Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adj -er] than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LOVE has proved stronger than a man 's desire to change sex . |
| 2 | Erm , since the wider range investments on the whole tend to increase in value more rapidly than the narrower range investments , then as the investments in the normal course of management are bought and sold , the proportion which you have invested in the wider range tends to increase faster than the proportion that you have invested in the narrower range . |
| 3 | THE outcome of the first commercial rating revaluation in England and Wales for 16 years has produced increases higher than the Government predicted , it was disclosed yesterday . |
| 4 | The shades of the nineteenth century seem to loom larger than the prospects of the 21st Century which is what we should be aiming for . |
| 5 | Sometimes the words themselves mean little , but the emotional impact they convey goes deeper than the intellect . |
| 6 | You get feeding better than the rest of us you do . |
| 7 | Scarlet began to feel hotter than the weather merited : she was embarrassed when her husband was offensive to cab drivers , and it was now almost inevitable that he would be . |
| 8 | Kellner pointed out that even in 1970 , when almost all polls predicted a victory for Harold Wilson , one which was published in the Evening Standard on polling day continued interviewing later than the others and detected the late swing to Edward Heath . |
| 9 | When she 'd gone to work for the Bradfords Paddy had been left on his own and it had got worse than a pigsty then . |
| 10 | A million families have insolvency hanging over them as their mortgage debts have grown greater than the values of their homes . |
| 11 | But to really appreciate a Woodstock kitchen you have to look deeper than the cabinet door . |
| 12 | One of the strengths Scotland has enjoyed is having a group of players who have become stronger than the individuals . |