Example sentences of "[adj -er] than [art] [noun] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it may be said to be fairer than the Community Charge in that the tax does , at least , rise with the value of the house and it is reasonable to assume that those living in more expensive houses have higher incomes than those living in less expensive dwellings . |
| 2 | Scotland 's major canals were built across the country to link the western and eastern coasts providing a route which was safer and shorter than the sea passage around the northern coast . |
| 3 | The recurrence rate in the corrosive group , however , decreased over time , and after 12 months it was significantly ( p<0.001 ) lower than the recurrence rate in the first six months . |
| 4 | In 1989 , the Total Period Fertility Rate for mothers born in the Caribbean was 1.6 , slightly lower than the UK average of 1.8 . |
| 5 | In the low head the stressed syllable which begins the head is low in pitch ; usually it is lower than the beginning pitch of the tone on the tonic syllable . |
| 6 | Such a bond is likely to be called when the market rate of interest is lower than the coupon rate on the bond . |
| 7 | In 1989 the broad money supply increased by 74,300 million forints or 12 per cent , which was 7 per cent lower than the growth rate of the nominal GDP , indicating the extreme monetary rigour of the Central Bank . |
| 8 | The Barman 's voice was lower than an ankle bracelet on a flat-footed pygmy . |
| 9 | The hall was bigger than the Cromarty Hall in the village ; it could accommodate more local people and more of the television cameras that by now were multiplying daily , along with their crews , reporters , producers , and the army of newspaper journalists and feature writers that by this time had gathered in Orkney . |
| 10 | And yet the horizontal moon might look bigger than the meridian moon in the other , non-objective , sense of ‘ looks ’ . |
| 11 | An organization is bigger than the sum total of its people . |
| 12 | There 's nothing nicer than an evening hack after a day in the office , and even if you prefer riding earlier , the extra hour of daylight somehow seems to lift the spirits . |
| 13 | Sizes range enormously from a towed compressor to a portable unit not much taller than a litre bottle with the former capable of delivering 3000 psi from a 3 phase supply . |
| 14 | The only problem was that the coastline awarded to Poland lacked a single port larger than a fishing village along its entire length and was therefore virtually useless to a modern state . |
| 15 | The presentation appearance of the horizontal moon , for instance , can properly , though falsely , be said to be larger than the presentation appearance of the meridian moon . |
| 16 | The bridge of the Simonova was far larger than the Navy pattern to which he had become accustomed . |
| 17 | The socially efficient quantity of labour input would then be much larger than the equilibrium level under current tax rates . |
| 18 | In fact their performance was slightly better than a control group of subjects who had one night 's sleep deprivation with no prior selective deprivation . |
| 19 | And David quite got his bearings right , full toss that one , I 've , I 've been watching this summer this slope at Lord 's can play havoc with bowlers and I always get the impression that er , he 's , he bowls better than the nursery end at Lord 's , David Lawrence . |
| 20 | Even where post-merger firms did achieve productivity gains , they did little better than the productivity performance of the industry as a whole . |
| 21 | Today it was cloudy but bright , and the thick , accustomed smell of the city was better than the hospital smell in the house . |
| 22 | I mean we gave a certificate for St Aldate 's Courtyard for instance , because we felt it looked really very nice and so much better than the office block across the road . |
| 23 | Well , nowadays you could get no closer than the wire cage around the perimeter , thanks to the hippies or the busloads of Americans or druids maybe , who knew ? |
| 24 | One can talk of an object presenting an appearance to an unoccupied point in space , and of the presentation appearance of an object itself being larger or smaller than the presentation appearance of another to that point . |
| 25 | Consequently , the temperature contrast between them at any level is smaller than the temperature difference between top and bottom . |
| 26 | And I 'd come out of it looking sharper than a Connecticut Yankee at a 2 Live Crew concert . |
| 27 | The apparatus is then pumped out and sealed under vacuum at the point A. Sufficient mercury is then added to enclose the polymer and extend into the capillary , after which the tube is sealed at B , and placed in a thermostat at a temperature somewhat higher than the melting temperature of the polymer . |
| 28 | The Albanian birth rate was much higher than the birth rate of Serbs and Montenegrins , and the composition of the population steadily shifted in their favour . |
| 29 | In the case of the high head , the stressed syllable which begins the head is high in pitch ; usually it is higher than the beginning pitch of the tone on the tonic syllable . |
| 30 | If the expected rate of inflation is higher than the break-even rate of inflation , investors will prefer the index-linked bond . |