Example sentences of "[adv] than the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More to him perhaps than the relief afforded by the crude sex was the fact that he woke up in the meagre home of a real working woman , warm like a picture by Chardin ; ‘ a wooden floor with a mat and a piece of old crimson carpet , an ordinary kitchen stove , a chest of drawers , a large simple bed . ’ |
| 2 | He found that in half the cases it would have done better than the buy-out . |
| 3 | Persson ( 1977 ) , for example , argues that for single emission sources and small industrial areas with good atmospheric dispersion , emission standards and requirements on stack heights based on best practicable means will guarantee an air quality better than the air quality standard . |
| 4 | This is determined by the angle the line is set to the wind , as one end is nearly always better than the other . |
| 5 | Will it be able to tell the story better than the release ? |
| 6 | AZT was approved in the United States in 1987 for use after symptoms of AIDS have appeared , after a controlled trial was brought prematurely to an end when it emerged that the treated group was doing better than the placebo groups . |
| 7 | The frames of the furniture were sound , a lot better than the kind of stuff they manufactured nowadays . |
| 8 | Although it has disadvantages , it is a great deal better than the kind of society in which there is no free press , or in which the press is gagged by more and more complex and frequently unworkable rules . |
| 9 | First and foremost everyone present at an event must be able to see and hear , and the press must be able to see and hear slightly better than the rest without getting in the way of the guests . |
| 10 | Modern linguistics is a field full of conflicting theories , and an external observer would be hard put to accept one as better than the rest . |
| 11 | He is lasting as good as , if not better than the rest of the side . |
| 12 | ‘ The North-East has done better than the rest of the UK under Conservative policies . ’ |
| 13 | Now for those who think they know better than the rest , watch this tackle coming up . |
| 14 | The Act Two ball dress , the emerald gown with the huge stiffened collar embroidered with pearls , looked even better than the Act One dress and she realized that , without knowing quite how , she had quelled Gesner — not for reasons of rivalry but because she had had to get the production back on course . |
| 15 | Yet it is in this dangerous arrogance , that the politician can know a person 's needs better than the person himself , that the seeds of bureaucratic authoritarianism lie . |
| 16 | The person who creates a crisis in a relationship which is not going well such that the two part company and he or she is able to establish a more suitable and rewarding partnership may do much better than the person who avoids crises and settles for a far from ideal partner . |
| 17 | It has a pair of small loudspeakers fitted inside , which you can connect to your PC 's sound card — much better than the Walkman speakers I normally hook up . |
| 18 | ‘ Better than the Mission Hall , ’ Frankie said . |
| 19 | Thayer ( 1986 , 1989 ) , for example , has shown that self-report measures of how peppy , active or vigorous a person feels correlate well with a broad range of physiological measures of arousal , usually better than the intercorrelation of such measures with one another . |
| 20 | But there was no nationwide trading pattern , though once again the north tended to fare better than the south . |
| 21 | Where better than the south of France , which she knew like the back of her hand ? |
| 22 | As it is it 's still a whole lot better than the Spectrum 's rubber pads and very reasonable value for money . |
| 23 | Stated generally , the fundamental rationale he offers for having to do so is that he , either himself or as the agent of society , knew better than the patient what should be done to or for the patient . |
| 24 | It was hard , but better than the hut . |
| 25 | ‘ A lot better than the Admiral , ’ said Amiss . |
| 26 | Nobody , he said , could have done better than the Chancellor . |
| 27 | The images were returned by the on-board TV cameras and yielded detail on the Mercurian surface down to about 1 km across , about as good as the Moon viewed through a telescope with a magnification of × 120 and about 300 times better than the pre-Mariner 10 images . |
| 28 | Comparing television with the press , for example , the public rated television a full 1.0 marks better than the press for providing issue-information , and 0.7 marks better on providing leader-information , but only 0.3 marks better for helping viewers and readers decide how to vote ( Table 6.9 ) . |
| 29 | Their wives were chic , exquisitely dressed — far better than the majority of women in post-war Paris . |
| 30 | In spite of Strathclyde 's size , covering half of Scotland and serving 2.3 million people , Mr McNulty said local committees would guarantee accountability and reflect local loyalties better than the council structure proposed by the Scottish Office . |