Example sentences of "[is] [adv] larger [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This bright and colourful boat is rather larger than most speed boats , but feeds more children that way ! |
| 2 | And the sort of payback , as it were , if you are lucky , is rather larger than the payback , say , in horse racing ? |
| 3 | A cuckoo 's egg is conspicuously larger than the host 's eggs to our eyes but the egg is sufficiently similar in pattern and colour not to be detected by the foster parents . |
| 4 | You will notice it is a yellow card also er it is somewhat larger than the other one which was flaunted earlier before us and the good news is that you 've got , each one of you , a copy of this in your cubbyholes . |
| 5 | Once the adult is much larger than a sperm cell , it pays some individuals to produce a small number of large gametes , rather than a large number of small ones , because a large gamete ( after fusing with a small one ) has a much better chance of surviving to become an adult . |
| 6 | No strain carries a full set , however , so the chromosomal gene pool of the species as a whole is much larger than its gene pools of plasmid-borne information . |
| 7 | Although water is far less compressible than air , the aquifer holds a lot of water compressed in this way because it is much larger than a tyre . |
| 8 | In many lesser developed ( Third World ) countries , the proportion of notes and coin in the nation 's total money stock is much larger than that to be found in the advanced industrial nations due to the lack of sophisticated banking/financial systems in most poor countries ; also many of the residents still do not fully participate in the money economy due to barter and self-sufficiency . |
| 9 | The strength of the electromagnetic interaction is much larger than that of a weak interaction , and the range of the electromagnetic force is much greater than that of the weak force . |
| 10 | The dynamic insert is much larger than the electret type ( about double the diameter ) . |
| 11 | Now one is much larger than the other . |
| 12 | If the hole in the plate is much larger than the needle shaft , then the needle will tend to push some of the fabric down the hole with it . |
| 13 | While Finsiel SpA , Italy 's leading software and services company whose business depends heavily on the Italian government , is much larger than $100m , it could be a candidate , McCashin acknowledged . |
| 14 | The notion that the Haiti glass compositions can be modelled as a mixing line is based on a published range of glass compositions that is much larger than that used in ref. 1 . |
| 15 | Item No 1 : this appears to be a 17th century cloth fastener though it is much larger than normal . |
| 16 | Iran is much larger than any country of Western Europe ; its territory today covers about 636,000 square miles , about the same area as Soviet Union , Turkey , Iraq , Pakistan and Afghanistan . |
| 17 | Since the wavelength of light is much larger than the size of an atom , we can not hope to " look " at the parts of an atom in the ordinary way . |
| 18 | What is more the stock of existing bills is much larger than current flows and therefore most transactions will involve existing bills . |
| 19 | Therefore is much larger than the derivatives of space components and in addition . |
| 20 | The size of the English lexicon , accordingly , is much larger than we think . |
| 21 | The pixel size of the TV-scanned image is much larger than the pixel size generated by a drum scanner . |
| 22 | It is much larger than previously , giving more room tot he business of sending out carpet samples to hungry customers . |
| 23 | The regular male is much larger than the female cos males compete for nesting sites . |
| 24 | Fig. 21.5 ) , in line with the general analogy between the Reynolds stress and a viscous stress mentioned in Section 19.3. is much larger than . |
| 25 | It is also what is involved when modern descriptions of the moon 's trajectory are retained and observation statements referring to the fact that the moon is much larger when it is near the horizon than when it is high in the sky are regarded as resulting from an illusion , even though the cause of the illusion is not well understood . |
| 26 | The pressure gradient needed to produce a given flow rate is much larger when the flow is turbulent than when it is laminar ( Fig. 2.11 ) . |
| 27 | The breed is generally larger than the Beef Shorthorn , with mature bulls averaging 900kg and cows 600–635kg . |
| 28 | The theatre is always larger than life , is n't it ? |
| 29 | Robert Maxwell is still larger than life even in death . |
| 30 | But even though he strives to protect his privacy , Craig 's still larger than life at work , always joking , teasing and larking about . |