Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] [adj -est] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was in love with a man who considered her to be lower than the lowest form of human life , yet even that was n't enough to change her feelings for him . |
| 2 | We wanted to build a pyramid that was going to be slightly bigger than the biggest pyramid in Egypt . |
| 3 | Neither country has more than the sketchiest experience of democracy . |
| 4 | At least , things happened there ; it was obvious to Schaffer that his presence in Langstone was nothing more than the merest nod towards protocol , but Stoneley had refused to let him return and make the police withdrawal complete . |
| 5 | The most casual obscenities , the most hackneyed endearments , coming to me from your rose-red lips , are worth more than the sagest advice of all the old men in the world . |
| 6 | It is to the netting of that protean reality that Joyce now bends all his energies , and my mixing of metaphors can give no more than the faintest hint of what that strange act entails . |
| 7 | So it had been quite refreshing when Luke had said goodbye with no more than the lightest brush of his lips against her cheek . |
| 8 | If so , the timber structure need have been little more than the simplest type of tailor 's dummy . |
| 9 | Few of the newcomers know any Hebrew and few have more than the vaguest idea about Israel . |
| 10 | The parish church , older than the oldest part of the house , with its attendant Rectory , squatted a quarter of a mile away on the edge of the estate , joined to the village by a delta of ancient footpaths which successive generations of Dersinghams had been unable to close . |
| 11 | Toby Freely was just nineteen , only a couple of years or so older than the oldest boy at Burleigh . |
| 12 | Indeed the single exponential dissociation from poly(dG-dC) is faster than the slowest component from natural DNA species [ 13 ] . |
| 13 | France , however , has gone some way to showing that a judicious space programme — based on modest goals and less than the highest technology of the era — need not be excessively costly . |
| 14 | Two of the patients with idiopathic DU had , however , serum pepsinogen I values that were more than 50% higher than the highest value of all the other groups studied ( Table 2 ) . |
| 15 | With the benefit of the latest steam-XXXX turbines , the new plant is planned to achieve thermal efficiency of 52 per cent — a 20 per cent increase over that of normal coal power stations , and 12 per cent higher than the best performance of nuclear plants . |
| 16 | It was 150 metres high , and higher than the tallest building in the city . |
| 17 | Although a long way off the summit , it is still higher than the tallest mountain in Europe . |
| 18 | None other than the greatest mathematician in the world . |
| 19 | the file generation number will be one greater than the highest generation of any file with the same name and extension as the outcoming binary file , held in the user 's account . |
| 20 | Looking specifically at our concerns with regard to erm Hambledon , erm in Hambledon the area search would erm extend to about eighty two kilometres , that 's square kilometres , erm and contain six , this contains six villages , er with populations ranging from a hundred and fourteen to nine hundred and seventy one , erm proposed new settlement of fourteen hundred hou erm dwellings , er would be four times erm greater than the largest settlement in this area , Easingwold is the nearest small town , that 's about the equivalent erm equivalent size in terms of number of dwellings , erm we believe that it would er dominate the existing settlement pattern in the area , and would introduce erm a dislocation erm into er a settlement pattern . |
| 21 | The user should ensure that the module issue is greater than the latest issue in LIFESPAN . |