Example sentences of "[adj] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a couple is less conspicuous than a man on his own … ’ |
| 2 | Mine host insisted upon introducing him to everyone , which helped identification at the cost of making him somewhat more conspicuous than he would have liked . |
| 3 | The rear ends of their wings are elongated into long tendrils which resemble antennae and are , indeed , more conspicuous than the insect 's real antennae . |
| 4 | Moreover , although the Gothic novel was largely escapist , its plebeian characters tended to be much more conspicuous than Jane Austen 's servants , and to have a distinct character of their own . |
| 5 | Easily told in breeding plumage by conspicuous vertical black and white frill or skirt on neck , as well as backward-pointing black and white crest , less conspicuous than Arabian Bustard 's . |
| 6 | Granulomata themselves were comparatively infrequent , and other histological features characteristic of Crohn 's disease were less conspicuous than usual . |
| 7 | The hand-loom weaver on the eve of his long decline was much more likely to have been a Methodist than was the mule spinner of the new generation proletariat . |
| 8 | She looked a little less resentful than earlier , and — dare he hope it ? — even slightly anxious for him . |
| 9 | Sit at the back of a bluegrass concert in 80 of Kentucky 's 121 counties , and you will drink nothing more alcoholic than a tall glass of orange juice . |
| 10 | Whatever the balance of gains and losses , the nationalised Area Boards were certainly more frugal than their predecessors had expected to be in their capital expenditure . |
| 11 | ‘ Wo n't he notice that you are somewhat less tinted than our friend Luther ? ’ |
| 12 | Hence the UK framework is far more lenient with regard to non-price than price restraints . |
| 13 | He looks no different than when he was here . ’ |
| 14 | It seemed to Marx that nothing could be more different than kinship relations and relations in the labour market . |
| 15 | ‘ Even then , ’ says one of the filmmakers , ‘ Breathless was dramatically different than she is in the final script . |
| 16 | We start off with bacteria ( which ‘ look different than other creatures ’ ) . |
| 17 | If one ought to act because of an authoritative directive one 's reasons are different than if one ought to perform the same act for other reasons . |
| 18 | New Order fan Paul Clayton , Bury : ‘ Morrissey is no different than any other pop star . |
| 19 | ‘ No one ever gave me the slightest inkling that they thought any different than me at the recording sessions and things like that . |
| 20 | He looked totally different than what he does at school . |
| 21 | While the recovery is a little bit slower that we had been anticipating when I left GM Europe , it 's not very much different than what we had expected . |
| 22 | Despite these reservations MDC has enjoyed major successes in physically regenerating its area , which looks dramatically different than at its initial designation . |
| 23 | So , when I 'm soloing I try to take the song someplace else than where it is , and also somewhere different than where the next solo takes the next song . |
| 24 | The emphasis may be different than at Forest but the essentials are the same . |
| 25 | Their obsession with gathering may , at first glance , seem no different than the fanaticism of collectors of rare books or woodblock prints . |
| 26 | When this became general knowledge later , there was general unease at this way of measuring the background ; the neutron flux 50 metres away from the cell measured for 50 hours could be very different than that at the cell site , even if the cell had been absent , measured for a different 50 hours . |
| 27 | It is hard to imagine a business environment more different than Vladimir 's Russia . |
| 28 | In what manner — other than its worthiness — was this fate different than being slaughtered on one 's home world ? |
| 29 | The often mentioned ‘ crisis ’ in British broadcasting — ‘ crisis ’ , in Gouldner 's phrase , being that the system ‘ may , relatively soon , become something quite different than it has been ’ — thus acts as a backdrop for numerous contemporary analyses of broadcasting . |
| 30 | He contends , in effect , that ethical statements do indeed do something more or different than merely state facts , even facts about the effects of actions on the general happiness , for they pick out actions for approval or disapproval . |