Example sentences of "[prep] be [adj] than [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But the impact of rationing on the small , independent cheese-making sector is bound to be greater than on larger sectors . ’ |
| 2 | An operating range of 250 miles at full speed was required and survivor accommodation had to be greater than in the Arun class , the current large All-weather lifeboat . |
| 3 | The speed of action of any agent may be different : the rate of chemical weathering in the equatorial regions appears to be greater than in any other part of the earth . |
| 4 | It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated . |
| 5 | In addition , coelocentesis does not involve puncture of the amniotic membrane and therefore the risk of direct trauma to the embryo or chronic amniotic fluid leakage would be expected to be lower than with amniocentesis . |
| 6 | While the seven sectors examined were expected to continue to create jobs until the end of the decade , that rate of increase is predicted to be lower than in the recent past , as new technology and industrial concentration increase productivity . |
| 7 | Because the daily price movements in a straddle are likely to be lower than in the individual contracts , the initial margin is lower . |
| 8 | Few retailers expect their orders with suppliers this month to be higher than in December 1988 . |
| 9 | Few retailers expect their orders with suppliers this month to be higher than in December 1988 . |
| 10 | Here the prevalence of people susceptible to infectious agents would tend to be higher than in urban areas or in adjacent rural areas , which show no excess ( tables II and VI ) . |
| 11 | A slight ridge can be felt along the length of the otherwise very smooth surface and , much more important , the wall of the tube tends to be thicker than with other production methods . |
| 12 | A temporary repair was made and they flew on to Karachi , where the damage was found to be worse than at first suspected , as the fastenings had pulled out of one of the fuselage verticals . |
| 13 | In brief , requisitioning was unpopular , not least since it was often carried out in the period between spring and autumn when trading and fishing conditions might normally be expected to be better than at other times of the year . |
| 14 | Because of its demands on our energy in dealing with gravity , we take it to be steeper than in fact it is . |
| 15 | Similarly , there was an average swing to the Tories in those boroughs where poll tax demands were below government estimates or where household bills were likely to be less than under the rates . |
| 16 | Point counting can be done by preparing transparent overlay coordinate grids at various sizes ; eye strain is found to be less than with a petrographic microscope . |
| 17 | Nonetheless , once in recovery , the opportunity remains for the recovering person to extend his or her range of physical abstinence and , by doing this , the relapse rate may in time come to be less than at present . |
| 18 | ‘ We still have nearly 200 young people undergoing training on this site and although it continues to be less than in earlier years , because the business scene has changed , our overall commitment to training and development certainly has not . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It is better to be beautiful than to be good . ’ |
| 20 | Differentials do exist between blue- and white-collar workers , but they appear to be narrower than in most Western companies , and they are seen to be justified by different educational qualifications . |
| 21 | Crowds today appeared to be larger than in recent years despite poor weather forecasts . |
| 22 | Longterm survival in patients who undergo transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma tends to be shorter than in patients transplanted for cirrhosis , because of disease recurrence . |
| 23 | Suggestions that the split was in part a generational conflict were reinforced by figures which indicated that , of the Takeshita faction 's total legislative strength of 109 members , Obuchi was supported by only 19 members in the House of Representatives ( the lower chamber , where members tended to be younger than in the upper chamber ) but by all 42 members in the House of Councillors . |
| 24 | In multicellular organisms that reproduce asexually through a single-cell stage , the effects of Muller 's ratchet will be exacerbated , both because population sizes tend to be smaller than for protozoans , and because genomes tend to be large and hence to accumulate more mutations per genome . |
| 25 | He continued : ‘ It is perhaps encouraging that Scotland has suffered less than most regions , however , although the average fraud perpetrated in Scotland tends to be smaller than in some regions , the impact on Scottish businesses can be just as damaging . ’ |
| 26 | Setting up the experiment in Utah and keeping it secret turned out to be easier than in Britain . |
| 27 | Far better to be tested today and have the chance to put right what is shown to be wrong than to be tested tomorrow and be found wanting . |