Example sentences of "[adj] than [pers pn] at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 However , a combination of the limestone subsoil and the profusion of rivers , canals , lakes and reservoirs reduces Champagne 's water requirement ( due to low evaporation ) , making 662 millimetres of rainfall relatively heavier than it at first appears .
2 I think this woman with the three grown-up sons is not younger than me at all , but almost certainly older .
3 Critics of the firm as a cooperative family have produced a more penetrating assessment of Japanese industrial relations which shows them to be less unique than they at first appear .
4 One reason why the shift in emphasis to the broader question of determinism is less helpful than it at first appears is that ‘ the problem of determinism ’ itself lacks a clear formulation , and the difficulty of saying exactly what it consists in is reflected in attempts to relate it to holism .
5 I am better than them at other things .
6 Get talking to people over a few drinks ; you 're better than me at that sort of thing . ’
7 I can diagnose tonsillitis , there 's an ENT surgeon who is far better than me at that ; I can diagnose appendicitis , hearts , whatever you can think of , there 's someone who is much better than me at it and these people are all now available to the population .
8 They are better than me at some things .
9 No he was n't as , as , strong-wise he was hitting as well as you , but he was he was n't as , much better than you at all .
10 Because the different zones of the sea are so interlinked — many creatures making use of several in the course of their lives — the ocean environment is far more vulnerable than it at first appears .
11 Some " birds " nests are hemispherical , but only on the inside ; you must cut a honeycomb with a sharp knife if you want to see the accurate hexagons of its construction ; the geometry of spiders ' webs is astonishing but much less regular than it at first appears .
12 In view of the overwhelming Palestinian demographic preponderance , this arrangement was a good deal less equitable than it at first seems .
13 Rollover risk , though now small , is therefore less implausible than it at first appears .
14 He lives down near the bottom of Wind Street , got a shop he has , a well-to-do sort of man , better off than me at any rate . ’
15 He 'd be faster than me at long distance , by a long way .
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