Example sentences of "[adj -er] [subord] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The X100 will be at least 20 per cent lighter than the XJS 's corpulent 1770kg ( 3900lb ) at the kerb . |
| 2 | A wide document has a typing line broader than the window 's width of nearly 80 characters . |
| 3 | If radical alterations are to be debated and believed in by heads , staffs , governors and parents and if the management of improvement is largely in these same people 's hands , the task is broader than the School Management Task Force 's concern with national curriculum — and broader than the SDPP 's recommendations about planning . |
| 4 | Fatter than a Weight-Watchers ' enrolment evening . |
| 5 | SIR ROBIN BUTLER has collected a fair number of accolades during his academic and Civil Service career , but none stranger than the stag 's head that decorates his Whitehall office , writes David Millward . |
| 6 | No investment having a DCF yield lower than the company 's cost of capital would normally be accepted . |
| 7 | No investment having a DCF yield lower than the company 's cost of capital would normally be accepted . |
| 8 | Thankfully we 've been spared the agony of SRV 's favourite .013 to .058 strings ; the reissue comes with a much more manageable .010 to .046 set , and it 's been set up with an action considerably lower than the man 's own and at the 12th fret . |
| 9 | This taxed enterprise profits at a flat rate of 45 per cent ( 10 per cent lower than the government 's original proposal ) , tax revenue being split almost equally between union and republican budgets . |
| 10 | London Weather Centre said the cold could continue through to next week , with temperatures as much as four degrees lower than the average 5-7C ( 41F-45 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ What seems now a cloud no bigger than a man 's hand could turn out to be yet another inflationary and political storm for a government that could do without either . ’ |
| 12 | In time , a cloud no bigger than a man 's hand produced a thunderstorm . |
| 13 | A tiny black wallet no bigger than a child 's hand . |
| 14 | The sense of satisfaction was bigger than a prop 's ribcage ; the problems had been fewer than a hooker 's braincells . |
| 15 | He opened up his shirt , and showed us his breasts and pointed out that they were bigger than the woman 's . |
| 16 | Second , as a result of the large declines in nominal house prices , a large and growing section of the population is now in the ‘ debt trap ’ — the mortgage is bigger than the house 's current market value . |
| 17 | If the aquarium is brighter than the dealer 's tank , they will produce more pigment ; if it is not so well-lit they will reduce the amount present . |
| 18 | On a normal tow , except for very low performance machines , the climbing angle of the towplane and glider is much steeper than the glider 's gliding angle when flying downwind . |
| 19 | Paddington was beginning to loom slightly larger than a man 's hand on the horizon ; Paddington was where the murdered Kemp had stood and phoned The Randolph the previous day . |
| 20 | It is blueish in colour , six times larger than a chicken 's egg , and about to make ornithological history . |
| 21 | Paris and Frankfurt are growing particularly fast ( capitalisation increases of 83 per cent and 64 per cent respectively during 1989 ) , with turnover of domestic equities on German Exchanges being larger than the ISE 's for the first time ever in 1989 . |
| 22 | That is exactly what happened : Japan 's net exports of long-term capital soared to $130 billion a year , much larger than the country 's current-account surplus . |
| 23 | However , a firm 's reported earnings ( also called accounting income ) are usually larger than the firm 's dividends , which would seem to suggest that the value of the firm based on earnings will be higher than the value based on dividends . |
| 24 | A cuckoo 's egg is conspicuously larger than the host 's eggs to our eyes but the egg is sufficiently similar in pattern and colour not to be detected by the foster parents . |
| 25 | the measure of damages awarded to a plaintiff who was obliged to incur hire charges following a road traffic accident could include ( i ) the cost of hire of a car larger than the plaintiff 's own ( ii ) the cost of hire after completion of repairs pending receipt by the plaintiff from the defendant 's insurer of funds to meet the repairers bill . |
| 26 | The haustorium penetrates no deeper than the host 's epidermal cell layer in most species , and the fungus obtains its nutrients from this sheet of living cells . |
| 27 | It is certainly deeper than the body 's appetite for pleasure . |
| 28 | Nothing that makes you happier than a child 's Christmas toy , bought in the land of plenty , broken and forgotten by Christmas night , discarded , swept up , thrown away ; some unbiodegradable bit of plastic , moulded into partial or sentimental shape . |
| 29 | The pay was much better than a secretary 's pay , and the work was more interesting . |
| 30 | In their response to the Houghton Report which preceded the Act in 1972 , BASW argued that the law should not allow parental responsibilities to be removed ( under Section 2 of the 1948 Act ) unless there were good reason to suppose that the local authority 's judgment of the child 's interests was better than the parents ' . |