Example sentences of "[adj -er] [noun pl] than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both lead ( found in lower concentrations than the legal limit for UK drinking water ) and chlorohydrocarbons were effectively cleared of being the cause of the problem . |
| 2 | It was red in colour and had much bigger wheels than the ordinary farm cart . |
| 3 | A hard line was to be maintained for violent and sexual offences with provisions for longer sentences , and Crown Courts were to be given the powers to impose heavier sentences than the individual offence justified , to persistent offenders deemed to be a public risk . |
| 4 | If such schemes can successfully be developed they may provide future services better suited to the needs of the elderly at lower costs than the continued use of social and health services on current levels . |
| 5 | Moreover as a history of realism the book is concerned with larger matters than the detailed description of style . |
| 6 | The three have only taken up American pool , which uses larger pockets and larger balls than the British version , a matter of eight months ago . |
| 7 | That his daughter should need any brighter prospects than the established background of her name , and her eventual inheritance of the Dear Old Place , was beyond him ; while , for the present , two good reliable hunters surely provided all the enjoyment and exercise any girl could ask . |
| 8 | The young plants give lower readings than the bare box and the old plants a much lower reading . |
| 9 | The carbon-free samples ( B3 , B4 ) showed lower conductivities than the saturated case , as expected . |
| 10 | In our experience , treatment of the data as a conventional heavy-atom derivative problem , combined with the use of a maximum-likelihood algorithm to estimate heavy-atom parameters , gave somewhat better maps than the algebraic formalism . |
| 11 | The most obvious was to seek better compounds than the original nitrogen mustards , and numerous alkylating agents emerged during the following 30 years . |
| 12 | Lotus is also used for creating quality printed output ; its WYSIWYG capabilities enable it to produce better prints than the current version of Ark , so Carello exports the data to Lotus prior to printing . |
| 13 | However , he did admit that there is a get-out clause written in to the contract involving Hapag Lloyd who share facilities at the Royal Seaforth Container Terminal which has been negotiated on cheaper terms than the previous agreement . |
| 14 | At the time of writing the Chancery Bar offers considerably better prospects than the common law ; there is reported to be a shortage of good applicants for tenancies . |
| 15 | The guilloche of the outer border also seems to be of thicker strands than the three-strand guilloche of the latter . |
| 16 | Hartley Coleridge said of Green ‘ Amid many discouragements and with no better patrons than the mutable public of Lakers , his spirit never flagged , his hand and eye were never idle , and he had a healthy love for his employment such as none but an honest man could understand . ’ |
| 17 | Furthermore , increasing the transition length to deal with trigrams gives better results than the equivalent bigram equation . |
| 18 | This is also a valid way and can produce better results than the scientific way of working . |
| 19 | But doctors may be able to make swifter judgments than a lay jury , and anyway self regulation can not be bought on the cheap . |
| 20 | Smith suggests that doctors may be able to make swifter judgments than a lay jury on the weight and validity of scientific arguments . |
| 21 | The ventral interradial area has smaller plates than the dorsal surface . |
| 22 | A phone call to a particular official in the Commission can yield faster results than a written inquiry to a Directorate-General — and time is money . |
| 23 | Additional benefits for unemployment and invalidity have been cut , the ceiling on pensions for widows and widowers has been lowered and all contributors will eventually receive lower pensions than the Labour Government originally intended . |
| 24 | This material will also bond well to stainless steel rods so that badly decayed timber can be drilled , stitched and glued to achieve higher strengths than the original construction . |
| 25 | First , they responded to much slower movements than the other group — so slow , in fact , that they could easily detect the motion of the sun or stars through the sky . |
| 26 | It testified to moral and financial respectability ; it secured the legitimacy of the children ; it offered cheaper and safer pleasures than the outside world and , as an additional boon , it was a source of virtues and emotions that could be found nowhere else , least of all in business or society . |
| 27 | Because the operators had been so heavily involved in the ‘ productionising ’ of the new technology and were thus extremely familiar with the technical possibilities of the machinery , they were in a strong position to negotiate higher rates than the time-study person would normally allow . |
| 28 | They were often , in effect , used as ways of borrowing money from commercial banks at slightly higher rates than the commercial market and those guaranteed by the government-sponsored Public Works Loan Board . |
| 29 | Returning soldiers would expect higher wages than the Egyptian migrant workers hired during the war . |
| 30 | Until the Japanese arrived in the 1980s , American and British suppliers had to meet lower standards than the Japanese demand . |