Example sentences of "be [adj -er] than [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , £3,976 should be debited to deferred tax , as the accounting profits are lower than the taxable profits . |
| 2 | Publishers ' discounts are lower than the normal 35% off , and copies sold in the shops or to libraries are usually at the suggested published price . |
| 3 | Since 1940 the average yield , which should in theory have been lower than the official limit but in practice was not always so , has steadily increased : |
| 4 | The objects and phenomena that a physics book describes are simpler than a single cell in the body of its author . |
| 5 | The AP1-88 's air-cooled truck diesels that provide both lift and propulsion are heavier than the converted aero engine that powers the SR.N6 , but they burn less fuel and cost only one-fifth as much . |
| 6 | There are people out there who 've got problems that are bigger than the average household can deal with and erm I think , therefore , we 're looking for more institutionalized forms of help and folks like this particular character — I almost said his name — almost need to be made to accept that kind of help . |
| 7 | The gap between the different measures of GDP has widened , for example , while the balancing item in the balance of payments has actually been bigger than the current-account deficit itself . |
| 8 | Sessions 's show endorses Petherbridge 's point as forcefully as possible , reminding us that , in 20th century drama , the big stars have always been bigger than the big roles . |
| 9 | I understand they were , they 're better than the general secretary 's anyway . |
| 10 | Erm the really old sheds they 're better than the new ones that |
| 11 | Whether we 're bad or not so bad , whether we think we have gone beyond the pale or whether we think we 're better than the other person , we all need a saviour because we 're all sinners . |
| 12 | The first is that many important aspects of language processing occur in units that are larger than the single sentence . |
| 13 | Fantastic , popmungously great 45s , however , are rarer than a disco-dancing dodo . |
| 14 | The observation of the Great Wall has come from an ambitious project to map the positions of all visible galaxies which are brighter than a specified minimum . |
| 15 | Most missiles with pretensions to cleverness are brighter than a laser-guided bomb , but not as clever as a Tomahawk . |
| 16 | But if the lower parts of the liquid are hotter than the upper parts , then it will be anything but still . |
| 17 | How shit are you ? ! ’ to every talentless flop-haired indie guitar loser of the past decade — also reveals what anyone sane knew already ; that the reason Erasure are better than the early Depeche Mode or Yazoo is because of Andy Bell . |
| 18 | Are there any aspects of the French administration you think are , that are better than the British approach ? |
| 19 | These are better than the thick ones ! |
| 20 | By the time you 've seen your third rapist walk free because you 've been cleverer than the prosecuting counsel , you lose the taste for that particular victory . |
| 21 | These packages are cheaper than the basic time cost , since they take away the advertiser 's control over when the ad is to appear . |
| 22 | Indian and Coloured schooling has , on the whole , been better than the African system , but again , in the ‘ white ’ rural areas there are pockets of severe deprivation . |
| 23 | Its subsidies are now tiny by comparison with Europe ( Italy subsidises 91% of the cost of its rail commuters , Britain less than 10% ) ; its trains are faster than every national service apart from France and Japan . |
| 24 | The whorls thus formed are smaller than the submerged form . |
| 25 | There are twenty three police forces in this country which are smaller than the British Transport Police . |
| 26 | Bewick 's swans are smaller than the mute swans we see in Britain all year round . |
| 27 | Long clones such as yeast artificial chromosomes — YACs ( 6 ) and P1s ( 7 ) will require fewer hybridisations than cosmid clones to link them , but the resulting map will be coarser than a cosmid map would be . |
| 28 | If this is satisfactory then no further action is required , as the fasting cholesterol will be lower than the random determination . |
| 29 | But the price raised by an estate agent desperate for his commission is now all too likely to be lower than the original mortgage taken out by the borrower . |
| 30 | It may be lower than the original investment . |