Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] than it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The flask was a deal emptier than it had been before the dinner break . |
| 3 | The church actually lost yet more ground under Edward II than it had done under his father . |
| 4 | The most notable early landscape was the Thomas Moran Wyoming scene featured in the Transco catalogue cover ( lot 14 est. $150–200,000 ) that brought $240,000 ( £150,000 ) after a keen telephone battle ( a price $90,000 higher than it brought at Christie 's in 1984 ) . |
| 5 | The number of tau neutrinos created in the big bang can be worked out ; if they did not decay into other particles , and weighed 17 keV , then the universe would be more than 200 times heavier than it appears — so heavy that it would have collapsed in on itself in a big crunch eons ago . |
| 6 | But , on reaching it , it proved to be a good twenty feet taller than it appeared , for it grew from the floor of a protective circular sinkhole , perhaps forty yards across , and with vertical walls about twenty feet deep fringed by tangled thorny-vines and spider 's webs . |
| 7 | ‘ Be ready at eleven tomorrow morning ! ’ rapped a voice she would know anywhere , his tone not one whit pleasanter than it had been when he 'd left her flat last night . |
| 8 | If the universe consisted of just the elements cooked up in the big bang , then W would be about 0.1 — ten times larger than it appears , but ten times less than theory demands . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The LDP 's share of the vote fell by more than 3 per cent compared with the 1986 lower house elections , and the party won 20 seats fewer than it had possessed at the dissolution ( although 11 independents were later reported to have joined , thereby bringing its total strength to 286 ) . |
| 11 | An international panel of climate experts , chaired by Dr John Houghton , director of the Meteorological Office , have warned that global temperatures will rise by 0.3C each decade , making the planet warmer than it has been in the past 10,000 years . |
| 12 | Its six is n't a BMW six — not smooth and eager , but more stolid and insistent , bigger on torque than on power and with no special desire to rev more than it has to . |
| 13 | Graphics plays an even lesser role with SuperCalc 5.5 than it does with Lotus 1-2-3 , so if you do n't like pretty pictures you might be more at home in the Computer Associates stable — and at this price , why not ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It was clear that he made her life happier than it had been , but she still had to put up with the desperately uncomfortable conditions and go out on her terrifying foraging expeditions . |
| 16 | The second pitch is often climbed as a single pitch and is a lot easier than it looks from the top . |
| 17 | So we actually saw it all , erm it 's actually quite a lot bigger than it looks . |
| 18 | I foresee the photographic work becoming much more project oriented than it has been — for specific publications etc . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's a lot deeper than it looks , ’ she cautioned the children . |
| 20 | The basic idea can be captured in minutes and the total concept fully realised in , at most , a couple of hours , which is a lot faster than it takes for the same degree of finish to be achieved in any other medium . |
| 21 | The stitching takes a long time and hurts Stig a lot more than it hurts the rest of us . |
| 22 | Could a lot fitter than it did |
| 23 | You know the flake is a lot harder than it looks and there 's this traverse … ’ |
| 24 | Metron is playing its card very close to its chest and wo n't say much about the software other than it does n't emphasise regressive testing and will run on multithreaded operating systems . |
| 25 | The finance ministry expects a federal budget deficit this year of nearly DM70 billion , about 60% more than it forecast in November . |
| 26 | It corresponds , in the woodwind department , to the double basses in the string group and , like theirs , its part is written an octave higher than it sounds . |
| 27 | So , inference : the picture had been painted at a time other than it appeared to have been , and had been painted by someone who " could not have been there " . |