Example sentences of "[adj] than certain " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frequently they are more stringent than certain existing national standards and , indeed , the EEC Treaty provides that the Council should use a high level of protection when adopting measures that relate to health and safety consumer protection in the environment . |
| 2 | A pupil who is , for example , studying chemistry , must be encouraged to learn more than certain concepts and procedures . |
| 3 | In the next chapter I examine further the idea that believers in God may be less than certain of God 's existence . |
| 4 | less than certain facts ; |
| 5 | It is perhaps a good deal less than certain that this third characterization is conceptually distinct from the first two . |
| 6 | The best reason for wanting some account of certainty in our analysis of knowledge is that people are rightly hesitant to claim knowledge when they are less than certain . |
| 7 | To the extent that the schoolboy is less than certain of the answers that occur to him , can we allow that he still believes them ? |
| 8 | It may seem somewhat curious logic to decide whether empirically determined facts can only be accepted provided that they can be explained , but one can understand the attitude when the facts seem less than certain . |
| 9 | During the election campaign the party had asserted that the advanced welfare state was safe in its hands , but this promise quickly appeared to be a less than certain guarantee of the continuation of welfare programmes which in some cases had been in effect since the 1930s . |
| 10 | Vaginal penetration by the penis which , for the victim , may be less offensive than certain other forms of attack , alone constitutes sexual intercourse which is required to be proved for the crime of rape . |