Example sentences of "[prep] be [adj] than [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should have left it there could of been more than this one . |
| 2 | Clearly , those businesses that foresee the critical changes that will affect plans , and are flexible enough to do something about them , will have a far better chance of being successful than those who can not or will not . |
| 3 | Sometimes this label may come from a sense of being less-educated than other people , or less articulate . |
| 4 | Corals which are collected by taking a reasonable amount of rock with them have a much better chance of being undamaged than those which are prised off the substrate . |
| 5 | The case against is less than convincing . |
| 6 | That 's got ta be more than that , cos that 's basically what my fares cost . |
| 7 | For your information , the ‘ scum ’ whom you 'd like to ban from Levellers gigs to let the ‘ genuine ’ fans in are more than likely friends of the band and were going to the gigs before you . |
| 8 | For your information , the ‘ scum ’ whom you 'd like to ban from Levellers gigs to let the ‘ genuine ’ fans in are more than likely friends of the band and were going to the gigs before you . |
| 9 | Well obviously erm the work that er one was engaged in in was smaller than that er produced by Brothers . |
| 10 | These impressions are more likely to be negative than positive , or even neutral . |
| 11 | For example , if is negative , then at moments at which u is positive , v is more likely to be negative than positive ; conversely when u is negative . |
| 12 | Of course , it is not impossible for the mpc to be greater than 1 or even less than 0 , but such values are unlikely . |
| 13 | how to distinguish a statistically significant coefficient , right , rule of thumb is that the T ratio has to be greater than two with absolute value right and the figures in square brackets next to the T ratios tell us the exact level of significance , right , er of that coefficient , right , so the incoming elasticity of demand is statistically significant from zero only at the eighty five percent level , a correspondence of fifteen percent significance that incoming the price elasticity demand , highly significant , right , significance level as given by the probabil by the probability er unit in square brackets , the timing level therefore we could be very highly confident about that coefficient okay . |
| 14 | Platelet aggregation induced by endoperoxides appeared to be greater than that which could be accounted for by the endoperoxides alone , and Hamberg et al ( 1975 ) were able to demonstrate that in platelets endoperoxides are further metabolised to a very unstable compound , thromboxane A 2 . |
| 15 | The evidence shows that such children will make greater progress in English if they know that their knowledge of their mother tongue is valued , if it is recognised that their experience of language is likely to be greater than that of their monoglot peers and , indeed , if their knowledge and experience can be put to good use in the classroom to the benefit of all pupils to provide examples of the structure and syntax of different languages , to provide a focus for discussion about language forms and for contrast and comparison with the structure of the English language . |
| 16 | Thus , the proportion of known users in the community as a whole is likely to be greater than that given in Table 5.8 . |
| 17 | government was , however , ‘ attracted to the principle of using the skills of advice agencies , especially to deal with those areas of work in which their special experience is likely to be greater than that of many solicitors in private practice . |
| 18 | Because of data limitations we were not able to see whether establishments which experienced ( substantial ) fluctuations in demand for their output were more likely to be greater than average users of temporary workers . |
| 19 | The lifetime of the proton in a nucleus is predicted to be greater than 1025 years , so it is not feasible to wait for a sufficient number of transmuted atoms to accumulate . |
| 20 | The assumption of responsibility for fees is a matter for agreement between the vendor and the management , recognising that the management costs , in view of the requirements of the financial advisers , are likely to be greater than those of the vendor . |
| 21 | Because NVQs and SVQs are trying to raise standards of performance within the industry , the requirements of S/ NVQs are likely to be greater than any existing qualification . |
| 22 | It is apparent from these sequences that the persistence of a particular state ( F or C ) is considerable ; if one day is foggy then the next day is more likely to be foggy than clear , and vice-versa . |
| 23 | The distinction is useful because companies that seize an opportunity in markets outside their domestic base are more likely to be successful than those that react in response to an external factor . |
| 24 | Businesses founded on information of this sort are more likely to be successful than those founded on innovation of a more spectacular sort . |
| 25 | If , however , there are strong expectations that the general level of interest rates will fall in the future , it is possible for long-term interest rates to be lower than short-term rates . |
| 26 | Six months after the first birth , a wife 's evaluation of marriage is likely to be lower than that of her husband , and by eighteen months conflict may reach a peak . |
| 27 | The typical denigration of ‘ practice ’ arises largely from the social status of practitioners , which tends to be lower than that of theoreticians . |
| 28 | The general effect of these four differences between health and education in relation to economic growth is that it has proved far more difficult and controversial to measure the impact of health on economic growth and where it has been attempted the effects have been estimated to be lower than those resulting from education . |
| 29 | Rural areas tend to be safer than urban areas , but , nevertheless , you need to apply the same judgement wherever you choose to live . |
| 30 | This implies an increase in contacts between susceptible and infected individuals for some unidentified transmissible agent whose transmission is more likely in areas of low population density where the prevalence of susceptible people tends to be higher than average . |