Example sentences of "[adj] than it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Admittedly , this last complaint , made at the very start of the chapter , is harsher than it sounds . |
| 32 | However , as a rough guide , it feels slightly more Gibson-like than it does Fenderish , if that helps . |
| 33 | Nevertheless the draw has dealt more sympathetically with the Scots than it did before the 1986 World Cup , when they found themselves grouped with West Germany , Uruguay and Denmark . |
| 34 | Such is the speed of decline ( GNP in the first three months of 1991 was 8% lower than it had been in the same period of 1990 , imports were 45% lower ) that , if this plan fails , the next one may be either an economic state of emergency imposed under martial law , or a kaleidoscope of programmes started by republics after the Soviet Union breaks up . |
| 35 | Poor Law expenditure per head of population in 1904–05 was 10 per cent lower than it had been in 1833–34 , although real income per head had doubled in that period . |
| 36 | The customs accounts there for the decade 1450–60 show that the average annual export of broadcloths , by both denizens and aliens , was a third lower than it had been in the years 1440–50 ( 94 , pp.334–5 ) . ’ |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | The Pontiac crouched for a whole foot lower than it did before , and General Motors shareholders were beginning to complain at annual meetings of bumping their heads or not being able to wear a hat in a Buick . |
| 39 | Foreign investors are beginning to worry that the Mexican peso is less solid than it looks . |
| 40 | The process of fusing Ministerial intentions and departmental expertise in the formulation of policy is a great deal more subtle than it appears to be at first sight . |
| 41 | Fortunately , it 's simpler than it looks . |
| 42 | Still , she kept the place tidier than it had been for months and she did n't mistreat Springsteen , or if she did he did n't complain about it . |
| 43 | For Nestor , it was a courageous near-miss , an almost-historic encore that placed Canada closer to the final eight than it had been since 1913 ( when Canada made the Challenge round final — with only nine countries competing ) . |
| 44 | The problem is even more acute than it appears , for singular existential propositions too resist a reductivist treatment and can not be simply brushed off as " ungrammatical " . |
| 45 | Professor Hurstfield has however inferred from the preamble that the government wanted something much more far-reaching than it got : nothing less than unlimited authority to legislate by proclamation . |
| 46 | Outside Europe the struggle in the sugar islands was less destructive than it had been 50 or 60 years earlier . |
| 47 | And it took me longer to do that than it took me to do tapestry . |
| 48 | This is less odd than it looks : it pays creditors to avoid the delays and legal costs of chapter 11 . |
| 49 | It may seem also that each vassal could only have one lord : otherwise the bond would be less personal than it purported to be , and the vassal might be involved in a serious conflict of loyalty . |
| 50 | During 1985 this issue was raised once again , though by then the extent of mass unemployment and urban de-industrialization and decay was more stark than it had been in 198l . |
| 51 | ‘ It was all a lot less real than it looked . |
| 52 | Pulling out of the ERM in September and letting the pound float away from the rest of the bunch now looks even smarter than it has in the interim — particularly in the light of Sweden 's experience . |
| 53 | You 've got to get Boris 's agreement before anyone can press the trigger or is this actually much more dangerous than it sounds , is he saying we want to take over the nuclear weapons . |
| 54 | jetskiing across flooded fields is more dangerous than it looks , because of the hiden dangers of submerged fence posts and barbed wire . |
| 55 | The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 , the sub committee bill of rights and seniority reform all helped to break the power of committee chairmen in the House of Representatives while other changes , including public and recorded voting , plus new rules decreeing open committee meetings , except in special circumstances , had the effect of making the House more open and accessible than it had ever been before . |
| 56 | It would be too much to say that by 1870 Paris had become a fragrant bower — few cities ever manage that — but it certainly was less odorous and pestilential than it had been . |
| 57 | Either the building was much bigger than it looked , or he was now on some wide underground level without having gone down any steps , or — as he was beginning to suspect — the inner dimensions of the place disobeyed a fairly basic rule of architecture by being bigger than the outside . |
| 58 | In some puppies , the hole which allowed blood to flow through the umbilical cord is bigger than it needs to be ; once the cord shrivels up , the hole is left open and if it is too big , a small piece of fat may be able to pop through . |
| 59 | It seems even bigger than it did from the ground , but I bridge and reach up , grasping huge , rough jugs on which even I can feel strong . |
| 60 | EBBERSTON HALL is Palladian to the hilt and also much bigger than it looks . |