Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj -er] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all cases , the reported values of imports into Yugoslavia were lower than the export values reported by the partner countries , despite the fact that the Yugoslav values were c.i.f. and the partner country values were f.o.b . |
| 2 | Royalties paid to Iran were lower than the taxes Anglo-Iranian paid to the British government , and the company kept most skilled jobs for British expatriates . |
| 3 | The ratios of liver to plasma free leucine enrichment at the end of the measurement period were lower than the value of 95% seen in muscle with the same protocol , which compares with 50% to 80% in muscle when [ C ] leucine is infused as a tracer dose . |
| 4 | In Spain , conditions have been extremely difficult with the beer market in significant decline due to economic circumstances ; as a result volumes overall were lower than the previous year . |
| 5 | Even directly below high-voltage lines levels of exposure to EMF were lower than the safety guidelines issued by the National Radiological Protection Board . |
| 6 | But Mr Lang said that such a level was not an admission of government failure , but an admission that the recession had not ended , pointing out that Scottish unemployment rates were lower than the UK average . |
| 7 | Planning as a local authority responsibility has its origins in the public health and housing policies of the nineteenth century , but from the outset the objectives were broader than a simple emphasis on the efficient use of land . |
| 8 | They were of three different heights so in conversation with Julian I asked if they were all the same height or if some were taller than the others . |
| 9 | He stood scowling down at her and Claudia wished she were taller than the five feet eight she had always thought just right . |
| 10 | But the windows were bigger than a small cottage would hold . |
| 11 | The boys , who were bigger than the Brownies , ran full-tilt into them . |
| 12 | The big kind were bigger than the common chimpanzees at the zoo , but not as big as gorillas . |
| 13 | He opened up his shirt , and showed us his breasts and pointed out that they were bigger than the woman 's . |
| 14 | and finding out what , what our er stomachs were like , whether the , the liquid in there is acidic , whether it 's an acid and do you know the girls were braver than the boys , the boys would n't let anyone do that to them . |
| 15 | At recombination these scales were larger than the Hubble radius , and because microphysical processes can act only on scales less than the Hubble radius , these fluctuations must have been produced by the Sachs-Wolfe effect . |
| 16 | He watched open-mouthed when his attacker 's black hair shed its pins as she shook with rage , dumbfounded by the eyes which were hotter than the fire by which he sat . |
| 17 | The patients with active disease and the patients with disease in remission were younger than the controls . |
| 18 | The 10 patients who were lost to follow-up were younger than the rest of the cohort ( mean age : 48 yr vs 60 yr , p=0.05 ) , but otherwise had similar baseline characteristics . |
| 19 | But the Secretary of State was not prepared to wait until research demonstrated , if it could , that common schools were better than a divided system ; such divisions were , in his view , matters of value rather than of fact and related to a vision of the nature of a social democracy . |
| 20 | But at length he began to speak of our improvisations , and how the nights here were better than the days . |
| 21 | The professional were not much better than the amateurs at distinguishing the irons but were better than the amateurs at spotting the shaft differences between the woods . |
| 22 | Bad as they were , gelatine glues were better than the alternative , the gums or starch glues which were made by boiling some kind of flour in water . |
| 23 | The Manual English group ( who had parents who were ‘ language competent ’ deaf persons ) were better than the average manual group ( whose deaf parents ' written language was ‘ grossly deviant from standard English ’ ) . |
| 24 | Compaq Computer Corp 's first quarter earnings were better than the highest of Wall Street estimates and some analysts said that if it were not for a negative impact from currency translations , profits would have been a bit higher still . |
| 25 | Pamela considered herself ‘ Solo ’ , playing her own keyboards and singing cover versions of songs that , to Jimmy , were better than the originals . |
| 26 | They were consistently better than The Who , The rolling Stones … fuck it , they were better than the Beatles ! |
| 27 | The first commercial ( nicknamed ‘ Office ’ ) made the key point that our Gold 90 interest rates were better than the three biggest building societies ‘ accounts . |
| 28 | It was no comfortable emotion that pierced the veil , but even pain and fear were better than the emptiness that had preceded them . |
| 29 | They were better than the originals . |
| 30 | I am not criticising the Taiwanese , because they were better than the British . |