Example sentences of "be [adj] than [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Cutting the price of essentials will do far more to help the people who are struggling than any number of £100 reductions on clothes that are out of reach for most of us . |
| 32 | I should have thought it would have been easier than that to put a new one in . |
| 33 | In this year 's campaign , there have been heated discussions about the state of housing under the Labour council — but apart from that , Hamilton says it has been easier than expected . |
| 34 | Big buttons are easier than small ones , so it may save time as well as tempers if you replace small buttons with something a bit more chunky . |
| 35 | That 's OK as a rough guide but I think that , at this level anyway , the routes are easier than this would suggest . |
| 36 | I hesitate to pronounce on the degree of tranquillity in his life , but since 1943 he has not been further than sixty miles from this spot . |
| 37 | They should be designed to add skills to the person taking the training even if some of those skills are broader than those actually required for the task . |
| 38 | The papillae of the jaw are more regular in shape , arrangement , and are not long , spine-like like those of O. clavigera and O. cordifera ; adoral shields have glassy tubercles in the plate matrix which appears to be absent in the other species , the ventral arm plates are broader than those of O. clavigera and O. cordifera . |
| 39 | The M'Naghten rules are tougher than current US doctrine . |
| 40 | The German cars meet pollution standards that are tougher than those of the EC . |
| 41 | Those who receive training are lesser than those who receive education . |
| 42 | Either a maximum word length array would have to be part of the structure , which wastes a lot of memory for the words ( almost all of the lexicon ) which are shorter than that maximum . |
| 43 | The legs are shorter than those of the other spider in this book , and the four pairs are clearly visible . |
| 44 | Instructions with both operands in accumulators are shorter than those of forms ( a ) , ( b ) , and ( c ) above . |
| 45 | However , the Max basic helices are shorter than those for GCN4 by some two turns of an α-helix , and the angle between the two chopsticks interacting with DNA within each complex is slightly different ( about 14° down the DNA helix axis in Max and 18° in GCN4 ) . |
| 46 | Control amylase synthesis times obtained in this study are shorter than those obtained previously . |
| 47 | The wines produced by these vines are lighter than those of Bouzy , but are of good quality and can be very attractive in a blend . |
| 48 | Again this is a distortion of what is generally happening in the courts , where sentences are lighter than this average , so newspaper readers have contrasting images of many acquittals and many long sentences . |
| 49 | In fact she had been luckier than many . |
| 50 | Arsenal supporters have been luckier than most of late ; we have at least had something to spend it on . |
| 51 | Often the periods are heavier than usual . |
| 52 | The Rano Raraku moais are taller than any of the statues which had actually been transported to and erected on ahus . |
| 53 | Thanks to this act , Churchward was able to tell the world that Mu sank into the chilly waters of the Pacific 12,000 years ago , that almost all of its 64 million inhabitants perished , that a few survived on Pacific islands , that these survivors gave birth to Homo sapiens , that white people are nicer than black because they 're closer to the original folk of Mu , and all the other nonsense you might expect . |
| 54 | It has been a principle championed in the fiction of Kingsley Amis , from as long ago as Luck Jim , that ‘ nice things are nicer than nasty things . ’ |
| 55 | ‘ As Anthony said to Cleopatra , as he opened a crate of ale , some girls are bigger than others , some girls ' mothers are bigger than other girls ' mothers … ’ |
| 56 | With more sales flowing to parent companies overseas , British music subsidiaries would be starved of cash to invest in new talent ; and they would have to cut their lists , which are bigger than those in America . |
| 57 | Under Mr Levin its high-tech ambitions are bigger than most , and so are its debts . |
| 58 | Ron Atkinson may look a bit odd , but he knows the management business — and his cufflinks are bigger than some players ' cars . |
| 59 | In other words , though the UK may be a hard nut to crack , Christians are better-positioned than any grouping other than Muslims to effect change here in an understanding of and commitment to strengthening the poor . |
| 60 | I am bigger than any of them , but I think the reason they let me through is because I am older : they assume I am crew . |