Example sentences of "[adj] than it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her step was much lighter than it had been the previous day , but when she saw that her inquisitor was n't the Obersturmfuhrer , her heart sank . |
| 2 | ROS : Yes , it 's lighter than it was . |
| 3 | So the box is lighter than it should be and the price the consumer pays is too low . |
| 4 | She watched him walk away along the corridor heading back towards the club , her heart feeling lighter than it had for the past week . |
| 5 | The often mentioned ‘ crisis ’ in British broadcasting — ‘ crisis ’ , in Gouldner 's phrase , being that the system ‘ may , relatively soon , become something quite different than it has been ’ — thus acts as a backdrop for numerous contemporary analyses of broadcasting . |
| 6 | For statement pairs containing a negative , sorting was faster when the two statements meant something different than it was when the two statements meant the same . |
| 7 | If you were it probably be a bit different than it actually is dad said to me once that if he , that if he 'd like been in charge of it we 'd of gone to the Leeds and not St Augustine 's |
| 8 | But within this context , Wilkins ' elegant stuccoed facades will be retained , and an important landmark has been saved and will look far more handsome and dignified than it has for many years . |
| 9 | The excitement is in the expectation that , having been around and seen all that you can , the end product will be at least a little more interesting than it might have been if you had stayed at home . |
| 10 | Topics will include Compulsory Competitive Tendering , Local Management of Schools , the Community Charge and National Vocational Qualifications ( probably a lot more interesting than it sounds in black & white ! ) . |
| 11 | Well , th yes , well that 's it , they are going facing the station and it used to be so much prettier than it is now . |
| 12 | The flip-flop , outlined in the first of a series of three press conferences last Wednesday ( with more to come today , Monday ) , turned far messier than it needed to be due largely to DEC 's inability to admit that it had flip-flopped to begin with . |
| 13 | The pubic louse is broader than it is long and the four hind legs are equipped with claws with which it hangs on to the pubic hairs . |
| 14 | But it sounds a lot more exciting than it is . |
| 15 | Maybe it 's more exciting than it sounds . |
| 16 | All seams are taped and for general use the jacket appeared to be more waterproof than it was breathable . |
| 17 | She 'd expected it to be more sumptuous than it was . |
| 18 | Bedford was the only new earl created by Edward III after his family settlement in 1362 , and his patronage of the nobility was markedly less generous than it had been in the first two decades of his reign . |
| 19 | Moneymen hope that parliament will act faster on this than it has on company-law reform . |
| 20 | Will she try and make more of this than it was ? |
| 21 | It is easier for us to do this than it is for the English or Americans . ’ |
| 22 | The population as a whole is about 10 per cent fatter than it used to be . |
| 23 | America has got to do that , Russia is broken up so it 's lesser than it is , in fact it 's going down , if only they 'd look , but you see they ca n't do it now without outside help . |
| 24 | The population was becoming less markedly English than it had been at the beginning of the century , with a large number of Ulstermen ( who felt the operation of the leasehold system was squeezing them out of land they had conquered and settled in Ireland ) , Scotsmen , and Germans among the settlers . |
| 25 | ‘ The air is 15 per cent cleaner than it was a decade ago . |
| 26 | It was dangerous , too , to appear too over-confident , or to do anything that might provoke him into making his unofficial fatwa slightly more public than it was already . |
| 27 | CS : ‘ You can say all you like , but it 's clear that soul music is more popular than it has ever been , worldwide . ’ |
| 28 | The line-up in the Bundesrat is less clear than it appears . |
| 29 | In historical time , the household formed the unit of work and the division between paid work and domestic work was less clear than it is to-day . |
| 30 | The overall picture presented in his article is a little less clear than it might be , if only because of the multiplicity of interesting observations ( fortunately Bolinger provides us with copious examples ) but it may be summarized as follows : ( a ) Adjectives may qualify either the referent of a noun or its sense without simultaneously applying to the other . |