Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] than [det] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As expected , the carcinoma incidence in the under 50s ( 0.6% ) was very much lower than that observed in the 50 to 70 years age group ( 7.5% ) or the over 70 years group ( 11.6% ) The incidences of adenoma in these age groups were 6.2 , 31.5 , and 32.2% respectively . |
| 2 | The small negative slope after in vitro CO 2 equilibration of gall bladder bile ( ) is much lower than that found in human serum of -0.23 . |
| 3 | For example , the quality of housing occupied by ethnic minorities is much lower than that occupied by whites ( see chapter 7 , section 7.3 ) . |
| 4 | More generally , however , the cycles have not acquired such good reservoir properties and the overall porosities are much lower than those formed by early leaching in the Z2 Carbonate . |
| 5 | It is clear from the surviving correspondence that a naval career had become attractive to the Scottish gentry by the middle of the eighteenth century , perhaps because expenses at sea were much lower than those incurred in an army officer 's mess , while not the least of the attractions of a naval career in time of war was the possibility of prize money . |
| 6 | However , at the time of writing it is not clear how the new structure will work in practice , especially since RENFE 's systems for determining costs of services appear to be less advanced than those used by BR . |
| 7 | Whilst viruses on the Mac tend to be less destructive than those found on the PC they are still annoying . |
| 8 | The skeleton of the Gesta Consulum Andegavorum lay in a set of genealogies less reliable and less complete than those found at St Aubin 's in Angers under Fulk le Réchin . |
| 9 | Though almost certainly more tolerant than the norms observed by the police in deciding whether or not to take action against speeding motorists , these norms are somewhat less tolerant than those observed by some staff in areas of greater industrialization , as the following conversation with a field officer from such an area suggests : |
| 10 | Although the nets are much shorter than those employed in the North Pacific , and have a much larger mesh , they are devastatingly effective at catching dolphins . |
| 11 | The magnitude of difference , however , was far less marked than that reported by others . |
| 12 | Moreover , as the National Union of Teachers argues in response to the White Paper Teaching Quality , the basis of and variation between different HMI ratings of teacher competence is not made clear ; and interestingly , these ratings ( formed on the basis of only two observations per teacher ) , are less generous than those provided by the teachers ' heads . |
| 13 | This does not mean that the rugs are in any way less authentic than those produced by village or nomadic groups . |
| 14 | The waste is less dangerous than that intended to be buried in deep tunnels , ( New Scientist , 24 February , p 503 ) . |
| 15 | Those who kill and are convicted of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility are no less dangerous than those convicted of murder , and yet the judge has sentencing discretion in one case and not in the other . |
| 16 | Because the film includes no genital close-ups or explicit sexual activity , it has played in many parts of the world , occasionally with a classification less restrictive than that given to so-called ‘ hardcore ’ sex films . |
| 17 | The external threat to it of the restoration of Roman Catholicism through foreign invasion was in the long run less serious than that posed by the Puritans from within . |
| 18 | People who died of cancer were less likely than those dying from other causes to have been in such homes , 7 per cent against 29 per cent . |
| 19 | The notion that the Haiti glass compositions can be modelled as a mixing line is based on a published range of glass compositions that is much larger than that used in ref. 1 . |
| 20 | This method was used by the Court of Appeal in Whiteside [ 1989 ] Crim LR 436 : The defendants were selling counterfeit cassettes at a price much cheaper than that charged for real tapes . |
| 21 | Pictures done in the zoo can be much better than those done in a museum from a dry skin , perhaps not very convincingly stuffed ; but only if there are field sketches too for the artist to work from can he hope to get the background right . |
| 22 | These rates were somewhat better than those obtained by blue-chip industrial companies , being attractive to fixed-interest investors because of the cast-iron British Treasury guarantees behind them . |
| 23 | The Bar also has a complaints machinery , but it is less complex than that relating to solicitors . |
| 24 | In Joyce v Yeomans [ 1981 ] 2 All ER 21 the Court of Appeal said that although the impression made on the trial judge by expert witnesses is less important than that made by lay witnesses , it will still carry considerable weight . |
| 25 | Similar decreases in heart disease mortality and stroke mortality have been observed in a variety of different countries ( Smith and Jacobson 1988 ) , although the decreases observed in the United Kingdom have been less dramatic than those recorded in some other countries . |
| 26 | The ratios obtained by triangulation are somewhat smaller than those produced by Methods 1–3 . |
| 27 | The resulting solutional forms tend to be rounded and less sharp-edged than those formed on bare rock . |
| 28 | The increase in referral rates in the fundholding group ( from 107.3 to 111.4 referrals per 1000 patients a year ) was much smaller than that seen in the non-fundholding ( control ) group ( from 95.0 to 112.0 ) . |
| 29 | Thus , the population as a whole should require only a small risk premium , much smaller than that required by executives in an individual company who may face personal disaster if the project turns sour . |
| 30 | The sterling bond market is not only small compared to those denominated in dollars and in yen , it is also much smaller than those denominated in marks , lira and French francs . |