Example sentences of "[pron] was [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That seemed to me to be quite all right , since I was quite sure that I was better than the average man . |
| 2 | Yeah , erm when I started digging up I was smaller than the fork , the fork was , yes ! |
| 3 | In the previous four years GNP had grown at an average rate of about 3 per cent per annum which was lower than the preceding years and unemployment had reached a peak of 8.3 per cent in 1970 . |
| 4 | The non completion rate of non-standard entry mature students was found to be 15.2% which was lower than the corresponding figure for mature students who satisfied the general entry requirement which was 21.7% . |
| 5 | The City party had left Coventry on the two o'clock train , which was cheaper than the earlier ones but allowed no room for delay — and the engine broke down during the journey . |
| 6 | Because New York in the summer was too hot even for the natives , shows would close for a couple of months when the Girls would be sent home for a holiday on half pay , which was better than the average salary in Britain . |
| 7 | An income elasticity of demand for imports which was higher than the corresponding change in foreign demand for British goods imposed a serious balance of payments constraint because of the requirement to maintain a fixed exchange rate . |
| 8 | The craze hit England in 1951 , when musicians such as Larry Adler , Steve Race and Humphrey Lyttelton ( the latter emulating a traditional jazz band in his One Man Went To Blow ) attempted to make a whole which was greater than the sum of the parts . |
| 9 | The Paris-based European end of the Software Publishers Association reports that the European market for personal computer software products grew 19% by revenue last year , to $1,700m , which was greater than the 14% increase registered in the US . |
| 10 | To finance the French war effort in 1949 had cost them , in US terms , $500 m. — which was greater than the estimated French budgetary deficit for the year — and had eaten up over two-thirds of the annual total of US aid to France . |
| 11 | A section across the north-eastern side of the town near Gunnings Bridge revealed a clay bank , dated to the late second century , which was earlier than the masonry wall constructed in front of it . |
| 12 | I occasionally got ten shillings , which was more than a week 's as much a week 's wages . |
| 13 | Now within the national settlements at that time , there was always provision left that if our members erm were in receipt of pay which was more than the national minimum time rate , then that would satisfy the terms of the agreement . |
| 14 | There is nothing in the later history of this laconic diarist ( who was my maternal grandmother ) that would suggest that she was other than a normal ‘ teenager ’ of her time . |
| 15 | Phyllisia faced many trials while she was growing up in Harlem , the first occurred when she was mocked by other pupils in her class , they called her ‘ Monkey chaser ’ and ‘ Teachers pet ’ because she was cleverer than the others . |
| 16 | But she was worse than a headmistress ; she was the Rector 's wife . |
| 17 | She was stronger than a roach , as strong as an ox . |
| 18 | She was deeper than the house , level with worms , all the dead things that were put into the ground . |
| 19 | She was smaller than the Andalusian by a hand , yet her grace , her power were undeniable . |
| 20 | She was only in a in a she said she was earlier than the other one and the other came in two days time . |
| 21 | Noticing that his younger brother himself was shivering , Dong , who was taller than the average Annamese , inched his long , thin body closer to him and put his arm around his shoulders . |
| 22 | And of one who was wiser than the rest . |
| 23 | Jacques Villon , who was older than the others and seems on that account to have enjoyed a certain authority , is generally credited with having suggested the title . |
| 24 | Next to Perdita rode Mike Waterlane on Dopey , a deceptively sleepy-looking pony , who was faster than a Ferrari and nipped all the opposition ponies in the line-out . |
| 25 | A father who loved you was better than no father at all . ’ |
| 26 | Do you think that , that one was better than the other one , number Three ? |
| 27 | One was longer than the other and a different , more yellowy , shade of white . |
| 28 | He says he had a fifty-fifty chance of surviving the operation but it was better than no odds at all . |
| 29 | It was better than a cockfight , and even better than the Battle . |
| 30 | It was better than a pantomime , but with one big difference . |