Example sentences of "[adv] than [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , about to cross , she saw that it was swirling much more swiftly than when she had crossed before and fallen in . |
| 2 | He quickly tried to put the record straight by claiming he had simply meant they operated better than before they held their own funds . |
| 3 | We ourselves have found that if a patient goes on to a diet which is relatively free from pesticides , herbicides and chemical additives , then often the homoeopathic remedies work much better than if the patient continues to eat an additive and junk-food-laden diet . |
| 4 | It can not be right to treat unmarried women who have the support of a partner both as if they had no such support and better than if they were married . |
| 5 | Two parties presenting themselves as an alliance will , it is true , fare better than if they campaign separately . |
| 6 | Sometimes a crisis focuses the attention far better than if you 're doing well . |
| 7 | Educationally , girls work harder and do better than if they had still been in school . |
| 8 | And good voice training will make your natural delivery sound ten times better than when you first started training . |
| 9 | I did , in fact , feel better , certainly better than when the X-rays had been taken , and much better than the period immediately before that . |
| 10 | The water was quite pleasant , certainly better than when mixed with liquorice to make ‘ Spanish water ’ . |
| 11 | At one point there was real concern about his future but he is now back and playing better than when he was first picked by England . ’ |
| 12 | I can handle success and failure better than when I was young . |
| 13 | You 're certainly looking a lot better than when they brought you in . |
| 14 | Even he got a few of the good lines , none better than when a malingerer produced a succession of ‘ chits ’ excusing him one arduous duty after the other . |
| 15 | He said oh I do n't mind cleaning he said but , he 's like Derek , I mean I , ooh I can soon clean well he 's a good , you know , cleaner I mean the bath , whenever he , blimey if ever he cleans the bath it looks ten times better than when I I do it . |
| 16 | Yes , your worships I wonder if I may assist the court o on behalf of er M Mrs erm Mrs er has told me that she thought at the time of the incident again was in fact , nearer to five o'clock than than , than four thirty and she was driving from Billington towards Clitheroe she had come through the traffic lights at the bottom of Accrington Road in Worley and she was proceeding along King Street in Worley er , towards towards Clitheroe and sh she has told me that at the time there was a considerable amount of traffic on the road and yo i in fact had that confirmed to you by er , my friend er the the traffic was sufficiently heavy that in fact , the the traffic travelling in the direction of Blackburn er was wai was backed up to the traffic lights as far as the zebra crossing and beyond it and so as Mrs erm was travelling towards Clitheroe her view of the children on the footpath at the opposite side of the road was obstructed by the cars that were er , travelling towards Blackburn . |
| 17 | Into the Home territory beyond they had to go fairly warily , but less so than if they had been a weaker company , not because of fears that the Homes would betray them to Dunbar but in that they were always jealous of their declared rights to decide who should enter their country and what they should pay for the privilege ; but two hundred and fifty well-armed men in tight formation carried their own safe-conduct , and they rode through without challenge . |
| 18 | I think ( actor 's voice ) people who are not in this great business of ours think the idea of electronic messages flying around is really odd and they may get freaked if some of what is said is a bit inflammatory- maybe more so than if they saw it printed . |
| 19 | Othello is larger-than-life and never more so than when determined to die , as White demonstrates in a nobly paced resumption of dignity in the difficult final scene . |
| 20 | Matchmaking is a precise art and never more so than when practised by Terry Lawless and Mickey Duff whose most notable achievement so far was to manoeuvre Frank Bruno into a hugely profitable contest against Tyson for the world heavyweight championship . |
| 21 | They can also be extremely awkward , never more so than when loaded with the needle-tips of a yucca or the sharks teeth of an agave . |
| 22 | His character was , however , memorably impassive — never more so than when the chokingly tearful Miss Bergman purrs , ‘ Oh , Victor , please do n't go to the underground meeting tonight . ’ |
| 23 | BRITISH painting has always had a tendency to look in upon itself , but never more so than when the Napoleonic wars rendered travel on the Continent impossible . |
| 24 | Subject matter can often be fleeting — never more so than when on holiday . |
| 25 | But the story is made more vivid by judicious descent into detail , never more so than when identifying individual residents of Broad Street , Ludlow , in a painting of 1765 . |
| 26 | Water holds a fascination for everyone , but never more so than when it is moving . |
| 27 | Maybe never more so than when she accompanied a group of cadets training for officership on a ten-day campaign in remote rural areas . |
| 28 | But work is a firm bonder , and never more so than when a task is both fascinating and absurdly difficult . |
| 29 | He 'd always admired his superior and never more so than when a victim of his contempt . |
| 30 | One has some sympathy for the loyal , compliant Mr Prince in these days before the Goulds ' departure for Australia ; even more so than when prince was left behind with all the doubts and pressures of having to act on his master 's behalf . |