Example sentences of "[adv] [adj -er] [conj] [pron] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their employee costs are much lower than ours , their social costs are much lower than ours and in and in the real world , we have to compete with them , and the boiling point will come from being competitive , supplying goods and services at a cost that the other countries will not by putting themselves in straight-jackets . |
| 2 | He was much heavier than her and Carrie felt breathless as his full weight bore down on her . |
| 3 | Rather he was not much taller than herself and almost comically rotund . |
| 4 | What I had n't considered was that she was much bigger than me and that I was n't strong enough to keep both her and the bicycle upright : inevitably she lost her balance and fell heavily on the road with me and the bicycle on top of her . |
| 5 | ‘ He was much bigger than me and very fast , so I think I did well to get a 14–9 points verdict over the three rounds . |
| 6 | ‘ I used to have a terribly runny nose , ’ said Marian , ‘ and I was that much younger than him and he would be landed with me by Mam . |
| 7 | I find it difficult to believe that a male Oscar would let a female spawn on her own — unless she was so much larger than him that he dare not go near . |
| 8 | ‘ They 're much better than mine or Anne 's . ’ |
| 9 | The other children were from the south , all older than me and posher . |
| 10 | My mother had said to Lili one day that she thought I was marrying Syl because he was so much older than me and would take the place of my father . |
| 11 | Because at that time the council was er men very much older than me and er very few young people on it really . |
| 12 | She is my maid and her fingers are much smaller than yours and then she 'll want to put a salve on it and … ’ |
| 13 | Well , her position in society is so much higher than yours that you ca n't hope to marry her . |
| 14 | This is the reason why our opportunity is so much greater than his and why our potential for joy is limitless . |
| 15 | The implication here was that Syl ‘ s mother was very much richer than mine and a mean old beast . |
| 16 | He was only a little taller than she and their eyes were almost on a level . |
| 17 | She was rather younger than me and known to be as brilliant as her hair . |
| 18 | ‘ He is but a little younger than you and is tall for his age , it is said . ’ |
| 19 | I asked for it at the suggestion of my cousin Sarah , who was slightly older than me and whom I greatly admired . |
| 20 | But two lorry drivers passing the scene described Mrs Chandler 's attacker as slightly smaller than her and estimated his height at five feet eight or nine inches . |
| 21 | Every piece of evidence that I have seen shows that the service that is now being delivered is substantially better than anything that was ever done , not least when we last had a Labour Government in office delivering those services . |
| 22 | For me I can not remember who said it , someone far wiser than far wiser than me but somebody said a judge is civilization by the way he treats the |
| 23 | Although the French Revolution was far worse than anything that our other subjects — except Gotfryd — had to suffer , we get little sense of pain from this book . |
| 24 | The traffic implications of what is proposed are enormous , and I hope that British Rail and the Government will take cognisance of the fact that we do not want to create around King 's Cross a traffic jam far worse than anything that we have to put up with at present . |
| 25 | The extent of those blessings then , that God pours on her , there were far greater than anything that she could have imagined ! |
| 26 | But now Jamie seemed , if anything , even keener than she that they should meet again . |
| 27 | But if a woman calls a man dear she is normally either older than him or intimate with him . |
| 28 | However , the energies necessary to test a GUT or a TOE are unimaginably greater than anything that could be achieved on earth . |
| 29 | At the time , the idea of a strong exclusive relationship was something that I did not actually want and I do n't think that even consciously at that time , I would have sought to have had that kind of relationship with David who was considerably younger than me and also , even though I was deeply into the whole scene and everything it represented , I do n't think I actually wanted to settle down with somebody who was a musician and was leading that sort of life style . |
| 30 | Commenting on Gladstone 's support for the scheme , the News of the World said : " picking up type is not the same thing as picking up needles and stitches : the mental and physical labour demanded in the compositors " room is infinitely greater than anything that has yet been required of women " . |