Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adv] [adj] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was always so in control about everything which is what gave her this air of being much older than just twenty-seven . |
| 2 | Also , the project is proving to be even larger than originally thought . |
| 3 | Without the safety net of a staff job , she had to be even more than usually careful when dealing with the fragile egos of those who appeared before the cameras — one adverse comment and she could find herself facing nothing but closed doors . |
| 4 | The jaws appear to be slightly wider than long . |
| 5 | It is worth remembering that simple sentences are more likely to be grammatically correct than long , involved ones . |
| 6 | ‘ You do n't seem to be any better than before . ’ |
| 7 | These administrative arrangements broke down some of the barriers in co-ordinating services , but grassroots co-operation has not appeared to be necessarily easier than elsewhere in Great Britain . |
| 8 | It is far better to be too warm than too cold . |
| 9 | The trouble is that the problem is proving to be more intractable than even the most cynical Democrats had feared . |
| 10 | In general , therefore , subcontract labour will tend to be more mobile than directly employed labour . |
| 11 | Active work on a problem — learning by doing — is likely to be more effective than simply being told how to do a particular piece of work . |
| 12 | Olga seemed to be more patronizing than ever today . |
| 13 | Hewlett-Packard pitched into the downsizing battle with a vengeance last week with the launch of new top-end multi-processors claimed to be more powerful than up to 85% of IBM 's installed base of mainframe systems — and in a supporting role gathered together an impressive list of mainframe specialist software houses committed to support the machines . |
| 14 | It barely represented the true drama of the moment , though Nicholson was better informed than most on the subject because apart from being a friend of Polanski , he gleaned first-hand accounts by attending the trial of Manson and his disciples , whose story proved to be more gruesome than even Hollywood could either manufacture or exploit in a movie . |
| 15 | An important point to emerge out of the network model is that aspects of non-co-operation seem to be more common than prototypically co-operative behaviour from a reader 's perspective , at least as far as SF is concerned . |
| 16 | This latest encounter between the two sides promises to be more exciting than ever before . |
| 17 | But Caterham 's independence does enable it to be more adventurous than perhaps a large parent would allow . |
| 18 | Later that evening Herbert and I discussed the problem , and promised each other to be more careful than ever . |
| 19 | Gamma scintigraphy has been shown to be more sensitive than either radiography or the standard acid reflux test in the detection of gastro-oesophageal reflux , with a sensitivity of 85.5% , compared with 69.5% with the standard acid reflux test and 27.5% with radiography . |
| 20 | And now he began to be more devout than ever in his prayers , more ardent in divine contemplations , more frequent in his vigils , more energetic in exhortations and in works worthy of imitation and more frequent in preaching ; thus becoming a pattern in word and deed of a holy life to all , Rich in the bowels of compassion , he relieved everyone who sought his assistance . |
| 21 | If the contemporary world as a whole seemed to be more flawed than ever , academic life , in particular , was irredeemably so . |
| 22 | Irrigation schemes in other parts of Shandong as well as the neighbouring provinces of Heenan and Hebei have also proved to be less efficient than originally envisaged ( Leeming 1985 ) . |
| 23 | The promise of enlarged democratic rights had encouraged the ‘ playful giant ’ to be less submissive than formerly , Arnold thought , and he was beginning to assert with increasing regularity ‘ his right to march where he likes , meet where he likes , enter where he likes , hoot as he likes , threaten as he likes , smash as he likes ’ : Matthew Arnold thus proposed in the late 1860s that crime and disorder should be understood as a consequence of the already evident ‘ permissive ’ disintegration of the stable traditions , and although he was not narrowly obsessed with street violence and rowdyism , nevertheless these were an integral feature of his vision of decay — something which was deeply characteristic of this era . |
| 24 | The story behind the featured tale of Michelle Shaw 's tank was that she was sold a four footer in 4mm glass which stood on what appeared to be a not very sturdy stand , in an upstairs rooms where the floor was likely to be less stable than downstairs . |