Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [adj] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tsar , however , believed he had found a better way to knit his territories together than any conceived by his predecessors . |
| 2 | It found that women often felt fairly unsure of their ability in DIY matters , but once they had breached the confidence barrier many regularly tackled demanding jobs and felt that their results were as good or better than those achieved by the professional . |
| 3 | A reasonable guide will be if it produces results near to or better than those predicted by equation ( 6.3 ) . |
| 4 | Far and away superior to those we had at our base RAF Hinaidi , and certainly better than those enjoyed by officers in the Mess . |
| 5 | And the FDIC says the deal was at least better than those offered by the other bidders , Bank of America and Bank of Boston . |
| 6 | According to defence analysts the US offer signalled cuts deeper than those required by the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( START ) ( signed in July 1991 ) which sought to reduce the number of " accountable " warheads held by the USA and the Soviet Union to 6,000 each [ see p. 38320 ] . |
| 7 | ( c ) Money paid to a person for the performance of a statutory duty , which he is bound to perform for a sum less than that charged by him , is also recoverable to the extent of the overcharge . |
| 8 | The Swedish Defence Research Institute said , however , that the radioactivity it had detected was a million times less than that released by the Chernobyl explosion in 1986 . |
| 9 | What is more , the incubation it needs is in any case one or two days less than that needed by its hosts ' chicks , so the young cuckoo stands a good chance of appearing before the legitimate chicks do . |
| 10 | The computer simulation shows that , given the same input torques , a ‘ flexible ’ shaft produces a ball speed less than that produced by an equivalent ‘ rigid ’ shaft . |
| 11 | But their losses are in total less than those suffered by the major insurance companies in recent years . |
| 12 | This will allow comparisons to be made between the two years using aggregations devised by the researcher , rather than those imposed by the Census Offices . |
| 13 | ( Their powers and duties resemble those given to English and Welsh school governors by the 1986 Education Act rather than those given by the 1988 Education Reform Act . ) |
| 14 | The fact that the requirements are those of central government rather than those initiated by individual schools makes a difference to the process of development . |
| 15 | Adrian Gozzard , ex-Plessey , spoke for many executives responsible for recruitment in Britain 's largest companies when he argued his preference for broad-based search firms , rather than those specialising by functional discipline . |
| 16 | The result for the middle-class child was an increased state of dependence , longer than that experienced by the previous generation . |
| 17 | Therefore it must necessarily be irrational , i.e. ‘ Wednesbury unreasonable ’ for the Secretary of State to set a tariff period longer than that recommended by the judiciary . |
| 18 | So the posts that are to be established and to be filled are exactly as those approved by the Policy Committee . |
| 19 | There are more than 1,500 employed by the Ministry of Defence at military bases across Northern Ireland , and at least five of them have been murdered . |
| 20 | Better performance still than that provided by the m-derived sections that have been described is available from what are known as double m-derived sections . |
| 21 | You note that the American murder rate is consistently four or five times worse than that suffered by West European countries and that 60% of American murders are committed with firearms . |
| 22 | In a series of meetings in early 1990 the government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh pressed for more rapid progress even than that envisaged by the Aden declaration of Nov. 30 , 1989 , which provided for a formal declaration of a unified Yemen Republic on Nov. 30 , 1990 . |
| 23 | The rate of eustatic change producible by this process has been estimated to be about three orders of magnitude slower than that produced by the climatically induced fluctuations of the Pleistocene ( Pitman , 1978 ) . |
| 24 | The people to be assisted included around 638,000 Angolans displaced in southern provinces by the civil war and by drought , as well as 140,000 affected by flooding in the north . |
| 25 | The field also included another Aga Khan runner in Shernazar , a half-brother to Shergar , as well as two trained by Guy Harwood — Alphahatim , winner of the Guardian Classic Trial and the Highland Spring Derby Trial , and Crazy , winner of the Ebor Handicap . |
| 26 | The bulletin includes articles from other publications as well as those written by its own correspondents throughout the region . |
| 27 | In an effort to minimize the social effects of the current crisis the government in October issued guarantees of basic pay for workers affected by the closure of industries as well as those displaced by bureaucratic staff cuts . |
| 28 | The idea of radical change in terms of a few basic ideas runs through many of the proposals for reform of Spanish government and society made in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries as well as those produced by the age of the Enlightenment . |
| 29 | It had been content to leave the service arrangements to a network of service engineers who serviced other makes of machine as well as those provided by Argent Distributors ( on the premise that one machine is very much like another ) and Argent Distributors carried and provided the stock of spare parts that were unique to their machines . |
| 30 | Some of these studies showed that the wheel-ruts caused by umbilical hose set-ups were only half as deep as those produced by the equivalent tanker-based equipment . |