Example sentences of "[adj -er] [conj] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result of the centrifugal force of rotation it bulges at the equator and its polar radius ( 6378 km ) is 21 km shorter than its equatorial radius ( 6397 km ) ; thus the Earth is more accurately described as an oblate spheroid . |
| 2 | A second body was the Protestant Dissenting Deputies which had been founded in 1732 and was , by the end of the nineteenth century , healthier than its older friend although The Christian World noted in 1901 that it ‘ seems to have fallen on evil days ’ . |
| 3 | Often makers try pulling a fast one by giving a tractor a number that 's bigger than its actual horsepower . |
| 4 | This can be represented by a context called Title with a property that its font is two points bigger than its containing font . |
| 5 | Such a particle is heavier than its new surroundings and thus tends to fall back to its original level and then overshoot . |
| 6 | This surprisingly compact machine is more expensive and slightly heavier than its corded rivals , and we feel that a dust extraction option should have been included . |
| 7 | Inevitably , therefore , our understanding of the site 's morphology is considerably clearer than its progressive stages of development . |
| 8 | With its magnitude of -1.5 it is well over half a magnitude brighter than its nearest rival , Canopus , and about 1½ magnitudes superior to Alpha Centauri , which is no. 3 on the list . |
| 9 | Radius Inc warns that it expects to report a second quarter operating loss larger than its first quarter operating loss , and that second quarter revenues to March 31 will be below the $36.9m reported for the first quarter , when it lost $0.05 per share or $713,000 ; it has seen slowing demand for its Macintosh enhancement products in Europe and to a lesser extent in the US . |
| 10 | When the flow is spontaneously pulsating , the Reynolds number periodically becomes larger than its average value making the entry length temporarily unstable . |
| 11 | The Norman church was much larger than its present day form , having a north transept of which the arches leading to it can still be seen . |
| 12 | It is hard to find a more pitiful sight than a clownfish desperately trying to associate with a shrunken unhealthy anemone a little larger than its own size . |
| 13 | The green imperial pigeon , uniquely among birds , can unhitch its lower beak and expand its mouth not only vertically but horizontally and swallow a nutmeg that is slightly larger than its own head . |
| 14 | Take all violence out of television drama and you disconnect it from reality , leaving it unable to portray anything deeper than its own bonds . |
| 15 | The Alesis 3630 is easy to get to know and its quiet performance is better than its modest price would suggest . |
| 16 | Aesthetic sensibility was almost certainly older than its earliest expression in symbolic art . |
| 17 | The other big performance improver that the company introduced yesterday was the QVision 1280 video controller , which it says is 60% faster than its existing QVision 1024 board . |
| 18 | It is easily dismissed as ‘ just another pigeon ’ but it is smaller than its close relative the wood-pigeon . |
| 19 | To be sure , its performance has not been notably worse than its main rivals ' — similarly sprawling groups such as Germany 's BASF , Hoechst and Bayer , Du Pont and Dow Chemical of the US , France 's state-owned Rhone-Poulenc and Italy 's state-owned EniChem , which has been allowed to bumble along for years without worrying too much about profits . |
| 20 | If the price of the good in their market is , for whatever reason , known to be higher than its average price in the whole economy they will take advantage of this high relative price and supply a higher quantity of the good than they otherwise would . |
| 21 | Mr Bekesi said that unless the government moved swiftly on economic reform , the outcome would be a flourishing black market , widespread shortages , inflation much higher than its current level of about 20 per cent , and high unemployment . |
| 22 | Higher than its current rate of 1.8m ( 6.2% ) , but probably not as high as it had to in the mid-1980s . |
| 23 | At 14.1% , joblessness among men is higher than its previous peak . |
| 24 | Neutral and prosperous neighbours could make Russia feel safer than its current buffer of allied but unhappy comrades . |
| 25 | The draft Programme was certainly much briefer than its immediate predecessors ; it was also very different in character . |
| 26 | The 24-valve engine is appreciably noisier that its 12-valve predecessor and although it invariably sounds good , its insistence can be a little wearing . |
| 27 | When a Devonian stage in Canada may be 10 000 feet thick and a Jurassic stage in Sicily may be thinner than its characteristic ammonites , we can not altogether ignore sheer size . |
| 28 | ‘ From small beginnings , HTFS has become the largest heat transfer technical service in the world with a turnover in excess of £3 million , about 50% greater than its nearest rival . |
| 29 | The situation was so bad in one company — it had started life as a joint venture with Lonrho — that the losses from 1985 to 1988 were substantially greater than its aggregate wage costs . |
| 30 | True , the Liberal Nationals were becoming indistinguishable from the Conservatives , while National Labour was too small to be able to exert very much influence upon the massed ranks of Conservatives , although the prestige of the Prime Minister , Ramsay MacDonald , gave it — as Marquand shows — an influence far greater than its mere numbers would have warranted . |