Example sentences of "be [adj] than [art] others " in BNC.

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1 A couple of you have got high marks John and you 've got high activist , you 're higher than the others , how do you feel about that ?
2 They were of three different heights so in conversation with Julian I asked if they were all the same height or if some were taller than the others .
3 We are all living in holes in the ground having all kinds of shit thrown at us and all you can talk about is one star being brighter than the others . ’
4 A few clever and overequipped craftsmen have a little magnetic device to locate the studs by finding the nails driven into them , but most people would just bang on the wall until they hear a thud that is duller than the others .
5 The distalmost one is larger than the others and is scale-like .
6 The central one is larger than the others ; it is 42 feet in diameter and the other four are each 33 feet .
7 One is situated dorsally and is larger than the others and bifid .
8 The drive for this disc is cheaper than the others at £150 .
9 Her accent is gentler than the others , and her words are clipped as though she was schooled in England as child , though I know she was n't .
10 The church has a cruciform plan where , in western areas , the western arm is longer than the others .
11 As they began to move towards it they noticed that the door was bigger than the others and could quite easily accommodate two men abreast .
12 This painting was larger than the others and more like everybody else 's Egypt , the Egypt the traveller expected .
13 Phyllisia faced many trials while she was growing up in Harlem , the first occurred when she was mocked by other pupils in her class , they called her ‘ Monkey chaser ’ and ‘ Teachers pet ’ because she was cleverer than the others .
14 He was smaller than the others .
15 Jacques Villon , who was older than the others and seems on that account to have enjoyed a certain authority , is generally credited with having suggested the title .
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