Example sentences of "reliable than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Dover Harbour Board argued in the early 1980s that ferries would be both cheaper and more reliable than a fixed link , a stance later adopted by the Flexilink consortium of ferry companies in its attempts to convince Parliament that the Channel Tunnel would be a financial disaster . |
| 2 | This kind of component is much smaller and more reliable than a valve , which was the earliest form of electronic switch . |
| 3 | Typically , the reasoning component of the system will be more expensive and less reliable than the linguistic components , and constraints between anaphors can sometimes allow the system to avoid doing any non-linguistic reasoning at all . |
| 4 | SPAR 's behaviour seems better if two conditions apply : that the reasoner is known to be less reliable than the linguistic part of the system , as it might be if the texts processed describe a relatively open domain ; and that , as for example , in a machine translation task , no further non-linguistic processing will be carried out on the reading accepted . |
| 5 | They were ungainly vehicles with double-flight stairs and short canopies , but they had top covers and Brill 22E bogies , which were more reliable than the Brush bogies under their own cars . |
| 6 | The sets that Were built showed another advantage of conservatism in that , despite some initial trouble with 60MW sets , they settled down to be more reliable than the engineers counted on . |
| 7 | Partly , this was because broadcasters realised that the Argentinian version of events was often more reliable than the British . |
| 8 | Solid-state technology reduces ‘ disk ’ access time to nanoseconds and is more reliable than the conventional hard disk drive . |
| 9 | It is unexplained why the radiometer readings in Bands 6 and 7 are lower in the second series , when the illumination is greater , but this was taken as grist to the mill of the idea that the radiometer method would probably be less reliable than the imaging method . |
| 10 | I just hope his source is more reliable than the Yard chap who told him confidentially that Theo Sykes killed Puddephat . ’ |
| 11 | The extent of the coverage is seen as more reliable than the scattered ground-based measurements , although other scientists have pointed out that atmospheric temperatures are not so relevant for surface life , and that the microwave readings can also be thrown out by water droplets and other atmospheric particles . |