Example sentences of "[det] [be] [adj] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is better than a night at the Follies . |
| 2 | ‘ This is better than a ceilidh . ’ |
| 3 | The intensity of the enhanced bands also varies in a time dependent fashion , but surprisingly this is slower than the disappearance of the footprint , so that some enhanced products are still evident even after 30 minutes . |
| 4 | An important aspect of the teacher 's job is the size of the class he or she is expected to teach ( on average , this is greater than the pupil/teacher ratio , as calculations of the latter include staff who do little or no classroom teaching ) . |
| 5 | This is wider than the scope of present UK law . |
| 6 | This is more than a summary of the descriptions of each tax introduced above : rather , an economic picture captured by econometric estimation . |
| 7 | This is more than a book about a rear gunner , however ; it is a factual account of a bomber crew , and , written with an unpretentious style , it is both easy to read and hard to put down . |
| 8 | This is more than the change that inner London received , and I think it 's quite unbelievable that York 's population , base population is actually starting of from the figure of er a hundred and three , a hundred and four thousand , and I think York City Council will agree with that in any case , erm , the new major estimates for nineteen ninety two would already suggest that that population 's declined by a further thousand , which I think emphasizes that these major estimates are estimates , and because of the differ the difficulties within the census for nineteen ninety one , with under enumeration , some problems may have occurred . |
| 9 | And this is more than the ambition with which I began , and more than my son 's inheritance . |
| 10 | This is more than the note I intended . |
| 11 | Gooch 's story is also a complex one , with the South African affair and its long-running repercussions , the perennial dilemma between touring and fulfilling family commitments , and the traumas and triumphs of his captaincy of Essex and England ; this is more than an account of his Trojan feats on the field . |
| 12 | This is longer than the lifetime predicted by the simplest grand unified theory , but there are more elaborate theories in which the predicted lifetimes are longer . |
| 13 | This was better than the label on the bottle of Camp coffee . |
| 14 | This was better than the book of the same name . |
| 15 | ‘ And this was cheaper than an aeroplane . |
| 16 | This was wider than the path , and there were hoof-marks and fresh horse droppings . |
| 17 | This was fewer than the number of people looking at a daily newspaper . |
| 18 | He did not turn up to the funeral when his friend died , and for me this was sadder than the loss of the vicar who had found peace and hope before he died . |
| 19 | These are better than the poison-taking and tomb scenes . |
| 20 | Since these ‘ facts ’ belong to the group as a whole and since the latter is more than the sum of its parts , they have a transcendent reality of their own and can not simply be reduced to the individuals in whose conduct they manifest themselves . |
| 21 | Whereas the inner band shows a generally consistent interlace of colour , one in every four tongues of the latter is darker than the rest . |
| 22 | More is expected than a scrutiny of existing evidence . |
| 23 | The fear of abandonment and being on their own was stronger than the discomfort of the existing situation . |
| 24 | That is bigger than the stake held by AMB 's new French partner and more than enough to block important decisions . |
| 25 | Dealing firstly with the question of risk , it is our view that if the balance of medical evidence is that the deterioration will occur , then that is more than a risk and the appropriate course is for the Court to award damages on the basis that it is probable that the deterioration will occur . |
| 26 | By this time stress waves are probably racing about in the material in all directions at the speed of sound ( that is faster than the crack ) , being reflected off both old and new surfaces , and we are likely to end up with not one crack but with a great many . |
| 27 | In the wake of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro , a damning report from English Nature shows that ancient woodlands have declined by nearly 50% in the past 50 years — that is faster than the felling of the rainforests in Brazil . |
| 28 | at the minute , because they 've got there the Hussy End which is like the number one , that 's better than the Stringfellow 's apparently , Hussy End are in Manchester thirty quid to get in |
| 29 | But then , under the new rules , Messrs Smith , Marsh , Nearn et al will be no threat to the major players : only 500 low-volume type-approved cars to any one design can be made each year — a number of Marcoses , Westfields and Caterhams combined that 's less than a day 's output from Longbridge . |
| 30 | That 's less than the company subsidy for the North Harbour cafeteria , running around £900 per employee in 1990 . |