Example sentences of "be [adj] than the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Ian Jones at the National Institute for Economic and Social Research has pointed out , benefits in the first year of operation are lower than the figures for net effective cost imply . |
| 2 | Make sure that the dumb-bell bars are lower than the top of your chest . |
| 3 | One option would be to raise the duty on petrol : Britain 's fuel prices have long been lower than the EC average , and petrol duties have provided a static share of tax revenues in spite of the rapid growth in road use . |
| 4 | The waters around the Sullom Voe oil terminal are cleaner than the Forth and many other British estuaries , a conference on environmental monitoring was told last month . |
| 5 | Will my hon. Friend join me in paying tribute to the imaginative experiment that the Lord Mayor of London is supporting this year , in which young people go into schools to help pupils with learning difficulties and those who are quicker than the rest of the class ? |
| 6 | I 'm just saying these chips are nicer than the Bottley chips . |
| 7 | Sockets are bigger than the chips normally so |
| 8 | It is a shame that the players feel they can put sponsors to ransom like this and that they are bigger than the sport . ’ |
| 9 | Can you see any pieces that are bigger than the quarter ? |
| 10 | I was reading the things and I said it was a bigger upstairs is , are bigger than the downstairs . |
| 11 | ‘ The Soup Dragons are bigger than The Charlatans over here , ’ says Tim . |
| 12 | ‘ The Soup Dragons are bigger than The Charlatans over here , ’ says Tim . |
| 13 | Linde 's idea of a slow breaking of symmetry was very good , but I later realized that his bubbles would have to have been bigger than the size of the universe at the time ! |
| 14 | The attitude they have towards you is terrible , like you 're lower than the dirt they tread on . |
| 15 | Now all I can say about that is it seems to me you 're braver than the rest of us but we try to keep out of it . |
| 16 | or maybe twenty per cent , ten per cent think they 're better than the teacher thinks they are , ten per cent think that |
| 17 | They 're cheaper than the rates , yes . |
| 18 | ‘ We 're poorer than the Socs and the middle class . |
| 19 | And you do n't wan na upset them cos they 're worse than the drivers are n't they ? |
| 20 | ‘ They 're worse than the people trying to flog time-share holidays when you 're abroad . |
| 21 | A couple of you have got high marks John and you 've got high activist , you 're higher than the others , how do you feel about that ? |
| 22 | The MRY has always been meatier than the black-and-whites , yet the cows are also good milk producers with average yields of more than 6,000kg at 4.25 per cent butterfat . |
| 23 | The males are larger than the females and have modified tail feathers ( left ) and enlarged white oesophageal sacs which they puff up during the ‘ strut ’ display ( right ) . |
| 24 | This growth owes more to the birth-rate than to evangelism : Muslims are younger than the rest of the population ( half the South Asians are under 16 ) and usually have large families . |
| 25 | Oddly enough , although they are younger than the rugose corals , the aragonite composing them does not preserve very well , and it is easier to find beautifully preserved examples of the older Rugosa . |
| 26 | Her Cloaths are fewer than the Time before . |
| 27 | The original bivariate effect would have been larger than the effect once sex is controlled in this case , because once more it will contain a spurious component . |
| 28 | Generally the vaults have replaced the original wooden roofs in the churches here and so are later than the rest of the building . |
| 29 | On the other hand , it seems probable that other mosaics with high quality figured work in a central , square panel are later than the Cupids mosaic . |
| 30 | He had been accused early on in the play by Agydeus that he was too barbaric to offer Zenocrate any amorous discourse , yet he manages to produce a lovely speech for her where he talks about he stunning beauty and his love for her : ‘ Zenocrate , the loveliest maid alive … whose eyes are brighter than the lamps of heaven … that with thy looks canst clear the darkened sky ’ . |