Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the ballet itself was shaping well ‘ and turns out to be altogether better technically than Soldier 's Tale ’ . |
| 2 | In looking to the future of coal after the strike this study considers that demand will be little higher in the UK in the year 2000 than in 1983 and that roughly 10% of demand could well be supplied by imported coal . |
| 3 | Through their attack upon the social revolution , their politicization of the armed forces , their intolerance of opposition , and , most of all , their extensive use of brutal secret police methods via the SIM ( Military Investigation Service ) , they helped to convince many inhabitants of the Republican zone that fascist oppression could be little worse than that under which they were already living . |
| 4 | Every man , woman , and child in the country would own about 100 of them , but garaging them would be no problem as each car would be little bigger than a matchbox . |
| 5 | She saw to the side of one of the houses the faded sign for Morgan and family , boot and shoemakers , fastened over what appeared to be little better than a shed . |
| 6 | If the fringe soon proved to be rather tattier , the services more underhand than the original promotional copy made out , well , that was only to be expected of an enterprise left to run itself without Capellan supervision . |
| 7 | Why would you expect the yield on treasury bills normally to be rather lower than on government bonds ? |
| 8 | In the event the persons who wanted to talk to Henry Tyler went to the Foreign Office to see him — where they found his rank to be rather higher than that of errand-boy . |
| 9 | The fact is , as we shall see , that different media do tend to be rather better for different things — you can not get a lot of information into a 30-second TV commercial , for example . |
| 10 | They are extremely difficult to hand-hold , which means that a mounting must always be carried around , and it should be rather firmer than a simple attachment to a camera tripod , because the binoculars are inevitably heavy . |
| 11 | Given these fears and the imminence of their object , it may seem to be rather worse than fiddling while Rome burns to raise in a series of lectures on law and disarmament that essay-worn jurisprudential topic ‘ is international law really law ? ’ . |
| 12 | One hopes he will be rather keener to have play in marginal conditions if they arise during the next month . |
| 13 | The university sector receives funds directly from government while the public sector is funded through local authorities — public sector institutions , such as polytechnics and teacher training institutions , tend to be rather smaller and offer more vocational courses than universities . |
| 14 | But that it does satisfy a need for a vast number of , of people who may be rather younger and poorer than er we who sit here . |
| 15 | Thus the personal influence of a reprint request may be rather larger than that of an acknowledgment in the form of a citation . |
| 16 | We argued from the above that the two should correlate closely if the neutrophils are seeking a mucosal chemoattractant , less so if the chemoattractant is in the lumen , in which case the inflammation should be disproportionally greater than the blood loss . |
| 17 | So , although they start later , in fact ma mature sexually later , erm , than hinds do , just as human beings do , where of course males mature sexually a couple of years after females , their reproductive success can be vastly greater than any female . |
| 18 | The disadvantage is that they require a transformer to step down the voltage , which either means fairly expensive fittings ( incorporating the transformer so they can replace existing fittings ) , or expensive wiring from a central transformer to the light fittings — low voltage means high current , so the wires have to be much bigger than normal lighting wiring . |
| 19 | Anna ( 4.3 ) : When I 'm six I will be much bigger . |
| 20 | Put this at the bottom of a deep casserole , which must not be much bigger than the piece of meat , which you should then put in with the calf 's foot on top . |
| 21 | It might be much bigger if the drug could be used to prevent , as opposed to treat , prostate cancer . |
| 22 | The problem may turn out to be much bigger than crossed telephone lines in the ether . |
| 23 | Now we have to work secretly but if it were n't for the repression the Communities would be much bigger . |
| 24 | Although they were the same age , they thought the Russells Hall pupils would be much bigger than them . |
| 25 | There are about thirty of them in there , although the room , if it is a room , ca n't be much bigger than Tod 's nook of a kitchen . |
| 26 | expanded memory , and you can have up to twelve megabytes , so that 's er , twelve thousand K. This is not to scale , this is going to be much bigger than that . |
| 27 | Normally the afternoon meeting at the east Boldon track are attended by around 250 regulars , but with the attraction of a couple of free pints the gate is expected to be much bigger at tomorrow 's meeting , which starts at 2.08 pm . |
| 28 | The total increase in national income ( ) will clearly be much bigger than the initial increase in investment spending . |
| 29 | ‘ You 'll be much comfier in those and it does n't matter how messy they get . ’ |
| 30 | Rewards are often only valued if they come from other people , but in fact they can be much nicer and more appropriate if they come from you . |