Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] than the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In many cases they are vastly higher than the highest note anybody has heard or can imagine . |
| 4 | The financial costs of incineration , even with high environmental standards , are rarely higher than the costs of recycling . |
| 5 | Showing the insignia of Neutral deities cuts no ice with Thadeus — such gods are little better than the Proscribed Ones . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For contemporaries , the charm must have been less impressive than the sense of half-realised ambitions . |
| 10 | The newcomers , mostly fishermen or peasant farmers who came as boat people , have been less successful than the first wave . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | which are much cheaper than the beeswax ones being used in the . |
| 17 | Enthalpies of fusion are much lower than the enthalpies of vaporisation of the corresponding liquids . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It has to tell the world openly that the mid-range machine is its chosen contender as the central repository for the 21st century , and above all make convincing its commitment to the AS/400 by rushing out top end machines that are much bigger than the present top model while instituting a crash programme to slash the costs of manufacture — and then slash them again , work out how to make money out of the machine while charging much less for the software — and making all the remaining System 36 users an offer they ca n't refuse to convert to the AS/400 , even if every sale to that base is a dead loss to IBM . |
| 20 | And also , you know sometimes he 's prices are much better than the supermarket 's prices . |
| 21 | Although LM potencies are the most highly dynamised remedies they are much milder than the centesimals in action . |
| 22 | In the eastern part of the island grow large crops of onions which are much milder than the British ones and more palatable . |
| 23 | Fitting the PT6As requires major surgery to the fuselage because they are much lighter than the R-1830s and would radically alter the DC-3's centre of gravity . |
| 24 | In Fig. 4.2 , for example , the three-phase currents are quickly established at the maximum value because the phase winding time constants ( 1 ins ) are much shorter than the period of each excitation ( 20 ms at a speed of 50 steps per second ) . |
| 25 | But The Orb are much more than the sum of their parts . |
| 26 | Although relatively unsophisticated , this method is reasonably fast and it seems to work satisfactorily where the target units are much larger than the source units |
| 27 | Also in situations where the target units are much larger than the source units , polygon-in-polygon areal interpolation techniques can be used to obtain reasonable estimates by locating the source units within the target units . |
| 28 | Furthermore , the common dispersal agents of tropical seeds are much larger than the pollination agents : few of them complete a life-cycle that would be compatible with the short flower-to-fruiting cycles of plants , more suited in this respect to close associations with insects , as in pollination . |
| 29 | Politically , therefore , the inducements to continue what the Plowden Committee call ‘ excessive social services ’ are much stronger than the inducements to discontinue them or to supplement any which may happen to be ‘ inadequate ’ . |
| 30 | They are much stronger than the other two resistance groups , led by Prince Norodom Sihanouk and Mr Son Sann . |