Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] than [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble is that the problem is proving to be more intractable than even the most cynical Democrats had feared . |
| 2 | But Caterham 's independence does enable it to be more adventurous than perhaps a large parent would allow . |
| 3 | The Latvians had fascists who were more vicious than even the Germans . |
| 4 | Further , his total avoidance of arianism is held to have made him more acceptable to the catholic Gallo-Romans , than were the other kings of his generation , and to have helped ensure that the Franks were more successful than either the Burgundians or the Visigoths . |
| 5 | Jane Austen is less descriptive than either the Gothic novelists or Scott , for although her letters are full of domestic detail and she enjoins her sister , Cassandra , to omit nothing in her account of a house — ‘ For one 's own dear self , one ascertains & remembers everything ’ — novels are not written for ‘ one 's own dear self ’ , and she was not one to inflict what she did not enjoy — ‘ your descriptions are often more minute than will be liked ’ , she warns her niece , Anna Austen , an aspiring writer . |
| 6 | Waller believes it is more complex than just a huge shift of opinion on the day . |
| 7 | It is clear , therefore , that the 70 or so institutions which call themselves colleges or institutes of higher education comprise a sector of higher education which is more diverse than either the universities or polytechnics . |
| 8 | Thereafter , however , their share increased steadily until by 1850 this market was more important than either the European or North American market , in both of which home cotton manufacture had become significant . |