Example sentences of "[adv] be [adj] than [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus far , for instance , accuracies of land cover ( let alone what is often needed , i.e. land use ) determined from Landsat and SPOT imagery for the UK have rarely been higher than 70 per cent unless trivial classifications ( e.g. built/unbuilt land ) have been used . |
| 2 | Since they had all been longer than I in Kampala , they were taking what all expatriates ( including all American Embassy staff ) take : chloroquine plus proguanil hydrochloride ( Paludrine , a British ICI-manufactured drug not yet approved by the American Food and Drug Administration ) . |
| 3 | On the other hand , different types of household have very different incomes , even after standardizing for the number of people in the household and including all sources of income : households of elderly women living alone are poorer than other types of household . |
| 4 | But , he warned , ‘ when we recover from the present recession , we had better be aware than another one lurks on the horizon ’ . |
| 5 | It is difficult to believe that the ordinary courts ' particular interpretation of all of these terms will necessarily be better than that of the tribunal . |
| 6 | The dose of 40 mg omeprazole once daily is higher than that recommended for peptic ulcer therapy , but is regularly used in reflux oesophagitis , while a duration of five days was chosen because it has been shown that the effect of omeprazole on gastric acid and serum gastrin stabilises after three days of treatment . |
| 7 | It is now clear that the variation in is greater than that of because the former has the additional term in which does not appear in equation ( 5.46 ) . |
| 8 | I hesitate to pronounce on the degree of tranquillity in his life , but since 1943 he has not been further than sixty miles from this spot . |
| 9 | All the devices listed above are more than extended motifs . |
| 10 | In some cases he may be able to obtain an injunction to restrain the breach and in any case he will be adequately compensated by his remedy in damages for breach of contract as his damage can scarcely be other than financial . |
| 11 | Oil revenues were state revenues , and in Libya — depending on the price of oil — the petroleum industry created between 50 per cent and 80 per cent of gross domestic product : budgets for the distribution of this wealth could scarcely be other than central budgets . |
| 12 | The estimated asking price will generally be given as a range of values , which will normally be wider than those associated with the valuation since account will need to be taken of the expectations of buyers and sellers of price reductions during the bargaining process . |
| 13 | One place lower would be 6 and of course 6 can not be greater than 6 . |
| 14 | The standards for thesis acceptance should not be lower than those applied by journal referees when considering papers for publication . |
| 15 | Sex could not be better than this . |
| 16 | Mr Robson , a transportation expert representing Bioplan , said noise levels created by traffic in the larger of the proposed hospital 's two car parks , would not be higher than average levels of noise . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , it is still necessary to feed out calcium with oats , as the phosphorus level should not be higher than that of calcium . |
| 18 | Although their boundaries can not be other than arbitrary , the South-West , the West Midlands , the Northern and the rest are for the most part easily identifiable territories , demarcated with a fair degree of consistency by public authorities , the media and national associations of all sorts including political parties . |
| 19 | To share a little could not be other than beneficial to the recipient 's soul ! ’ |
| 20 | There are for instance extreme examples of the inhibition or punishment of the sexual act in which laughter can not be other than inhumane if it can be found at all : for example in Connebert , where a lecherous priest has to castrate himself in order to save his life , or Le Prestre et le leu , " The priest and the wolf " , a laconically brief tale of just twenty-eight lines relating how a peasant digs a trap for a lecherous priest , into which first a wolf , then the priest , and then the wife 's maid sent to see if the priest is coming fall in turn , after which the peasant kills the wolf , castrates the priest , and chases off the maid . |
| 21 | How that is to be done necessitates an explanation that can not be other than labyrinthine . |
| 22 | Any figure at which the assessor of damages arrives can not be other than artificial and , if the aim is that justice meted out to all litigants should be even-handed instead of depending on idiosyncracies of the assessor , whether jury or judge , the figure must be " basically a conventional figure derived from experience and from awards in comparable cases " . |
| 23 | Any reaction , should it occur , should not be worse than those you have already experienced , and is likely to last no more than three days . |
| 24 | They can take up to three breaks , but the total length can not be longer than five years . |
| 25 | While various factors are taken into account , including improved marketing organisation or new initiatives to cater for export markets and size of the unit 's operations , a basic feature is that the unit must show a substantial and sustained increase in export earnings over three consecutive twelve monthly periods — the final year should end as near 31.10.89 as the unit 's accounting system permits and may not be earlier than 31.12.88 . |
| 26 | That date must not be later than 5 years from the date of the relevant resolution or , if conferred in the original articles , from the date of incorporation , though it may be renewed by the company in general meeting for successive periods not exceeding 5 years . |
| 27 | The resolution must specify the date on which the authority to make purchases will expire , which can not be later than 18 months from the date on which the resolution is passed ( s166(3) ( c ) and ( 4 ) ) . |
| 28 | The pubs had not let out yet , so it must be not be later than eleven . |
| 29 | The drifts surely could not be more than chest-deep on the massive shire , she thought , and with a bit of luck she would get through . |
| 30 | Your monthly bills , including mortgage or rent , should not be more than half your monthly take-home pay . |