Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did that one day when things got hairier than usual , went down to where some bandit was trying to rip us off and practically rubbed beards with him and shouted into his face I Want To Work For Christ 's Sake Let Me Work , but Vic said that was n't being helpful . |
| 2 | The inland areas became lower than the silty areas near the coast and lower than the river channels . |
| 3 | Some estimates put the close of year figure at 2,050 — 150 points lower than the worst of last week 's pessimists . |
| 4 | No one would suggest that he rivals Sobers as the greatest of all-rounders , for , although he has taken more wickets , his batting has been much less consistent and his Test average is some twenty-three points lower than Sobers ' . |
| 5 | Seven out of 10 expect Labour to be the biggest party and on average they predict the FT-SE 100 index will be almost 80 points lower than last night 's close of 2393.2 if Neil Kinnock is in Downing Street tomorrow . |
| 6 | The untitled New Zealander , rated 2320 ( 345 points lower than top seed Tony Miles of England ) has seven points from eight games and shares the lead with Miles and the other grandmaster in the tournament , Ian Rogers of Australia . |
| 7 | I do n't really see that there 's such a dividing line , because I think if you 're a housewife and you have a beautiful milk jug , which is perhaps very simple but has lovely lines to it , I think even if it 's only subconsciously you get more pleasure out of using that than you would a rather cracked , grubby , plastic jug . |
| 8 | Such species , says Dawkins , were less likely to go extinct than smaller species , or were more likely to split off new , larger species like themselves . |
| 9 | Our refining costs remain lower than those of the industry and we are taking steps to improve on this advantaged position . |
| 10 | It must be with the tail hanging lower than the nose . |
| 11 | Tunings are tumbling quicker than under-prepared marathon entrants , as Thalia Zedek and Chris Brokaw struggle to tame this turbulent beast in the spiralling temperatures , and prompt frustrated stares from her , fulsome apologies from him . |
| 12 | Interestingly , pretreatment with L-NAME resulted in a shift to the left of the dose-response curve , as CCK-8 induced higher pressure responses in animals given L-NAME than in saline controls . |
| 13 | Democracy might not be much , in his view , but everything else is worse ; and a robber-baron , as he once remarked to the Marxist scientist J. B. S. Haldane , is better than an inquisitor , since greed sleeps easier than dogmatic certainty : ‘ where Mammon vacates the throne , how if Moloch takes his place ? ’ |
| 14 | The Conservative victory under the slogan ‘ Set The People Free ’ that October looked rather hollow when you examined the figures and discovered that more people had actually voted Labour than Conservative . |
| 15 | In most postwar elections , more men have voted Labour than have voted Conservative , whereas more women have voted Conservative than have voted Labour . |
| 16 | Moreover , loss-making Spanish public enterprises have been subject to specific pay bands lower than those for profitable companies . |
| 17 | Both underweight and overweight women had a lower chance of becoming pregnant than women with normal weight , although this effect was greater for the obese than for the lean women . |
| 18 | Honor thought she was the most exquisite girl she had ever seen and her heart sank lower than ever . |
| 19 | The Pope 's got more chance of gettin' pregnant than I 'ave of gettin' into the charts . |
| 20 | The building was 84 metres high , though because it was situated on a hill , with five storeys below ground , it looks shorter than it is . |
| 21 | We say , ‘ The sea appears blue ’ and ‘ AB looks shorter than BC ’ because we have reason to refrain from the stronger statement . |
| 22 | The ventral arm plates are approximately rounded pentagonal in shape becoming broader than long and rectangular on distal segments and separated except occasionally for the second and third ventral plates . |
| 23 | They would even dry quicker than if you put them over the clothes horse cos that 's what those slats are for . |
| 24 | Moreover , the agent is in a better position to know this than , at least , production workers . |
| 25 | Skinny , so he looks taller than he is . |
| 26 | One of the teacups has been chopped into little pieces but the other still has some water inside , which to me looks redder than it should . |
| 27 | For them , obesity is seen as a reflection of unmet oral needs , assorted sexual hang-ups , or an unconscious desire for recognition which is satisfied by becoming bigger than everyone else . |
| 28 | because it always looks smarter than , like this just plain |
| 29 | Seen from above in flight , primaries appear paler than rest of wing . |
| 30 | As far as temperature went , the cut-off point was 6°C — when the temperature was below this no bats at all were detected , presumably because they would have needed to use more energy keeping warm than they would have got from the relatively few insects available for food . |