Example sentences of "is [adj -er] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Senator Inouye was sterner : he realized that ordinary citizens thought Hakim 's testimony ‘ fascinating and exotic ’ , and chuckled at it , but he himself found it ‘ rather sad … to say it is stranger than fiction is an understatement . ’ |
| 2 | The story may be embroidered but Ince Castle , for many years the home of the Killigrew family , stood ( until a disastrous fire in 1988 ) isolated on its peninsular , its oblong castellated building with its four identical towers , one on each corner , perhaps bearing silent witness to a story that is stranger than fiction . |
| 3 | I have known for many years , through long observation , that truth IS stranger than fiction . |
| 4 | Sometimes their life stories are so unusual that truth is stranger than fiction . |
| 5 | The only thing that 's true in that rag is the price on the front , which is a pity really — in this case the truth is stranger than the fiction … |
| 6 | You might say reality is stranger than fiction . |
| 7 | ‘ In my job , old boy , I 've learned that truth is stranger than fiction by a long way . ’ |
| 8 | — much higher break even point , and therefore the proposal is riskier than previous operating level . |
| 9 | A few clever and overequipped craftsmen have a little magnetic device to locate the studs by finding the nails driven into them , but most people would just bang on the wall until they hear a thud that is duller than the others . |
| 10 | Nothing is simpler than the question ‘ Why do trees change colour ? ’ says John White , the Forestry Commission 's dendrologist at Westonbirt Arboretum in Gloucestershire . |
| 11 | But it is simpler than that , and less romantic . |
| 12 | This is simpler than using the old text menus . |
| 13 | Insofar as the labour process may be dissociated , it may be separated into elements some of which are simpler than others and each of which is simpler than the whole . |
| 14 | A node in a Kohonen net is simpler than nodes in perceptrons and BMs . |
| 15 | At first sight , this attitude appears negligent , but the reason for it is simpler than might be imagined . |
| 16 | ( ( P' , Q' , R' ) is simpler than ( P , Q , R ) if each of its components is a ( not necessarily proper ) syntactic subcomponent of the corresponding component of ( P , Q , R ) , except possibly for changes of variables not in x . |
| 17 | ADD argue that their method of dealing with the relationship between fiscal and monetary policy is simpler than that used by Barro ( 1977a ) , in which the equivalent fiscal variable is government expenditure relative to its normal level . |
| 18 | As the language reads like English it is simpler than most to teach in early school years . |
| 19 | The doctors tell us that elderly pilots and pilots who smoke should be aware that their tolerance to a shortage of oxygen is lower than younger people 's or that of non-smokers . |
| 20 | Calorie-wise , all fresh fruit is lower than both dried and tinned . |
| 21 | The ‘ misery line ’ as it is called-stations from Kennington to Morden dim and cheerless dungeons , trains cancelled with appalling regularity ( there 's a shortage of drivers on the Northern Line , because it is the last to embrace OPO-one person operation-and so the pay is lower than on other lines ) . |
| 22 | This compares with an average of 9% achieved in the 1980s , and is lower than reformist economists and provincial leaders had hoped . |
| 23 | His overall strike rate , in fact , is lower than any other major bowler , confirming his position as number one in the world rankings . |
| 24 | Adrian probably knows lots of boys whose standard of living is lower than his own . |
| 25 | The 1990–91 level of funding , a meagre £23 million , is lower than it was four years ago . |
| 26 | This is lower than the steady 3 points per move that both players can amass in a run of mutual cooperation ( and , by the way , this is the reason for the ‘ additional condition ’ left unexplained on page 204 ) . |
| 27 | Percentage loss of prey from tawny owl pellets was found to be greater in summer than in winter ( Lowe , 1980 ) , and this could relate both to the greater numbers of immature rodents taken as prey , the bones of which are less mineralized and therefore easier to digest ( Lowe , 1980 ) , and to the likelihood of the birds producing the pellets being themselves immature In the case of the great horned owl it has been found that the stomach pH in immature birds is lower than that of adults ( Grimm & Whitehouse , 1963 ) and there is therefore greater destruction of bone and loss of prey . |
| 28 | Men are still able to father children into their seventies , though their sperm count is lower than in their youth . |
| 29 | Faris is sure that it is lower than 300 picoseconds , although he does not have the equipment to prove his prediction that it is less than 50 picoseconds ( 10 -12 seconds ) . |
| 30 | Looking at his reflection a child sees that he has two eyes and one nose , that his mouth is lower than his nose , his ears are at each side of his head . |