Example sentences of "than [adj] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The adoral shields are just longer than broad and positioned almost totally proximal to the oral shield . |
| 2 | The adoral shields are about 3 times longer than broad and indented in the region of the second oral tentacle pore . |
| 3 | The shape and arrangement of the rhynchosaur teeth are also different from those of living molluscivores ; they were sharp and conical when unworn , rather than broad and flattened . |
| 4 | His glass eye — he had lost the original when he was cleaning a gun — seemed to swivel further out of true than usual and stared pleasantly at the fire ; the real one looked like a razor . |
| 5 | ‘ I sat back a little bit more than usual and made sure things were organised . |
| 6 | Planning involves a series of action steps , such as going to bed earlier than usual and setting an alarm ( or a failsafe system incorporating two or more alarms ! ) . for more on the need for specificity see Action plans on page 1 . |
| 7 | Things were quieter than usual and travelling through London was a breeze . |
| 8 | She glanced at Andrew , even more silent that evening than usual and gave an exaggerated sigh . |
| 9 | But this year , she thought with satisfaction , she was well-prepared ; and Rodney had found a much larger place than usual and invited all and sundry to join them . |
| 10 | Even when their attitude to chastity is positive and enriching , they are still made to feel that they are less than normal and lacking what it takes to be fully developed human beings . |
| 11 | The eastern Alps have been suggested as an example of such ‘ flake tectonics ’ since this mechanism accounts for the existence of a ‘ platelet ’ in the Alps which is much thinner than normal and dips in a southerly direction ( Fig. 3.20(B) ) . |
| 12 | Recently , however , the violent weather fronts have travelled further than normal and devastated parts of Britain . |
| 13 | I beg to move amendment No. 71 , in page 37 , line 12 , leave out ten nor more than sixteen' and insert fourteen nor more than twenty' . |
| 14 | diplomatic rather than strident and wanting her own way and doing it in a very obvious way . |
| 15 | Many of them would do perfectly well in disciplines which are less idiosyncratic than English and have a more obvious international currency , like linguistics or economics or marketing . |
| 16 | I was more shocked than embarrassed and did n't blush . |
| 17 | Many people feel that behaviour should be ‘ natural ’ ( see page 113 ) and spontaneous rather than premeditated and planned . |
| 18 | It is at this stage that the contract is carefully examined , perhaps for the first time , and the company obtaining the software realizes , too late , that as far as it is concerned , the contract is little more than worthless and does not provide adequately for the situation . |
| 19 | The Microlog is electronic rather than mechanical and has nine functions which , in addition to speed and distance , includes trim speed , highest speed , average speed , time and distance to destination and a 24-hour clock . |
| 20 | Greiner , the state 's Liberal Premier , had called the election 10 months sooner than required and had entered the campaign confident that he would increase his majority . |
| 21 | For the work of Sherman this show may only confirm the suspicions already held by many that , with the kind of success she now enjoys after the Saatchi purchase of her notorious nude self-portrait , her intention is less than subversive and takes shrewd advantage of the fruits of sensationalism Saddest of all however is that , within the context of this show , the nightmarish images of her latest offerings succeed better at making the female viewer feel the full impact of the implied degradation . |
| 22 | The expanding volume of traffic not only brought into being the colourful and idiosyncratic travelling labour force of the canal boatmen but also increased the need for short-haul overland carriage , more expensive in cost per mile than long-haul and needing just as much muscle in loading and unloading . |
| 23 | The current debate between the honest subjectivist and the reasonable objectivist is more illusory than real and has its roots in ideological commitment rather than thoroughgoing analysis . |
| 24 | These confront new employees at all bureaucratic levels as ‘ solid facts ’ to be learnt and practised rather than queried and altered . |
| 25 | It is highly unlikely that research will do more than elaborate and refine matters upon which one may reasonably speculate from experience , from theories of behaviour generally , and from knowledge available from other areas , such as child abuse , or particular to ageing . |
| 26 | You 're more than welcome and take care . |
| 27 | More recently , Russian philologists have proposed a super-family of languages , bigger than Indo-European and deriving from a proto-language ( Nostratic ) twice as old . |
| 28 | The dorsal arm plates are fan shaped , much wider than long and separated from one another . |
| 29 | The dorsal arm plates are wider than long and separated from one another . |
| 30 | The dorsal arm plates are oblong , wider than long and separated from one another . |