Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] than it have [be] " in BNC.

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1 Now the illusion is well and truly shattered and the only reason the share price has not plunged much further than it has is the hope that some brave soul will put the group out of its misery with a takeover .
2 What we sought to do , in terms of Community competence , in the discussions was to extend it in areas where we thought it was appropriate and to define it more adequately than it has been defined in the past in order to prevent , as far as it is possible to prevent it , that element of creeping competence that so offends many people in this country .
3 Quite aside from the inherent dangers of establishing an energy system to any significant degree reliant on highly unstable nuclear technology , the implications of the spread of nuclear power for the extension of military nuclear capability must be taken much more seriously than it has been hitherto ( SIPRI , 1979 , 1980 , 1980A ) .
4 This turnaround of the external accounts has made the domestic performance of the ecomomy look decidedly better than it has been .
5 But John Buxton , director of property services at the Town Hall , said : ‘ The river is being cleaned much more regularly now than it has been before . ’
6 The Commonwealth came closer together than it has been for a long time .
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