Example sentences of "[adj -er] than [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , unless the transaction is a management buy-in , for which it is appropriate to ask for a full set of warranties , a reasonable compromise is for the vendor to give the purchaser a set of warranties shorter than normally appropriate on a share sale . |
| 2 | He found that the intensity of the magnetic field within the circle was lower than that outside . |
| 3 | The ordinary revenue of the Crown fluctuated throughout Elizabeth 's reign : it is impossible to make anything better than highly approximate estimates . |
| 4 | Well , I , you know I totally dis I think Chinese is much better than like Indian , you know , because , you know , they just ca n't get the noodles just cooked right |
| 5 | I think it 's better than too short anyway . |
| 6 | There is evidence that general deterrence can be improved if potential offenders ' perceived likelihood of detection can be increased but little evidence that severer punishments deter any better than more lenient ones . |
| 7 | She did not teach much , for Fanny describes her own educational level as " no better than very vulgar reading ; or rather spelling , an illegible scrawl , and a little ordinary plain work " . |
| 8 | While Porua would spare a fly buzzing against his window pane , he was never better than harshly civil to anyone he considered his inferior . |
| 9 | If there is one thing murkier than how insider-trading law applies to debt securities , it is the market for those securities . |
| 10 | Fewer than ten of the sixty or so pubs occupying old buildings in central York have completely escaped assault by post-war ‘ improvements ’ , and in none of these is the surviving pub interior any older than late Victorian . |
| 11 | Advanced foundations — Max Factor 's High Definition Foundation , £5.49 , contains moisturisers and sunscreens but the difference is that it contains smaller than ever coloured pigments . |
| 12 | And if you have an industry run by cautious fools , it is almost worse than more obvious political censorship . |
| 13 | Sometimes you 're worse than bloody useless . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Rich and famous families usually behave worse than less important families , ’ she said . |
| 15 | The Evening Standard said : ‘ It is something worse than totally unfunny . |
| 16 | For this reason , the bones of road runners — which undergo high levels of stress — tend to be denser than less active people . |
| 17 | — These are produced by a structural modification in conjunction with a layer of pigment and are much commoner than purely structural colours . |
| 18 | Hepatic dysfunction was defined as greater than twice normal activity of at least two hepatic enzymes . |