Example sentences of "be [adj] than [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make sure that the dumb-bell bars are lower than the top of your chest . |
| 2 | Will my hon. Friend join me in paying tribute to the imaginative experiment that the Lord Mayor of London is supporting this year , in which young people go into schools to help pupils with learning difficulties and those who are quicker than the rest of the class ? |
| 3 | Linde 's idea of a slow breaking of symmetry was very good , but I later realized that his bubbles would have to have been bigger than the size of the universe at the time ! |
| 4 | Now all I can say about that is it seems to me you 're braver than the rest of us but we try to keep out of it . |
| 5 | This growth owes more to the birth-rate than to evangelism : Muslims are younger than the rest of the population ( half the South Asians are under 16 ) and usually have large families . |
| 6 | Generally the vaults have replaced the original wooden roofs in the churches here and so are later than the rest of the building . |
| 7 | The first is the absence of deep gaps in barrier reefs and atolls , whereas if subsidence has been long continued , there should be deep gaps present , because once the gaps are deeper than the depth at which reef-building corals occur they can not be filled by coral growth . |
| 8 | Mud houses , they say , are better than the devastation at home … now with winter around the corner they 're digging deeper for warmth … |
| 9 | This decline has been faster than the decline in employment , dropping from 13.3 million in 1979 , to 10.7 million in 1985 , a 19.5 per cent decline since 1979 . |
| 10 | But if you are less than a writer of near genius , can you by simply describing what your policemen do , hold your readers spellbound ? |
| 11 | If anyone is less than a metre behind you , you lose a point ; if you are less than a metre behind anyone else , you gain a point . " |
| 12 | For most purposes it is enough to know that an enterprise makes losses — that its revenues are less than the sum of its wages , its cost of capital and its cost of material inputs ( raw materials , components , energy and so on ) . |
| 13 | The survey tells us that the chances of being burgled are less than the risk of domestic fire and that the chances of robbery are smaller than those of being admitted to a psychiatric hospital — not that such statistics will be a lot of consolation to those who are burgled or robbed . |
| 14 | Full colour TV cameras are now available that are smaller than a packet of Polos whilst the definition of monitors is better than ever . |
| 15 | The pickup 's stylus must faithfully track undulations which are smaller than the wavelength of light . |
| 16 | And that misuse of the aerosol sprays is probably responsible for about three thousand five hundred deaths , but I think you 've got to put that into perspective , first of all against the six thousand people who are killed on the roads every year in Britain , and you 've also got to set it against our estimate that there are more than a quarter of a million people alive today who would have died in childhood if it had n't been specifically for the advantage of being able to take medicines , anti-biotics generally in their childhood to keep them alive . |
| 17 | If there are more than a handful of lawyers doing personal injury work get a member of the support staff to compile and distribute a monthly newsletter . |
| 18 | A man 's wife , his child , these things are more than the world to him . |
| 19 | Possible tests of success in this facet of the changes is whether non-executives are clear about their contribution and whether decisions are more than the sum of executive preferences . |
| 20 | Good learning environments are more than the sum of their parts ; they are exciting , attractive , motivating and challenging for those within them . |
| 21 | Such an order has inheritance tax advantages ( if dissolution of the marriage has taken place ) , a saving in the HM Land Registry fees is available ( see Chapter 3 and generally ) and , as any financial provision can be expressed in the order to be in full and final settlement of the wife 's claims ( see Chapter 11 ) , it is less likely to be upset than an agreement between the parties not carried into a " consent order " ( see for instance Dinch v Dinch [ 1987 ] 1 WLR 252 where the court refused to make a further order on the grounds that the consent order had conclusively determined the rights of the parties in the matrimonial home ) . |
| 22 | And if they did n't , the bill would probably still be lower than the price of the service charge . |
| 23 | We might expect this to be lower than the effect of being in the service class . |
| 24 | In the example quoted , where higher rates of interest were available in sterling , compared with the US$ , then the forward rate would be lower than the spot on the day the contracts were entered into . |
| 25 | Although my hand may be bigger than a lot of people 's , it 's still a hand — it 's not a block of wood . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | A moorland parish will obviously be larger than a parish in a fertile area that was densely settled in early times ; a church that was an Anglo-Saxon missionary centre will usually have a larger parish than one that was founded later . |
| 28 | After all , what could be better than a get-together with local musicians , listening to your favourite gear played how it should be played , and the all-important bottle of Carlsberg ! |
| 29 | Even for a paedophile , life in Russia might be better than a cell in Long Lartin prison . |
| 30 | As an early morning reviver , or a welcome mid-morning break what could be better than a cup of your favourite coffee ? |