Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [adj] than [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There are certain times that are better than others , ’ said Davis . |
| 2 | ‘ There are certain times that are better than others , ’ said Davis . |
| 3 | The IWC is not required to work for more humane killing methods , but it can do so by virtue of the fact that it can recommend particular catching methods that are better than others . |
| 4 | The ‘ blue ’ objects are generally stars or clusters of stars that are hotter than IRS 7 . |
| 5 | ‘ But all right , ’ he said sociably , ‘ were there days at the orphanage that were better than others ? ’ |
| 6 | The story may be embroidered but Ince Castle , for many years the home of the Killigrew family , stood ( until a disastrous fire in 1988 ) isolated on its peninsular , its oblong castellated building with its four identical towers , one on each corner , perhaps bearing silent witness to a story that is stranger than fiction . |
| 7 | HALF WAY through the play you will have seen a walking table , several fast opening doors , the rapid interchanging of numerous couples , and a hotel foyer that is busier than Piccadilly Circus and has more familiar faces than your family tree . |
| 8 | HALFWAY through the play you will have seen a walking table , several fast opening doors , the rapid interchanging of numerous couples , and a hotel foyer that is busier than Piccadilly Circus and has more familiar faces than your family tree . |
| 9 | HALF WAY through the play you will have seen a walking table , several fast opening doors , the rapid interchanging of numerous couples , and a hotel foyer that is busier than Piccadilly Circus and has more familiar faces than your family tree . |
| 10 | If energy can be obtained from tides , waves and windmills that is better than energy obtained from fossil fuels , which are non-renewable . |
| 11 | So besides a breadth of designs you wo n't find anywhere else , your Woodstock kitchen is built to last with beauty that is more than skin deep . |
| 12 | Buju Banton , one of the top ragga MCs of the age , turns his hand to the cheery if slight subject of the bogle , a dance that 's bigger than Biggles in Jamaica . |
| 13 | And the story goes , to cut it quite short , two workmen were in this person 's house laying carpet tiles in the lounge and they were using this substance that was heavier than air and it was also highly flammable . |
| 14 | And then she looked back at the bed and saw the naked longing in his eyes , and something that was better than desire and that was more enduring than passion broke within her , and she moved forward , and said , ‘ Oh , my dear love ’ |
| 15 | Black holes would have been formed only if the early universe had not been perfectly smooth and uniform , because only a small region that was denser than average could be compressed in this way to form a black hole . |
| 16 | Donkeys were the typical animals of costermongers , and were cheaper than horses . |
| 17 | ‘ It has more dignity than charm but it has shops and is closer than Córdoba . ’ |
| 18 | Moreover , according to Barry Graham of IBM research group Xephon Plc , the mainframe is not a dinosaur , and is cheaper than Unix systems and personal computers linked by local area networks at those sites with more than 200 users . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , Anselm believed it to be well founded , and he certainly went further than Lanfranc , and was stiffer than Rufus and Henry I , in refusing to acknowledge any papal legate other than himself in England . |
| 20 | Nightingale had been her father 's amah for five years , and was younger than Rachel , but was hard-working and loyal , kept the villa as clean as a new pin , and was becoming a part of the family . |
| 21 | Dune sands also had positive skewness but were finer than beach sands . |
| 22 | INTEL PENTIUM ‘ IS DEFINITELY COMPLEX , NOT RISC , ’ BUT IS FASTER THAN IBM , SUN RISC CHIPS ON INTEGER WORK … |
| 23 | This approaches the highest transverse velocity so far directly measured ( PSR2224+65 ) but is less than velocities of 1,700 and 2,300kms -1 inferred for the two young pulsars PSR1800–21 ( W30 ; G8.7–0.1 ) , and PSR1757–24 ( G5.4–1.2 ) , respectively . |
| 24 | Some conventions may be described as being stronger than others . |
| 25 | Do you think society er smiles on all forms of love or do you think some kinds of love and loving are , are actually seen as being lesser than others there , there seems to be less sympathetic for er I mean , yes |