Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [adj] [verb] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these respects the demography of the nineteenth century is less easy to explore than that of the parish-register period . |
| 2 | Intending to get up early and do two hours work before breakfast is less likely to happen than planning to do it . |
| 3 | An argument could even be made that a prisoner who emerges from prison with a reasonable sum of money is less likely to recidivate than one who emerges as impecunious as when he or she entered . |
| 4 | Previous work has used this characteristic to suggest a sub-lithospheric component that is more akin to MORB than to OIB , whereas the Os isotope data seem to favour an OIB-like component . |
| 5 | Nothing is more nourishing to doubt than hazy mists of vagueness ; but clear thinking disperses them and leaves a clear-cut choice either to believe or to disbelieve . |
| 6 | The truth is that I was suffering from insomnia : a full stomach is more conducive to sleep than is an empty one . |
| 7 | The Paasche index is more expensive to compute than the Laspeyres index because the weights need to be re-estimated every period . |
| 8 | ‘ The question of whether a pleasure flight … could , or should , be removed from the definition of ‘ public transport ’ is more complex to review than the medical situation of over age sixty pilots … |
| 9 | Another consideration is that monitors working in interlaced mode produce an image that generally is more prone to flicker than a non-interlaced display of the same screen resolution . |
| 10 | Colour is more important to fish than to mammals and birds , and in fish it is often highly variable . |
| 11 | In fact , there is no reason to suppose that a household with four members is more able to pay than one with a single person , especially if three of the four are dependants . |
| 12 | The cost of hot water is reduced in relation to the capital expenditure which can be undertaken , so that an efficient boiler system is more costly to install than a simple immersion heater , but cheaper to run . |
| 13 | Second , the community charge is more costly to collect than rates ( Blair 1988b ; Travers 1989b:22 — 4 ) . |
| 14 | It is not precisely clear why there should be this relationship , but fruit , in general , is more difficult to find than leaves , and requires an animal to range further afield to acquire it . |
| 15 | However , it is more difficult to achieve than is generally appreciated . |
| 16 | Being a combination , this is more likely to score than a single face punch which , as I said earlier , is often simply overlooked by the referee . |
| 17 | He is more likely to borrow than barter , since he does not want to part with his own . |
| 18 | Verbal aggression is more likely to occur than physical aggression in groups whose members come from middle- or upper-income families . |
| 19 | He 's more likely to die than I am because he loves life , his mother tells me so . |