Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] than it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 If you have a piece of pottery that you suspect is older or younger than it purports to be , you can have it tested by thermoluminescence for £80 .
2 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 .
3 The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 , the sub committee bill of rights and seniority reform all helped to break the power of committee chairmen in the House of Representatives while other changes , including public and recorded voting , plus new rules decreeing open committee meetings , except in special circumstances , had the effect of making the House more open and accessible than it had ever been before .
4 It would be too much to say that by 1870 Paris had become a fragrant bower — few cities ever manage that — but it certainly was less odorous and pestilential than it had been .
5 Although it will probably never be a picture postcard village , during the last two or three years some farmers have started to replace the hedges that were removed a generation ago , and to plant trees , so perhaps in years to come the parish will again look something like the pictures of it in days gone by , less bleak and windswept than it does today .
6 from a standing position the bathroom was even colder and smellier than it had looked before .
7 The room seemed darker now , and smaller than it had .
8 About two million workers had come out in support of the miners , a number which represented almost half the total which the TUC could have called out in support of the miners — and more than it did .
9 Power in Congress , in other words , was even more diffused and scattered than it had been before .
10 It 's lighter and funnier than it sounds , but this was no gentle role .
11 I think that you have made the magazine more interesting , more satirical and funnier than it has been this century .
12 Fortunately , the electorate is far more observant and astute than it thinks .
13 In 1561 he received a royal dispensation to be absent from his Durham prebend to finalize a map of England ‘ both fairer and more perfect and truer than it hath been hitherto ’ .
14 The drought had not yet taken a stranglehold , although the landscape looked parched and drier than it had for years .
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