Example sentences of "[adj] is [verb] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Essentially , this is relaxing rather than educational reading . |
| 2 | Another is to have more than one representative for each group or constituency , the representatives being mandated as nearly as possible in proportion to the distribution of opinion among the represented . |
| 3 | Again and again Pynchon suspends the serious implications of his title by transforming the action into pantomime , thereby achieving a staggering variety of tones within the novel , More is involved here than temporary light relief , however . |
| 4 | If so , currencies of net debtor countries would be expected to fall ( as more is pulled out than returns home ) ; those of creditor countries to rise . |
| 5 | The alternating pattern of DNase I products , in which ApT is cut better than TpA , is retained in the presence of the antibiotic . |
| 6 | But all that is to characterise rather than to explain , and the lofty prestige of universities in the post-war world remains a phenomenon that has still to be convincingly analysed . |
| 7 | Of the 500m tonnes of industrial and domestic waste that OECD Europe produces each year , roughly a third is recovered rather than incinerated or buried . |