Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every man , woman , and child in the country would own about 100 of them , but garaging them would be no problem as each car would be little bigger than a matchbox . |
| 2 | She saw to the side of one of the houses the faded sign for Morgan and family , boot and shoemakers , fastened over what appeared to be little better than a shed . |
| 3 | We argued from the above that the two should correlate closely if the neutrophils are seeking a mucosal chemoattractant , less so if the chemoattractant is in the lumen , in which case the inflammation should be disproportionally greater than the blood loss . |
| 4 | Put this at the bottom of a deep casserole , which must not be much bigger than the piece of meat , which you should then put in with the calf 's foot on top . |
| 5 | The market opportunities for a flexible hybrid car like the LA301 are likely to be much greater than a battery only vehicle , but in practice such a hybrid car will be driven in zero emission mode for the majority of the time . |
| 6 | Subscriptions and students ' fees were not adequate to provide a properly staffed establishment , and the choice made of this method of financing the College , in preference to direct government funding ( which would have had to be much greater than the government grants received from 1795 to 1813 ) was to hamper the growth of the College well into the present century . |
| 7 | Small , discrete pieces of information may have little significance in isolation , but when collected together , they can be much greater than the sum of their parts . |
| 8 | Buyers on their part will make similar calculations ; and if at any time the price should rise considerably above 36s. they will argue that the supply will be much greater than the demand at that price : therefore even those of them who would rather pay that price than go unserved , wait ; and by waiting they help to bring the price down . |
| 9 | The Accommodation Office can usually fix you up with somewhere to stay ( especially if you visit during the University summer vacation ) and it will be much cheaper than a hotel ! |
| 10 | I 've always known you could be much better than the sort of parts you usually play . |
| 11 | These are more involved in construction , slightly more complicated to assemble and will inevitably be much larger than the Hexagon or Malay . |
| 12 | The socially efficient quantity of labour input would then be much larger than the equilibrium level under current tax rates . |
| 13 | Supposition abounds not least because the custom has been shown to be much older than the legend to which its origin is attributed . |
| 14 | When Soviet citizens began to question the merits of nuclear energy , they were questioning one of the most basic assumptions of their system : that communism would lead them into the high-tech future , and that the high-tech future would be greatly better than the present . |
| 15 | So a thirty year old service might be entirely different than a person with ten years service deferring his pension . |
| 16 | It was not an unhelpful intervention , Mr. Deputy Speaker , because one of the problems in dealing with the targeting of advertising is that advertisements aimed at adults will be less effective than the Minister may wish if they take account of the fact that children may be present . |
| 17 | The use of a shotgun for rabbit clearance , as opposed to the fun of the occasional shot , continues to be less effective than the rifle and especially so when it is used by individuals rather than in conjunction with an organised rough rabbit shoot . |
| 18 | And this is the cause : the productive man conceives within himself a complete image of what he wishes to reproduce ; the performance , like everything else that he brings forth , must not be less perfect than the image . |
| 19 | We began there , because the contrast between explaining and understanding is likely to be less familiar than the contrast between holism ( ‘ top-down ’ ) and individualism ( ‘ bottom-up ’ ) . |
| 20 | Darwin argued that the study of embryonic stages was important for working out these relationships because the embryo would be less affected than the adult form by the adaptive modifications upon which evolution was based . |
| 21 | The point , which I find persuasive , is that an appeal court which will be less full-time than the Court of Justice will be less imbued with the centralist perspective , and thus in a better position to maintain an objectivity as between the interests of the EEC and those of the nation state . |
| 22 | In Labov 's view , for example , " the locus of language is in the community or group , and … the speech of any social group will be less variable than the speech of any individual . " |
| 23 | That is , the specialisation of the left hemisphere for language among inverters was assumed to be less complete than the right sided specialisation of non-inverters . |
| 24 | Contrary to our knowledge today , this last was considered to be less civilized than the bronze age that preceded it . |
| 25 | Why should a boat be less social than a caravan , for heaven 's sake ? |
| 26 | The frequency of a particular kind of syntactic structure ( say a relative clause ) will probably be less important than the fact that that structure tends to occur in a particular position in the sentence ( eg at the end , or at the middle ) . |
| 27 | That prospect may be less depressing than a future dominated by the BJP , but it leaves little room for optimism . |
| 28 | It is unexplained why the radiometer readings in Bands 6 and 7 are lower in the second series , when the illumination is greater , but this was taken as grist to the mill of the idea that the radiometer method would probably be less reliable than the imaging method . |
| 29 | The barrier of poisonous gas appeared to be less penetrable than the rock that had been tunnelled through . |
| 30 | If some components have to be physically larger than the space provided or require other " upstream " or " downstream " components to be modified as well , then the consequences of pursuing such a concept must be similarly recognized at an early stage . |