Example sentences of "[to-vb] be [adv] [adj -er] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | His devotion to music seems in fact to have been even stronger than his feeling for words : " there are times when everything … that can not be grasped in terms of musical relations actually fills me with disgust and horror " . |
| 2 | Actual German losses in fact seem to have been much lighter than were claimed ; two Ju87Bs of the Gruppenstab were lost over Valetta , returning crews reporting that both Oblt . |
| 3 | In manufacturing industry where the US decline was sharpest , the rate of profit ( before taxation ) seems to have been significantly higher than in the rest of the ACCs ( 28 per cent over the years 1955–70 as against 23 per cent elsewhere ) . |
| 4 | The level of the roddons has probably been accentuated by the oxidation and consequent lowering of the level of the peat on either side , but the roddons are thought to have been always higher than the surrounding peat fen ( Godwin , 1938 ) . |
| 5 | State agencies other then the Ministry of Internal Affairs , furthermore , either had become convinced that the government would run more risks by abandoning reform than it would by continuing with it , or were acquiring ministers whose commitment to change was actually greater than that of their predecessors . |