Example sentences of "[adj] than it appeared " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , she fell asleep at last , and Breeze took this to mean that the burn must be less serious than it appeared . |
| 2 | Although the Nationalists were almost unchallenged in the Catholic community , by the early 1960s their position was more vulnerable than it appeared . |
| 3 | Off the front tees it is less daunting than it appeared on TV , but not much . |
| 4 | In fact , this decision was less revolutionary than it appeared : Bush has brought the deadline forward from 2000 , as laid down under the Montreal Protocol , to 1995 , but the EC had already decided to adopt a 1997 deadline and the US had been lagging behind world opinion . |
| 5 | But even here the other member of the department interviewed explained that the syllabus was far less prescriptive than it appeared , and that most members of the department interpreted it fairly flexibly . |
| 6 | So , inference : the picture had been painted at a time other than it appeared to have been , and had been painted by someone who " could not have been there " . |
| 7 | In fact , however , de Gaulle 's position was less secure than it appeared . |