Example sentences of "much [adj] than it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wirral Ranger Services principal officer Jim Lester said : ‘ The number of cocklers in the estuary is much lower than it has been , partly due to the cockle beds being reduced . |
| 2 | Her step was much lighter than it had been the previous day , but when she saw that her inquisitor was n't the Obersturmfuhrer , her heart sank . |
| 3 | This is much easier than it sounds but not without snags . |
| 4 | MAKING BRANDY SNAPS is much easier than it looks . |
| 5 | Either the building was much bigger than it looked , or he was now on some wide underground level without having gone down any steps , or — as he was beginning to suspect — the inner dimensions of the place disobeyed a fairly basic rule of architecture by being bigger than the outside . |
| 6 | EBBERSTON HALL is Palladian to the hilt and also much bigger than it looks . |
| 7 | The statue is much bigger than it looks ; it is always foreshortened because of the need to look sharply upward , and is actually over 4 metres high . |
| 8 | Mick was less fortunate , and when I awoke in the depressing gloom of dawn , he reported that the weather was very much better than it had been for a long time . |
| 9 | And as you may be aware that er in , in , in in the local elections this year , in May , the Conservative Party did dramatically well , much better than it did in the general election yeah ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was piercingly cold , too — much colder than it had been in Kent . |
| 12 | In schools , the development of European awareness will have to be built into the curriculum much more than it has been so far . |
| 13 | The demesne plantation was now very much smaller than it had been when Alec was a boy . |
| 14 | However , there is a great risk in counting from directories because a route might allow the listing of several destinations as though they were separate journeys , and the increase , although undoubtedly substantial , may have been much smaller than it appears . |
| 15 | The ground fire was much worse than it had been that morning . |
| 16 | ‘ That 's much worse than it sounds , because , traditionally , industrial demand always grows , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 17 | When he said , ‘ Tell me , ’ his voice was very much gentler than it had yet been . |
| 18 | Under his aegis , the gulf in personal resources between rich and poor became very much wider than it had been in the period 1945–79 . |
| 19 | The casing is much wider than it needs to be , I suppose bigger looks better , and although the top is made of a substantial plastic the base is n't and tends to give under pressure . |
| 20 | It is our wish , as ever , to build better relationships with these agencies , and develop levels of mutual confidence to a point where the flow of information would be much greater than it has been . |
| 21 | The net result was that much of the energy from the Sun was reflected back out into space , so that the surface of the Earth became much cooler than it had been before . |