Example sentences of "appear [prep] [be] [adj -er] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | The jaws appear to be wider than long . |
| 2 | At North Leigh the relieving insets of guilloche etc. appear to be simpler than those at Chedworth . |
| 3 | The notebooks show that Nietzsche was prepared to rethink the precise shape of the book well into 1871 , but almost all of the numerous plans there — including some which appear to be earlier than " Socrates and Instinct " — point to a book centrally concerned with tragedy and recognizably related to BT . |
| 4 | Differentials do exist between blue- and white-collar workers , but they appear to be narrower than in most Western companies , and they are seen to be justified by different educational qualifications . |
| 5 | At that conference John the director general of the Health and Safety Executive gave his views on why certain regulations appear to be weaker than the actual European directives on which they were based . |
| 6 | Naively , we would expect many more ordinary quasars , because there is only a small chance of a beam pointing straight at us : but the calculation must also consider the fact that BL Lac objects would on average appear to be brighter than other quasars ( because the doppler effect brightens a beam coming towards us ) , and so we would tend to pick up more of them . |
| 7 | Many mosaics of group ( b ) appear to be later than those of group ( a ) , although in some instances mosaics of each might be contemporary ( i.e. at Chedworth and North Leigh ) , and , occasionally , group ( a ) mosaics appear to be later ( if a later , fourth century , date for the Withington mosaic is accepted ) than some of group ( b ) . |
| 8 | The jaws appear to be longer than broad . |
| 9 | The jaws appear to be longer than wide . |
| 10 | The jaws appear to be longer than broad . |
| 11 | The jaws appear to be longer than broad . |
| 12 | The near side will also appear to be thicker than the far side . |
| 13 | There are , in fact , times when the young will actually appear to be bigger than their mother . |
| 14 | For most lines of sight , the near side of the bar will appear to be brighter than the far side because lines of sight on the near side traverse paths with a higher volume density of stars . |
| 15 | The jaw appears to be wider than long . |
| 16 | The speed of action of any agent may be different : the rate of chemical weathering in the equatorial regions appears to be greater than in any other part of the earth . |
| 17 | AB appears to be shorter than BC , but is not ; the appearance does not correspond to reality ; the appearance , we might say , is nonveridical . |
| 18 | He seemed to be poring over some papers and the room itself appeared to be tidier than when he had visited it earlier . |
| 19 | Ministers said they were encouraged by reports from candidates that the party 's vote was holding up and appeared to be firmer than Labour 's . |
| 20 | Platelet aggregation induced by endoperoxides appeared to be greater than that which could be accounted for by the endoperoxides alone , and Hamberg et al ( 1975 ) were able to demonstrate that in platelets endoperoxides are further metabolised to a very unstable compound , thromboxane A 2 . |
| 21 | The Buckau with rotors stopped appeared to be safer than the Buckau with sails doused . |
| 22 | Staring at her wordlessly , she noticed that Doreen 's lips appeared to be thinner than usual , and that her eyes held a glitter that betrayed subdued anger . |
| 23 | Crowds today appeared to be larger than in recent years despite poor weather forecasts . |