Example sentences of "[adv] than [pers pn] [modal v] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The schools of Freud and Jung are now much closer together than they used to be : it 's been said that Jungians tend to be more ‘ spiritually ’ orientated . |
| 2 | Medical treatment for hay fever is now much better than it used to be . |
| 3 | The only problem is that it is messy and somewhat smelly , though much less so than it used to be . |
| 4 | The industry is also getting a lot more respect from outside than it used to , Mr Hirst believes . |
| 5 | One is that people are living longer than they used to , and it is obviously a help if their teeth last longer too . |
| 6 | For example , people are living longer than they used to . |
| 7 | My only qualm is that the final answer ( any shape , but get the size right ) is a bit of an anticlimax and , despite the author 's deftly misdirecting hand , those with a feeling for scale-changes will spot it sooner than they ought to . |
| 8 | Though we feel ourselves to be much more comfortable now than we used to be , there has been very little increase in domestic fuel demand over fifty years or more . |
| 9 | Inside each brown case waited the empty skull-face , folded flat , with a flappy rubber nose and hard cylindrical snout , though they frightened Dot less now than they used to . |
| 10 | Gamma Virginis or Arich is also a binary ; the identical components can be split with almost any telescope , though not with binoculars ( they are much less wide apart now than they used to be 50 years ago , and the separation is decreasing steadily ) . |
| 11 | In fact , if anything , little boys die more than little girls , even more now than they used to in the past , so it ca n't be anything to do with health care in case |
| 12 | The door is great I mean it 's bigger actually the doors and windows are bigger now than they used to be , are n't they ? |
| 13 | So you think the students are quieter and , and working harder now than they used to . |
| 14 | I think perhaps one difference is they 've become much larger and more complicated and I certainly think that parents in particular tend to expect far more of schools now than they used to . |
| 15 | I suppose it 's something to do with me being happy , being married , knowing where I am : I can see things more clearly now than I used to . |
| 16 | But JPL is still associated with Caltech , and acceptance of classified research at US universities is much less ready now than it used to be . |
| 17 | now than it used to be , or is it just about the same ? |
| 18 | Well they , they had to do the , it had n't used to have very good drainage and far more of a slope , it , it 's far more level today than it used to be , it used to have a great slope towards the long end which was considered an advantage to Walsall and the water used to gather , but I believe the improved the drainage and had pipes put under which it , it does n't seem to gather water so much now down at the railway end . |
| 19 | I get to places much quicker than I used to : places like the far end of the room . |
| 20 | Things move faster than they used to . |
| 21 | You definitely feel all the time that it could go faster than it ought to — it 's a jet fighter rather than an airbus . ’ |
| 22 | The information will become known a bit faster than it used to be . |