Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [adj -er] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | A seasoned assessor will soon spot someone who is not taking an active and full part in the activity and it will be regarded as no better than trying to force your way on to the centre stage . |
| 2 | It is impossible to tell which is earth and which is sky , though eastward what looks like a whiter than usual cloud must surely be snow on the fells of Furness . |
| 3 | If so , it would seem to be a replacement , dating from no earlier than the 1070s or 1080s , for material which had been lost . |
| 4 | At a depth of 16 metres he came across a larger than life size bronze foot sticking out of the sand that proved only to be the tip of a large area of buried statues dating from the fifth century BC to the fourth century AD . |
| 5 | These were that the maximum speed of flights was to be reduced from 835 kmph to 778 kmph and that the amount of time permitted at the lowest level of 75 metres was to be cut from 28 to 15 minutes , with the rest of the flight being made at no lower than 150 metres . |
| 6 | The cheese is sold at no younger than two years and up to five years old . |
| 7 | A key UDF demand was for the general election , currently scheduled for no later than June , to be postponed until November , in order to give opposition parties more time to organize . |
| 8 | Darman stated that the size of the 1991 deficit reflected ( i ) an increase of $105,500 million in estimated outlays to help pay off debts resulting from the collapse of savings and loans institutions , or " thrifts " [ see pp. 36843 ; 37412 ] ; and ( ii ) a decline of $87,000 million in estimated receipts resulting from a weaker than expected economy . |
| 9 | Unisys Corp and Honeywell Inc say they have settled the pending lawsuits over the sale of the Sperry Aerospace Group to Honeywell in December 1986 — Honeywell reckoned that it paid too much because Unisys held back material information ; Unisys will make a pre-tax payment to Honeywell of $43.2m over three years toward a $70m total settlement , with the remaining funding coming from insurance and an investment banking firm ; as a result of the settlement , Unisys will report a net extraordinary charge of $26.4m against its first quarter figures for the period to March 31 ; it says the charge will be offset by a larger than expected net gain from implementing the FASB 106 and FASB 109 accounting changes that it already announced it would make . |
| 10 | Not healthy , especially coming after a bigger than expected £30bn deficit in the current tax year . |
| 11 | All this points to a higher than usual intelligence quotient . ’ |
| 12 | But shares in Wheway more than halved to 6p after the engineer plunged to a worse than expected £3.51m loss and admitted that talks with a bidder had been abandoned . |
| 13 | But it is a common and easily observed fact that measures of aggregate output in any economy tend to be positively serially correlated ; that is , a higher than average value for aggregate output in any period is more often than not followed by a higher than average value next period and , similarly , a low value in any period is more likely to be followed by another low one than by a high one . |
| 14 | The current shortage of both the SE/30 and IIcx machines is quoted as being caused by a larger than expected take-up in the corporate market . |
| 15 | Hilda Lodge , in her new capacity of Chairman , welcomed everyone and said that apologies had been received from a number of teachers which had resulted in a smaller than usual attendance . |
| 16 | Perhaps more important , the Earth would be subjected to a greater than usual bombardment of material from space . |
| 17 | the Welsh Office should commission by no later than the 1995/6 academic year , an appraisal of the progress which FHE has made in the development of environmental education , and should consider further action at a national level in the light of the results ; |
| 18 | There was a relationship between the amount of training undertaken and allocation of a staff member 's time , so that all of the 27 authorities who employed specifically named training officers engaged in a higher than average number of training programmes . |
| 19 | Entries must be received by no later than first post on Friday , June 14 , 1991 . |
| 20 | But individual speakers do have control over their own pitch , and may choose to speak with a higher than normal pitch ; this is something which is potentially of linguistic significance . |