Example sentences of "[prep] be [adj] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should have left it there could of been more than this one . |
| 2 | Evidently it is no use to describe x as having the property of being greater than y ; and , correspondingly , y as having the property of being smaller than x . |
| 3 | There is a vast array of both scientific and anecdotal evidence for the existence of states of being other than the physical , and there are various ways of understanding such states . |
| 4 | Things , in other words , were once again in the condition of being other than what they seemed . |
| 5 | In such an extreme climate , these cave dwellings have the distinct advantage of being cooler than surface structures in summer , and warmer in winter . |
| 6 | Parker 's study of caring within marriage has wider significance for understanding of both the experience of caring and the realities of being disabled than its title might suggest . |
| 7 | Clearly , those businesses that foresee the critical changes that will affect plans , and are flexible enough to do something about them , will have a far better chance of being successful than those who can not or will not . |
| 8 | Evidently it is no use to describe x as having the property of being greater than y ; and , correspondingly , y as having the property of being smaller than x . |
| 9 | doing more to get people to be proud of being bald than you are ? |
| 10 | The top animals can displace the bottom ones at feeding sites and gain other environmental advantages by virtue of being tougher than their group companions . |
| 11 | Sometimes this label may come from a sense of being less-educated than other people , or less articulate . |
| 12 | Corals which are collected by taking a reasonable amount of rock with them have a much better chance of being undamaged than those which are prised off the substrate . |
| 13 | The case against is less than convincing . |
| 14 | Why this need to nudge the world into being other than it is ? he wrote . |
| 15 | You , you know how I feel , I mean er Rob does a lot of good work but he keeps it all to himself and we 've got ta be bigger than keeping it to ourselves , it 's everybody 's responsibility vocational education from right down from year seven right the way across the board , they 've got ta |
| 16 | O seven ? come on fellas the six three O seven 's got ta be cheaper than the six three O eight . |
| 17 | It 's got ta be better than work . ’ |
| 18 | It 's got ta be better than being on dole , in n it . |
| 19 | That 's got ta be more than that , cos that 's basically what my fares cost . |
| 20 | For your information , the ‘ scum ’ whom you 'd like to ban from Levellers gigs to let the ‘ genuine ’ fans in are more than likely friends of the band and were going to the gigs before you . |
| 21 | For your information , the ‘ scum ’ whom you 'd like to ban from Levellers gigs to let the ‘ genuine ’ fans in are more than likely friends of the band and were going to the gigs before you . |
| 22 | Looking back on the course , Kevin , now 39 , denies that there were any particular problems in being older than the majority of his contemporaries . |
| 23 | The underground man 's heart is no more in being idle than in anything else , however much , as he himself puts it , he ‘ wants to want ’ . |
| 24 | Well obviously erm the work that er one was engaged in in was smaller than that er produced by Brothers . |
| 25 | These impressions are more likely to be negative than positive , or even neutral . |
| 26 | For example , if is negative , then at moments at which u is positive , v is more likely to be negative than positive ; conversely when u is negative . |
| 27 | One shoe seemed to be wetter than the other and the strap was working loose , so , leaning against the ledge of the shop window , she took it off to have a look at it . |
| 28 | However , since the private person has chosen to deal in commercial goods , ( and presumably has some expertise in relation to the subject matter of the contract ) such exclusion is more likely to be reasonable than if consumer goods were the subject matter of the contract , and hence the transaction were a consumer transaction governed by s 6(2) . |
| 29 | We may reach a point where the public costs of city life have to be greater than the private . |
| 30 | ‘ But the impact of rationing on the small , independent cheese-making sector is bound to be greater than on larger sectors . ’ |