Example sentences of "[adv] than [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suffer more from a feeling of guilt , perhaps than men do . |
| 2 | The progressive dismantling of regional development policy since 1979 has moved more swiftly than steps aimed at deregulating the housing sector . |
| 3 | Similarly , to revert to the question of the 11+ , the fact that girls as a group consistently did better than boys did not result in more grammar school places for girls . |
| 4 | ‘ I could manage this horse , ’ Alexander answered seriously , ‘ better than others do . ’ |
| 5 | On the whole , the evidence ( P.A. Consultants , 1987 ) suggests that companies located in enterprise zones have performed better than firms located elsewhere in the local economy . |
| 6 | By way of final illustration , we can apply Nozick 's refutation to Descartes ' sceptical argument about dreaming , and hence perhaps do better than Descartes did on the last page of the Meditations . |
| 7 | Both she and Lubor had a glass of beer to go with it , and , having not been hungry , the meal went down much better than Fabia had anticipated . |
| 8 | The observers that took part in the raid do not in any way represent the residents of this estate and are widely regarded here as being little better than police stooges . |
| 9 | Now I know they 're absolutely outstanding vehicles , much better than Chrysler has ever done before . |
| 10 | To reverse the mode of operation of the Jokaero spying device in this manner , the Harlequin man must understand the technology better than Jaq did . |
| 11 | My knowledge of French was rather better than Benjamin knew . |
| 12 | Today some say they print up as well if not better than photographs taken with modern technology . |
| 13 | Even so , tough or not , fungus attack is persistent , and the principle of prevention being better than cure means that we have to try to prevent the development and growth of spores into our roses by spreading a film of fungus-toxic material on leaf , shoot and other vulnerable parts — a contact killer — or , as we are now able to do for insects , we can render the sap stream and internal tissue poisonous to invading fungus by introducing a systemic fungicide . |
| 14 | It went better than Busacher had hoped . |
| 15 | Mrs Hollidaye was there too , and more gently than Gloria asked , ‘ Were there any more eggs in there , did you notice ? |
| 16 | The volcanoes erupt from depths of around ten kilometres — much deeper than levels reached by drilling — and bring oil , gas , water and rocks to the surface . |
| 17 | No sooner was this revolt put down than Richard became involved in a new war with Count Raymond of Toulouse . |
| 18 | You seem to have thought it out already , more so than Unesco has himself . |
| 19 | RECESSION has led to misery for millions but none more so than workers made Redundant and those whose homes have been Repossessed . |
| 20 | In addition , 25% have managed only one issue in the relevant period , and no less than 38% have been in the top 50 for less than four years , excluding those who have established themselves in the last four years . |
| 21 | If you only want to borrow a small amount , a better option is to take a further advance from your existing lender ( less than £100 to arrange ) or , alternatively , a top-up loan from a second lender . |
| 22 | Maybe men talk about it even less than women do . |
| 23 | Ordnance is believed to have paid less than £10m to buy British Manufacture and Research from Cork Gully , the Astra receivers . |
| 24 | Most patients are dead within a year of the diagnosis and overall , less than 1% live more than five years . |
| 25 | The fine tradition of fund raising set by the guild had been continued by the branch , so much so that since October no less than £8,533 has been raised . |
| 26 | It costs less than £2 to press a CD-Rom . |
| 27 | The trust usually costs less than $15,000 to set up and around $2,000 a year to run . |
| 28 | This year Moss expects less than 20% to come from sales of framework technologies and hopes end-user products will be 80% — and only 5% or 10% during 1994 . |
| 29 | It is the resulting harm ( death ) which still dominates , as is evident from the fact that many forms of conduct fall within the law of manslaughter if death happens to result , whereas they would not even amount to a serious offence if a consequence less than death had ensued . |
| 30 | However just less than 53% achieved either a moderate or good degree and the proportion obtaining a poor degree was 13% . |