Example sentences of "be [adj] than [pron] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ratio of bankers ' balances to deposit liabilities will be smaller than it was and if , as we have now said several times , the original ratio was a desired one , then banks will have to make further adjustments to their balance sheets to restore the ratio . |
| 2 | There was an assumption that inflation would be higher than it was and that was cut back to one point five percent , which I think that I would actually support was a sensible way forward . |
| 3 | You are stronger than you were and with summer arriving you will once more pick up . |
| 4 | She could not restrain a flash of pride in her physical fitness ; all the nurses were smaller than she was and , although they were prettier , she felt her dignity and certainty returning . |
| 5 | And allowing someone to call you by your first name ( 'Please , call me John' ) has the sub-text : ‘ I am higher-status than you are and so can grant you this permission . ’ |
| 6 | On the other hand , what you 'll get is this continual lying going on about kidding everybody that everything 's better than it is and , of course , the eternal gratitude . |
| 7 | He 's older than she is and probably a lot more experienced . |
| 8 | But he was younger than she was and so very much not the type of person she was used to meeting . |
| 9 | She got a , I think she got a bit of a shock you know she actually probably thought she was better than she was and a lot of people had been giving her a lot of pats on the back and I tell you where half of that emanated from was down the corridor . |