Example sentences of "[be] [adj] than a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The objects and phenomena that a physics book describes are simpler than a single cell in the body of its author . |
| 2 | I dare say I 've been luckier than a good many . |
| 3 | Since you 're more than a little accident prone at this time , exercise caution and be careful not to lead your owner into trouble . |
| 4 | Fantastic , popmungously great 45s , however , are rarer than a disco-dancing dodo . |
| 5 | The observation of the Great Wall has come from an ambitious project to map the positions of all visible galaxies which are brighter than a specified minimum . |
| 6 | Most missiles with pretensions to cleverness are brighter than a laser-guided bomb , but not as clever as a Tomahawk . |
| 7 | This theory sees the unemployed person as continuing the job search ( that is , remaining unemployed ) so long as wage offers are less than a certain ‘ reservation wage ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ We are less than a third of the way through the season . |
| 9 | These perceptions are more than a sad reflection of how little sex roles have changed : women seem to have much invested in keeping things the way they are , in seeing their partners as stronger and saner . |
| 10 | The amp manufacturers ' answer to the dilemma is to provide sufficient flexibility to suit all tastes , and there are more than a few ways of going about that , too ! |
| 11 | There are more than a few Hungarians who would happily revert to the good old days of Kadarism , when the Hungarian president , Janos Kadar ( 1956–1986 ) , offered the ‘ cheeriest barracks ’ in eastern Europe a relatively high standard of living in return for political passivity . |
| 12 | But there are more than a few teething problems . |
| 13 | But it is just too hard to solve the equations when there are more than a few particles involved . |
| 14 | To parents whose present and future livelihoods depend on their children , those deaths are more than an emotional tragedy . |
| 15 | Long clones such as yeast artificial chromosomes — YACs ( 6 ) and P1s ( 7 ) will require fewer hybridisations than cosmid clones to link them , but the resulting map will be coarser than a cosmid map would be . |
| 16 | Also [ WEA branch members ] have the reputation in official circles of being so ‘ dreadfully earnest ’ — more an indication of the frivolous attitude that all education must be made palatable to be consumable than a valid criticism of their activities . |
| 17 | Finally , when you are hanging the mirror , do remember to use some extra-sturdy hooks and nylon picture cord , as it will be heavier than a normal mirror , and you do n't want to ruin your carefully constructed design , as well as incur seven years ' bad luck , by watching the whole thing smash on to the floor ! |
| 18 | A calm horse is more likely to be cooperative than an angry or fearful horse . |
| 19 | Anna turned all American , What can be nicer than a young couple with their way to make , and what was she for ? |
| 20 | ‘ But they realise that a partnership government would be better than a Labour government , and much better than a minority government of either party . ’ |
| 21 | All these considerations apart , and what could be better than a democratic choice by a democratic sovereign , Napoleon III was in love with Eugénie . |
| 22 | Colin McRae says that when the gear box is working properly , it should be better than a manual change because a driver can make mistakes . |
| 23 | Granules , seed treatment , bait sprays or selective placement may be better than an overall spray . |
| 24 | The planned nuclear station at Hinkley Point in Somerset is unlikely to be cheaper than a coal-fired one at any realistic rate of return . |
| 25 | As Harrison comments : ‘ Smaller investors get a good deal on commission , as it will be cheaper than an hourly fee . ’ |
| 26 | That would be less than a complete solution . |
| 27 | the probability of flooding must be less than a specified level ; |
| 28 | They have generally been assumed to be massless , particularly as measurements of the electron-neutrino mass showed it to be less than a few ten thousandths that of the electron . |
| 29 | When a sizeable body from space strikes a planet 's surface the impact speed will not be less than a few km/s . |
| 30 | In order for an apparent consent or refusal of consent to be less than a true consent or refusal , there must be such a degree of external influence as to persuade the patient to depart from her own wishes , to an extent that the law regards it as undue . |