Example sentences of "[conj] is [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may alternatively take the form of withholding or threatening to withhold the performance of some public duty or the rendering of some public service unless a payment is made which is not lawfully due or is greater than that which is lawfully due , as was the position in the colore officii cases . |
| 2 | In extreme cases this may involve a deliberate distortion of the exchange price , or a means to profit at the expense of customers , typically where the broker fills the customer 's trade at a price that is worse than he could have obtained by competitive trading , in order to benefit another trader . |
| 3 | As he explores the poetry of Byron at Salisbury he works hard at his arithmetic and English composition until he is ‘ chosen as fit to enter the Civil Service , to hold for the rest of my active life time the pen that is mightier ( when you get a good one ) than the sword ( when you get a bad one ) . ’ |
| 4 | Notice how the Spider Monkey has a tail that is thicker and longer than its legs . |
| 5 | For example it may not be possible to design a car that is heavier and uses less fuel . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Some children grasp the idea of standing on a box or steps to become higher than a tower or other object that is taller than themselves , so that , intuitively at least , they have some idea of the distinction between taller than and higher than . |
| 8 | Alistair and Wayne show they have appreciated that the addition of one tower to the other will create a new tower that is taller than either of its component towers , whereas Matthew and Claire have been looking at the inverse operation — one brick less and the tower is lower . |
| 9 | Can you find a cylinder that is taller than this one ? |
| 10 | An ‘ orthopaedic ’ bed is just another way of describing a bed that is firmer and harder than the average and certainly is n't necessary for a lightweight child . |
| 11 | The story may be embroidered but Ince Castle , for many years the home of the Killigrew family , stood ( until a disastrous fire in 1988 ) isolated on its peninsular , its oblong castellated building with its four identical towers , one on each corner , perhaps bearing silent witness to a story that is stranger than fiction . |
| 12 | Therefore , the evidence supports a positive connection between volume and volatility for a particular commodity , although another commodity may have a general level of volatility that is higher and a volume that is lower . |
| 13 | SUBFERTILITY — FERTILITY that is lower than " normal " or at a level below the level that is average for the population . |
| 14 | In non-contracepting populations , subfertility is sometimes , considered as an evidence of subfecundity , i.e. fecundity that is lower than " normal " , though it may be due to fertility regulatory customs , such as the practice of extended breastfeeding and/or observance of the custom of long post-partum abstinence or to polygamy ( see marriage ) . |
| 15 | Since the distortion leads to a level of work that is lower than the socially efficient amount , cutting income taxes would also increase the amount of work done in the economy . |
| 16 | Would you accept that there is an element of us all preferring something that is further away from us than something that is nearer to . |
| 17 | HALF WAY through the play you will have seen a walking table , several fast opening doors , the rapid interchanging of numerous couples , and a hotel foyer that is busier than Piccadilly Circus and has more familiar faces than your family tree . |
| 18 | HALFWAY through the play you will have seen a walking table , several fast opening doors , the rapid interchanging of numerous couples , and a hotel foyer that is busier than Piccadilly Circus and has more familiar faces than your family tree . |
| 19 | HALF WAY through the play you will have seen a walking table , several fast opening doors , the rapid interchanging of numerous couples , and a hotel foyer that is busier than Piccadilly Circus and has more familiar faces than your family tree . |
| 20 | Sometimes converging swells will synchronize to produce a peak that is higher than any of the separate peaks that preceded it . |
| 21 | Therefore , the evidence supports a positive connection between volume and volatility for a particular commodity , although another commodity may have a general level of volatility that is higher and a volume that is lower . |
| 22 | You will be advised however , if you enter an unworkable measurement , such as a neck width that is wider than the shoulder to shoulder width , or a sleeve head that is too big for the armhole for example . |
| 23 | It is also a living resource centre stocked with a range of information on the English language that is wider and more detailed than the contents of any one of its publications ( or anyone else 's publications ) , and able to adapt and respond to the requirements of the non-specialist language user . |
| 24 | And unlike water in rivers or streams , groundwater is under hydrostatic pressure that is greater than atmospheric pressure . |
| 25 | Many of these measures are small in themselves , but it is important to realise that the changed atmosphere in the town — in the sense of more greenery , more skeet play possibilities , lower noise levels and so on — represents a sum that is greater than the parts in developing a pedestrian- and cycle-friendly environment . |
| 26 | There already exists much evidence of a willingness among a wide range of bodies to collaborate in achieving a result that is greater than the sum of their individual contributions , but there is more that could be achieved through genuine and lasting partnerships . |
| 27 | As long as the specimen has an accessible surface that is greater than about 2 cm in diameter and is unattacked by a suitable coupling liquid , the method will yield all the moduli together with Poisson 's ratio in five minutes plus the time taken to do the required calculations . |
| 28 | It is widely listened to and remarkably cheap , with an impact that is greater than can often be obtained in newspapers . |
| 29 | She suggests that women 's distinctive experience leads them to form a moral sensibility that is closer to aesthetic response than to the legalism implicit in much principle-based morality . |
| 30 | This suggests a definition of culture that is closer to what many social scientists and cultural theorists would have in mind when they talk about culture than the versions associated with either multiculturalism or antiracism . |