Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adj] than [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is common for fewer than twelve notes to be used over specific areas , or for certain notes to be repeated or used more than others , as long as the general non-tonal effect is maintained . |
| 2 | Of the topographical and travel works there is none finer or ranking higher than William Daniell and Richard Ayton 's A Voyage Round Great Britain , eight volumes , 1814–15 , with over three hundred superb coloured aquatint plates . |
| 3 | He relished the thought of fighting and slaughter less than Lachlan did . |
| 4 | Perhaps that is why sounds are recognised more accurately ( Hublet , Morais and Bertelson , 1977 ) to the right of a subject and appear louder than sounds of equal intensity heard on the subject 's left ( Kellar , 1978 ; Wexler and Halwes , 1981 ) . |
| 5 | The canal took 18 years to complete , twice as long as Telford had forecast , and cost more than double what he had estimated , but it was an outstanding engineering achievement for the time , even though the actual length of genuine canal that had to be dug was only 21 miles , since the navigable channel took advantage of existing lochs along the glen . |
| 6 | The Inspirals are n't cool rockers , and their approach is far closer to the 1966 garage punk bands of Texas and Frisco like The Castaways and Count Five than Jimbo 's dick-showing , Look at me , I 'm a mess angst . |
| 7 | The gruesome picture , below right , also features meat skewers stuck into the hearts of her children , and shows better than words the hatred she feels for him . |
| 8 | ‘ You could go farther and fare worse than O'Farrell . ’ |
| 9 | Spring balances that weigh in excess of 30lb are available for those anglers who expect , or at least hope , to catch carp and pike heavier than 30lb . |
| 10 | ( thanking me for my congratulations on her beautiful master-piece ) : ‘ It is hopeless the way life has to change , and become less than life . |
| 11 | ‘ There you are then , ’ said Lydia , who had now been forced on several occasions to concede that Betty was not unsympathetic and understood more than Lydia would have thought her capable of . |
| 12 | There were rumours of impassable rapids , and falls bigger than Niagara . |
| 13 | However , the striking difference between these two groups of pre-Devonian strata is perhaps exaggerated by the measurements being taken on pyrobitumen and phytoclasts other than vitrinite . |
| 14 | I think his qualifiactions and experience more than match up to Kennedy . ’ |
| 15 | Martingales and nosebands other than cavessons are only allowed in working hunter classes . |
| 16 | Total peptic activity and activated pepsinogen of the antral mucosa increased after eradication of H pylori infection but remained lower than controls ( Table IV ) . |
| 17 | than a billiard ball but weighing more than Saturn . |