Example sentences of "be [adj] than [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , the fact that police officers will know that female crime rates are lower than male crime rates will further incline them to the view that women are not by nature ‘ criminal types ’ . |
| 2 | This can have advantages where credit restrictions on local banks make foreign currency borrowing the only source of finance available or if interest rates are lower than domestic currency loan rates . |
| 3 | ‘ They 're happier than some childhood memories , ’ he murmured . |
| 4 | Lightweight papers are cheaper than heavier weight paper . |
| 5 | The dry stores , says GEC , are cheaper than conventional water pools , leak less radioactivity and can be used for much longer periods . |
| 6 | ‘ Our car parks still represent good value for money and they are cheaper than most car parking facilities in the private sector . ’ |
| 7 | The droplets thus formed — of dilute sulphuric acid — are smaller than normal water vapour droplets and therefore clouds containing them are brighter than normal . |
| 8 | However , the reformism of this period did not appeal only to manual workers , and among men of the 1945 cohort of voters middle class electors were in fact more likely to be Labour than working class electors were to be Conservative . |
| 9 | These machines tend to be cheaper than purpose-built network PCs . |
| 10 | It is more likely , however , that these singularities will prove to be more than artificial coordinate singularities that particles can pass through . |
| 11 | Firstly , it is a consequence of averaging tariff levels to calculate the CET that some countries ' post-union tariff levels ( namely the CET ) will be higher than pre-union tariff levels . |
| 12 | There are other areas of research which are more likely to be fruitful than hyperbaric oxygen therapy . |
| 13 | Antral crypts were estimated to be longer than gastric body crypts . |
| 14 | Burlington , Massachusetts-based Bachman Information Systems Inc warns that it expects revenues for its third fiscal quarter to Aprch 31 to be below analysts ' expectations and that the operating loss for the quarter will also be greater than financial market expectations — it notes that some analysts had forecast revenues of about $10m . |
| 15 | In general , company liquidation rates ( insolvencies as a proportion of the total number of companies ) are higher than personal sector repossessions in relation to the number of mortgages outstanding . |
| 16 | There were fewer than seven under-strength German divisions in Yugoslavia , none of them would have been suitable for service in France or North Italy , as has been maintained . |
| 17 | He began making plans to fill Wembley Arena with 12,000 people a night , convinced there were more than enough Kylie fans waiting to see her . |
| 18 | — much higher break even point , and therefore the proposal is riskier than previous operating level . |
| 19 | It 's easier than conventional-style riding clinics ( approximately £200 ) with instruction in basic techniques and the principles of herding cattle cowboy fashion , from roping ( lassoing , to the uninitiated ) to cutting ( separating a steer from the herd ) , under the guidance of head instructor Doug Allen , a roping expert from the US . |
| 20 | Our difficulty is that the contractual position is clearer than unfair dismissal law so employers can sometimes , though by no means always , achieve the same result by issuing notices of dismissal and offering new contracts of employment . |
| 21 | But it 's brighter than ordinary earth air that 's light because there 's nothing to erm nothing to get in the way of the erm . |
| 22 | The rise sent shares to new lows in the City only hours after dealers had cheered up briefly at Britain 's better than expected trade figures . |
| 23 | Shares crashed to new lows in the City on the news , which came just hours after the release of Britain 's better than expected trade figures , though Britain is still well in the red , the latest deficit 's down to one point one billion dollars . |
| 24 | Still , anything 's better than those 16-bit monstrosities that cost so much to buy , you ca n't afford the overpriced games to go with them . |
| 25 | These results suggest that endosonography is better than endoscopic biopsy specimens and computed tomography in assessing the response of oesophageal carcinoma to non-surgical treatment . |
| 26 | We therefore conclude the endoscopic ultrasound is better than endoscopic biopsy tissue and computed tomography in assessing correctly the response of oesophageal carcinoma to medical treatment . |
| 27 | What perhaps all this suggests is that public administration is more than private management writ public . |
| 28 | Since marginal cost is less than marginal consumer benefit , society would gain by expanding the output of such industries . |
| 29 | The head is less than full frame height and a space has been left at the top of the picture to give her ‘ head room ’ . |
| 30 | The pittance that he allowed her to keep herself and his two children could not make much of a dent in Tawell 's more than robust bank account . |