Example sentences of "was [adj] than [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Germany 's self-absorption with unity meant that its response to the Gulf challenge was feebler than the Germanophiles would have wished . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought it would take too long to do but it was easier than the problems of printing . ’ |
| 3 | As they began to move towards it they noticed that the door was bigger than the others and could quite easily accommodate two men abreast . |
| 4 | Its page size was bigger than The Times and its front-page message summoned up , with a tinge of pomposity , a degree of wishful thinking , the hope of the month , and indeed the year : ‘ We Shall Fight We Will Win Paris London Rome Berlin . ’ |
| 5 | This painting was larger than the others and more like everybody else 's Egypt , the Egypt the traveller expected . |
| 6 | He says he had a fifty-fifty chance of surviving the operation but it was better than no odds at all . |
| 7 | In their response to the Houghton Report which preceded the Act in 1972 , BASW argued that the law should not allow parental responsibilities to be removed ( under Section 2 of the 1948 Act ) unless there were good reason to suppose that the local authority 's judgment of the child 's interests was better than the parents ' . |
| 8 | Everyone said it was better than the Ring-o-Roses , where there was no discipline of any kind whatsoever . |
| 9 | Phyllisia faced many trials while she was growing up in Harlem , the first occurred when she was mocked by other pupils in her class , they called her ‘ Monkey chaser ’ and ‘ Teachers pet ’ because she was cleverer than the others . |
| 10 | He was smaller than the others . |
| 11 | Jacques Villon , who was older than the others and seems on that account to have enjoyed a certain authority , is generally credited with having suggested the title . |
| 12 | Er because it was more than a weeks wages . |
| 13 | Osborne too felt his viola was mightier than the machine-guns : he used it as his only protection , making a conscious decision not to wear a flak jacket . |
| 14 | The biggest problem was that British inflation was higher than the rates experienced by our major competitors . |
| 15 | In Alaska , although the output of Prudhoe Bay has passed its peak , our production in 1992 of xxx b/d was higher than the expectations of two years ago . |
| 16 | It was worse than a balls-up . |
| 17 | It creaked open , and the sound was worse than the bangs . |
| 18 | A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes . |
| 19 | It could be measured by the width of a coach with a man walking at each side , but even so it was wider than the streets and alleys leading off from both sides of it . |