Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [be] [adj -er] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At North Leigh the relieving insets of guilloche etc. appear to be simpler than those at Chedworth . |
| 2 | Thus , if one wants to get to London , it is irrational to take a train which one should have known not to be going to London or which one wrongly calculated to be quicker than the bus . |
| 3 | Rincewind turned to run , but the air suddenly seemed to be thicker than treacle . |
| 4 | Jesus was describing a fulfilled life which could only grow to be better and better . |
| 5 | ‘ If you are on £3,000 a week with a mercedes and a lovely wife to put the tea on you are naturally going to be softer than the sportsmen who has nothing . |
| 6 | Medicines made from natural products , he points out , are not necessarily going to be cheaper than drugs made synthetically . |
| 7 | If you lifted a large laundry basket think about the size of a laundry basket , think about where the hands would go then down , lift it up and if it 's full of laundry then it 's obviously going to be heavier than if it was empty but that 's the size . |
| 8 | She 's got no practice ones for the two , the other two she 's got to do which are obviously going to be harder and she 's got no idea , not , well she 's got the guidelines but no real paper to sit and look at . |
| 9 | Although Mondello was convicted of lesser charges , including riot , his acquittal on the murder counts was unanticipated because the evidence against him was generally considered to be stronger than that which had led to Fama 's conviction . |
| 10 | and you just happen to be taller and heavier than James |
| 11 | ‘ I hope he is not going to be taller than me . |
| 12 | The child was soon going to be taller than she was . |
| 13 | Langhorne was an impossible , fiercely dangerous dirt track , practically round , full of ruts ; hot and unprotected , but Mario — as he often liked to point out — had n't been born with a silver spoon in his mouth ; he could n't afford the fare to Europe ; meanwhile , while dreaming of his grand prix heroes , he 'd just have to be better than anybody else at what was available . |
| 14 | Huge sums will soon have to be spent to relieve road congestion ; persuading a proportion of the public to travel by a convenient alternative has already proved to be cheaper than building more roads in many areas . |
| 15 | What if , just like me , you generally desire to be fitter and thinner but are certainly not going to do anything as ludicrous as measure your pulse or rate of oxygen depletion ? |
| 16 | On June 21 he returned his campaign to policy specifics , an area where he was generally perceived to be stronger than his rival candidates , with a detailed reformulation of his economic proposals . |
| 17 | The longer scheme is widely thought to be better and I should like it to be more at the centre of the proposals , as I want the environment as a whole to be at the centre . |
| 18 | At the other end of the scale there are meals that will linger in the mind long after the credit card has recovered , and blowouts at top restaurants still tend to be cheaper than their London counterparts . |
| 19 | Treatment sessions do not usually need to be longer than 1 hour . |
| 20 | In the end … not getting into a skid is always going to be better than having to cope with one . |
| 21 | Drug doses also tend to be higher and given for longer periods . |
| 22 | It has cost just $400,000 — 10 times cheaper than a front-running Grand Prix car — and can withstand Incredibly , they are also reckoned to be stronger and safer . |
| 23 | The near side will also appear to be thicker than the far side . |
| 24 | But he added : ‘ Why is it that while the means for achieving happiness have never been greater , the incidence of stress and depression also seems to be greater than ever before ? ’ |
| 25 | The theorem is now recognised to be older than Pythagoras , much of whose mathematics has an eastern origin . |
| 26 | The large mammals , especially the leopard and the tiger , are strongly reminiscent of the Woodchester Orpheus mosaic ( in drawings the latter are often suggested to be finer but they are of comparable quality to those of the Barton mosaic ) . |
| 27 | And , a a I mean I think we have , you know , to be feminists because we do n't want to be better than men , we just want to be equal . |
| 28 | Therefore there needs to be a period to allow exploration of satisfactory forms of internal work organisation when new technology is introduced , and this period may well need to be longer than that usually allowed for new skills acquisition . |
| 29 | He added : ‘ Despite the national outcries that Cathy and other films engendered , the scale of the problem today seems to be greater than ever — if only by the sight of the homeless we see camped in the streets of our cities . ’ |
| 30 | Yeah , you can choose any decimal , it does n't have to even start with numbers , cos it could start with zero , it does n't , does n't have , does n't have , it does n't have to be bigger than one , it can be smaller than one . |