Example sentences of "[be] [adj] than [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | European component manufacturing costs are lower than in the States , and we could save the Corporation around a billion dollars a year by purchasin' components from our European plants . |
| 2 | Incomes in the area have therefore been lower than in the UK as a whole , and out-migration has reduced the region 's share of Scotland 's total population from about 20 per cent in the mid-eighteenth century to about 5 per cent today . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're more than due a holiday , ’ her mother at once declared . |
| 4 | The forces are larger than in the experiment of Roll , Krotkov , and Dicke but the torque can only be reversed by bodily rotating the apparatus , which gives large and irreversible effects that vitiate the method . |
| 5 | Village clusters are fewer than on the mainland . |
| 6 | Ministers claim that accident rates on YTS are better than for the rest of the working population in that age group . |
| 7 | The last , as it affects lawyers , has already been dealt with , and we are now considering the General Category , where the prospects at the top levels are better than in the others . |
| 8 | actually it was erm I forget what it was when me mother-in-law died and she used to moan about the shop and I said to Christine the time she goes down and back I mean things are dear in , but some of the things in the shop now , and then , are cheaper than down the town , so if you take your , your bus |
| 9 | Changes in awareness might , therefore be more successfully measured by the degree to which such models are revised than by the extent to which behavioural objectives are achieved . |
| 10 | Again most of these stars are red , with spectral types of M , R , N or S. Their amplitudes are less than for the Mira stars , and usually amount to little more than a magnitude . |
| 11 | The payments on a lease will normally be lower than on a contract allowing for the purchase of the asset , although sometimes the difference is small and then a rebate is made when the term of the contract finishes and the plane is sold . |
| 12 | The general standards of safety , hygiene , fire precautions etc will generally be lower than in the UK . |
| 13 | The temperature may be lower than in the height of summer , but that 's compensated for by the peace and quiet you find out of season . |
| 14 | A collection of general medical books in a public library may deal with the same range of topics , but the indexing can be broader than in a specialist context , and the terms used for the same thing may be different . |
| 15 | What can be easier than for a manufacturer to limit his sales to those members of the public who fulfil the qualification of being this or doing that ? |
| 16 | However , a spring sowing of such seed will produce some plants , though the number will be fewer than from a summer sowing . |
| 17 | Educational opportunities might well be better than in the country , not to mention employment prospects outside the home . |
| 18 | Similarly , there was an average swing to the Tories in those boroughs where poll tax demands were below government estimates or where household bills were likely to be less than under the rates . |
| 19 | The physical effort required in speaking would also be less than against a background noise of heavy traffic . |
| 20 | Any assessment on the beneficiaries to income tax can never be more than on the £65 grossed up . |
| 21 | The minimum in the potential function will therefore be at a shorter internuclear distance , and the vibration frequency will be higher than for the molecule . |
| 22 | In the case of the Watford and Foxton Locks , the line of ascent would be longer than in the sample , say , by only 1 min. and 4 minutes respectively : and the cost of the works would be increased only by the cost of increased lengths of slopes or inclines ; that is — 24 feet and 100 feet respectively . |
| 23 | The number of troops and the amount of equipment of all non-German armed forces stationed in Berlin will not be greater than at the time of signature of the present treaty . |
| 24 | An operating range of 250 miles at full speed was required and survivor accommodation had to be greater than in the Arun class , the current large All-weather lifeboat . |
| 25 | But , whatever form they make take , language demands will almost certainly be greater than in the past ; more pupils will be studying foreign languages for longer periods of time , and children 's perceptions of foreign languages are likely to change . |
| 26 | ( If , as on the Earth , there are outer ‘ shells ’ of oceans and atmosphere then tides will appear in these too and they will generally be greater than in the rest of the planet thus producing variations in oceanic and atmospheric thickness around the planet . ) |
| 27 | Charges are higher than for the society 's standard dealing system because the stockbroker can not itself be paid on the deal until the end of the stock exchange account , an average of 10 days ' delay . |
| 28 | Permission to offer switched services is unlikely to be denied , but the resale of International Virtual Network services will present more problems , as US carriers feel that they have been denied reciprocal access to the UK , where interconnect , access-deficit and leased line charges are higher than in the US . |
| 29 | ‘ Standards of agency in Northern Ireland are higher than in the south-east of England during the property boom of the 1980s . |
| 30 | Can the Secretary of State point to any year in the past 10 in which the September in-patient waiting list figures have not been higher than for every year under Labour ? |