Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] in every [noun sg] than " in BNC.
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1 | Clara felt herself to be extremely fortunate in her membership of this group , and the insecurity of Janice 's position in it fortified her , for she knew herself to be more secure , less irritating , less tactless in every way than Janice . |
2 | How indeed , when Almsmead was so much better in every way than this creaking old hall and the Goldsboroughs ' possibly valuable but , in her view , horribly antique furniture which had come with it , held together , she often thought , by little more than the beeswax with which it was polished . |
3 | The ceremonies emphasise a social fact : the adult prerogatives of men are more far-reaching in every culture than women 's , and consequently … it is more common for societies to take note of this period in boys than in girls . |
4 | Wicked persons are also tempted to remove the plates from their own or someone else 's copy and frame them ; the plates and text are much more separable in every way than they were in the old herbals . |
5 | The birth-rates of the twentieth century have been consistently lower in every decade than those of the nineteenth century , but there have been fluctuations . |