Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [adj] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problems arise when we shift to the first person , asking how we come to have knowledge of the world , and asking how we are justified in dismissing the possibility that reality is wholly other than we take it to be . |
| 2 | It 's less fattening than ice cream but it 's still not good for you . |
| 3 | It 's less dangerous than the often-fatal Hepatitis B , but it can last up to four weeks , while full recovery may take three months . |
| 4 | It 's less common than a beef tapeworm , but more dangerous , because its larvae will settle into almost any part of the body , including eyes . |
| 5 | It 's less harmful than X-rays , for example . |
| 6 | It 's less costly than surgery . |
| 7 | That 's less shocking than killing . ’ |
| 8 | Do you think it 's less fashionable than it was ? |
| 9 | It 's less formal than the consulting-room . ’ |
| 10 | But it 's less risky than pointing to totally unknown items on a menu . |
| 11 | Even though I make fun of it , and it 's not my favourite music , that does n't mean that it 's less valid than bands who last a long time , especially if it is enjoyed . |
| 12 | It is questionable whether it can become an agent to promote social work but is position is so central than an attempt must be made . |
| 13 | The susceptibility of individuals to disease ; if animals are kept or treated in such a way that their immune system does not work very well , that in itself tells you that their welfare is less good than it might be . |
| 14 | We would generally feel that the welfare of people who need to knock themselves out with some kind of drug and need to spend a large part of their lives thus self-narcotised is less good than that of people who do not need to . |
| 15 | For example , an animal may be injured and it may be under anaesthetic ; now the welfare of an individual which is under anaesthetic because of the injury — because of the damage to it or perhaps of the reduced life-expectancy — is less good than that of an individual which is not injured . |
| 16 | This is usually because the vision in one of her eyes is less good than the other and the brain has ‘ switched off ’ this eye , letting the better one do all the work . |
| 17 | Known to his friends as ‘ Rusty ’ , the forty-eight year old South Carolina native is less patrician than Mr Brown . |
| 18 | Hangman is well known as a spelling game , but it is less useful than it should be , because it is usually played as a pure guessing game . |
| 19 | of course If the forecaster has merely averaged out considerable fluctuations to give an overall steady state that is less useful than a genuine steady state . |
| 20 | Set against the background of inflation this rise is less impressive than it looks at first sight . |
| 21 | Sinopoli 's interpretation of Elgar 's First Symphony is less controversial than his treatment of the Second ( 2/89 ) . |
| 22 | Bar 1 is less dissonant than the rest , and contains very brief quasi-triadic groups such as the diminished 7th chord C , E♭ , F , and the following minor 9th and minor 7th chords on the last beat . |
| 23 | The reason for this is that the length of the season , and the level of activity within it , is less predictable than at Christmas time . |
| 24 | The market is less predictable than the law . |
| 25 | A fall in urban rent values can also be seen in Oxford , although the evidence cited is less comprehensive than that for York , and the most drastic fall seems to have come in the second half of the fifteenth century after a period of relative stability . |
| 26 | This structure is less stable than the one shown for " bankers ' risk " . |
| 27 | Thus carbon monoxide is less stable than nickel(II) oxide at temperatures below about 680 K whereas above this temperature it is more stable . |
| 28 | Also , the alphabetical author/title arrangement is less helpful than the usual classified sequence of national bibliographies . |
| 29 | Another option , accepting criminal law as an accurate reflection of the social consensus , is less helpful than the legal definition because it precludes the study of differences between criminal law and popular conceptions of morality . |
| 30 | One reason why the shift in emphasis to the broader question of determinism is less helpful than it at first appears is that ‘ the problem of determinism ’ itself lacks a clear formulation , and the difficulty of saying exactly what it consists in is reflected in attempts to relate it to holism . |