Example sentences of "[adj -er] than [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Organisers of the 1994 World Cup finals admit they face an uphill battle in winning the support of US television viewers for a sporting event that to the rest of the world is bigger than even the Olympics . |
2 | ‘ It 's become a big problem , bigger than just the problem facing us , ’ said a Williams team insider last night . |
3 | It has to pick its way through the minefield of NT and Unix and estimate whether COSE is bigger than just the desktop . |
4 | It has to pick its way through the minefield of NT and Unix and estimate whether COSE is bigger than just the desktop . |
5 | Our country , as a nation , has a spirit and will — it is much bigger than merely the mechanisms of markets . |
6 | Particularly with such beefy recording that absence makes them seem heavier than either the Dorati ( Decca ) or Marriner ( Philips ) , both of which use harpsichord continuo to leaven the textures . |
7 | What is much better than just the security levels is the User Definable menus . |
8 | It comes on two CDs which makes it cheaper than either the Philips or Harmonia Mundi sets , and has a choir in Collegium Musicum 90 who for clarity of diction , and intense musicality , surpass all other versions with the exception of Eliot Gardiner 's Monteverdi Choir . |
9 | The crowds are the biggest the bookshop has seen and the book is selling faster than any the publisher has known . |
10 | The median pepsin output in the H pylori positive duodenal ulcer patients ( 29 , 19–60 ) was higher than both the H pylori positive ( p<0.005 ) and negative ( p<0.001 ) healthy volunteers . |
11 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , the Bill in question goes a good deal wider than just the matters that he has been addressing . |
12 | It goes wider than just the position of individuals , important though that is . |
13 | There are also studies from Malaysia , which are illustrative of the effects of logging practices in tropical regions in general , which show that the destructive effect is far greater than just the removal of trees . |
14 | Their Saturday evening concert at the Arts Centre showed them to be individual artists of the highest quality who together produced something greater than just the sum of the parts . |
15 | In addition , the ITVA has some criteria of its own , being stricter than either the Act or the Code in its judgement of the admissibility of some statements of apparent fact or of ‘ knocking ’ copy . |
16 | His view that letting children run in and out of busy airports smartly avoiding the traffic is perfectly reasonable depends upon a conception of a child which is far narrower than even the sex divide . |