Example sentences of "to be [adj -er] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One shoe seemed to be wetter than the other and the strap was working loose , so , leaning against the ledge of the shop window , she took it off to have a look at it . |
| 2 | We may reach a point where the public costs of city life have to be greater than the private . |
| 3 | Incomers do not understand why , when public attention turns to acres of unused or underused pasture or park , the needs of sheep or the needs of agriculture in the distant future are felt by Shetlanders to be greater than the incomers ' here-and-now needs for housing , shops or recreational facilities . |
| 4 | So the real influence of the press is likely to be greater than the Mori data indicates . |
| 5 | This will occur where the corporate controllers perceive that the long-run loss to the company 's wealth ( and to a greater or lesser extent their own — it may depend on a number of variables ) is likely to be greater than the short-term profits . |
| 6 | In addition , the signal has to be correlated with observable future events ( e.g. , a ‘ bad ’ signal has to be correlated with future insolvency while a ‘ good ’ signal has to be correlated with future survival ) , and the cost of sending a false ‘ good ’ signal has to be greater than the cost of sending a ‘ true ’ bad signal for the firm as well as the manager . |
| 7 | From ( 8.19 ) above , this means that the futures price has to be greater than the expected spot price and to decline over time . |
| 8 | The car park charging scheme will cost £67,000 but the council expects the income from charges to be greater than the cost of setting up the scheme in the first year . |
| 9 | The proportion of pupils who treated decimals as whole numbers appeared to be greater when the numbers were in context than when pure numbers were used . |
| 10 | The truth turned out to be stranger than the legend , and it throws light on the qualities of character which John inherited . |
| 11 | But the price raised by an estate agent desperate for his commission is now all too likely to be lower than the original mortgage taken out by the borrower . |
| 12 | We might expect this to be lower than the effect of being in the service class . |
| 13 | I would n't put it into a company where the profit record was likely to be poor , because the last thing you want is for the share price to be lower than the option exercise price ’ . |
| 14 | She was in love with a man who considered her to be lower than the lowest form of human life , yet even that was n't enough to change her feelings for him . |
| 15 | A downturn is expected in 1993 since activity is anticipated to be lower as the company does not expect these contracts to be repeated . |
| 16 | The new binaries are claimed by their advocates to be safer than the older ‘ unitary ’ weapons because they use two chemical components that only become lethal when combined during the firing of the weapon . |
| 17 | The Buckau with rotors stopped appeared to be safer than the Buckau with sails doused . |
| 18 | Despite these problems , two-thirds of the children consider the residential street to be safer than the customary street with pavement . |
| 19 | Because if you eat a regular high carbohydrate diet then your BMR is likely to be higher than a person eating a high fat diet . |
| 20 | the rate of inflation for the health service tends to be higher than the overall rate of inflation . |
| 21 | So the very fact that she observes her price to be higher than the average price level she was originally expecting may make her adjust upwards her expected average price level . |
| 22 | He was one of those whose wisdom ( to recall the terms of Wyatt 's sonnet ) insisted on his maintaining an unchanged obedience to an authority he ultimately felt to be higher than the King 's . |
| 23 | The costs of going to court are likely to be higher than the value of the contract and the only beneficiaries are typically the lawyers . |
| 24 | In patients with familial adenomatous polyposis , the baseline CCPR seemed to be higher than the overall control value ( 8.75 v 4.74 cells/ crypt/hour ) but the difference did not reach statistical significance . |
| 25 | An initial hollow , whether scoured by the wind or not , would tend to be damper than the surrounding desert and thus chemical weathering would be greater there . |
| 26 | The near side will also appear to be thicker than the far side . |
| 27 | This ‘ Boulevard of the Victory of Socialism ’ was planned to be wider than the Champs-Elysées by precisely one metre , as Ceauşescu 's propagandists constantly reiterated with childlike pride . |
| 28 | Thus , one would expect the use of the maps to be slower than the use of routines with the human performance being more versatile but less predictable . |
| 29 | They all wanted to be mightier than the mightiest waves . |
| 30 | ‘ If you are on £3,000 a week with a mercedes and a lovely wife to put the tea on you are naturally going to be softer than the sportsmen who has nothing . |