Example sentences of "[adj -er] [conj] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did , did , did your hours of work get shorter or anything like that ? |
| 2 | quicker than anybody with a key ! |
| 3 | Liz Taylor 's courage in playing a woman older and ( then ) fatter than herself in Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? ( 1966 ) was enough in itself to win her an Oscar . |
| 4 | A seven-member Asset Verification Committee ( AVC ) headed by former Interior Minister Gen. Sitthi Jirarote was appointed on Feb. 25 to investigate politicians who were " wealthier than anyone with an honest profession could be " . |
| 5 | Carried out nationally , this showed that almost ten per cent of urban African households now possessed radio sets ; in the rural areas , the audience was far more scattered and the figure lower than one in fifty . |
| 6 | They claim to be nearer than us to the European consensus , but they are as far from reality as they ever were . |
| 7 | ‘ If anybody in the jury can explain that letter , ’ said Alice ( she was not afraid of anything now , because she was much bigger than everybody in the room ) , ‘ I 'll give him sixpence . |
| 8 | ’ Bigger than lots of things . |
| 9 | However , a combination of the limestone subsoil and the profusion of rivers , canals , lakes and reservoirs reduces Champagne 's water requirement ( due to low evaporation ) , making 662 millimetres of rainfall relatively heavier than it at first appears . |
| 10 | They were much taller than me with long brown arms covered with green leaves . |
| 11 | I was taller than him in those days , would you believe . |
| 12 | He was taller than she by only a few inches , and slenderly built , an athletic lightweight in a heather tweed sportscoat and grey cords . |
| 13 | She was taller than he by at least four inches , and , even though he outweighed her , it was all gut and no muscle . |
| 14 | Obviously a point with a higher weight is brighter than one with a lower weight . |
| 15 | When people ask me about the deeds of some of our very great airmen , and I go right throughout the war on both sides , there are shining examples brighter than anything in the constellation that come to mind ; I think of Cheshire 's 100 sorties and , no less important , Fraser Barron — a little Kiwi not yet 21 with two DSOs , two DFCs and a DFM — Pathfinder squadron commander , killed with his deputy Master Bomber on one of the interdiction targets before the Invasion , and a host of others , I can think of half-a-hundred , but I have never met anyone — In fact I have never walked in the shadow of anyone — braver than Buster . |
| 16 | I think this woman with the three grown-up sons is not younger than me at all , but almost certainly older . |
| 17 | some of you are a lot younger than me of course , it could be a lot smaller , but er er showing this to teenagers , if you work out what age a teenager will be in the year twenty forty , they 'll be about er in their mid sixties so this period of time , basically , is the time over which our present er generation of schoolchildren will have their adult life . |
| 18 | One rejoinder to this would be to cite cases like : ( 35 ) our new neighbours said they had had their old house painted mauve where it is perfectly possible that the house is much younger than anybody in the family . |
| 19 | It seems that once such a figure has been established there is no need for duplication , but that the necessity for such figures , typical of something larger than themselves without being limited to illustrating a single characteristic , is undeniable . |
| 20 | ‘ In terms of general plant , Piper was bigger than us , while we were larger than them as crane operators , ’ he said . |
| 21 | At the rear of many French houses I had noticed several rabbit-hutches containing the largest rabbits I had ever seen , certainly larger than anything in Britain . |
| 22 | They play good football but we were better than them on the day . |
| 23 | I am better than them at other things . |
| 24 | But they ca n't keep us down forever 'cause we 're going to show whites that we 're better than them at their own game . |
| 25 | Roy Nash ( 1973 , p. 17 ) discovered that pupils as young as eight years were able to say which children in the class were better than them at reading , writing and number ; and their self-perceived class rank correlated highly with the rankings made by the teacher at the researcher 's request ( and therefore not explicitly available hitherto for communication to the children ) . |
| 26 | They 're quite good it looks better than them for office do n't it ? they 're dual power battery and solar |
| 27 | Well , if you 'ave 'im two days at a time , it 's better than nowt at all in n it . |
| 28 | In the story , I was the nicer one and would go on to be better than him in the end . |
| 29 | Two heads are better than one for Bruce Campbell . |
| 30 | A ‘ flight ’ of 446 ft ( 136 m ) has been recorded , during which the animal lost only 30–40 ft ( 10–12 m ) in height , a glide ratio of better than one in ten . |