Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [adj] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus far , for instance , accuracies of land cover ( let alone what is often needed , i.e. land use ) determined from Landsat and SPOT imagery for the UK have rarely been higher than 70 per cent unless trivial classifications ( e.g. built/unbuilt land ) have been used . |
| 2 | I have rarely been angrier than I was that day . |
| 3 | One option would be to raise the duty on petrol : Britain 's fuel prices have long been lower than the EC average , and petrol duties have provided a static share of tax revenues in spite of the rapid growth in road use . |
| 4 | Since they had all been longer than I in Kampala , they were taking what all expatriates ( including all American Embassy staff ) take : chloroquine plus proguanil hydrochloride ( Paludrine , a British ICI-manufactured drug not yet approved by the American Food and Drug Administration ) . |
| 5 | Generally the vaults have replaced the original wooden roofs in the churches here and so are later than the rest of the building . |
| 6 | On the other hand , different types of household have very different incomes , even after standardizing for the number of people in the household and including all sources of income : households of elderly women living alone are poorer than other types of household . |
| 7 | But , he warned , ‘ when we recover from the present recession , we had better be aware than another one lurks on the horizon ’ . |
| 8 | Better be dead than do that . |
| 9 | This new level about which the price oscillates during these years of exceptionally great demand , will obviously be higher than before . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Further on in the above entry he admits he can only be less than himself in company . |
| 12 | It is difficult to believe that the ordinary courts ' particular interpretation of all of these terms will necessarily be better than that of the tribunal . |
| 13 | There are several areas in which the continued health of the Course depends upon a collaborative response which must necessarily be more than the aggregate of views of individual fields and departments . |
| 14 | Recall that in a group of families with above-average measured incomes , Y > Y p — this means that the measured apc ( = C/ Y ) will necessarily be less than the long-run apc ( = C/ Y p ) . |
| 15 | The dose of 40 mg omeprazole once daily is higher than that recommended for peptic ulcer therapy , but is regularly used in reflux oesophagitis , while a duration of five days was chosen because it has been shown that the effect of omeprazole on gastric acid and serum gastrin stabilises after three days of treatment . |
| 16 | It is now clear that the variation in is greater than that of because the former has the additional term in which does not appear in equation ( 5.46 ) . |
| 17 | Can the Secretary of State point to any year in the past 10 in which the September in-patient waiting list figures have not been higher than for every year under Labour ? |
| 18 | I hesitate to pronounce on the degree of tranquillity in his life , but since 1943 he has not been further than sixty miles from this spot . |
| 19 | All the devices listed above are more than extended motifs . |
| 20 | SCOTLAND 's objectives in their World Cup qualifying tie against Malta at Ibrox tonight are clearer than Andy Roxburgh 's final team selection . |
| 21 | It may nevertheless be better than even a reasonable harmonium or American organ . |
| 22 | On the face of it , such high commissions suggest a lack of price competitiveness , but as noted above , large institutional buyers are able to force distributors to share all or part of the selling concession , and prices may thus be lower than they appear . |
| 23 | Chantler , their economic adviser , told the new Minister frankly that the Conservatives had over-estimated the reality of controls , and most of his colleagues shared his view that any new system of control could scarcely be worse than the one they were attempting to use . |
| 24 | The views of the CBI could scarcely be clearer than they have been on the subject of the minimum wage . |
| 25 | Oil revenues were state revenues , and in Libya — depending on the price of oil — the petroleum industry created between 50 per cent and 80 per cent of gross domestic product : budgets for the distribution of this wealth could scarcely be other than central budgets . |
| 26 | In some cases he may be able to obtain an injunction to restrain the breach and in any case he will be adequately compensated by his remedy in damages for breach of contract as his damage can scarcely be other than financial . |
| 27 | The general standards of safety , hygiene , fire precautions etc will generally be lower than in the UK . |
| 28 | ( If , as on the Earth , there are outer ‘ shells ’ of oceans and atmosphere then tides will appear in these too and they will generally be greater than in the rest of the planet thus producing variations in oceanic and atmospheric thickness around the planet . ) |
| 29 | However , unlike TL dates , radiocarbon results have to be calibrated and the size of the resulting age range depends on the form of the calibration curve in that period ( fig. 7.8 ) , although the radiocarbon age range will generally be smaller than the corresponding TL one . |
| 30 | The estimated asking price will generally be given as a range of values , which will normally be wider than those associated with the valuation since account will need to be taken of the expectations of buyers and sellers of price reductions during the bargaining process . |