Example sentences of "be [adj] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He presented a paper on 5 April in which he stated : ’ I am bound to conclude that looked at from the perspective of the economics of heat and power , it makes no sense to replace existing coal-fired plant with CCGTs unless gas prices are lower than today 's . ’ |
| 2 | Being high up , they know that the temperatures are lower than elsewhere . |
| 3 | In the dipterocarp forests of Borneo , the variation in species patterns is correlated with HCI-extractable phosphorus and magnesium where these levels are lower than about 220 ppm of phosphorus and 1200ppm magnesium . |
| 4 | No one knows how they got to be so diverse , though Dr Humphry Greenwood , of London 's Natural History Museum , has suggested that the water in Lake Victoria has at times been lower than now , with the fringes separated into pools . |
| 5 | The dorsal arm plates are broader than long , contiguous at least on proximal arm segments , with a slightly convex and , in some specimens , carinate distal edge . |
| 6 | But has it really been tougher than before ? |
| 7 | You know , in some countries it is against the law to put into advertisements shots that are shorter than so many parts of a second . |
| 8 | Once in place there is very little movement and although two lenses are heavier than once , after a few runs you hardly notice the difference . |
| 9 | There the skies are bigger than here , and in the evening the sun sets more red , more pink , then ever ours can . |
| 10 | The news that developing economies , whose costs are low , are bigger than previously thought will cause some Americans and Europeans to fear still more the threat they pose to local output and jobs , and to demand higher trade barriers to check the intrusion of these nouveaux riches . |
| 11 | The rewards are bigger than ever , which means that everyone — governing bodies , teachers , coaches , press and TV — has to take a positive anti-drug stance . |
| 12 | First , the stakes are bigger than ever before , due to the expansion of global capitalism and its Third World interests . |
| 13 | Tonight , they 're better than just being workmanlike ( one of my other gripes before ) , graduating through ‘ When Lucy 's Down ’ and the Irishy ‘ She Talks ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ Penny is in and out every few minutes at present , and we do n't want her to guess that we 're more than just owner and programme manager , do we ? ’ |
| 15 | It 's irritatingly easy to crash at first , as the pushscroll is only activated when you 're more than halfway across the screen , giving you little time to see and avoid hazards . |
| 16 | Felted roofing — and flat roofs in particular , need regular supervision if they are to stay watertight once they 're more than about 10 years old . |
| 17 | Sometimes you 're worse than bloody useless . ’ |
| 18 | Well they 're fancier than here |
| 19 | The bodies supervised by such boards are likely to be dominated by the bureaucrats who run them , rather than nominees who supervise them , particularly since they will be able to hide behind all the defences of professional expertise with organizations which are larger than almost all the departments within individual local governments with which councillors will be familiar . |
| 20 | This could mean that we are at the center of a great region in the universe in which the sources are fewer than elsewhere . |
| 21 | Bob went on from there , season in , season out , to the end of 1931–32 , by which time he had made 293 League appearances for Crystal Palace ( a club record at the time , but of course they did not make much of such things in those days ) and even today , almost 60 years later , there are fewer than only half a dozen Palace men who have played more times for us than that . |
| 22 | ‘ I just hope they are better than tonight 's . ’ |
| 23 | Erm I d I d I do know that the pension rights generally , in E C countries , are better than here . |
| 24 | But his chances of laying the bogey are better than ever . |
| 25 | He says the new films are better than ever . |
| 26 | We are closer than ever before . ’ |
| 27 | But Mohammed says it is also because the rules governing arms sales in London are laxer than elsewhere . |
| 28 | Managing director Michael Jackson says coaching charges are less than elsewhere . |
| 29 | The kaluts are the larger features reaching 50 m or so high , while the yardangs are less than half as high . |
| 30 | If they are less than about twice the mass of the sun , they will eventually stop contracting and will settle down to a stable state . |