Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [adj] than it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly the AgriBusiness side of it looks less rosy than it did even two years ago . |
| 2 | The new non-socialist party looks more agreeable than it has done for 20 years . |
| 3 | But the horizon no longer has any black skies , and it looks more forgiving than it has at any point until now . |
| 4 | Pulling out of the ERM in September and letting the pound float away from the rest of the bunch now looks even smarter than it has in the interim — particularly in the light of Sweden 's experience . |
| 5 | ‘ The Old Course looks even flatter than it does on TV , ’ was Mike 's initial response . |
| 6 | Out of the dust of the Bodleian , Dr Lonsdale has resurrected more than a hundred witty women and set them glistening and pulsing with life and spirits before us ; and through their fresh and often subversive eyes , the Augustan age seems much closer than it did . |
| 7 | Indeed , much of the film has dated badly , by comparison with the better American films of around the same time ( Wild River , Psycho , The Hustler , El Cid ) , or to put it more neutrally appears less attractive than it did in its own time . |
| 8 | It seems even bigger than it did from the ground , but I bridge and reach up , grasping huge , rough jugs on which even I can feel strong . |
| 9 | Their condition feels more normal than it has ever done before . |
| 10 | Iago can take a stand with every appearance of confidence : Yet from that firm-sounding position he lapses into uncertainty — ‘ I speak not yet of proof ’ ( ironically true ! ) — but an uncertainty that suggests far more than it states , with its rash of words for perception and deception ( ‘ look ’ , ‘ observe ’ , ‘ wear your eye thus ’ , ‘ not … secure ’ , ‘ abused ’ , ‘ look ’ , ‘ know ’ , ‘ see … pranks ’ , ‘ show ’ , ‘ conscience ’ , ‘ keep't unknown ’ ) . |