Example sentences of "not [be] [adv] [adj] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be sure , its performance has not been notably worse than its main rivals ' — similarly sprawling groups such as Germany 's BASF , Hoechst and Bayer , Du Pont and Dow Chemical of the US , France 's state-owned Rhone-Poulenc and Italy 's state-owned EniChem , which has been allowed to bumble along for years without worrying too much about profits . |
| 2 | Lilly had not been more beautiful than the other women who sought him , just more clever . |
| 3 | And this is the cause : the productive man conceives within himself a complete image of what he wishes to reproduce ; the performance , like everything else that he brings forth , must not be less perfect than the image . |
| 4 | Now , for the first time , he felt the real fiery ache of his arm and his shoulder ; but he would not be less nonchalant than his father . |
| 5 | Then , provided you are not running short of height , the final turn must not be any closer than your chosen point . |
| 6 | Furthermore , the ability of the regression equation ( 3.20 ) to explain the behaviour of Y t should not be any worse than the ability of equation ( 3.19 ) to do the same . |
| 7 | However in England , the evidential burden on the prosecution may not be any greater than it is under Categories 1 and 2 in many of the situations which they cover , for , as Glanville Williams has pointed out : ‘ If the prosecution gives evidence that violence was used , this should be enough to discharge the evidential burden on the issue of consent and take the case to the jury … |
| 8 | Suite living could not be any sweeter than our Suite Deal Manila Package . |
| 9 | Calder 's face was turning an incredible shade of pink — but it could not be any pinker than her own face ! |
| 10 | Put this at the bottom of a deep casserole , which must not be much bigger than the piece of meat , which you should then put in with the calf 's foot on top . |
| 11 | Unemployment may still be rising quite sharply ; underlying inflation will not be much lower than it is now ; sterling may need to be supported by a rise in interest rates . |
| 12 | I felt — I could not be more certain than that — that when I had treated polio cases on previous occasions I had actually sensed wasting muscles making slight quivers , contracting with the pain of a spasm ; and it was these contractions of muscles which , following normal treatment , so often caused shortening of the leg when the muscles withered . |
| 13 | ( Except , of course , that the type can not be more general than the lexical item used to refer to it : this apple can not refer to fruit in general . ) |
| 14 | I must check those feelings which are the expression of physical instinct craving for satisfaction , but God knows celibacy is as painful to women ( even from the physical standpoint ) as it is to men — could not be more painful than it is to a woman . |
| 15 | Uncle Rory could not be more depressing than reality was , just now . |
| 16 | The most consummate Kapellmeister could not be more profound than he in the science of harmony and of modulations … |
| 17 | Causal inferences are constructions built upon foundations of assumptions , and can not be more valid than the assumptions . |