Example sentences of "they [be] [adj] than [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My basic feeling is that while it is reasonable to ask that that a council , as a council , as a political grouping , may make the decisions about things , it is an absolute nonsense that many , many councils — some of them are worse than others — will not let their professionals speak out on their you know from using their own expertise , their own knowledge , their own experience , and quite often that that debate , the whole debate is gagged by the fact that you 're employees of the council . |
| 2 | They are higher than ear-shot , |
| 3 | Well I think men really do believe that they are better than women . |
| 4 | And half of all women think they are BETTER than men at money matters , says a survey of 1,000 women by Good Housekeeping magazine with American Express . |
| 5 | " For their particular work , they are better than men , probably . |
| 6 | Indeed , they are worse than scares , they are threats . |
| 7 | These speeds are lower than in traditional streets , but they are greater than walking pace and are regarded as still being too high by elderly people and parents of young children . |
| 8 | The silver inlays show up as pale areas because they are denser than brass to X-rays . |
| 9 | Very few food poisoning bacteria grow if they are colder than 5°C and they are killed if heated above 63°C . |
| 10 | They are heavier than air and |
| 11 | They are bigger than protein molecules but smaller than bacteria . |
| 12 | There is a backwash to all this , however : as a stage-show they are less than shadow-puppets on the wall . |
| 13 | They are lighter than water and consequently float up to the bubble nest . |
| 14 | Believe everything you hear about Texans : they are larger than life : noisy , and inexhaustibly friendly . |
| 15 | Indeed , they are larger than life . |
| 16 | She said oh there nice ones she said they 're better than Lambert and Butler . |
| 17 | They 're better than lamp posts and that , cos trees grow out of the ground , so they 're extra special like . |
| 18 | No not They 're better than Doc Marten 's . |
| 19 | You know soldiers , Sir John , they 're worse than sailors . |
| 20 | They 're worse than children |
| 21 | cos they 're cheaper than Tesco 's . |
| 22 | He says of its debts ‘ they 're less than Newcastle and more than Middlesbrough ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ They 're prettier than cakes that are n't wedding cakes . |
| 24 | They were longer than Mama 's and Mama 's were false . |
| 25 | From there the head waiter , as if thinking that they were more than friends , escorted them around the bend of the L-shaped room and to a secluded table in a corner . |
| 26 | Some of them were politer than others , but they tended to ask the same questions as they trampled through the house . |
| 27 | When she still laments her fate he can only add ‘ We are not bound for ever to the circles of the world , and beyond them is more than memory . |