Example sentences of "be much [adj] than it " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Unemployment may still be rising quite sharply ; underlying inflation will not be much lower than it is now ; sterling may need to be supported by a rise in interest rates . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In the early part of the twentieth century very little was known about the chronology of tribal art ( most of it was considered to be much older than it is ) , and the stylistic differences between the work of various regions had not been examined ; Guillaume himself included Oceanic work under the term tribal art , and felt that it could be extended to include Alaskan art as well . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's much worse than it sounds , because , traditionally , industrial demand always grows , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 6 | It 's much blander than it was when the Stones invoked Sympathy for the Devil . |
| 7 | It 's much softer than it was . |
| 8 | It 's much sloppier than it used to be , and the ladings are not all priced as we used to price them . |
| 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 also has to be recognised that the general educational standard of aspiring architects is much lower than it used to be . |
| 11 | However , it is certainly the perception of people working in the field that the level of sign language skill exhibited by hearing people , even those who function as interpreters for deaf people , is much lower than it should be . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | His left leg is much better than it was , but his left arm is all but useless and he ca n't really grip firmly . |
| 14 | Although the standard of management has been variable , it is much better than it was 10 or 15 years ago as a result of fiercer competition and a great deal of fall-out . |
| 15 | It turns out that for these kinds of DNA the rate of change in evolution is much higher than it is for the more constrained , ‘ coding ’ , regions . |
| 16 | The concentration of salts in the blood of fresh-water fish is much higher than it is in the water surrounding them . |
| 17 | The detailed differences between the CO and CS maps imply that the pressure of interstellar gas in the bulge is much higher than it is in the disk . |
| 18 | Will the Chancellor have a word with his Chief Secretary and tell him the facts of life , which are that the burden of taxation is much higher than it was in 1970 when the Labour party was in office ? |
| 19 | If the person lives with a family member with whom he has an intense relationship , characterised by a high level of criticism and overinvolvement , his risk of relapse is much higher than it would be in a less intense atmosphere ( Brown et al. , 1972 ; Leff and Vaughn , 1981 ) . |
| 20 | Whatever people might think about DHSS money , what it has meant in practice is that the global sum of money to help provide for the needs of people with dementia or other long-term needs is much greater than it would have been if they were not attracting DHSS supplementation . |
| 21 | You might agree that it 's wasteful that it 's not the best way of channelling the resources but the fact is that the global amount available because of it is much greater than it was and that will be our baseline to start from if they decide to reorganise the money in a different way . |
| 22 | Tha that 's a pretty simple sort of basis for assessment , but as you 'll see from the map it 's not by no means a consis consistent level and in the areas where we 're erm where where the sites for the most part occur , er the c the level of commuti commuting is much greater than it is er outside those areas . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I believe that , as we come out of the recession , we shall find that British industry is much stronger than it was during the same period at the beginning of the 1980s , and that it will prosper mightily during the remainder of the 1990s . |
| 25 | The difference is that , with the invention of new techniques , the gap between postulating an entity and identifying it physically is much shorter than it was in Mendel 's case . |
| 26 | This is much easier than it sounds but not without snags . |
| 27 | MAKING BRANDY SNAPS is much easier than it looks . |
| 28 | Its area is much smaller than it was , but the landscaping of the reclaimed areas has been so successful that they merge into the surrounding countryside and become ‘ invisible ’ . |
| 29 | The Greek merchant fleet is much smaller than it was a dozen years ago . |
| 30 | The ground fire was much worse than it had been that morning . |