Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was in love with a man who considered her to be lower than the lowest form of human life , yet even that was n't enough to change her feelings for him . |
| 2 | We wanted to build a pyramid that was going to be slightly bigger than the biggest pyramid in Egypt . |
| 3 | The flunkey hesitated , then responded by answering the last question first — with a figure that was nearly four times larger than the largest sum I had thought I might try asking . |
| 4 | If you were to smooth out all the material there is in the universe into a uniform sort of sea of particles , you would find that the density was just about one atom in every cubic metre , which is far better than the best vacuum that you can ever make on earth by artificial means . |
| 5 | Mr Yeltsin 's chief military aide , Mr Dmitry Volkgonov , said : ‘ We have to find a compromise because the worst negotiations are better than the best war . ’ |
| 6 | We washed this down with iced tea , which in the heat of a Texas summer tastes better than the best wine could . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , among economists , the jury is still out on whether regional trade blocs and bilateral trade agreements are any more than a second-best strategy . |
| 8 | Neither country has more than the sketchiest experience of democracy . |
| 9 | At least , things happened there ; it was obvious to Schaffer that his presence in Langstone was nothing more than the merest nod towards protocol , but Stoneley had refused to let him return and make the police withdrawal complete . |
| 10 | This involves first cutting the panel down to slightly more than the largest measurement , and then supporting it in place , so that it is spaced slightly away from the wall or ceiling , but is exactly vertical or horizontal . |
| 11 | The most casual obscenities , the most hackneyed endearments , coming to me from your rose-red lips , are worth more than the sagest advice of all the old men in the world . |
| 12 | Man is capable of a measure of creativity and mutual co-operation of which history has witnessed no more than the faintest inkling . |
| 13 | It is to the netting of that protean reality that Joyce now bends all his energies , and my mixing of metaphors can give no more than the faintest hint of what that strange act entails . |
| 14 | BRAINTREE District Council 's former direct labour organisation has put in a bid to reroof 27 houses which is £150,000 more than the lowest tender . |
| 15 | In relation to primary education , they found considerable variation , with the most generous authority spending 70 per cent more than the lowest authority . |
| 16 | Gilman Mr vice chairman could be the real reason … when building the East Stand the contract went to GMI who bid 2m more than the lowest bidder . |
| 17 | Scots spend £7.40 a week on tobacco , more than 50pc more than the lowest region , the south-east of England , which spends just £4.50 . |
| 18 | So it had been quite refreshing when Luke had said goodbye with no more than the lightest brush of his lips against her cheek . |
| 19 | Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared ; for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer . |
| 20 | If you wish to write more than the simplest assembler code programs for the Z88 , you will need a considerable amount of technical information about the machine . |
| 21 | If so , the timber structure need have been little more than the simplest type of tailor 's dummy . |
| 22 | Few of the newcomers know any Hebrew and few have more than the vaguest idea about Israel . |
| 23 | He knows the routine , he appreciates the need , if without relishing it , he is too much the practised professional to show more than the briefest irritation . |
| 24 | At home , on both wings of her Cabinet , are ministers who regard green politics as no more than the latest fad ; the election will not be won by fighting on the beaches , in the air , and in the green belts , but once again in the pockets of the people , is their view . |
| 25 | Brown also faults the NT desktop manager as being much less flexible than the best Unix has to offer . |
| 26 | The parish church , older than the oldest part of the house , with its attendant Rectory , squatted a quarter of a mile away on the edge of the estate , joined to the village by a delta of ancient footpaths which successive generations of Dersinghams had been unable to close . |
| 27 | Toby Freely was just nineteen , only a couple of years or so older than the oldest boy at Burleigh . |
| 28 | Indeed the single exponential dissociation from poly(dG-dC) is faster than the slowest component from natural DNA species [ 13 ] . |
| 29 | France , however , has gone some way to showing that a judicious space programme — based on modest goals and less than the highest technology of the era — need not be excessively costly . |
| 30 | Five shillings ( 2s. less than the lowest amount which , according to Rowntree , could support an individual for a week ) was held to be too low . |