Example sentences of "[pron] [adj -er] than the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not a style that she had affected before , but she decided that it suited her better than the severe chignon had ever done . |
| 2 | One walks between the banks that show where the houses stood , marking how blocks of squared masonry thrust in one place out of the turf ( a more important building than most of them ) , and how the tree-roots twist among the rubble footings of the peasant dwellings ; and one picks up pieces of twelfth- and thirteenth-century pottery — mere sherds , bits of rim , of sides , of bases , but all datable : nothing later than the Black Death , when the great silence descended . |
| 3 | Yet music-wise , the chemistry between the four piece produces a tense , beautiful sound which goes one better than the passive stance of last year . |
| 4 | The Bristol & West have now gone one better than the standard endowment mortgage . |
| 5 | ‘ We have a quality street team to welcome the Aussies , ’ said Probyn , ‘ and I intend to go one better than the last time I faced them — the World Cup final 12 months ago . ’ |
| 6 | Unlike the new Cistercian seekers for a simpler form of monastic life , Anselm — however much he shared a personal preference for simplicity — disapproved of a discontented search for something better than the present community provided . |
| 7 | The stars shone overhead , remote but always with promise of something better than the brief rush of biological existence . |
| 8 | I kept a log , naturally , and therefore have it recorded that it took no less than thirty-seven of these supposed flight experiments before my trusty long-handled trowel , in biting the Skull Grounds ' earth skin , struck something harder than the sandy soil , and I finally knew where the dog 's bones were . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | but there 's nothing smaller than the first size |
| 11 | There 's nothing worse than the straight man who shouts it from the rooftop . ’ |
| 12 | I like it better than the other tag . ’ |
| 13 | Some think it better than the completed edifice might have been . |
| 14 | Were they really ruling huge areas of land when my family 's ambitions were for nothing grander than the next meal and the work to pay for it ? |
| 15 | It is not clear whether anything worse than the natural virus might result . |