Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adj -er] [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Looking back on the course , Kevin , now 39 , denies that there were any particular problems in being older than the majority of his contemporaries . |
2 | In addition , the signal has to be correlated with observable future events ( e.g. , a ‘ bad ’ signal has to be correlated with future insolvency while a ‘ good ’ signal has to be correlated with future survival ) , and the cost of sending a false ‘ good ’ signal has to be greater than the cost of sending a ‘ true ’ bad signal for the firm as well as the manager . |
3 | The car park charging scheme will cost £67,000 but the council expects the income from charges to be greater than the cost of setting up the scheme in the first year . |
4 | We may reach a point where the public costs of city life have to be greater than the private . |
5 | The truth turned out to be stranger than the legend , and it throws light on the qualities of character which John inherited . |
6 | We might expect this to be lower than the effect of being in the service class . |
7 | I would n't put it into a company where the profit record was likely to be poor , because the last thing you want is for the share price to be lower than the option exercise price ’ . |
8 | A downturn is expected in 1993 since activity is anticipated to be lower as the company does not expect these contracts to be repeated . |
9 | He was one of those whose wisdom ( to recall the terms of Wyatt 's sonnet ) insisted on his maintaining an unchanged obedience to an authority he ultimately felt to be higher than the King 's . |
10 | The costs of going to court are likely to be higher than the value of the contract and the only beneficiaries are typically the lawyers . |
11 | Thus , one would expect the use of the maps to be slower than the use of routines with the human performance being more versatile but less predictable . |
12 | We 're going to get more so it 's going to be a bigger piece that that is n't it it 's going to be bigger than the quarter . |
13 | The plaintiff is playing with higher stakes because the cost penalty is likely to be bigger than the amount by which the defendant might overestimate the claim . |
14 | But only at the moment when they have proven themselves to be better than the incumbent . |
15 | I 'd rather go in the shop and see it cos sometimes , especially if it 's got a pattern on turn out to be better than the catalogue cos when it comes , it do n't look the same , and then the same colour do you ? |
16 | In the future we need to be quicker than the competition and totally focused on customer satisfaction and production requirements . |
17 | Thus , if one wants to get to London , it is irrational to take a train which one should have known not to be going to London or which one wrongly calculated to be quicker than the bus . |
18 | The words are likely to be bolder than the action . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Unfortunately I dived in one day without realising that the pool had been emptied ( I am short-sighted ) , and although my head turned out to be harder than the pool bottom , it seemed to dampen my enthusiasm for the sport . |
21 | However , sexual history records remarkable cases of feminine pubic hair that has grown to be longer than the hair on the owners ' heads . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | In other words , to give , to the question , ‘ Why , on looking at the horizontal moon , would you believe it to be larger than the meridian moon if you had no reason to think otherwise ? ’ the answer , ‘ Because it appears larger ’ , is , if it means ‘ Because I perceive it as larger ’ to give no answer at all . |
24 | Because of the demands of the Church 's calendar , especially at Christmas and Easter , cathedral choir school holidays tend to be shorter than the norm . |
25 | Also , if you consider yourself to be faster than the pathfinder board , it is worth starting early , since as you wait for him to reach you , you could be sailing that part faster than him . |
26 | In order for a cloud of particles to be able to collapse to form a black hole , it would seem necessary for this wavelength to be smaller than the size of the black hole that would be formed . |
27 | The strength of the junction formed will depend on t which should be smaller than the reptation time τ , i.e. the mixed layer ought to be smaller than the size of the coil if an interfacial link is to be formed . |
28 | If the basis risk , is to be smaller than the risk of the spot ( ) and the future ( ) , there must be a substantial positive correlation between the spot and futures prices . |
29 | If you are close to mastering the slow pirouette , you may find this to be easier since the model is always pointing into wind . |
30 | Either the building was much bigger than it looked , or he was now on some wide underground level without having gone down any steps , or — as he was beginning to suspect — the inner dimensions of the place disobeyed a fairly basic rule of architecture by being bigger than the outside . |