Example sentences of "be [adj] than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such an order has inheritance tax advantages ( if dissolution of the marriage has taken place ) , a saving in the HM Land Registry fees is available ( see Chapter 3 and generally ) and , as any financial provision can be expressed in the order to be in full and final settlement of the wife 's claims ( see Chapter 11 ) , it is less likely to be upset than an agreement between the parties not carried into a " consent order " ( see for instance Dinch v Dinch [ 1987 ] 1 WLR 252 where the court refused to make a further order on the grounds that the consent order had conclusively determined the rights of the parties in the matrimonial home ) . |
| 2 | A court that tries to decide as Parliament would have wished is more likely to be right than a court that follows the words believing it was not what Parliament intended . |
| 3 | And if they did n't , the bill would probably still be lower than the price of the service charge . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | Emulex Corp , Costa Mesa , California will be taking a charge against its third quarter figures for the period to March 28 that could result in a loss for the period : operating profit will be lower than the $2.6m reported in the second quarter because of lower revenues in the Network Systems Division ; the unspecified restructuring charge stems both from costs associated with the further consolidation of manufacturing operations to Puerto Rico from Costa Mesa , and from some lay-offs in the sales administration sector ; the charge will be less than $1.0m . |
| 7 | We might expect this to be lower than the effect of being in the service class . |
| 8 | In the example quoted , where higher rates of interest were available in sterling , compared with the US$ , then the forward rate would be lower than the spot on the day the contracts were entered into . |
| 9 | What could be simpler than the ball carrier going in , turning and setting with the support player going in low and hard and stripping the ball as he turns ? |
| 10 | The truth turned out to be stranger than the legend , and it throws light on the qualities of character which John inherited . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | However , it may be said to be fairer than the Community Charge in that the tax does , at least , rise with the value of the house and it is reasonable to assume that those living in more expensive houses have higher incomes than those living in less expensive dwellings . |
| 13 | In the future we need to be quicker than the competition and totally focused on customer satisfaction and production requirements . |
| 14 | Thus , if one wants to get to London , it is irrational to take a train which one should have known not to be going to London or which one wrongly calculated to be quicker than the bus . |
| 15 | Because of the demands of the Church 's calendar , especially at Christmas and Easter , cathedral choir school holidays tend to be shorter than the norm . |
| 16 | It would be easier than a password if you need to check out changing the |
| 17 | It was emphasised that reality would be easier than the way we did it . |
| 18 | Within each convecting layer , the upgoing fluid must be lighter than the downgoing , and this implies that the heat transport is dominant over the salt transport . |
| 19 | Most characters are simply sketched types rather than carefully constructed characters : the beautiful young wife , either licentious or honest but nearly always cunning ; the prostitute ; the husband , more often foolish than wise ; the lover , more likely to be clever than a husband is . |
| 20 | Although my hand may be bigger than a lot of people 's , it 's still a hand — it 's not a block of wood . |
| 21 | We 're going to get more so it 's going to be a bigger piece that that is n't it it 's going to be bigger than the quarter . |
| 22 | T : I 've got a lot more respect for them now because I met one of them at a party once and he told me they 're going to be bigger than The Beatles — in all seriousness . |
| 23 | The plaintiff is playing with higher stakes because the cost penalty is likely to be bigger than the amount by which the defendant might overestimate the claim . |
| 24 | What could be nicer than a summer picnic ( preferably involving a bicycle ride ) of fresh baguette , ripe Brie or Camembert and a bottle of vin de table ? |
| 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 | A moorland parish will obviously be larger than a parish in a fertile area that was densely settled in early times ; a church that was an Anglo-Saxon missionary centre will usually have a larger parish than one that was founded later . |
| 27 | The presentation appearance of the horizontal moon , for instance , can properly , though falsely , be said to be larger than the presentation appearance of the meridian moon . |
| 28 | In other words , to give , to the question , ‘ Why , on looking at the horizontal moon , would you believe it to be larger than the meridian moon if you had no reason to think otherwise ? ’ the answer , ‘ Because it appears larger ’ , is , if it means ‘ Because I perceive it as larger ’ to give no answer at all . |
| 29 | Jonathon Morris , you will have gathered , is going places — and no one could be happier than the man himself . |
| 30 | Note that the date must not be later than the system date when the module is next scanned or entered into LIFESPAN . |