Example sentences of "[adj] than [verb] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was very much more simple than dealing with the naval officer . |
| 2 | PROGRESS in setting up a new retreat centre in Falkland in Fife which was initiated by Church of Scotland deaconess Lynda Wright has been much swifter than anticipated with the result that it will welcome its first guests from the beginning of April . |
| 3 | It is not to be doubted that there are still thousands of mainframe users that want nothing more than to continue with the kind of computing they have always known , using the environment with which they are familiar , and in which they have invested a large part of their lives . |
| 4 | Though it may well be , he wrote , that one actually achieves more working with the wrong plans and in the wrong spirit , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception , it may well be , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that one achieves more than working with the right plans and in the right spirit , with the right tools and the right principles , on the right surface and with the right conception , though right and wrong and more and less are relative concepts and what seems right at one moment to one person may seem wrong at the same moment to another Person or at another moment to the same person , and what seems more to one person at one moment may seem less to another person at the same moment or at another moment to the same person , right , wrong , more , less , relative concepts , scribbled Goldberg , in the margin , panting slightly as he bent over his old Olivetti Portable , there is only the beginning , wrote Harsnet , or rather , there is only having begun , beginning , scribbled Goldberg , aware now of the black stains on his hands left by the felt-tip pen , having begun , there is only the feeling in the pit of the stomach or the feeling in the chest , wrote Harsnet , the feeling of sickness or the feeling of elation , those are not relative , he wrote , those are absolute . |
| 5 | It accelerated more than anticipated with the result that the capsule landed in the Atlantic over a hundred miles away from the target area . |
| 6 | A report of the Institutional Shareholders ' Committee in April 1992 noted that ‘ most companies do no more than comply with the very limited disclosure requirements of SSAP 13 and some do not even do that . |
| 7 | Many employers did little more than comply with the bare regulations . |
| 8 | Tangy and crisp with a fruity flavour we quite liked this one , although we were less than impressed with the look of the bottle . |
| 9 | ( c ) Position conflicts : the position you take in one piece of litigation may be at odds with the position you want to take in a subsequent action ( for example , in advancing the cause of a plaintiff you may adopt a position that puts you in difficulty with some defence clients who are less than impressed with the vigour with which you espouse the plaintiff 's cause ) . |
| 10 | MY party of visitors to the new Museum of Liverpool Life were less than impressed with the Brookside exhibit . |
| 11 | It is necessary first to consider an argument which has throughout been presented by the Attorney-General as decisive ; namely , that the answer to this question must inevitably be negative because the district judge had no power , or no power that he could properly exercise , to do anything other than proceed with the cases assigned to his court , without any regard at all to the pendency of the B.M.F.L. prosecution , destined for committal to the High Court . |
| 12 | Interestingly , most people 's attitudes towards this appear quite accepting ; often , the anticipation of dying seems to be less traumatic than dealing with the problems associated with ageing itself . |