Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , many policy statements are little more than vaguely embodied aspirations as to how parties would like to see Britain develop . |
| 2 | As a result , radon concentrations inside buildings are much higher than outside . |
| 3 | More seriously , because the tiles are much heavier than either slates or clay tiles , the simple replacement of one of these traditional coverings with concrete units , where no steps have been taken to strengthen a lightly structured roof , is likely , at best , to result in deflection of the roof surface ( sagging of concrete tile replacement roof surfaces is a common sight in older houses ) . |
| 4 | The ventral arm plates are much wider than long with an obtuse proximal angle and a straight distal edge rounded at the corners and indented midradially . |
| 5 | — These are produced by a structural modification in conjunction with a layer of pigment and are much commoner than purely structural colours . |
| 6 | It is a rare sight nowadays , partly because otters are such shy animals and partly because they are much scarcer than hitherto . |
| 7 | A fine needle is passed over the mould to get a surface profile of the skin so it is possible to prove if wrinkles are less deep than before . |
| 8 | Definitions of major groups are less secure than sometimes imagined . |
| 9 | ( These people who have both the primary disease and the family disease are somewhat less than ingenuously referred to as " double winners " . ) |
| 10 | I do n't mean you 're not beautiful , you 're more beautiful than ever . |
| 11 | They first appeared on the television in the mid 60s. 25 years on , The Thunderbirds are back and they 're more popular than ever . |
| 12 | This split in expert opinion could have implications for ratings in other countries such as France , where state support for the banking system has often been more explicit than elsewhere . |
| 13 | But over the summer women have been more visible than ever . |
| 14 | We have never been more varied than now , thanks to the BBDO merger [ bringing in brands like Pepsi-Cola and Gillette ] . ’ |
| 15 | If these changes in family structure and parental roles are of recent origin , current political dimensions of child care policy , which have rarely been more prominent than today , surely have a longer history . |
| 16 | ‘ And you have been more quick-witted than even I expected . ’ |
| 17 | In California the advance towards a new ‘ post-industrial ’ society has been more rapid than elsewhere and according to Bradshaw and Blakeley ( 1979,6 ) the four distinguishing characteristics of this ‘ prototypical advanced industrial society ’ are : ( a ) high technology ( for example , the explosive growth of microcomputers in the hitherto rural ‘ Silicon Valley ’ ) ; ( b ) up to 70 per cent employed in the service ( tertiary ) sector and only 5 and 25 per cent respectively in the primary ( agriculture ) and secondary ( manufacturing ) sector ; ( c ) the intense rate at which knowledge is generated and transmitted ; and ( d ) increasing interdependence between places for goods and services . |
| 18 | As in other Western societies , the use of the cycle has been negatively affected by the rise of the car , but the Dutch reaction to this problem has been more positive than elsewhere . |
| 19 | Media reform movements have never been more urgent than now . ’ |
| 20 | I am more confident than ever that recovery is under way . |
| 21 | ‘ As I look at the shabby , commercialised and demoralised society in which I write I am more convinced than ever that the political analysis on which I was brought up was right . |
| 22 | Initial indications are that the basic rocks responsible for the gravity anomaly are more extensive than originally mapped . |
| 23 | With daylight and without the restraint of the fires outside the walls , they are more restive than ever . |
| 24 | Starving people in the sub-Sahara can not afford much quality , though it is fair to say that their problems are more political than strictly agricultural . |
| 25 | The stereotypes presented to women are more tyrannical than ever . |
| 26 | In literature , music , the cinema ( at least in Europe ) and painting , works of art are more cerebral than ever , more difficult , more inaccessible , less penetrable , not just by the masses whose interests are so patronisingly espoused by politicians but also ( even though they dare not always admit it ) by those who really want to be involved . |
| 27 | Five years after they split , they are more influential than ever and their back catalogue is about to be reissued . |
| 28 | They argue that the creation of a market in index futures diverts volume that is not primarily based on information about a specific company away from the stock market , and so the remaining trades in shares are more information-based than before . |
| 29 | Yet many bank analysts are more bullish than ever . |
| 30 | ‘ The Tories have refused to fund the policing our town needs the police are more overstretched than ever before . |