Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greg had been little better than a crook on the business front — and he had very nearly dragged her father — and his stupendous talent — down with him . |
| 2 | Not surprisingly , the landlord 's covenants are rather fewer than the tenant 's and if one was of a mind , and really thought that it was worth the effort , it is possible to invent several pages of landlord 's covenants which the tenant would dearly like to have included , but this would definitely not be worthwhile . |
| 3 | They are rarely more than a couple of hundred metres high , and they are usually symmetrical , although they may be ‘ breached ’ on one side , where a lava flow has emerged . |
| 4 | Commissions and inquiries are rarely more than a device to allow politicians to put off taking decisions . |
| 5 | If his estimate of time was accurate , it would have been rather more than an hour since it had stopped . |
| 6 | You would do well to remember that you yourself are little more than a child . |
| 7 | ‘ Nonsense , you are little more than a slip of a girl , you would be prey to all sorts of men , fortune hunters and the like . |
| 8 | In fact , the TECs are little more than a device for luring the private sector into tackling unemployment . |
| 9 | Had the county council been able to use the final figures , the dwelling requirements at the end of the projection period would have been somewhat lower than the figure that we have produced . |
| 10 | For contemporaries , the charm must have been less impressive than the sense of half-realised ambitions . |
| 11 | Other churchmen , too , had ideas about the duties of Christian rulers , and may have been less convinced than the Encomiast that Cnut lived up to them . |
| 12 | He had had a charter drawn up , which presumably contained a boundary clause , but this seems to have been less significant than the authority of the witnesses . |
| 13 | But these overall success rates are much higher than the pass rates at individual examination sessions , because many candidates ' progress through the examinations is impeded because they have to resit . |
| 14 | Also I did n't have much money , and barn owls are much cheaper than a lot of birds of prey . |
| 15 | which are much cheaper than the beeswax ones being used in the . |
| 16 | And also , you know sometimes he 's prices are much better than the supermarket 's prices . |
| 17 | In Fig. 4.2 , for example , the three-phase currents are quickly established at the maximum value because the phase winding time constants ( 1 ins ) are much shorter than the period of each excitation ( 20 ms at a speed of 50 steps per second ) . |
| 18 | But The Orb are much more than the sum of their parts . |
| 19 | Furthermore , the common dispersal agents of tropical seeds are much larger than the pollination agents : few of them complete a life-cycle that would be compatible with the short flower-to-fruiting cycles of plants , more suited in this respect to close associations with insects , as in pollination . |
| 20 | Although relatively unsophisticated , this method is reasonably fast and it seems to work satisfactorily where the target units are much larger than the source units |
| 21 | Also in situations where the target units are much larger than the source units , polygon-in-polygon areal interpolation techniques can be used to obtain reasonable estimates by locating the source units within the target units . |
| 22 | Since one can never hope to see things which are much smaller than the wave-length of the light which one is using , there was clearly no hope of ever seeing them directly by means of the ordinary optical microscope which reaches its limit with objects about half a micron thick . |
| 23 | ( It should be emphasized that these terms are just labels : quarks are much smaller than the wavelength of visible light and so do not have any color in the normal sense . |
| 24 | Both of these velocities are greater than the speed of a real cannonball , but they are much smaller than the velocity of light , which is 186,000 miles a second . |
| 25 | The establishment of compatibility is slower and it remains less stable when the two animals are both of high initial dominance ; thus two males are less compatible than a male — female dyad . |
| 26 | Degreasers can , with care , be applied to aluminium surfaces as silicates are less corrosive than the caustics . |
| 27 | These claims are less vague than the logic claim , because a question or a speaking turn is easy enough to identify with precision . |
| 28 | It seems clear that , because they probably do not have as much of their total assets dependent upon the fortunes of a specific firm , the firm 's shareholders are less risk-averse than the manager . |
| 29 | There were thus two possibilities : Either we are in a region of the universe in which strong sources are less frequent than the average ; or the density of sources was higher in the past , when the light left the more distant sources on its journey toward us . |
| 30 | The British backed the plan but are less enthusiastic than the French . |