Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adj -er] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's got ta be better than work . ’ |
| 2 | RETIX PROFITS LIKELY TO BE LOWER THAN ANALYST EXPECTATIONS |
| 3 | The High Court in Edinburgh heard that an investment analyst with the stockbrokers Bell Lawrie White had received information from the chairman of the waste management and construction group , Shanks&McEwan , that profits were going to be lower than City expectations . |
| 4 | Pregnancy order tended to mediate the effect of maternal age , so that weight and height of infants tends to be lower where pregnancy order is high in relation to age ( see e.g. Omran , 1976 , p. 524 ) . |
| 5 | Scientists from the British Association have stated that they have found no evidence showing organic food to be safer than food produced under conventional farming methods . |
| 6 | In general , when they do use credit they are more likely than others to use types carrying a high rate of charge , though they are also relatively heavy users of mail order ( which carries no rate of charge for credit , though at the cost of prices which have tended to be higher than shop prices ) . |
| 7 | So lessees can generally expect the rental on operating leases to be higher than finance leases . |
| 8 | Rincewind turned to run , but the air suddenly seemed to be thicker than treacle . |
| 9 | Whilst ambulatory surgical care has been shown to be cheaper than hospital care in Cali , Colombia , such evidence can not be taken as a general rule . |
| 10 | Ministers said they were encouraged by reports from candidates that the party 's vote was holding up and appeared to be firmer than Labour 's . |
| 11 | Subterfuge was thought to be better than violence . ’ |
| 12 | This probe had been shown to be better than actin as a control for the amount and quality of total ribonucleic acid loaded . |
| 13 | Vapona make ‘ Moth Killer' which tends to be sweeter-smelling than moth balls . |
| 14 | Chill Pads , which maintain chilled products at temperature , are claimed to be longer-lasting than ice and more effective than eutectic plates . |
| 15 | When the stumps only come up to your knees you have to be larger than life . |
| 16 | YOU may consider Les Dawson to be larger than life … but try his teddy bear George for size ! |
| 17 | ( 2 ) In the epistemic sense of ‘ appears ’ it makes no sense to say that the sea appears to be blue to someone but he does not know it , or that line AB appears to him to be shorter than line BC but he does not know it , or that the young lady/old woman figure appears to him to be a drawing of a young lady but he does not know it . |