Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where more than two pellet samples are available , for instance for barn owls and tawny owls , the within species similarities observed in bone breakage and digestion are greater than the differences from other species , and this indicates that single pellet collections probably are representative of the species . |
| 2 | The waters around the Sullom Voe oil terminal are cleaner than the Forth and many other British estuaries , a conference on environmental monitoring was told last month . |
| 3 | Technological advances over recent years have made script input systems more viable , and the improvements in script recognition are greater than the equivalent for speech . |
| 4 | It was no comfortable emotion that pierced the veil , but even pain and fear were better than the emptiness that had preceded them . |
| 5 | The patients in this study were older than the controls but that is unlikely to have had a significant effect on our results . |
| 6 | well a number of things have come up so let's just take a couple of votes as er , from hearing from a few people and of which people have n't managed to speak so , first of all , er , er people talked about fear being larger than the incidence of assault , are you afraid to go out in the dark ? , button one for yes and button two for no do you find that your afraid to go out in the dark , and then this hundred and that 's a very , I mean that 's , that 's a very significant figure fifty seven out of this hundred women say yes that their afraid to go out in the dark from time to time , I mean that , that is not as it should be , let me ask you are you ever afraid in your own home ? , button one for yes and button two for no and that two is a very worrying figure , twenty nine of of this hundred say yes their afraid in their home , let me ask you this have you trained in self defence ? , button one for yes and button two for no , I mean its something that comes up from time to time and I do n't know what your view and whether or not its a good idea , well twelve of the hundred here have er , eighty eight say no , of those twelve would you recommend it ? , did it make you feel better ? , yes |
| 7 | And I think it 's I said to her when she was cutting it , I said look you know one side 's longer than the other and er |
| 8 | Sometimes , sadly , even a bad deal is better than no deal at all . |
| 9 | Each of the cols traversed by the peloton is harder than the one before . |
| 10 | The final result is better than the 32,000 tonnes originally proposed by the Commission and is the maximum catch recommended by scientists to stop fish stocks disappearing . |
| 11 | The result is faster than the standard SoftPC-based Windows and MS-DOS emulation , but slower than code specifically compiled for the RISC chip . |
| 12 | The result is faster than the standard SoftPC-based Windows and MS-DOS emulation , but slower than code specifically compiled for the RISC chip . |
| 13 | Javed at the crease is more than the uncomplicated warrior , laying about him with pride . |
| 14 | If society gains more than the private supplier would gain , the social cost of the capital good is less than the market price that a private supplier would have to charge . |
| 15 | However , a baby seat is safer than a carrycot for your baby . |
| 16 | A research programme is better than a rival if it is more progressive , the progressive nature of a programme depending on its degree of coherence and the extent to which it has led to successful novel predictions , as discussed in Chapter 7 . |
| 17 | The human mind is more than a computer : Computers have dull and exact memories — what went in can come out again , exactly as it went in . |
| 18 | As mentioned , the 650's neck is wider than the company 's usual 1″ , this time echoing Gibson 's most popular models at 1″ . |
| 19 | The standard answer to suggestions that the judiciary is less than a representative cross-section of society is that the Lord Chancellor can only fashion judges from the timber he finds on the list of QCs . |
| 20 | The Kirkland facade is more than a mere architectural exhibit within the building , for |
| 21 | Its overall width is greater than the needs of the twentieth century but it was designed for moving herds of animals , not for the motor car . |
| 22 | Although the detent torque is less than the motor torque with one or more windings fully excited , it can be a useful feature in applications where the rotor position must be preserved during a power failure . |
| 23 | There is a part of each step during which the motor torque is less than the load torque , so that the system decelerates . |
| 24 | If the switching angle is not optimised at any operating speed then the motor torque is less than the pull-out torque . |
| 25 | In the West , a car is more than a way of travelling ; it represents freedom and flexibility and is a potent status symbol . |
| 26 | The Range Rover flywheel is heavier than the SDI flywheel and is not best suited to the 3500S engine . |
| 27 | So far as service delivery is concerned , the gap is wider than the traditional division between medical and social needs . |
| 28 | What happens in the blast furnace is that the slag is lighter than the molten iron and it collects on top of the molten iron and by some means that I s |
| 29 | There 's sunbursts and there 's sunbursts , and although this one is flawed by a couple of sanding marks around the back , the overall effect is more than a little tasty . |
| 30 | The bending of the light is sharper than the curvature of Venus , and the impression is therefore of standing at the bottom of a shallow bowl . |