Example sentences of "[adj] than it appear " in BNC.
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| 1 | The line-up in the Bundesrat is less clear than it appears . |
| 2 | Secondly , many of the subjects in the list can be studied in pairs , in ‘ joint ’ or ‘ combined ’ subject degrees , so that the overall pattern of studies is less specialized than it appears . |
| 3 | The process of fusing Ministerial intentions and departmental expertise in the formulation of policy is a great deal more subtle than it appears to be at first sight . |
| 4 | The problem is even more acute than it appears , for singular existential propositions too resist a reductivist treatment and can not be simply brushed off as " ungrammatical " . |
| 5 | However , she fell asleep at last , and Breeze took this to mean that the burn must be less serious than it appeared . |
| 6 | Beginning with the distribution of medical practitioners , a PEP report in 1944 found that it was ‘ determined primarily by the income level or the rateable capacity of the locality ’ , and perceptively concluded that this disparity ‘ is even more serious than it appears … because ‘ under-doctored ’ districts are usually also poor districts with high rates of sickness and mortality ’ . |
| 7 | When the Boundary Commission looks at these matters over every 10 years or so , demography and demographic conditions have to be considered , and it is less easy than it appears on paper simply to provide consistency in terms of the demographic relationship of the people living in the country and the number of Members representing them in the House . |
| 8 | The result is patterns of support whose basis is probably far more complex than it appears to an outsider and which also perhaps includes the expectation that love and affection themselves will be reciprocated ( Summerfield , 1986 ) . |
| 9 | Although the Nationalists were almost unchallenged in the Catholic community , by the early 1960s their position was more vulnerable than it appeared . |
| 10 | Off the front tees it is less daunting than it appeared on TV , but not much . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | By acting as a substitute , a supplement , to its ostensible signified , language is always suggesting the signified is somehow other than it appears in its linguistic signifying form . |
| 14 | 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 " . |
| 15 | In fact , however , de Gaulle 's position was less secure than it appeared . |