Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adj -er] than [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although lipase secretion was not significantly lower in the post-acute pancreatitis patients , when mean enzyme secretion was expressed as a percentage of the control mean lipase secretion was lower than trypsin . |
| 2 | Sand was cleaner than water , the desert dead cleaner than the drowned dishevelled things which I had seen thrown up on shores . |
| 3 | Poll Tax was fairer than Council Tax ? — Convener to answer this one but see what facts and figures can be found to back up his argument . |
| 4 | His art emerges as the product of the extreme poverty of his early years when sex was cheaper than food and where the circus stood in for the corrida . |
| 5 | To him , perplexity was worse than danger ; and when he was perplexed he usually grew angry . |
| 6 | Take something as fundamental as the NHS and Community Care Act — we could have tested whether general practitioner fundholding was better than health care purchasing by districts . |
| 7 | So far , there had been no outbreak in the district , but , acting on the principle that prevention was better than cure , many clients brought in their dogs to be vaccinated . |
| 8 | He also agreed that he once claimed surfing was better than sex , and had said he could not be gay because he went surfing , which he considered a largely heterosexual sport . |
| 9 | He also agreed that he once claimed surfing was better than sex , and had said he could not be gay because he went surfing , which he considered a largely heterosexual sport . |
| 10 | When the young laird of Dunvegan , Norman Macleod , came down late for breakfast , Johnson ticked him off , saying laziness was worse than toothache : ‘ I have been trying to cure my laziness all my life , and could not do it . ’ |
| 11 | Chemical production was stronger than forecast , being flat rather than falling by 1 per cent as predicted . |