Example sentences of "[det] than [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also included the committee 's limit of 15 B-2s , 60 fewer than requested by the Bush administration . |
| 2 | The South Sussex team was also more than compensated by the rock solidarity of a boy called Paul Hedley at back , and the dazzling Sherwood brothers , Randolph and Merlin , who 'd pulled out of high goal polo for a fortnight to piss it up with the Pony Club . |
| 3 | By reducing the tax distortion and increasing the amount of work a lot , lower taxes would be more than compensated by the extra work and incomes to which the tax rates were applied . |
| 4 | Mrs Teresa Jane Strachan , a Newcastle town-planner , said that although the new private hospital building would take away 69 car-parking places , this loss would be more than compensated by the two new Bioplan car parks . |
| 5 | According to Intel Japan president Bill Howe , Intel 's business in Japan has not been affected by the strong yen , and any bad effect from the recession is more than counteracted by the movement to the high-speed 80486 currently going on in Japan . |
| 6 | The memorandum expressed the government 's confidence that the extra costs would be more than covered by the savings they made possible . |
| 7 | But these limitations are more than offset by the sheer quantity of coins and hence of the designs made . |
| 8 | There will be increased printing costs and greater use of school facilities ; but these burdens will be more than offset by the extra revenue generated by parent support . |
| 9 | Nor have the costs been high ; at only 14 DM per square metre of street , they are not only absolutely low but are more than offset by the saving to society of the reduced accident level that results . |
| 10 | Small amounts of vitamins and minerals in beer are more than offset by the adverse effect of the alcohol on your nutritional state . |
| 11 | As in the full employment models considered earlier , the direct impact may be more than offset by the indirect , general equilibrium , effects for example , if the demand response is biased towards capital-intensive industries . |
| 12 | You might consider , too , whether the costs saved by single-ticket issue are n't more than offset by the ( unquantifiable but still real ) costs of customer aggro. , and the costs of administering a refund , as in my case . |
| 13 | However , these were more than offset by the migration of 348,000 people to the area . |
| 14 | Jebel Ali container volume has increased by over five times since 1988 and general cargo will be more than tripled by the end of 1991 , ’ he said . |
| 15 | The psychological black hole which is Quisling 's superabundance of gravity is more than counterbalanced by the light thrown on the society which spawned him : a small country struggling in the economic and political tempests of the years between the wars . |
| 16 | The few quickly-processed updates that are handled first , if direct processing is adopted , are more than counterbalanced by the shorter overall run time and thus better average service performance achieved by batching and sorting . |
| 17 | The first method is appropriate if large amounts of calculation are to be performed on the input data , since the cost of conversion is more than out-weighed by the increased speed and compactness of binary arithmetic . |
| 18 | Under these circumstances , there is little doubt in my mind that the supposed advantages of support teaching are more than outweighed by the disadvantages which it presents . |
| 19 | You will be less than gruntled by the following job application , posted in Sammy Dunlop 's Tackle Shop at Ballydown , outside Banbridge . |
| 20 | Gregory himself did not doubt the efficacy of the saint , but clearly Leudast and his supporters were less than impressed by the bishop 's special relationship with his supernatural patron . |