Example sentences of "[vb pp] than [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the first vowel in the following English words is of a different quality when it is stressed than when it is unstressed : convert , progress , transfer . |
| 2 | When I arrived at Wuthering Heights that afternoon , I was shocked to see how much worse the house looked than when I used to live there . |
| 3 | I will consider what more needs to be done — because undoubtedly more needs to be done and formidable challenges remain — and whether further progress towards the achievement of those objectives is more likely to come about if the policies of the Government continue to be pursued than if the policies that the hon. Gentleman 's party advocates were introduced in their place . |
| 4 | For subjects given a list of words , when recall is immediate words with serial positions late in the list are more likely to be recalled than when recall is delayed . |
| 5 | There must be some dimensions that have been more thoroughly checked than than er |
| 6 | There was nothing more interesting to be seen than if this had been the entrance to a rabbit warren , nothing but a tunnel that led down into darkness . |
| 7 | If the same types of description are used ( name or NP ) , there is a greater likelihood that plural references will be made than if mixed descriptions are used . |
| 8 | I think that people would be justified in rebuking me for deceiving them as to my whereabouts , but that I would no more have actually lied than if I had thrown my voice and said ‘ Cooee ‘ . |
| 9 | Secondly , since the nature of the harm is usually unknown , larger numbers are needed than if it could be specified in advance to avoid spurious statistically significant adverse effects . |
| 10 | When the acted-upon was presented first , or emphasised through questioning , significantly more passives were produced than when the actor received prior attentional focus . |
| 11 | Brightly lit as on a stage , she saw the bodies still , more garish , more brightly lit than when they had first met her horrified eyes . |
| 12 | Understandably , the courts are more willing to review a decision because of the way in which it has been reached than because of its actual merits , or lack of them . |
| 13 | A multivariate analysis of WFS and other statistics confirmed that mortality of children under age five is higher if the mother is employed than if she is not in the labour force . |
| 14 | The trials and tribulations which beset Piggott after his riding career was over — imprisonment in October 1987 for tax fraud — do nothing to distract from his achievements in the saddle , and never have his skills been better demonstrated than when he won his twenty-eighth Classic . |
| 15 | By contrast , answering some questions about intervals between dates is much more difficult for the bottom third when no calendar is provided than when it is ; the top third are about as successful whether or not a calendar is provided . |
| 16 | lt would , for example , sound distinctly odd to have a tone-unit boundary between an article and a following noun , or between auxiliary and main verbs if they are adjacent ( though we may on occasions hesitate or pause in such places within a tone-unit ; some people who do a lot of arguing , notably politicians and philosophers , develop the skill of pausing for breath in such intonationally unlikely places because they are less likely to be interrupted than if they pause at the end of a sentence ) . |
| 17 | In the second half of 1947 international attitudes towards Franco began to alter but this was less in response to the " changes " he had introduced than because Spain 's strategic value was enhanced by the deterioration of east–west relations . |
| 18 | The muscles behave like rubber bands , possessing more potential energy when they are stretched than when they are lax . |
| 19 | A team of four individuals working together in a brainstorming session is likely to perform less well on the number of ideas generated than if the four individuals worked on their own . |
| 20 | Few areas in nutrition and medicine are more hotly debated than whether or not people should take vitamin and mineral supplements . |
| 21 | This distinction is familiar enough to the jurist for whom the fairness and therefore the acceptability of a trial may be more a matter of the way in which the trial was conducted than whether or not the verdict reached was in some further sense the right one . |
| 22 | While inevitably losing office in 1660 , he cleared his accounts successfully , while years later Samuel Pepys [ q.v. ] believed that the finances of the navy had never been better handled than while he was treasurer . |
| 23 | The Miami Cubans are flexing their wallets for the return to a country whose people are healthier , better educated and less racially divided than when the exiles left . |
| 24 | There is little evidence , however , to correlate serum concentrations after the dose with toxicity , and indeed experimental nephrotoxicity caused by gentamicin is more severe when the total daily dose is divided than when it is given by a single bolus , when concentrations after the dose are higher . |
| 25 | If teachers are to assume a greater role in the control of their own organisations a far wider range of knowledge and skills is required than if they are to remain ‘ in the classroom ’ — they must move from the restricted to the extended approach . |
| 26 | In these cases one of the objectives is often to enable lower rates of pay and/or fringe benefits to be paid than if the workers concerned were remunerated on scales applying to the organisation itself . |
| 27 | With both types of reinforcement , children are more fully informed than if they receive only one . |