Example sentences of "be [adj] than [art] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Please do n't take offence : the socialists are better than the rest all the same . |
| 2 | Volvo 's two-litre B200 engine had always been smoother than the bigger-bore 2.3 , but it made no more than an adequate job of hauling the corpulent 940 . |
| 3 | ‘ What with missing sleep and everything else , my nerves are more than a bit wrung-out , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 4 | No doubt you 're very switched on , when it comes to good productivity but in case , like me , you are more than a touch muddy , here are some helpful hints . |
| 5 | However , City economists expect Britain 's trade deficit to improve , but with few expecting next year 's trade gap to be better than the £15 billion figure forecast by Mr Major in his autumn statement . |
| 6 | In Kaiser ( An Infant ) v Carlswood Glassworks Ltd ( 1965 ) 109 SJ 537 it was said that reports should not be more than a year old , but six months is probably safer . |
| 7 | Consequently the contribution of petrol lead to blood lead of adults would be higher than the average 24 per cent calculated for Turin . ’ |
| 8 | An estate for life was less than an estate tail , and both were smaller than a fee simple . |
| 9 | If the costs at the home you prefer are greater than the fees payable by the Social Work Department , your placement will be dependent on a third party being willing to make up the difference , ie a relative , a charity or a trust . |
| 10 | He is more than a year older than Emma , but he lives in Dorset , an area which does n't encourage early school entry . |
| 11 | If there is more than a page full of directories on the disk , type DIR/P and the screen will pause at the end of each page . |
| 12 | According to Paasi , therefore , a region is an institutionalized division of space , and is more than the myriad individual places which come and go in the lives of their creators . |
| 13 | The jail is less than a year old and has been hailed as a model prison . |
| 14 | If hardware flow control is used , the Z88 will bring RTS low when the receive buffer becomes more than half full and bring RTS high when the receive buffer is less than a quarter full . |
| 15 | Complete miscibility occurs when the Gibbs free energy of mixing is less than the Gibbs free energies of the components , and the solution maintains its homogeneity only as long as ΔG M remains less than the Gibbs free energy of any two possible co-existing phases . |
| 16 | Jonathon Love was born with dwarfism , and spent several years in a wheelchair … but now he 's more than a foot taller than nature had intended . |
| 17 | be less than a want two hundred and eighty . |
| 18 | Shadow aid Minister Michael Meacher , who is flying to Somalia next week , said : ‘ This famine , which is worse than the Ethiopia one of 1985 , has been brewing for two or three years . |
| 19 | Where the UK limit is higher than the EC one , for instance in the case of a print valued at below £39,600 and above £11,900 ( respectively the UK and EC limits ) , the exporter still needs to fill the EC licence , but this will be granted quickly , provided that lawful provenance is proven . |
| 20 | The Short Empire flying boat , as operated by Imperial Airways , was smaller than the Boeing 314 , carrying only 24 passengers . |