Example sentences of "be [adj] than [art] [noun pl] " 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 | Sockets are bigger than the chips normally so |
| 3 | ‘ The Soup Dragons are bigger than The Charlatans over here , ’ says Tim . |
| 4 | ‘ The Soup Dragons are bigger than The Charlatans over here , ’ says Tim . |
| 5 | They 're cheaper than the rates , yes . |
| 6 | And you do n't wan na upset them cos they 're worse than the drivers are n't they ? |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | They are better than no cheques . |
| 12 | Society tells them they 're rubbish , because they ca n't find jobs , but it also tells them that they are better than the blacks . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's our newest arrival ’ said the Foreman with a laugh ; adding thoughtlessly , ‘ and I 'll bet her conditions are better than the ones you had to put up with in the war . |
| 14 | Cos these are better than the ones |
| 15 | As you walk through the industrial towns you lose yourself in labyrinths of little brick houses blackened by smoke , festering in planless chaos round miry alleys and little cindered yards where there are stinking dustbins and lines of grimy washing and half-ruinous w.c.s. … at their very worst the Corporation houses are better than the slums they replace . |
| 16 | The only potential for sorrow in the poem is the age of Asophus , Florimelia 's father , who nonetheless sleeps easily at night since his virtue and simplicity are better than the vanities of wealth . |
| 17 | By the end , the team results are better than the individuals can produce . |
| 18 | But the only difference that I see was that they pushed their ploughs there , so they must have been smaller than the ones we use . |
| 19 | If drivers had to pay all these costs , they would be discouraged from making journeys where the benefits of travelling are less than the costs . |
| 20 | Yet 18 months after its signing , and set against the political and economic backdrop of today 's Europe , the dangers of persisting with it are smaller than the dangers of scuttling it . |
| 21 | A problem that has bothered biologists , at least since Charles Darwin , is why the males of Bufo bufo toads are smaller than the females ( New Scientist , vol 95 , p 2214 . ) |
| 22 | If the spot price is not expected to change over time , then in contracts with a positive basis the futures price in the contracts with nearby delivery dates will be lower than the futures price in the contracts with distant delivery dates ( a situation known as normal contango ) . |
| 23 | The Tottenham manager had said that his team would be tougher than the ones that were overturned by Port Vale and Bradford in notorious FA Cup defeats , and better than the one that struggled against Southend in an earlier round of this competition . |
| 24 | In fact I 'm taller than the doors |
| 25 | Interestingly enough , the LGS samples from the Phase 1 unions were less likely to be dangerous than the samples from the Phase 2 unions , despite the fact that the Phase 2 unions had been visited by the Oral Replacement Workers in the previous year whereas two years had passed since the Phase 1 unions had been visited . |
| 26 | Recent studies , however , have shown that many of them must be later than the landscapes and minor roads they cross ; in any case , they represent the motorways of the Roman period , and most of the country 's land communication network was probably still in the form of lanes and tracks , as it had been before and would be again ( Fig. go ) . |
| 27 | It would be better than the ferries , cost travellers no more and ‘ would be toll free before it was ever likely to be publicly funded ’ . |
| 28 | I 'd sent tapes to Radio One and I 'd also spent time devising quizzes that I thought would be better than the ones they were doing . |
| 29 | However , that cost is not unique to DIY training , and in fact once the lower travelling and disruption time is taken into account , DIY may actually be cheaper than the alternatives . |
| 30 | But that 's not all because all the books we offer will be cheaper than the publishers ' prices — with savings of up to 40% off the books we offer you . |