Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence common words will be more rapidly identified or produced than uncommon words , and also a word which has been presented previously will be more rapidly identified than one which has not . |
| 2 | Breeding is in fact more often suspected or assumed than proved at present , but six broods were recorded between 1964 and 1970 . |
| 3 | With the law as it is there may be some men who would prefer an adult partner , but who at present turn their attention to boys because they consider that this course is less likely to lay them open to prosecution or to blackmail than if they sought other adults as their partners . |
| 4 | This does not , however , mean that the written form is necessarily easier to make sense of or to follow than speech , nor that this particular set of conventions necessarily advantages English users . |
| 5 | Perhaps the most significant of these changes occurred more in the institutions and managerial frameworks in which ‘ art ’ was produced and consumed than in the studios . |
| 6 | He then slept badly and became more silent and withdrawn than was his habit . |
| 7 | The mood seemed similar at many places on the site — less whistling and singing than usual , more talking . |
| 8 | If the husband did not fulfil his obligation to maintain , then on balance it was considered preferable for the wife to go out and earn than for the whole family to become chargeable to the Poor Law . |
| 9 | It will have been gathered from what has gone before that the non-gonococcal infections are considerably less easy both to diagnose and to treat than gonorrhoea itself . |
| 10 | Yes , and in one day here you 'll find more to see and do than two weeks spent almost anywhere else . |
| 11 | Society in India and the Far East generally was historically far more formal and organized than were the tribal systems of Africa . |
| 12 | Thus ministers no longer feel that the doctrine exposes them to special risks in the House but , by confining all the advice of the departments to ministers , it does ensure that they are so much better informed and briefed than their critics . |
| 13 | D4 ) is both easier to write accurately and understand than its Lotus or Excel equivalent . |
| 14 | But slaves in good households were far better fed , clothed , and housed than the free wage-labourers who formed the majority of the labour force . |
| 15 | Barama has pledged to ‘ work within national laws and ensure than forests and ecosystems are maintained . ’ |
| 16 | Of the various neutrophil functions — namely adherence , aggregation , orientation , locomotion , and chemotaxis — few are better defined and understood than the sequence of events when the neurtophil comes into contact with a chemoattractant . |
| 17 | Another is that co-operating individuals jointly benefited even though they were not related ; the co-operative behaviour has evolved because those who did it were more likely to survive as individuals and reproduce than those that did not . |
| 18 | Lady Macbeth is more glamorous and styled than in play . |
| 19 | The years have been kind to Irene , though she 's still a lot more tired and worn than even the roughest of our nurses . |
| 20 | To administer the second dose , succuss the original bottle and repeat the process , so that the second dose is a little more succussed and diluted than the first . |
| 21 | The field of government activity and interest extended rapidly , and the size of the Cabinet with it ; and at the same time Ministers found — particularly with an economy weakened by the war — that these new problems were both more complex and inter-related than they had perhaps expected . |
| 22 | Massively parallel computers have the added advantage , for all users , of being much cheaper to build and to run than vectors . |
| 23 | The King lost the Civil War of 1642–6 because the Scottish army came to the aid of Parliament on the understanding that a Presbyterian form of Church government would be imposed in England ; and because Cromwell 's troops were better led and trained than the Royalists . |
| 24 | There is no procedure that strikes more fear and trepidation into the hearts of the ignorant and misinformed than the lumbar puncture . |
| 25 | Sweeney has no sooner stood up and shaved than he appears in a vision of reversion taking the form of the second parenthesis , the importance of whose material strains against the parenthetical format , guiding our reading of the poem : |
| 26 | Frederica tried to talk to M. Grimaud about Racine but , although he could quote several speeches , he was more interested in what Racine was and meant than in what he had written . |
| 27 | Gas cookers were cheaper to buy and operate than electric cookers , and the Electricity Boards discussed the possible production of a cheap standard cooker to boost sales . |
| 28 | The £130 million Metro Link which opened in Manchester in April was cheaper to construct and operate than traditional railways . |
| 29 | Was it really better to love and lose than to try and avoid the inevitable pain by not loving at all ? |
| 30 | It has become clear that the anti-vivisection movement is now far better organised and directed than in the past . |