Example sentences of "[noun] be [adj] than [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barclays , whose exposure to Third World debts are lower than most , led the way ahead with a 22p gain to 518p . |
| 2 | We have one of the best fire services and the best brigades in this country Mr Chairman and you none the least Mr Chairman on some of you recent visits and meeting some of our fire personnel are more than aware we are the the best equipped , the cheapest brigade and our chaps and girls in Leicestershire , the morale is very high , regardless of what 's going on around the pay dispute at the moment and I think that we need to show our support to those fire personnel and provide the adequate funding for the southern fire station . |
| 3 | In Canada the salaries , power and prestige of senior officials in the Department of Finance and the Treasury Board are greater than those of their counterparts in much larger departments such as Health and Welfare . |
| 4 | They should be designed to add skills to the person taking the training even if some of those skills are broader than those actually required for the task . |
| 5 | Anyone who wants to come along to the training on Wednesday nights at Keanie Park are more than welcome . ’ |
| 6 | Sex-change operations are more than some Lancashire members can cope with , and a bewildered silence descended on the Tyldesley Suite as Ms Lloyd , who runs a string of shops for transvestites , appealed for a ‘ more enlightened approach in future ’ . |
| 7 | However , the Max basic helices are shorter than those for GCN4 by some two turns of an α-helix , and the angle between the two chopsticks interacting with DNA within each complex is slightly different ( about 14° down the DNA helix axis in Max and 18° in GCN4 ) . |
| 8 | Ron Atkinson may look a bit odd , but he knows the management business — and his cufflinks are bigger than some players ' cars . |
| 9 | Oodles of icons are worse than useless . ’ |
| 10 | Most people seem to feel that stressed syllables are louder than unstressed ; in other words , loudness is a component of prominence . |
| 11 | The risks of passive smoking are greater than those posed by any other indoor man-made pollutant … ‘ |
| 12 | Despite being directed against relatively specific components of H pylori , their sensitivity ( excluding that of Bio-Rad GAP Test ) and their specificity values are lower than some of the recently published data . |
| 13 | Variation in skin colour , for example , reflects not only levels of ultraviolet radiation , but also the activities of the people involved ; in the same radiant environments , seafarers are darker than terrestrial people because their dependence on tidal patterns constrains them from adopting the shade-seeking behaviour of their land dwelling counterparts . |
| 14 | It has been shown that in performing sequences of three such movements aphasics are worse than non-aphasic left brain damaged patients who in turn are worse than patients with right brain damage . |
| 15 | The M'Naghten rules are tougher than current US doctrine . |
| 16 | While , as has been seen , the actual chances of victimisation are less than many people believe , nonetheless , in Granby , for example , three quarters of those interviewed believe there are real Asks for women who go out at night and half said they often or always avoid going out after dark . |
| 17 | Both she and Bernadette have realised beforehand that the boundaries of human experience are wider than those indicated in the Mothercare catalogue . |
| 18 | The NAP adopted a strategy that Newman and Fulani eventually called ‘ Two Roads Are Better Than One ’ : supporting the party 's own electoral line but also the campaign of any Democrat who would accept their endorsement . |
| 19 | And I am convinced that your wonderful husband 's views are better than old Parson Clare 's . |
| 20 | Our hospital waiting lists are longer than six years ago . |
| 21 | Binary signals are simpler than analogue signals and they can be transmitted much faster . |
| 22 | ‘ To the nautical mind some false signals are falser than other false signals . |
| 23 | The section 6(2) and section 61(1) remedies are more than mere machinery . |
| 24 | I believe all doctors and nurses using these units are more than capable of managing most of the diabetic problems . |
| 25 | Brooks emphasizes the internal contradictions of the poem : the fact that the urn is silent , but also speaks ; that it is motionless , yet the scenes depicted on it seem to be alive ; that unheard melodies are sweeter than those which one hears , and so on . |
| 26 | If your drivers are older than those shipped with LIFESPAN , you need to replace them with the LIFESPAN versions . |
| 27 | The Guardian , which has 80,000 investors , 35,000 borrowers and assets of £1 billion , is an unusual case in that its reserves are higher than those of many societies . |
| 28 | The use of experts should become part of the organisational culture — with emphasis on the building of expert teams if possible , ( ie. ‘ two heads are better than one ’ ) . |
| 29 | The sword was invented by Jamshed , the first of monarchs and its terror and majesty are greater than those of all other weapons . |
| 30 | Some fishkeepers are more than happy to add water straight from the hot tap , and add this to cold before using a conditioner . |