Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be with the tail hanging lower than the nose . |
| 2 | Close to the mill is a large and attractive half-timbered mill house , which is still inhabited , as well as a substantial dove cote , dated 1741 , which stands taller than the mill itself . |
| 3 | Consequently , such a word can be identified only after the subject has heard phonemes occurring later than the target phoneme , and so reaction times will be long . |
| 4 | While Foula has a population of about forty people nowadays , Mykines has fewer than a score of permanent residents , all living in a tight group of picturesque turf-roofed cottages situated on the cliff-top above the landing-place . |
| 5 | The female in these drawings looks brighter than the male . |
| 6 | It grips better than the Corrado on the fast sweepers , but , on tight and bumpy lower-gear corners , the VW leaves the Calibra scrabbling to get a grip on the road surface . |
| 7 | The fact that a baby is weaned early , according to this argument , matters less than the reason for this decision : whether it reflects a cultural norm , or stems from the mother 's revulsion at physical intimacy , or expresses an urge to hurry the child towards independence . |
| 8 | A powerful sitter may also impose a requirement that the portrait looks impressive , so that an amused spectator can look for traces of the consequent power struggle in a picture ; Queen Elizabeth I of England was as firm as the Emperor Augustus about the principle that a ruler 's actual appearance matters less than the imprint of authority . |
| 9 | ‘ It looks more than a scratch . ’ |
| 10 | Erm , since the wider range investments on the whole tend to increase in value more rapidly than the narrower range investments , then as the investments in the normal course of management are bought and sold , the proportion which you have invested in the wider range tends to increase faster than the proportion that you have invested in the narrower range . |
| 11 | However , a horse needs more than the space necessary to exercise both body and mind . |
| 12 | However , the preservation of a rape survivor 's anonymity needs more than the exclusion of the name . |
| 13 | The bureaucrat is assumed as a general rule to know more than the sponsor about factor costs and production processes involved in the bureau 's services . |
| 14 | Always be willing to ask questions of the material and demand to know more than the text is willing to divulge about people , places and events . |
| 15 | Port Solent has a choice of houses and apartments to suit the various needs of the yachtsman and those who want more than a home on the waterfront . |
| 16 | The lights , too , appear dimmer than the Calibra 's . |
| 17 | True , this remedy contains more than an element of ‘ big brother ’ and it may be that it does no more than turn the criminals away from the areas covered by the cameras ' eyes . |
| 18 | He asserted that Parliament was " not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests … but … a deliberative assembly of one nation , with one interest , that of the whole — where nor local purposes , nor local prejudices ought to guide , but the general good , resulting from the general reason of the whole " ; a contention which contains more than an echo of Rousseau , ironically , since Rousseau was adamant that the nation could not be represented in the way Burke implies . |
| 19 | He now has less than a month to ‘ re-engage ’ the negotiations before the United States imposes a savage and crippling 200pc trade tariff on £200m of imported European goods . |
| 20 | No Mills and Boon title has less than a print run of almost 100,000 , a figure that makes most bestseller lists look like chickenfeed . |
| 21 | The girl comes to see that she has less than the boy , and has been castrated already . |
| 22 | In just the same way , the Lord 's prayer trusts that God will provide our daily bread ; He is n't asked to provide more than the basics . |
| 23 | A baby girl who was born sixteen weeks premature and weighed less than a bag of sugar has celebrated her first birthday . |
| 24 | Even with Sackville 's favour Bowyer failed to secure more than the reversion in 1597 to the clerkship of the parliaments , the successful candidate averring that he was unfit ‘ by reason of a great imperfection he hath in his speech ’ . |
| 25 | It seems to me that unless you can convince yourself that a grouping of companies adds more than the sum of its parts , there is no raison d'etre for the company at all . |
| 26 | The ghetto-blaster lies less than a metre away from the lip of the jacuzzi . |
| 27 | I was trained as a scientist , and there are times when science matters more than the individual . |
| 28 | When one is ill it 's the knowledge that somebody cared enough to come and see one that matters more than the flowers and the lemon barley water . |
| 29 | Deep deep in a limestone cave where the stalagmites grow less than an inch a century , but still tower so high as to humble the cathedrals of the surface , the shaking fear of the ground woke a dreaming dragon . |
| 30 | In the area of booking contracts a form of damages has developed which may enable the guest to obtain more than the value of the contract . |