Example sentences of "be [adj -er] than it have " in BNC.

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1 It is likely that under those agreements extradition within Europe would in future be easier than it has been in the past , which I think the hon. Gentleman would welcome .
2 This temperature increase may appear to be small , but in reality the earth would then be warmer than it has been for the past 125,000 years ( the peak of the last interglacial ) and possibly even warmer than it has been for the past two million years ( the duration of the Quaternary period of fluctuation glacials and interglacials ) .
3 But at least that cloud means it 'll be milder than it 's been recently , with overnight temperatures up above freezing , about three degrees celsius , that 's thirty seven fahrenheit .
4 The skin around his neck is loose and his waist is thicker than it has ever been .
5 Since there are more carp and more carp fisheries around today , and so many anglers fishing for carp , it is inevitable that the number caught is higher than it has ever been .
6 Welsh Wales , in Wales and in the Lake District they found that the er level of nuclear activity on the surface of , of the field as it were and therefore reached the animals is higher than it has been , how would they manage to do that ?
7 First , safety expenditure under the Government and British Rail is higher than it has ever been in British Rail 's history — it has gone up from £140 million to £200 million .
8 The law is tighter than it has ever been , and it has the backing of both sides of the House .
9 The sky was clearer than it had been for a week , and massive , but hardly elegant , Storskarfjell stood out like a white tent .
10 Why she was here , she could n't imagine ; but her head was clearer than it had been in a long time , which meant that she must have gone for some hours without any kind of an injection .
11 What is surprising is that , when they took the weight off again , the feedforward net 's output was better than it had ever been before .
12 Indeed , it was better than it had been for months .
13 Morale on the shop floor was higher than it had been for a long year and an unhealthy atmosphere of optimism and hope pervaded the plant .
14 hurricane has gone out of the news now , once something like that has happened there 's always another disaster coming behind that actually takes over the headlines , so , about six months , a year , two years afterwards they were still finding that in parts of Europe the general level of nuclear activity was higher than it had been before Chernobyl , why would that happen ?
15 Progress was slower than it had been upstairs .
16 Most head teachers questioned thought the position was worse than it had been five years earlier .
17 During the last few days before the event , as spectators arrived from , Ayrshire was busier than it had ever been in its history .
18 The raid took less than five minutes , but the damage suffered by Exeter was greater than it had suffered in the Baedeker raids , and there was greater loss of life , over 250 people being killed .
19 Before 1965 the Crown 's role in choosing a Prime Minister was greater than it has now become .
20 It was wider than it had looked and Fenella thought she had been right to think it led away from the road , deeper into the hillside .
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