Example sentences of "[adv] than [pron] has " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Commonwealth came closer together than it has been for a long time . |
| 2 | This turnaround of the external accounts has made the domestic performance of the ecomomy look decidedly better than it has been . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He very much admired the poetry of Ebenezer Elliott , the Corn Law Rhymer , that is , a poet who helped to lead the opposition to the laws which kept the price of bread artificially high , and said ‘ None of us have done better than he has at his best ’ . |
| 5 | If the right hon. Gentleman had done his homework — rather unusually — better than he has , he would know , first , that the change in the 16-week rule was introduced after lengthy consultations with building societies and , secondly , that at the time , they said that there was no reason for people to lose their homes because of that reduction ; nor have they . |
| 6 | The pair , running for Liverpool , outclassed the rest of the field , with Dawn running five seconds better than she has done before to record 4 minutes 34.9 seconds and Clare clocking 4–36.6 an improvement of 14 seconds on her previous best . |
| 7 | ‘ And I 've been in the parish longer than he has . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The first view would probably extend the law further than it has commonly been thought to go and would expose strikers having no immunity under trade union legislation to a very wide-ranging liability ; on the other hand it is not quite accurate to describe the plaintiffs in these two cases as merely ‘ ricochet ’ victims for it may be the effect of pressure on the public and customers which causes the employer to succumb to the strikers ' demands . |
| 10 | The amalgamation of farms has gone much too far in Britain — much further than it has in any other European country . |
| 11 | If the one about the little drummer boy under Richmond Castle has appeared once it has appeared 1000 times , which is 1000 times more than anybody has heard the strains of the drum from under the place . |
| 12 | Yes , she misses her mum and dad , and she misses the golden stretches of beach more than she has ever let on . |
| 13 | Since you came here he has laughed more and been amused more than he has been for the past two years . |
| 14 | Since 1973 , Ireland has received around £9 billion in EC funds — five times more than it has contributed to the community . |
| 15 | According to doctors Mills and Faunce of the University of Newcastle in New South Wales , melatonin tricks the body into thinking it has slept more than it has , has mild pain-killing qualities , and slows brainwave activity , thus ‘ enhancing meditative practices ’ . |
| 16 | In almost every year since 1945 the government has spent more than it has been willing or able to raise via taxation . |
| 17 | ‘ You have offered me more than anyone has ever done before , ’ she said . |
| 18 | This season Fergus — Gus to his friends — Aherne has warmed the bench much more assiduously than he has passed the ball from the base of the scrum . |
| 19 | ‘ He has a problem because I have seen him play more often than he has seen me ! ’ |
| 20 | Collins ' form has been as stable as his club 's progress has been erratic this season and the player feels he should have represented his country more often than he has done . |
| 21 | The idea of one global power holding the other to ransom seems less credible now than it has done previously . |
| 22 | Hence , a political economy of the urban is scarcely more plausible now than it has ever been in the past . |
| 23 | However , the truth of the matter is that the Scottish economy is in a better state now than it has been for many years and is continuing to thrive . |
| 24 | ‘ The police service is arguably more efficient now than it has ever been . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | Different supporters clubs around the world , have got official status , and yet I 'm sure at meetings and socials of these clubs , worse ideas and maybe even actions are carried out than what has been discussed between us . |
| 27 | ‘ Piss ’ is one of several four-letter words less acceptable today than it has been in the past . |
| 28 | It 's also a relaxed , romantic ad for Bill S , more alive here than he has been for decades . |
| 29 | I reckon he 'd have scored more goals then than he has now . |
| 30 | 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 . |