Example sentences of "in [noun prp] be [adj -er] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The marginal productivity of capital in Germany is higher than in the UK , therefore the rate of return to capital in Germany is higher than in the UK . |
| 2 | The marginal productivity of capital in Germany is higher than in the UK , therefore the rate of return to capital in Germany is higher than in the UK . |
| 3 | By any statistical configuration , the concentration of HIV infected homosexual men in Brighton is higher than that in London or elsewhere in Britain . |
| 4 | In Rochester and Buffalo , although the loads per vehicle were approximately the same , productivity in Buffalo was higher than in Rochester . |
| 5 | During 1963–83 and 1984–90 the incidence of malignant disease , particularly lymphoid leukaemia and non-Hodgkin lymphomas , in young people aged 0–24 in Seascale was higher than would be expected on the basis of either national rates or those for the surrounding areas . |
| 6 | The cost of alcohol in Brazil is higher than most gasoline sold in Europe in 1980 . |
| 7 | The improvement in January was better than had been expected in December , sales of both vehicles and parts and accessories increased and the trade is looking forward to a further improvement in February . |
| 8 | In distinction , the eastern arm in England is shorter and , after the earlier Norman work , terminated more often in a square rather than an apsidal end . |
| 9 | A new study by the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board ( PMPRB ) found that 56 per cent of the introductory prices of 124 new drugs in Canada were greater than the corresponding median international prices . |
| 10 | And the reason that rents in Cambridge are higher than in those in surrounding areas , or the eight that the councillor is talking about is because the rent levels which er the government require us to raise to are historically based on right to buy values and as he knows as well as I do , house prices in Cambridge have been relatively consistently higher than they have in surrounding areas . |
| 11 | He certainly did n't put all the radioastronomers in the north : between 1946 and 1960 , which Robertson calls ‘ the golden age ’ of Australian radioastronomy , the group at the Radiophysics Laboratory in Sydney was larger than any in the United Kingdom , the Netherlands or the United States and was remarkably productive . |
| 12 | Firstly Chen [ 18 ] has shown that binding to GGCC in CATGGCCATG is slower than to TATGGCCATA and suggested that this might be because actinomycin molecules , stacking at the ends of the former duplex , can alter the DNA structure so as to facilitate further drug binding . |
| 13 | All these junctures in Miranda were knobblier and more angular . |
| 14 | Nightlife in Going is quieter than Ellmau , but the Dorfkeller ( which is part of the Dorfwirt ) more than compensates . |
| 15 | The average knowledge of foreign languages in Britain is lower than in other member states . |
| 16 | Levels of in-patient hospital admission in Britain are lower than those reported from North America . |
| 17 | However , the decreases observed in Britain are smaller than those recorded in other countries . |
| 18 | The average company sales and number of employees in Japan are greater than in the other countries . |
| 19 | Just before St Petersburg learned that the sultan had accepted the Treaty of Adrianople , a conference of senior Russian ministers agreed " That the advantages of maintaining the Ottoman Empire in Europe are greater than the difficulties which it presents " . |
| 20 | Some in Europe are better than ours , but we are better than some others and very much better than the United States . |
| 21 | Shearman and colleagues also claim that at 8.4% the prevalence of aneurysms in Birmingham is greater than that reported elsewhere . |
| 22 | White heat is hotter than yellow , which in turn is hotter than red ; thus the white Rigel in Orion is hotter than our yellow Sun , while the orange-red Betelgeux and Aldebaran are decidedly cooler . |
| 23 | It was further reported ( Danas , 10 November 1987 ) that in the first nine months of 1987 there were 17 rapes in Kosovo , every one of which was between two members of the same ethnic group , and that in this period the incidence of rape in Kosovo was lower than in other parts of Yugoslavia . |
| 24 | Crime has always been with us and Halling was no exception and it has been estimated that Kent 's crime rate in the 13th century was higher than any other county , and a statement by Prof. James Given , of Michigan , says that the percentage of murders at 23 per 100,000 in Kent was higher than the U.S.A. average of today . |
| 25 | But Mohammed says it is also because the rules governing arms sales in London are laxer than elsewhere . |
| 26 | But surprisingly prices in Northallerton were lower than for the County Durham pubs although overall Which ? found Yorkshire prices higher than in the North-East . |
| 27 | Joy in a Strauss Waltz or in Tchaikovsky is purer than the joy elicited by words . |
| 28 | A subordinate clause which functions as an adverb : Of Comparison In John is taller than his brother was at that age the clause than his brother was at that age qualifies is . |