Example sentences of "and [adj -er] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inland areas became lower than the silty areas near the coast and lower than the river channels . |
| 2 | These findings do not confirm fears of an overall increase in the number of old people looked after in institutions , and the proportion of 4.7% remains commendably low by international standards ( and lower than the national average of 5.1% in 1971 ) . |
| 3 | A painting of a male head , which is almost certainly a study for the figure of the sailor that Picasso originally intended to place in the centre of the composition , while it is bolder and sketchier than a work like the Self-Portrait , shows all the earlier Iberian devices . |
| 4 | It seemed to me richer and stranger than the pearls themselves had ever been — and richer and stranger still now that they had gone . |
| 5 | The office was smaller and tidier than the one used by Inside Out , although laid out in a similar way with desks back to back . |
| 6 | Then he changed into a selection of dry clothes she 'd found in Marlin 's wardrobe , though Gentle was both taller and leaner than the absent lender . |
| 7 | The golden catalpa C. bigonioides aurea has bright yellow oval leaves , and the flowers of C. speciosa are larger and frillier than the type . |
| 8 | If radical alterations are to be debated and believed in by heads , staffs , governors and parents and if the management of improvement is largely in these same people 's hands , the task is broader than the School Management Task Force 's concern with national curriculum — and broader than the SDPP 's recommendations about planning . |
| 9 | Scotland 's major canals were built across the country to link the western and eastern coasts providing a route which was safer and shorter than the sea passage around the northern coast . |
| 10 | The sides always seem thinner and shorter than the back . |
| 11 | Most skinheads see themselves as straightforward blokes and birds , more honest than the soul boys , more working class than the punks and the posers , rougher and tougher than the mods . |
| 12 | White Men Ca n't Jump is funny , touching and slushier than a wellington boot full of dog 's wee . |
| 13 | After the sober belches of the shoe-gazing clique ( itself a knee-jerk reaction to the brash swagger of baggydom ) , The Franks came across like circus clowns pissing around in a casualty department , all charmingly naive , astoundingly cheerful and dafter than a boardroom of brushes . |
| 14 | yet the gear change itself is quicker and lighter than the long throw , rubbery device that spoils the Vauxhall . |
| 15 | Although individuals vary widely , the bones of the average female skeleton are smaller and lighter than the male . |
| 16 | Although individuals vary widely , the bones of the average female skeleton are smaller and lighter than the male . |
| 17 | Although smaller and lighter than the 7.62 Self Loading Rifles which we had used in the Territorial Army , its strength lay in its high velocity rounds and accuracy . |
| 18 | She had already been measured and weighed , and found smaller and lighter than the pied or spotted flycatchers . |
| 19 | Home-made skin creams are richer and heavier than the super-light ‘ mousse ’ creations available at the cosmetics counter , but they are extremely effective and economical . |
| 20 | He doubted if these boys had been playing soccer — Hurstdown 's sporting young gentlemen would surely scorn such a plebeian game — and , sure enough , the boy bringing up the rear , older and taller than the rest and evidently in charge , was clutching a rugby ball to his chest . |
| 21 | The second wave was fifty yards away and bigger than the first . |
| 22 | That 's an amazing 1,639,369 EXTRA copies over the three days — more than the whole circulation of the Daily Express and bigger than the combined sale of the Daily Star and Today . |
| 23 | This time they were a sickly blue-yellow and bigger than the last invasion , when they were red |
| 24 | Roland 's xeroxes were cleaner and clearer than the faded coppery-grey script of the originals ; indeed the copy-ink had a black and gleaming freshness , the machine 's rollers must have been newly inked . |
| 25 | Only the last was pretty , and younger than the rest . |
| 26 | Now suffering is a vast and many-sided fact of Crime and Punishment , as of all mature Dostoevsky — larger than the ‘ loose end ’ idea of The Drunks which produced Marmeladov the marmeladey wallower in abasement and humiliation , the man who seeks suffering and finds it ( and so finds satisfaction too ) at the bottom of his vodka jug , who screams ‘ I 'm loving this ! ’ when his wife pulls him across the room by his hair ; and larger than the ‘ out of the practical swim ’ idea of ‘ A Confession ’ from which emerges the murderer , the man with something to confess , who does n't seek suffering but learns , though only in the Epilogue , to accept it . |
| 27 | Eventually , if given enough care and space , the new cuttings will grow stronger and larger than the mother plant herself . |
| 28 | However , interest rate rises on weaker currencies have been more frequent and larger than the reductions which have been effected by countries with strong currencies . |
| 29 | In seven years I had as many new cars , each one more highly powered and larger than the last . |
| 30 | " At the east end modern windows are made to the kitchen and chamber , over which are yet to be seen part of three antient lancet windows of the chancel , the center one somewhat higher and larger than the other two ; which were before the alterations deep and narrow . |