Example sentences of "[adj -er] [subord] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cutting Russia 's remaining lending to CIS republics is politically easier than bankrupting Russian factories . |
| 2 | You just paint it on — it 's a lot easier than t'awd caustic stick . " |
| 3 | You mean it 's easier than having some creep loaded with policies pestering me at my digs — ’ |
| 4 | This , of course , is easier than finding provable hypotheses for which we may expect evidence within the earth 's crust . |
| 5 | Washing hospital sheets costs more , in some rich countries , than providing disposable bedding ; returning soft-drinks bottles through supermarkets to be refilled is dearer than using new ones each time . |
| 6 | Results indicated that the yield of about half the wells that could be hydraulically fractured would be improved at a cost very substantially lower than drilling new wells . |
| 7 | Whoever had worked on the case in the laboratory would have been smarter than to leave any traces of the implant visible . |
| 8 | Yesterday 's statistics suggest the trade gap will be slightly bigger than expected this year , mainly due to recession among some of Britain 's key trading partners , notably Germany . |
| 9 | More addictive than 0898 chat lines to a sad , lonely halfwit , larger than said sad cases 's phone bills , and more playable than a Dead Kennedys album , this is one game no self-respecting tiletrasher should be without . |
| 10 | An intra-muscular injection from a qualified person is always better than feeding medicated food because the dosage can be relied upon ; because only the targeted fish receives the medication , and because there is evidence that antibiotics applied indiscriminately can build up resistant strains of bacteria . |
| 11 | Would a series of transparencies be better than overcrowding one frame ? |
| 12 | Thus , even if biomass energy increased , the poorest villagers may find that in periods when employment is scarce , there is no livelihood better than to collect some wood and sell it . |
| 13 | If you have been wrong , acknowledge it and then get things right — that is much better than pursuing ultimate follies like the poll tax , ’ he said . |
| 14 | It 's still better than buying another ticket now you 're here — I 'll cook supper — and tomorrow you can look at the rest of the Archive . |
| 15 | Still , whatever it is , it 's better than singing pathetic songs glorifying plane crashes … |
| 16 | This is better than using thick foundation to cover scars . ’ |
| 17 | With the benefit of experience , the authors feel that a more sensitive , qualitative approach , possibly incorporating a few standardised items , would have been better than using standardised scales for the difficult task of assessing depression and dementia in elderly people . |
| 18 | Cash with order or cash on delivery is always better than cash some time in the future . |
| 19 | She tried to make light of the situation by telling the child this would be better than having some teeth out , which was planned for the following day . |
| 20 | Brakeman for Great Britain Two , Edd helped the team to a better than expected thirteenth place after the first two of the four runs . |
| 21 | In cases like this , a decorative object on the sill , like a plant , a single flower in a vase , a piece of old glass or china , a sculpture , a small lamp or candle , even a beautiful book , is often far better than attempting any sort of curtain . |
| 22 | Well I do n't mean to shorten the time , it 's better than playing all day . |
| 23 | Using a single vehicle , to collect normal household rubbish as well as recyclables , is far cheaper than using separate vehicles , as in some other schemes . |
| 24 | Many agencies have tried to argue that using temporary workers can be cheaper than using permanent staff , because the employer pays only for the hours he needs and because the non-wage labour costs of agency workers are lower . |
| 25 | He claims that limiting greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere by such methods would be cheaper than using nuclear power or energy-efficiency as a means of combating global warming . |
| 26 | Because of the degree of processing involved , hop extracts are not necessarily cheaper than using whole hops . |
| 27 | The napkins to well cheaper than buying new ones is n't it ? |
| 28 | Huge sums will soon have to be spent to relieve road congestion ; persuading a proportion of the public to travel by a convenient alternative has already proved to be cheaper than building more roads in many areas . |
| 29 | For patients with low levels of dependency , providing domiciliary care is cheaper than providing institutional care , but at high levels of dependency it becomes more expensive . |
| 30 | This is much faster than reading written English aloud , as in the case of the BBC news , where the rate may descend to nearer 200 , especially on the World Service . |