Example sentences of "[be] [adj -er] than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since 1940 the average yield , which should in theory have been lower than the official limit but in practice was not always so , has steadily increased : |
| 2 | The objects and phenomena that a physics book describes are simpler than a single cell in the body of its author . |
| 3 | The AP1-88 's air-cooled truck diesels that provide both lift and propulsion are heavier than the converted aero engine that powers the SR.N6 , but they burn less fuel and cost only one-fifth as much . |
| 4 | There are people out there who 've got problems that are bigger than the average household can deal with and erm I think , therefore , we 're looking for more institutionalized forms of help and folks like this particular character — I almost said his name — almost need to be made to accept that kind of help . |
| 5 | The gap between the different measures of GDP has widened , for example , while the balancing item in the balance of payments has actually been bigger than the current-account deficit itself . |
| 6 | I understand they were , they 're better than the general secretary 's anyway . |
| 7 | Whether we 're bad or not so bad , whether we think we have gone beyond the pale or whether we think we 're better than the other person , we all need a saviour because we 're all sinners . |
| 8 | The first is that many important aspects of language processing occur in units that are larger than the single sentence . |
| 9 | Fantastic , popmungously great 45s , however , are rarer than a disco-dancing dodo . |
| 10 | The observation of the Great Wall has come from an ambitious project to map the positions of all visible galaxies which are brighter than a specified minimum . |
| 11 | Most missiles with pretensions to cleverness are brighter than a laser-guided bomb , but not as clever as a Tomahawk . |
| 12 | How shit are you ? ! ’ to every talentless flop-haired indie guitar loser of the past decade — also reveals what anyone sane knew already ; that the reason Erasure are better than the early Depeche Mode or Yazoo is because of Andy Bell . |
| 13 | Are there any aspects of the French administration you think are , that are better than the British approach ? |
| 14 | By the time you 've seen your third rapist walk free because you 've been cleverer than the prosecuting counsel , you lose the taste for that particular victory . |
| 15 | These packages are cheaper than the basic time cost , since they take away the advertiser 's control over when the ad is to appear . |
| 16 | Indian and Coloured schooling has , on the whole , been better than the African system , but again , in the ‘ white ’ rural areas there are pockets of severe deprivation . |
| 17 | Its subsidies are now tiny by comparison with Europe ( Italy subsidises 91% of the cost of its rail commuters , Britain less than 10% ) ; its trains are faster than every national service apart from France and Japan . |
| 18 | The whorls thus formed are smaller than the submerged form . |
| 19 | There are twenty three police forces in this country which are smaller than the British Transport Police . |
| 20 | Long clones such as yeast artificial chromosomes — YACs ( 6 ) and P1s ( 7 ) will require fewer hybridisations than cosmid clones to link them , but the resulting map will be coarser than a cosmid map would be . |
| 21 | If this is satisfactory then no further action is required , as the fasting cholesterol will be lower than the random determination . |
| 22 | But the price raised by an estate agent desperate for his commission is now all too likely to be lower than the original mortgage taken out by the borrower . |
| 23 | It may be lower than the original investment . |
| 24 | If investors assume that the expected level of demand will be lower than the so-called equilibrium position ( the position that yields what economists term ‘ warranted growth ’ ) then the level of savings in the economy will exceed investment , and therefore demand will be lower than expected . |
| 25 | ‘ They have to be tougher than the average kid , I do n't like losers , but once they 're into boxing it takes them off the streets , away from the drugs and alcohol , ’ said Lol , 57 . |
| 26 | I have no doubt that , when the time comes and we push our tax through , it will be seen to be fairer than the Labour alternative . |
| 27 | This will prevent the seam from tightening up with the result that it could be shorter than the surrounding fabric . |
| 28 | As there are fewer than fifty such hospitals in the whole country , with long waiting lists and high proportions of permanent inmates , the ‘ 6 to 8 months ’ average waiting time reported by Guha ( quoted in Baxi 1982 ) for a gaol in Assam may be shorter than the national average . |
| 29 | The " pence in the pound " format recommended above by Cockcroft is known , from the APU data , to be easier than the equivalent format using percentages . |
| 30 | But it was murder for Francis , who said : ‘ I thought a European tie would be easier than the Premier League — but I miscalculated . |