Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Government 's efforts to ensure that all 10 water authorities are successfully floated on the Stock Exchange in December are becoming more than a little disingenuous . |
| 2 | The difficulty with any kind of platonism that claims the ontological primacy of qualities — or any kind of universals — is that in presenting its case it implicitly relies on certain assumptions about existentially unique particulars , which no sooner are made explicit than the whole platonist case is shown to be built on sand . |
| 3 | T. B. You 're walking slower than the average person , when you 're first about . |
| 4 | You 're getting worse than a woman you , now you 're at home ! |
| 5 | ‘ With actresses you 're getting more than a face — a character and a personality as well . ’ |
| 6 | Yes that does n't exclude but includes all of that , but at the same time although everybody that 's going to read it may not understand the intricacies of it all as professionals we 're giving more than a passing nod , so that was something else , er er and something more involved than English teacher than making them jump through loops |
| 7 | ‘ Up ’ ( and I think we 're talking more than the one level of ambiguity in that solitary two-letter word ) is a record that actually makes you feel happy , in that all of it is uplifting ( oi ! spiritually , not trouserly ) , you can dance to some of it and sing along to the rest , the words are rude and witty and always smart , and Richard Fairbrass is a fantastic pop singer , all post-Bowie and Ferry and languid , a sort of brightly-coloured Neil Tennant . |
| 8 | If you 're casting more than a couple of rod-lengths it 's advisable to use a waggler if only to avoid tangles . |
| 9 | At the end of September 143 people had been waiting more than a year . |
| 10 | Genetic Engineering : This is a first attempt to legislate in this area , currently dealt with by voluntary codes of practice , because science has been moving quicker than the law makers . |
| 11 | And really we ought to be concentrating far more upon the other other changes which are proposed other than the Trusts and the things that in fact are fo far worse in my my own opinion . |
| 12 | For behind the public posturings , there 's no doubt that both of these gentlemen have been having more than a little local difficulty with their respective parties . |
| 13 | What we 're , in effect what we 're saying is that for a a number of years the Communist Party has provided , has made that moral economy work i in a s and made it work very well because rents have been reduced more than the peasants would expect erm er interest rate is extremely low . |
| 14 | Both sides are gambling because the defendant may be paying more than a judge would award at trial . |
| 15 | But as two months had already elapsed since the end of the previous contracts , this would mean that for some weeks the players would be getting more than the permitted £4 a week maximum . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , this searcher may well be interested in titles like " The ecology of the smaller rodents " , but these should be ranked lower than the first two . |
| 17 | Two of them do reach results which appear to conflict with the wording , and for which no good reason can be found other than the one they give themselves : that this was the testator 's intention . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm taking less than the men I employ , ’ he said . |
| 19 | I forget who had mentioned to me that Geoff was rumoured to be taking more than a passing interest in her . |
| 20 | In cases where we can identify people who would be penalized more than the usual sort of fifty pence charge . |
| 21 | Supporters insist nothing would be lost other than a small car park and the steps leading up to the Prado 's ‘ Goya ’ entrance . |
| 22 | According to a new study from the Ministry of Agriculture , one in six 2–5-year-olds are consuming more than the recommended daily intake of saccharin , largely through soft drinks . |
| 23 | You are creating faster than the realm is destroying . |
| 24 | Politicians who pretend there is n't any recession should look at the fashion pages — hemlines are falling faster than the Dow Jones index . |
| 25 | The proportion of one parent families dependent on supplementary benefit/income support has been increasing faster than the increase in the number of one parent families . |
| 26 | Guillamon stepped out of the Manse ; he was grey and brittle in the cold but his eyes were flashing brighter than the hard sky . |
| 27 | But er e English er guises were favoured more than the French ones even by the French themselves . |
| 28 | His elders were becoming more than a little worried because people were saying his teaching was heretical . |
| 29 | BR complained that the result was likely to be deteriorating services , especially since there was simultaneous pressure to keep down tariffs , while BR 's costs themselves were rising faster than the retail price index . |
| 30 | The nerves of ‘ Kanga ’ Tryon , a designer more used to working with ‘ supermodels ’ on the catwalks of the world than schoolgirls — were fraying faster than an unfinished hem . |