Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [adj] than the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smaller forms can be interplanted with bush roses , but normally shrub roses grow much larger than the bush forms — 8ft ( 2.4m ) and 10ft ( 3m ) high and wide being quite common — with considerable variation in habit and the way they carry their branches and blooms . |
| 2 | A companion RCA disc contains four 20th-century works , the earliest ( 1913 ) , being Webern 's Five Pieces , op 10 , polished epigrams , and the latest , Fortner 's interludes from his opera Blood Wedding ( 1957 ) , which sound much older than the Webern . |
| 3 | To the primary teacher " teaching resources " mean far more than the school textbook . |
| 4 | Faulty plugs on electrical appliances can be killers — yet most manufacturers , it seems , would rather put their customers at risk from electrocution and fire hazards than pay out less than the pound a time it would cost to supply all their electrical goods with ready-fitted plugs . |
| 5 | But that is , if you go up under your own steam I mean even dearer than the way we did it . |
| 6 | Before the 1790s higher spending on poor relief , although it convinced many contemporaries that the incidence of poverty was increasing , probably did not , except in particularly bad years , reflect much other than the increase in population and in food prices . |
| 7 | If their heads protrude , pare them down with a chisel , and then drill slightly smaller than the peg diameter , and drill out the peg ( use a depth gauge so you do n't go right through the leg ) . |