Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj -er] than [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | punchlines are much better than sort of er . |
| 2 | You can not put stock around them because trees are much tastier than grass . |
| 3 | Spring-tined cultivators with tines at about six-inch spacing , are much lighter than chisel ploughs . |
| 4 | Tile thickness ranges from about 3mm ( ⅛in ) for plain wall tiles up to around 6mm ( ¼in ) for floor tiles , which are generally denser than wall tiles to resist dents . |
| 5 | You 're much nicer than Finn . |
| 6 | Net interest includes interest payable on precious metal loans ( often referred to as metal ‘ leases ’ ) where rates are usually lower than money loans . |
| 7 | It is notable that students with no qualifications or who enter only on the basis of O-levels have relatively high non-completion rates , while students entering on the basis of one A-level or Access courses have completion rates which are marginally better than A-level entrants . |
| 8 | Orange pips are slightly bigger than satsuma pips so you can see them . |
| 9 | Only Jacob 's actions are far worse than Ham 's , and coldly calculated into the bargain . |
| 10 | The actual death rate from asthma in West Cumbria seems to be much lower than mortality statistics suggest . |
| 11 | Economic and social conditions in the 1990s may prove so unlike the previous decade that CD-X purchases may either be much greater than CD-A or significantly less . |
| 12 | The relative prices of timber and steel vary greatly in different countries and also the price of timber itself varies from that of rough timber , which may be much cheaper than steel , up to expensive plywoods which cost far more than steel sheet . |
| 13 | Secular university choirs are said to be much better than church groups . |
| 14 | Generally this must be not lower than cost or market value . |
| 15 | Although the latter may be slightly cheaper than sateen , it may not have the same draping quality . |
| 16 | It expects a loss for the first quarter and the loss will be substantially larger than analyst estimates — the average forecast has been for a loss of two cents a share on turnover of $565m — a figure the company says is way too high . |
| 17 | Whoever she is , her standard of housekeeping must be even lower than Rainbow 's . |
| 18 | In addition , Compact firms make time and people available to schools — and this can be even better than money ! |
| 19 | Willoughby et al found Ac-ASA to be significantly better than placebo when given rectally to patients with active proctitis . |
| 20 | Despite subsidised kindergarten facilities which would be the envy of most Western countries , the fact remains that school hours are invariably shorter than working hours and there is always the problem of what to do when the children are sick . |
| 21 | For instance , trees bearing edible fruits were made easy to climb , being much lower than forest trees . |
| 22 | The specific protests against soil conservation policies and other related issues ( such as the taking away of land for settlers , plantations or the removal of forests ) have tended to follow the same pattern — of violent , politically primitive , and usually short-lived protest involving marches on towns or centres of perceived political power of their oppressors and occasional guerrilla warfare ( e.g. the Mau Mau movement in Kenya , although the issues involved were much wider than soil conservation ) . |
| 23 | Recent calculations with doubled CO 2 using a low-resolution general circulation model failed to produce an Arctic ozone hole partly , it appears , because the modelled January zonal mean temperatures in the Arctic lower stratosphere with current CO 2 were much higher than climatology . |
| 24 | Equally straitened is Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp , which reported plunging profits that were still better than forecast : it is cutting its bonus for executives by 20% in the year to March 31 1994 , Reuter reports from Tokyo , adding that it is also considering reducing bonuses for senior managers as well as stopping increases of wages of those above section manager ; the company sees intense competition . |
| 25 | The serum pepsinogen A and C levels on the day after stopping the combination therapy were significantly higher than placebo values ( p<0.02 and p<0.05 respectively ) . |
| 26 | Changes in shell size were significantly greater than measurement errors ( see figure for the example of Lampsilis ) . |
| 27 | Still — the cushions underneath him were definitely softer than wood , the wine in the wooden cup beside him was much tastier than sap , and there could be absolutely no comparison between a squirrel and the girl sitting before him , clasping her knees and watching him thoughtfully , unless mention was made of certain hints of furriness . |
| 28 | Indeed in some ways the proof is rather simpler than Theorem 1 , since it does not need such a complex structure of nested recursions . |
| 29 | Wheat skimming is rather cleverer than potato washing . |
| 30 | Leading on from this , a more general point is that where the objective of the operation is rather broader than profit maximization , shareholder control is probably far less appropriate than state control ( see , for example , Baumol , 1984 ) . |