Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greg had been little better than a crook on the business front — and he had very nearly dragged her father — and his stupendous talent — down with him . |
| 2 | About 30 of the shops are now profitable , according to Mr Bishko , but not profitable enough to cover overheads — which are rather higher than he had anticipated . |
| 3 | The mark-ups are rather higher than he 'd like , but for as long as the walking stick remains an art form , Keith 's in business . |
| 4 | That they are rather more than irrelevant epiphenomena , at least in experimental colitis , is indicated by the anti-inflammatory effects of specific antioxidants . |
| 5 | Not surprisingly , the landlord 's covenants are rather fewer than the tenant 's and if one was of a mind , and really thought that it was worth the effort , it is possible to invent several pages of landlord 's covenants which the tenant would dearly like to have included , but this would definitely not be worthwhile . |
| 6 | Ratcliffe ( 1968 ) has pointed out that lower-lying areas of the Outer Hebrides are rather drier than the mountains of these islands , but are nevertheless much wetter than low-lying areas of the eastern Highlands . |
| 7 | Will my right hon. Friend reflect on the fact that when he attends those international meetings and many others in the EC he will discover that Britain 's standing , authority and reputation are vastly higher than they were a few years ago ? |
| 8 | In many cases they are vastly higher than the highest note anybody has heard or can imagine . |
| 9 | The testes of these female mimics are vastly larger than those of a normal male . |
| 10 | The financial costs of incineration , even with high environmental standards , are rarely higher than the costs of recycling . |
| 11 | This does not gainsay the fundamental proposition that it is every citizen 's duty to retain self-control — at least to the extent of not violating other people 's interests — but it does open the way to a manslaughter verdict and to sentences which are rarely longer than eight years ' imprisonment ( less than half as long as the time served by many convicted of murder ) and may be considerably shorter . |
| 12 | As the control lines for aerobatic or steerable kites are rarely longer than 50 metres or 150ft , there is no special requirement for a ‘ winding ’ reel . |
| 13 | They are rarely more than a couple of hundred metres high , and they are usually symmetrical , although they may be ‘ breached ’ on one side , where a lava flow has emerged . |
| 14 | Commissions and inquiries are rarely more than a device to allow politicians to put off taking decisions . |
| 15 | We said that non-standard forms are rarely more than a social irritant to some people , and that there are few situations where such forms could cause real communication problems . |
| 16 | Even in these areas , though , the farmsteads or small hamlets are rarely more than 1–2 kilometers ( ½-1 mile ) apart . |
| 17 | The hotels are rarely less than impeccable , be they five star or one , and the service , though short on warmth , overdoses on diligence . |
| 18 | Many of our finest singers — such as Josephine Barstow and John Tomlinson — have given memorable ‘ star ’ performances for Opera North ; others , like Sally Burgess and Helen Field , have developed their repertoire here , in productions which , if lacking in the radical Central European flavour promoted by the Welsh National Opera , are rarely less than good-looking and intelligent . |
| 19 | If his estimate of time was accurate , it would have been rather more than an hour since it had stopped . |
| 20 | Or else his handicap had been rather less than she had reckoned . |
| 21 | Showing the insignia of Neutral deities cuts no ice with Thadeus — such gods are little better than the Proscribed Ones . |
| 22 | Licence fees are little more than department administration costs . |
| 23 | But military analysts in Bangkok pointed out that casualty figures are low , many of the positions along the sparsely-populated Route 69 are little more than bamboo huts sheltering two or three soldiers , and no big towns have been threatened . |
| 24 | Lewis 's eldils , for instance , are little more than the angels of Judaeo-Christian tradition ; but by confusing them linguistically with Tolkien 's eldalie ( in The Silmarillion ) , he implies that the elves of mat mythology are angelic , which they are not — they are simply elves . |
| 25 | In fact , the TECs are little more than a device for luring the private sector into tackling unemployment . |
| 26 | Those parents helping in school can sometimes feel that their goodwill is being abused and that they are little more than washers of paint pots and menders of broken books . |
| 27 | The Arab houses are little more than shacks separated by acres of devastation where developers have torn down vacated Palestinian homes . |
| 28 | There are flourishing schools which reflect the growing affluence and improved living conditions of a portion of the population , but there are other schools which are little more than shells , with few materials and facilities . |
| 29 | Despite this expansion , the low levels of education expenditure mean that many schools , especially in rural areas , are little more than shells . |
| 30 | The motives described by these authors are little more than romantic inventions , but the fact that the dying cat 's actions have been recorded in this way by very different writers is of some interest . |