Example sentences of "[adv] effective than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 It was not an unhelpful intervention , Mr. Deputy Speaker , because one of the problems in dealing with the targeting of advertising is that advertisements aimed at adults will be less effective than the Minister may wish if they take account of the fact that children may be present .
3 The use of a shotgun for rabbit clearance , as opposed to the fun of the occasional shot , continues to be less effective than the rifle and especially so when it is used by individuals rather than in conjunction with an organised rough rabbit shoot .
4 Although by law hire purchase advertising had to be ‘ accurate ’ , there was no reporting process to make this more effective than a formality ( except for the efforts of individual weights and measures inspectors who became concerned about credit provision when their duties were extended by the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 to cover a very wide range of consumer affairs ) .
5 Medication Imipramine ( a tricyclic antidepressant , Tofranil ) is the only drug that has been shown to be significantly more effective than a placebo in reducing wetting frequency .
6 ( The Profitboss is ten times more effective than a union )
7 This is a lot more effective than a ski jacket .
8 They can also be seen in the popularity in France of the idea of attacks on British commerce as a means of forcing the traditional enemy to her knees , the belief that a guerre de course of this kind , avoiding large-scale engagements and making extensive use of privateers , would be more effective than a strategy which aimed at securing effective control of the seas .
9 Equally a group with a wider range of talents in its midst tends to be more effective than a group with a narrow range of talents .
10 But I do n't feel as if , I mean it 's it 's not the most pleasant thing in the world but it 's certainly fucking sa it 's safer than a lot of their more easier to put on and take off than and fucking safer and more effective than a lot of their contraception devices .
11 Tricyclic and related antidepressants were significantly more effective than the serotonin reuptake inhibitors in trials using the 17 item scale ( mean difference 1.29 , 0.28 to 2.30 ) ( fig 1 ) but the difference was not clinically important .
12 They were specialists , too , in that they favoured one type of war , that of surprise in which the dawn raid was more effective than the siege .
13 Lim 's sources of information were seen to be much more effective than the Army 's compromised intelligence gathering network , as evidenced by the fact that four of the chief rebel officers captured since the coup attempt had been tracked down and arrested by the police .
14 For example , we could , as an experiment , allocate similar child care cases randomly to different interventions to see whether one is more effective than the other .
15 Similarly , we may contrast the ‘ before and after ’ situations of alternative interventions to see whether one is more effective than the other .
16 A splinter movement that would , in time , prove greater and more effective than the Ping Tiao .
17 In the opinion of many , even more effective than the ladybird beetles are the several forms of hover or serphid flies , and this opinion is growing following the work of the Henry Doubleday Research Association ( HDRA ) into other plants that attract and encourage creatures that prey upon pests .
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