Example sentences of "[be] [verb] than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bones of a small rodent species eaten by a small owl are more likely to be broken than the bones of the same rodent species eaten by a larger owl , even though in both cases the rodent may have been swallowed whole . |
| 2 | Better to run and be caught than the other , because the other is fourteen years of failure . |
| 3 | Its advantage is that it allows a far deeper and richer assessment to be made than the pen and paper exercise . |
| 4 | This is more an opportunity to be grabbed than a threat to the survival of Japanese factories abroad . |
| 5 | ‘ You might as well argue that a man who knows that he is mad is less to be feared than a man who believes that he is sane . |
| 6 | No better picture of a mid-nineteenth century market town can be found than the portrait of Dorchester in Thomas Hardy 's The Mayor of Casterbridge . |
| 7 | Because of the need to assign British forces to this and to European policing and disaster roles ( on top of their present commitments ) , more general purpose infantry battalions will be required than the number currently planned by the Conservative Government . |
| 8 | And then the examiners will be accused of ‘ falling standards ’ , and even worse , more people will be qualified than the system is supposed to deliver . |
| 9 | No sooner had the last votes been cast than the IRA — fellow republicans — added to those problems . |
| 10 | I can think of no better , happier or more beautiful place for watching his county side being defeated than the Worcestershire county cricket ground . |
| 11 | Financially , the slave traders had rather more reason to take care of the people they were carrying than the transporters of convicts or of indentured labourers did ; all of these groups were being taken over as a speculative venture on which the shipper got no return unless he delivered live bodies , but the slave traders had already paid out cash to purchase their slaves . |
| 12 | Again , an understanding of encoded texts — the way in which a sender selects and combines signs — is of great importance to the public relations practitioner : a press release written specially for the tabloid sector , for example , may have more chance of being published than a blanket release designed to interest the serious press as well . |
| 13 | Words which appear early in the lists were remembered more easily as the subjects had more opportunity to rehearse these after being read than the rest of the words in the list . |
| 14 | But no sooner had this been achieved than the arrests and trials of leading Bolsheviks began , destroying most of the goodwill created among Western sympathizers . |
| 15 | In Liverpool , a dockers ' spokesman with the Transport and General Workers Union admitted : ‘ Drivers are n't happy handling some of these commodities , but at least a lorry-driver has more idea of what he is handling than a docker , who could have a consignment and just not know what it is . ’ |
| 16 | It is to stress than no piece of research , no matter how expensive or extensive , stands alone but becomes part of a corpus that is argued over , debated , used , criticised , ignored , reviewed , assessed , discarded , used as the basis for further research , and more . |
| 17 | The first of these is when the teacher is asked to do a manageable job , where he is working within his intellectual capacity and has that confidence which proceeds from really knowing more about what he is teaching than the children do . |
| 18 | In this son of argumentative thinking , more is involved than the dropping of anchors , for it is situated in the context of argumentation . |
| 19 | But worse was to come than the criticisms laid against him in 189I . |