Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] than [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In most animals the senses are more keenly developed than in humans . |
| 2 | But now , with hopes of success in both Guineas races in two weeks ' time , and the renaissance of Manton under his trainer Peter Chapple-Hyam , the leading British owner-breeder is better placed than at any period in the past decade . |
| 3 | This need can not be better filled than by the Citizens Advice Bureaux . ’ |
| 4 | The richness of personal awareness of God in the Old Testament is hardly better seen than through the wealth of metaphors for the God who was known and loved in daily life : |
| 5 | This was no better reflected than in his creation of A Distant Drummer with its horrific theme of man 's inhumanity to man , where ritual warlike movements were applied to the jack-booted soldiers of Nazi Germany . |
| 6 | Appreciation by the children of such history , craftsmanship and skill was no where more obviously shown than in the canteen where balloons , strawberry tarts and fizzy drinks made a fitting end to a successful visit . |
| 7 | The radical idea that the office might be a place for life-long learning is nowhere better demonstrated than by Harry Quadracci , chairman of $500 million turnover Quad Graphics of Wisconsin . |
| 8 | Nowhere is this tension better demonstrated than in the provision of the British system of social services . |
| 9 | The magical ‘ pagan ’ effect of the flute in this part of its compass is nowhere better demonstrated than in Debussy 's L'après-midi d'un faune . |
| 10 | This diversity and range was nowhere better demonstrated than in our six prestigious national lectures : The first of these lectures having been held in Sheffield , this second was held in Tynemouth and Bill Oakes , Chairman , Northern Section , and his committee are to be congratulated on the 200-plus members and guests that came to hear what Alan had to say . |
| 11 | It seems odd that we could get hammered in one game , just win the other and still be better rewarded than with 2 draws . |
| 12 | Another complicating factor is the large number of organisations that are inevitably involved in all the different aspects of rural development , although on the small scale of Lewis and Harris they would appear already to be somewhat better integrated than in many other places . |
| 13 | Nowhere is this better exemplified than by the way in which Ireland ( Eire and Ulster ) takes to the rugby field as one team . |
| 14 | It can not be better exemplified than by the uncomfortable relationship of late Cretaceous marine sediments to the metamorphosed Precambrian rocks of the Bohemian Massif , as illustrated in plate 3.1 . |
| 15 | Nowhere is this better exemplified than by the rape of Jackie Berkley by police officers at Moss Side police station , and the shooting of Cherry Groce in Brixton and Cynthia Jarrett in Tottenham during police raids on their homes . |
| 16 | This definition ‘ proper to the period ’ is nowhere better exemplified than in Ashton 's five classical ballets . |
| 17 | Petipa 's suggestion that beats can add brilliance to the dance is nowhere better exemplified than in the brisés voiés and temps depoisson of the Bluebird 's solo in The Sleeping Beauty and other male solos from ballets by Bournonville . |
| 18 | This has itself generated a substantial literature ( see the papers in Elliot 1988 for an overview ) and is nowhere better exemplified than in Openshaw 's geographical analysis machine ( see Ch. 2 ) . |
| 19 | This is nowhere better exemplified than in the treatment that some consultants in the NHS offered those who had to visit them as out-patients . |
| 20 | Notice how some of the words when repeated are better spoken than at other times , according to the level of passion in the delivery . |
| 21 | It seems that staff often feel less appreciated than in fact they are by parents , and probably vice versa . |
| 22 | Is the technology which reaches the defence sector better utilised than in the civil economy ? |
| 23 | But from this , and from table 4.8 , it is reasonable to conclude that the situation is in this respect less focused than in the inner city . |
| 24 | ‘ Nowhere is ARTICLE 19 's message that censorship kills more brutally illustrated than in Burma today ’ , states the preface to State of Fear : Censorship in Burma ( Myanmar ) which was published in December by ARTICLE 19 as part of its series of Country Reports . |
| 25 | The considerable flexibility mentioned earlier could not be better illustrated than through one of John Barker 's much-used parachutes . |
| 26 | These ideas are no better illustrated than by Massine in his The Three-Cornered Hat . |
| 27 | These skills are perhaps no better illustrated than by the finds from the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo . |
| 28 | The dark side of radio politics can not be better illustrated than by Sefton Delmer 's Black Boomerang , an account of the murky world of Britain 's black radio propaganda put out during the war . |
| 29 | Does my hon. Friend agree that our achievements in that aspect of education could not be better illustrated than by that which pertains in Nottinghamshire , where the university now has the highest ratio of applications to available places and where Nottingham polytechnic , which is soon to be a university , is planning to increase its capacity over the next couple of years to 16,000 student places ? |
| 30 | Marx 's and Engels 's position is always something of a balancing act between idealism and crude or ‘ vulgar ’ materialism and this is nowhere better illustrated than in The German Ideology and the Theses on Feuerbach . |