Example sentences of "much [adj] than it [vb -s] " 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 | This is much easier than it sounds but not without snags . |
| 3 | MAKING BRANDY SNAPS is much easier than it looks . |
| 4 | EBBERSTON HALL is Palladian to the hilt and also much bigger than it looks . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In schools , the development of European awareness will have to be built into the curriculum much more than it has been so far . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's much worse than it sounds , because , traditionally , industrial demand always grows , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |