Example sentences of "[verb] than the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parameter values of the QPO feature are much better constrained than the red-noise part . |
| 2 | Since HWIM 's grammar was far less tightly constrained than the finite state grammar used in HARPY , the system hypothesised a considerable number of words at the beginning of an utterance . |
| 3 | Relaxation classes , acupuncture and hypnosis are other ways of emulating the nicotine high ; statistically , they are less likely to work than the real thing . |
| 4 | Of the drought he had experienced on his last visit , Gould wrote that , ’ It is easier for the imagination to conceive than the pen to depict the horrors of so dreadful a visitation . ’ |
| 5 | The collapse of the Warsaw Pact has produced a new challenge which could be less costly to meet than the old one , but only if the right choices are made now . |
| 6 | This precautionary demand for money will also be related to money incomes since : ( a ) the higher your regular income then normally the more expensive are the items you own , e.g. the Rolls-Royce is usually more expensive to repair than the Mini ; ( b ) if money incomes rise due to inflation then the same items cost more to replace or repair . |
| 7 | The United States found the implications of these new political realities harder to accept than the rest of the international community , which had almost unanimously welcomed the PLO 's clarified accommodationism . |
| 8 | The only statistically significant difference between the groups was for the presence of blood in the stool ; 5-ASA patients had significantly less blood reported than the bismuth group . |
| 9 | Taking steps to ensure that Queen Victoria was informed of Leopold 's candidature while ignoring Napoleon III was in itself an insult , for France was certainly more directly concerned in the matter than England and the Emperor had better need than the Queen to be told directly . |
| 10 | Rainbow trout are more docile and easier to catch than the more popular brown trout and members of the Savernake Fly Fishing Club complained that the arrival of the rainbows ruined their season . |
| 11 | First , there is much more serious crime being committed than the official police records indicate . |
| 12 | 6 Spinning another spiral more closely spaced than the one it spins at first . |
| 13 | The female tuxedo is leaner and more finely honed than the male version , with slim-fitting , narrow-shouldered jackets . |
| 14 | But worse was to come than the criticisms laid against him in 189I . |
| 15 | He kissed me again , a different , unanguished sort of kiss which was somehow much more difficult to bear than the other . |
| 16 | The answer was close now and the minutes remaining before it was revealed to her were harder to bear than the days and weeks that had gone before . |
| 17 | Childline , Childline Den got us a Hovis loaf it looks than the other one . |
| 18 | As the troubadour Pous de Capdeuil put it , " What more can kings desire than the right to save themselves from hell-fire by mighty deeds of arms ? " |
| 19 | One could only enter this sacred temple to snobbishness if one had a voucher of admission and they were harder to obtain than the stars out of the sky . |
| 20 | Additional information can lead to better odds and bigger returns but if the information costs more to obtain than the increase in returns the result is a net loss . |
| 21 | Aditional information can lead to better odds and bigger returns but if the information costs more to obtain than the increase in returns the result is a net loss . |
| 22 | Better to run and be caught than the other , because the other is fourteen years of failure . |
| 23 | For men on beach reconnaissance had further to go than the saboteur or the raider bent on mere disruption : the reconnaissance report had to reach the main force . |
| 24 | Timid , fastidious and conservative in his dress , he was given to silences of legendary proportions and to a strict working routine more befitting the clerk he never became than the artist he was . |
| 25 | Yesterday morning at Masham there was more to report than the poor reversing . |
| 26 | The ‘ special relationship ’ has long been a myth , one which the UK has more of an interest in perpetuating than the US , where the reality is that Britain is regarded as a second-rank nation . |
| 27 | Occasionally a space divided two buildings and then I caught a glimpse of attap huts , children playing , chickens scratching in the dust , pigs rooting , the vivid red of a flame tree , coconut and breadfruit trees , more what I expected than the pink-washed ‘ retirement bungalow ’ . |
| 28 | To be sure there were important differences : the male was more perfectly developed than the female because hotter ; but these were differences conceived on a hierarchical , teleological model of sexual development . |
| 29 | The Law Society had greater reservations about franchising than the other bodies , except that it liked the administrative advantages and thought that they should be extended to all legal aid practitioners who satisfied quality control criteria developed by the Board and the Law Society . |
| 30 | The very fact that the visit is ‘ in an entirely private , unofficial capacity ’ ( the Cardinal 's words to me last week ) is more likely to have some beneficial effect in the ‘ diplomatic minefield ’ to which your correspondent refers than the more usual protocol-and-agenda-laden expedition . |