Example sentences of "than [adj] [conj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expected slippers but he was more spruce than that and clearly businesslike in the way he ran this family hotel . |
| 2 | Of this day nearer than that because more important . |
| 3 | I shall try to show that these three frames of reference are complementary rather than self-sufficient or mutually exclusive . |
| 4 | Those that were there seemed intended as no more than second or even third-string playthings for those untouched by the recession . |
| 5 | As Kellerman says , Eventually , faced by a less than resolute and tactically naive president , congress agreed a tax-cutting package of nearly $7 billion more than Ford had requested . |
| 6 | In the detail of most recent polls , better-educated and wealthier Americans clearly favour more intervention in Bosnia than poorer and less well-educated respondents would accept . |
| 7 | The theory behind Sir Bryan 's thinking is that the more efficient tied agents — such as the building societies — will offer the products to consumers at lower prices than smaller and less efficient tied agents . |
| 8 | Paralysed by fear of ‘ the progressive ’ , this stunted generation have chosen to take as their inspiration the sprightly , cramped insistence of The Monochrome Set , The Undertones , Girls at Our Best , rather than the stealth and reach of Can , Tim Buckley , Hendrix , Talking Head 's Remain in Light , PIL 's Metal Box , chosen to explore an emotional climate of suave nonchalance or at best pensive mawkishness , rather than denser and more elusive feelings ; chosen to prefer the banal clarity of ‘ communication ’ over the glare of revelation and the clouded vision of horror . |
| 9 | Further analyses by age and marital status showed that married people less often spent any time in residential homes than single or previously married people of the same age . |
| 10 | Individual storms may be 500 times more acidic than expected and exceptionally low pH values have been observed during rainstorms as , for example , at Pitlochry in Scotland when on 10 April 1974 a pH value of 2.4 was recorded ( Likens et al. , 1979 ) . |
| 11 | Anything other than dark-eyed and boyishly slender . |
| 12 | Although there is no physical limit in the number of tucking stitches , in practice most patterns do not have more than 20 or so adjacent needles tucking at the same time . |
| 13 | She had also instilled into Yanto at an early age , that he was better than most and as good as anybody . |