Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [adv] [adj] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Big Apple 's the location for a special programme where inventions are even wackier than here in the UK . |
| 2 | ( BBC 1 , 7.30pm ) THE Big Apple 's the location for a special programme where inventions are even wackier than here in the UK . |
| 3 | To meet these changing conditions English courts are more prepared than formerly to grant injunctions in suitable cases against non-residents or foreign nationals in respect of overseas activities . |
| 4 | Central direction has increased since 1979 but local authorities are far more than simply field agents of central government departments . |
| 5 | These take the work of the Society to the members at a local level — and our groups are more active than ever before . |
| 6 | Definitions of major groups are less secure than sometimes imagined . |
| 7 | And the contradictions are more glaring than ever . |
| 8 | The report quotes recent research by the Transport and Road Research Laboratory which suggests that experienced drivers are more likely than newly qualified ones to make mistakes such as racing away from traffic lights , signalling with the car headlamps and speeding at night . |
| 9 | The UK 's reserves of lowland peat bogs are far less than previously thought , according to a new survey by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee ( JNCC ) — the scientific umbrella group for the government 's three national conservation agencies in England , Scotland and Wales . |
| 10 | Doubly authentic , because I have often observed that where , these delicate questions are concerned most listeners are more inclined than not to accept the most improbable of two or three possible explanations for the vagaries of a person 's conduct . |
| 11 | Some journalists were less timorous than previously : competition between channels encouraged ‘ professionalism ’ . |
| 12 | Such a heart is good , but , say some scientists who believe dinosaurs were more active than hitherto supposed , not good enough . |
| 13 | Their initial meeting at dinner in Hall was not quite accidental : the nature of the placement was such that strong scholarship candidates were more likely than not to find themselves sitting together . |
| 14 | Because they were never insulated , they could never keep the heat in nor the cold out and our bedrooms were sometimes colder than outside . |
| 15 | By that time her leg was fine , and her manners were much better than before . |
| 16 | The ventral arm plates are distinctly wider than long , pentagonal in shape and separated . |
| 17 | The ventral arm plates are much wider than long with an obtuse proximal angle and a straight distal edge rounded at the corners and indented midradially . |
| 18 | So many Britons whose lives were little more than hard unremitting toil would have used the licence of the festival to make fun of these imagined orgies , especially if they occurred in the great houses . |
| 19 | Their lives were far more than just hard . |
| 20 | These findings comfirm that low grade gastric MALT lymphomas are usually indolent tumours with non-specific endoscopic aspects and that dissemination to other mucosal sites was more frequent than previously reported . |
| 21 | As a result , radon concentrations inside buildings are much higher than outside . |
| 22 | Of course , many policy statements are little more than vaguely embodied aspirations as to how parties would like to see Britain develop . |
| 23 | In addition , unmarried women carers are more likely than either married women or men to be carrying particularly heavy caring responsibilities . |
| 24 | The spots of colour in his cheeks were much brighter than before , and he had a napkin crumpled in his hand ; all that coughing had clearly started his nose bleeding . |
| 25 | And below that , the rear lights are even smarter than before . |
| 26 | To the north-west of Nuneaton , similar multidisciplinary resurveys coupled with detailed work in the active and disused quarries of the Hartshill-Stockingford area have shown that the so-called Boundary Fault separating the Precambrian and Lower Cambrian successions from the Triassic rocks is an unconformity , thus indicating that hard-rock resources are significantly greater than hitherto supposed . |
| 27 | Starving people in the sub-Sahara can not afford much quality , though it is fair to say that their problems are more political than strictly agricultural . |
| 28 | RECESSION-HIT Britons are more determined than ever to take their annual holiday , leading travel agent Thomas Cook said today . |
| 29 | There was a lot more bang up but conditions were much better than here |
| 30 | On the negative side it should be recalled that many Belorussian nationalists were more pro-Western than specifically Belorussian in their emphasis , while many others became so identified with the Bolshevik Party that they shed earlier inclinations . |