Example sentences of "[noun] [adj -er] [conj] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Concrete , the standard high-speed track surface , is about a hundred times stiffer than a human runner . |
| 2 | It 's also quite a bit heavier than a similar garment in , say , Polartek 300 . |
| 3 | In computing values for cumulative distributions it is normal to consider values in terms of the percentage coarser than a given grain size . |
| 4 | The surface area of N small bodies is roughly the cube root of N larger than a single body formed by their accretion . |
| 5 | Rangers are likely to contest any punishment stronger than a one-match ban but it 's not all bad news . |
| 6 | Now , as far as my health is concerned these days it could be a little bit better but a bonny sight worse . |
| 7 | I was on the communal house phone , which is chained to the wall tighter than a medieval Bible , when the doorbell rang . |
| 8 | For a rating scale , the number of classes varies from 3 or 5 to perhaps 10 ; it is usually difficult to make distinctions finer than a 10-point scale requires . |
| 9 | Lymphocytes can be activated using a combination of a phorbol ester or a permeant DAG analogue to activate PKC and an ionophore to mimic the calcium-mobilizing action of InsP 3 . |
| 10 | when the word has been overlapped with all members of the filter set , take those weak overlap indices with a frequency greater than a certain threshold ( this was set to 1 for the example below ) and append them to the strong overlap list . |
| 11 | A woman would be quite prepared to accept a wage lower than a male compositor 's , since it would probably still be a great improvement on what she could earn elsewhere . |
| 12 | Indeed , if there is one thing surer than a pre-Christmas ad for turkey stuffed with Paxo it 's a post-Christmas campaign for yet another Rosemary Conley thin-thigh theory . |
| 13 | If there 's one thing worse than a poor singer , I do n't know what it is . … ’ |
| 14 | Touche Ross thought that the requirement was appropriate in relation to partnerships , but recommended that it should apply only to cheques made out for an amount greater than a specified sum — a suggestion also made by a number of others . |
| 15 | Precisely what is meant by ‘ any substantial finding of contributory negligence ’ is open to some dispute at present , the view having been expressed by one judge that any contributory negligence greater than a minimal amount , must be substantial and hence prevent any interim payment . |
| 16 | Instead of one strand as thick as string , there were dozens of fibres three times thinner than a human hair . |
| 17 | They surged up and down in packs , clattering and scared in their riot-gear , lamming into anyone wearing skin darker than a ginger biscuit . |