Example sentences of "[be] [adj -er] [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make sure that the dumb-bell bars are lower than the top of your chest . |
| 2 | Carrying a tray of glasses would have been easier if the floor had been stable but I made it to the far end with only a lurch or two and delivered the goods as required . |
| 3 | Will my hon. Friend join me in paying tribute to the imaginative experiment that the Lord Mayor of London is supporting this year , in which young people go into schools to help pupils with learning difficulties and those who are quicker than the rest of the class ? |
| 4 | I 'm just saying these chips are nicer than the Bottley chips . |
| 5 | It is a shame that the players feel they can put sponsors to ransom like this and that they are bigger than the sport . ’ |
| 6 | Can you see any pieces that are bigger than the quarter ? |
| 7 | I was reading the things and I said it was a bigger upstairs is , are bigger than the downstairs . |
| 8 | Linde 's idea of a slow breaking of symmetry was very good , but I later realized that his bubbles would have to have been bigger than the size of the universe at the time ! |
| 9 | The attitude they have towards you is terrible , like you 're lower than the dirt they tread on . |
| 10 | Now all I can say about that is it seems to me you 're braver than the rest of us but we try to keep out of it . |
| 11 | or maybe twenty per cent , ten per cent think they 're better than the teacher thinks they are , ten per cent think that |
| 12 | This growth owes more to the birth-rate than to evangelism : Muslims are younger than the rest of the population ( half the South Asians are under 16 ) and usually have large families . |
| 13 | Oddly enough , although they are younger than the rugose corals , the aragonite composing them does not preserve very well , and it is easier to find beautifully preserved examples of the older Rugosa . |
| 14 | The original bivariate effect would have been larger than the effect once sex is controlled in this case , because once more it will contain a spurious component . |
| 15 | Generally the vaults have replaced the original wooden roofs in the churches here and so are later than the rest of the building . |
| 16 | These sparkling crystal green pools look ideal for swimming , but beware dangerous undercurrents , the fact that they are deeper than the look , a temperature cold enough to freeze-dry your internal organs , and an audience of 50 tourists who will stand and watch as you try to get out of the water and back into your underpants with some dignity and without swearing . |
| 17 | The first is the absence of deep gaps in barrier reefs and atolls , whereas if subsidence has been long continued , there should be deep gaps present , because once the gaps are deeper than the depth at which reef-building corals occur they can not be filled by coral growth . |
| 18 | All the vegetable fats are better than the animal |
| 19 | Please do n't take offence : the socialists are better than the rest all the same . |
| 20 | These are better than the poison-taking and tomb scenes . |
| 21 | Of course they are better than the chip , chip shop are n't they ? |
| 22 | Mud houses , they say , are better than the devastation at home … now with winter around the corner they 're digging deeper for warmth … |
| 23 | Volvo 's two-litre B200 engine had always been smoother than the bigger-bore 2.3 , but it made no more than an adequate job of hauling the corpulent 940 . |
| 24 | The response probably would have been smoother because the effect of the 0/1 potency had been completed six weeks earlier . |
| 25 | It would have been better if the programmer 's skill was recognized making him the author or joint author of " computer-generated " works . |
| 26 | It might have been better if the barrister had not said what he did . |
| 27 | Further to the first point of order , is it an order for the press to hear about the proposed rise in prescription charges before this house and would n't it have not been better if the Secretary of State to come and made a statement and we could have questioned her about it . |
| 28 | Last night the Foreign Office said : ‘ We can see now it would have been better if the advice had not been given . ’ |
| 29 | If that means that all students are exempt , it would have been better if the Department of the Environment press releases had stated that expressly . |
| 30 | It could be given assisted-area status because some parts are poorer than the North . |