Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greg had been little better than a crook on the business front — and he had very nearly dragged her father — and his stupendous talent — down with him . |
| 2 | Not surprisingly , the landlord 's covenants are rather fewer than the tenant 's and if one was of a mind , and really thought that it was worth the effort , it is possible to invent several pages of landlord 's covenants which the tenant would dearly like to have included , but this would definitely not be worthwhile . |
| 3 | Ratcliffe ( 1968 ) has pointed out that lower-lying areas of the Outer Hebrides are rather drier than the mountains of these islands , but are nevertheless much wetter than low-lying areas of the eastern Highlands . |
| 4 | In many cases they are vastly higher than the highest note anybody has heard or can imagine . |
| 5 | The financial costs of incineration , even with high environmental standards , are rarely higher than the costs of recycling . |
| 6 | They are rarely more than a couple of hundred metres high , and they are usually symmetrical , although they may be ‘ breached ’ on one side , where a lava flow has emerged . |
| 7 | Commissions and inquiries are rarely more than a device to allow politicians to put off taking decisions . |
| 8 | We said that non-standard forms are rarely more than a social irritant to some people , and that there are few situations where such forms could cause real communication problems . |
| 9 | If his estimate of time was accurate , it would have been rather more than an hour since it had stopped . |
| 10 | Showing the insignia of Neutral deities cuts no ice with Thadeus — such gods are little better than the Proscribed Ones . |
| 11 | In fact , the TECs are little more than a device for luring the private sector into tackling unemployment . |
| 12 | Many World War One Aerodromes are little more than a folk memory kept alive by such names as Aerodrome Cottages at Hadleigh in Suffolk . |
| 13 | ‘ Nonsense , you are little more than a slip of a girl , you would be prey to all sorts of men , fortune hunters and the like . |
| 14 | You would do well to remember that you yourself are little more than a child . |
| 15 | Lewis 's eldils , for instance , are little more than the angels of Judaeo-Christian tradition ; but by confusing them linguistically with Tolkien 's eldalie ( in The Silmarillion ) , he implies that the elves of mat mythology are angelic , which they are not — they are simply elves . |
| 16 | Thus the famous " Bohemian " ( or " Hercynian " ) and " Rhenish " provinces of Devonian times are little more than the differences between a lime-mud and a sandy sea-floor . |
| 17 | Had the county council been able to use the final figures , the dwelling requirements at the end of the projection period would have been somewhat lower than the figure that we have produced . |
| 18 | For contemporaries , the charm must have been less impressive than the sense of half-realised ambitions . |
| 19 | The newcomers , mostly fishermen or peasant farmers who came as boat people , have been less successful than the first wave . |
| 20 | People with cystic fibrosis had been less successful than the general population in achieving O level or equivalent qualifications , but more successful in achieving A level or higher qualifications . |
| 21 | Other churchmen , too , had ideas about the duties of Christian rulers , and may have been less convinced than the Encomiast that Cnut lived up to them . |
| 22 | He had had a charter drawn up , which presumably contained a boundary clause , but this seems to have been less significant than the authority of the witnesses . |
| 23 | There had been no horror particular to Toulouse to explain that extraordinary fear ; the battle had been less threatening than a half-dozen of the Spanish engagements , yet Sharpe had never forgotten the awful fear , nor his relief when peace had been declared . |
| 24 | Relations between the communist states had for some time been less amicable than a common dedication to working-class interests might have suggested . |
| 25 | But these overall success rates are much higher than the pass rates at individual examination sessions , because many candidates ' progress through the examinations is impeded because they have to resit . |
| 26 | But it is clear that the data collected in close investigations of live speech communities are much richer than the data preserved from early language states , and they are observable in a larger number of dimensions and at a much finer level of detail ; thus , the patterns revealed in systematic investigations of live communities appear to the observer as much more variable and multidimensional than historical patterns ( as these are usually reported ) . |
| 27 | Also I did n't have much money , and barn owls are much cheaper than a lot of birds of prey . |
| 28 | which are much cheaper than the beeswax ones being used in the . |
| 29 | Enthalpies of fusion are much lower than the enthalpies of vaporisation of the corresponding liquids . |
| 30 | Our hypothetical cavedwellers with their universal explanation that ‘ the gods did it ’ are not too far separated from the modem Westerner who believes that the Soviet Union is an unalleviatedly ‘ evil empire ’ or that Blacks are inferior to Whites : all three explanations are easy to take on board , they are much simpler than the arguments put forward by the people who disagree with them , and , once accepted , they are clung to with a limpet-like grip . |