Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [vb pp] [adv] than " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The defendants contend that their contractual right to indemnity costs entitles them to recover or retain all costs actually incurred save only those that are incurred otherwise than bona fide or are incurred for an improper motive . |
| 2 | Probably the best advice is to be wary of any project that is more than a couple of years old , and to be extremely wary of any that were published more than five years ago . |
| 3 | It even has antique furniture that is used rather than just polished . |
| 4 | To imagine other worlds was to imagine that Christ might have died and been resurrected more than once , or that their inhabitants might be restored to eternal life without a knowledge of the Son of God . |
| 5 | The new systems replace Dell 's existing line of 80486 desktops and are priced lower than their predecessors while offering improved performance and such features as integrated Local Bus video , ability to be upgraded to Intel Corp 's Pentium chip , and embedded system diagnostics . |
| 6 | Very briefly , they discovered that public sector boards were smaller on average , had more part-time members , had a broader membership background ; members had a shorter length of service , held fewer outside appointments and were paid less than private sector boards . |
| 7 | But the bulk of the chemical run-off binds to particulates and is concentrated rather than dispersed evenly through the water column . |
| 8 | He believed that he got up and felt his feet sink through the floor while the music from down below came up like vapour and was breathed rather than heard . |
| 9 | The seven which are relevant to Christ 's manhood are : belief in the Incarnation and Virgin birth ; that in Jesus God and man are united , begotten by God , born of Mary ; belief in " Cristes passion " that after Christ was taken down from the cross dead ( the deposition ) , he liberated those believers subject to death before he was born , a process known as the Harrowing of Hell ; that though he suffered mortality , he rose from the dead through the strength of God , and made this possible for all men ; that he ascended into heaven and was crowned higher than the angels ; that he will come at the end of time to judge the world and this will be the end of the era of redemption : These two sets of seven points about the Godhead and Christ delineate beliefs about the nature of life subject to a process of sickness and death but also filled with the potential for healing realised definitively in the life of Christ . |
| 10 | Perhaps because my mother refused to send me a sanitary belt , saying that such things were unnecessary , I leaked and was chafed more than most . |
| 11 | The house was built between the third and fourth centuries and was located less than three feet underground . |
| 12 | Offenders with a large number of previous convictions were not only more likely to be reconvicted but were reconvicted sooner than those with few previous convictions ( 1979 , p. 41 ) . |
| 13 | There are local government officers who are engaged in management buy-outs and others who decide to work in the private sector and pretend that they can deliver services better while being paid more than in the public sector . |