Example sentences of "[adv] than it " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is not just because inflation is raging less fiercely than it was in the early 1980s , but also because of improvements in the way the labour market works . |
| 2 | A horse that has had no exercise all day is less likely to stand still for the farrier than one that has just been ridden ; and a youngster that has never been ridden out on the road before will be considerably more nervous if it goes alone than it would with a companion . |
| 3 | The Commonwealth came closer together than it has been for a long time . |
| 4 | In the Poetry Review for February , 1912 , a critic , who is himself a poet , and whom I always read with great interest , speaks of the struggle ‘ to find out what has been done , once and for all , better than it can ever be done again , and to find out what remains for us to do ’ … . |
| 5 | Leavis , who countered How To Read with a booklet , How to Teach Reading , and Winters , who declared in 1937 , ‘ Mr Pound resembles a village loafer who sees much and understands little ’ , told the same story as Tate : Pound was a naïf , an imagination and sensory apparatus that consistently performed better than it knew , in ways that the maker 's own discursive intelligence failed to comprehend or measure up to ; in Winters 's memorable and mordant judgement of 1943 , ‘ a sensibility without a mind , or with as little mind as is well possible ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Better than it might be . |
| 7 | This turnaround of the external accounts has made the domestic performance of the ecomomy look decidedly better than it has been . |
| 8 | If the polys are indeed achieving the parity of esteem they have long sought , their graduates ' relative position during the next recession should prove better than it was during the early 1980s . |
| 9 | Medical treatment for hay fever is now much better than it used to be . |
| 10 | ‘ In my opinion the period from three to six is the most important and should be utilised much better than it is today . |
| 11 | The management of the health service is now infinitely better than it was and the trend to devolving responsibility downwards has continued apace . |
| 12 | We told the truth , the country deserved better than it got , and Labour would keep striving to create a country better in spirit and soul , he said , appealing for the party to retain in defeat the unity and vitality it showed in the campaign . |
| 13 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |
| 14 | Woosnam , who was playing with Parry , salvaged a 73 which left him sharing fifth place with Price , four off the lead , which was rather better than it might have been . |
| 15 | Building construction should not be a closed book , and the industry itself is neither well trained nor well informed , otherwise its reputation would be a good deal better than it is . |
| 16 | Her gown looked expensive , Ruth thought , but it would have suited her mistress better than it did its owner . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's a hell of a lot better than it was before , ’ he says , ‘ because virtually every manufacturing use had a potential for inclusion . ’ |
| 18 | It is notable that he does not see himself abandoning epistemology , but as continuing it , doing it better than it previously had been done . |
| 19 | But he was in a sense revivified : his heart withstood the weakening effect of his illnesses much better than it had done in the same period of the previous year , and this was the first winter for some time when he had not been forced to seek treatment in a clinic . |
| 20 | It fits that account better than it fits others , including a probabilistic account of which a bit more will be said . |
| 21 | Devise your method and then tell your story , which inevitably will make the mystery seem rather better than it has to be , because all locked rooms are variants of a small number of simple devices , most of which are ways of making such rooms unlocked all along . |
| 22 | The leader takes account of these responses in choosing its output and is able to do better than it would under Cournot reactions there is a ‘ first mover ’ or precommitment advantage . |
| 23 | First , the sense in which the strategy is evolutionarily stable is that no other strategy ( among those considered in the model ) can do better than it . |
| 24 | But I will say this , it 's a great deal better than it looks from the outside . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It suits me better than it suits him . ’ |
| 26 | I hope that when the Bill goes to another place the words recorded in the Official Report , spoken both in Committee and on the Floor of the House , will be examined carefully and that what we have started will be built upon to make the Bill even better than it is . |
| 27 | The next day started better than it should have . |
| 28 | However , that figure was in fact far better than it looked as the banks had the worst ranking of any sector , with an average negative rating of -1,357 . |
| 29 | The programme has never done better than it is doing now , it is going great guns . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ The rose is for you , little maid , ’ he said , his voice husky , deeper than it had been before . |