Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inland areas became lower than the silty areas near the coast and lower than the river channels . |
| 2 | ‘ We found fewer than a fifth of bank and building society branches publicised the code with posters or leaflets , and staff knew little or nothing about it . |
| 3 | The new batch of home-brew tasted better than the last lot , and stronger . |
| 4 | They were convinced that equal allowances , financed out of general taxation so that the rich contributed more than the poor , should be given in all income groups because the responsibility of motherhood and the value of the child were the same whatever the status of the parents . |
| 5 | It was easy enough to demand racial equality , fair distribution of the wealth of the world , or equal rights for women : none of those would happen tomorrow , and none of them involved more than the most superficial cosmetic surgery to make yourself credible . |
| 6 | Even so , in his mid-sixties and preparing to retire , he created more than a literary stir with the publication of a series of poems in vers libre on contemporary themes ( Fascism , war , pacifism ) which , in 1944 , were published in a volume entitled Y Dwymyn ( The Fever ) ( 2nd edn. 1972 ) . |
| 7 | A baby girl who was born sixteen weeks premature and weighed less than a bag of sugar has celebrated her first birthday . |
| 8 | Lear drew more than the short straw on the Birds of Europe . |
| 9 | It cost less than a fiver a head — and there was n't a plate broken all night ! |
| 10 | Actually , I might just have had a little to do with his death , as it occurred less than a year after the Stoves lost their only child , Esmerelda . |
| 11 | Comparing trends in cuts of meat for 1985 to 1990 with the changes in the five years before , the price of expensive beef cuts rose more than the cheaper cuts , reversing the trend of the early 1980s . |
| 12 | But nobody wants the culprits caught more than the victim . |
| 13 | As he shaved his reflection seemed to be the face of a low criminal — or like one of Bodo 's associates — and when he went into the sitting-room his wife bore more than a passing resemblance to an exceptionally severe judge about to condemn that criminal to hard labour for life . |
| 14 | It rose higher than the surrounding buildings and it was lit by clerestory windows below roof level . |
| 15 | In example 2 the intended word dog was the second candidate word , and in example 3 the intended word are was the top candidate , actually rated higher than the ‘ correct ’ word arc . |
| 16 | The Mason 's voice shouted stronger than the rest , ‘ Let me in ! |
| 17 | The man who had planted it would want time to get clear before an explosion occurred greater than the blasts which had flattened Hiroshima and Nagasaki . |
| 18 | In its centre , etched finer than the lines surrounding it , were two lines of bead-like figures spiralling about each other , forming the double-helix of heredity , symbol of the Dispersionists . |
| 19 | The old system had its flaws , but nevertheless , it seemed fairer than the poll tax . |
| 20 | It seemed bigger than the sun and it sailed with a peculiar swiftness up into the heavens , growing paler and brighter as it did so until it lit up the plain with a dull , yellow light . |
| 21 | His attitude towards me was one of dumb , doglike devotion , which I found tiresome , but in the circumstances he seemed better than no boyfriend at all . |
| 22 | He preferred the slow , peaceful life of the Devon countryside to the frenetic bustle of the metropolis : playing for Exeter seemed better than the likelihood of being very small fish in the big Arsenal pool . |
| 23 | I do n't think Father played more than a couple of games of golf thereafter and he spent the next twenty years in pursuit of trout , salmon and sea-trout ; never happier than when he was waist-deep , regardless of time of year or weather . |
| 24 | Although rental accommodation comprised more than a third of Pittsburgh 's housing only 5 per cent of URA housing expenditure was expressly devoted to this sector . |
| 25 | The Woman seemed less than a ghost , just a shape lying . |
| 26 | But ‘ the Eddie ’ signified more than a mere sporting spectacular : it was a celebration of a way of life . |
| 27 | My magical ride took me from lake to lake , from Lough Corrib to Lough Mask and then to a third lake that seemed smaller than the last two inland seas set among high mountains . |
| 28 | A recent survey of the plight of peasants by China 's Economic Daily showed that taxes and fees consumed less than a quarter of their average incomes , compared with the 35-40% Mrs Fu claims . |
| 29 | ‘ He ate more than the carpenter though , ’ said Tweedledee . |
| 30 | The German companies distinguished less than the British ones between careers and departments for production management and production engineering , work planning and work execution functions . |