . |
| 11 | These chemicals , all relatively stable powders , are less aggressive than hypochlorite and achieve similar performances . |
| 12 | policy spokesmen are less ideological than policy advocates . |
| 13 | Linseed oil is used in a greater proportion for most colours , although colours such as blues and particularly whites are most made using poppy , safflower of sunflower oil because they are less yellow than linseed . |
| 14 | Linseed oil is used in a greater proportion for most colours , although colours such as blues and particularly whites are most made using poppy , safflower of sunflower oil because they are less yellow than linseed . |
| 15 | Fish oils are less saturated than animal fats . |
| 16 | People for whom career goals are less important than comfort goals ( lower achievers in an organizational sense ) are more likely to watch others play sport ; their first sexual experiences occur younger and more frequently thereafter . |
| 17 | And on the other side , there are political systems ( those of empires or of the European feudal societies ) in which these factors are less important than allegiance or subordination to a particular ruler or ruling group . |
| 18 | Tile thickness ranges from about 3mm ( ⅛in ) for plain wall tiles up to around 6mm ( ¼in ) for floor tiles , which are generally denser than wall tiles to resist dents . |
| 19 | Net interest includes interest payable on precious metal loans ( often referred to as metal ‘ leases ’ ) where rates are usually lower than money loans . |
| 20 | These bonds are more subtle than gossamer strands of spiders in the grass and are like the fields of force of electricity or gravity . |
| 21 | In pure strength , apart from their flexibility , the lashings , sewings and bindings used by primitive peoples , and by seamen down to recent times , are more efficient than metal fastenings , indeed sledges are still made in this way . |
| 22 | A strange attractor of a four-dimensional system can have two positive Lyapunov exponents , and so can have solutions that are more irregular than chaos . |
| 23 | The first generalization that can be made is that andesite lavas are more viscous than basalt ones . |
| 24 | Metal brushes are more durable than plastic ones , while a wire brush or comb can be particularly valuable during a moulting period , removing dead hair from the coat . |
| 25 | The industry believes that research into why some people abuse alcohol and carefully targeted education programmes are more effective than blanket restrictions which apply to the whole population . |
| 26 | Some are more effective than Rayo so it 's unlikely they would want the British system . ’ |
| 27 | Other contributors say that informal social restraints on drinking are more effective than government control , advertising does not induce excessive drinking , and random breath testing might reduce drink-driving . |
| 28 | The effect that this current has on the rest of the dendrite , and hence in due course the cell body , depends very much on the geometry of the region around the synapse ; biophysical calculations show that spine synapses are more effective than shaft synapses in spreading the current , and in any given spine , the current flow is dependent on its exact shape . |
| 29 | The fittings are more expensive than compression fittings , but are unobtrusive and allow the pipe to be rotated in the fitting . |
| 30 | After the question of nutritional deficiencies , few subjects are more topical than food allergy and intolerance . |