Example sentences of "[adv] than [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But England had a lead of 123 , if much than hoped for , and the light was about to become discouraging for batsmen once more . |
| 2 | According to UBS Phillips & Drew , building societies survived the downturn in the housing market better than expected in 1992 ; the brokers forecast that falls in pre-tax profits will average only 7% . |
| 3 | Concurrent Computer Corp says it is continuing to work with its financial advisers on a series of initiatives to strengthen further its capital structure , improve profitability and provide financial flexibility , but only if it does not dilute shareholders ' interests in the company , which reported better than expected third quarter figures — in Company Results , page seven . |
| 4 | Concurrent Computer Corp , which recently posted better than expected third quarter results ( see below ) , has opted to take Unix System Labs ' Unix System V Release 4.2 MP as the operating system for its next generation of real-time Unix systems , due out by the end of this calendar year ( UX No 402 ) . |
| 5 | As it turns out , however , both fared better than expected in an election which produced something positive for almost everyone . |
| 6 | Neither Pasok nor Synaspismos seemed capable of capitalizing on the unpopularity of the government 's austerity measures , and the ND did better than expected in the municipal elections of October 1990 [ see p. 37785 ] . |
| 7 | Its results are weapons already far better than needed to defeat second-rate enemies , which may be the only ones to worry about once the Soviet Union has imploded . |
| 8 | Should general SVQs be able to differentiate students who have performed significantly better than required ? |
| 9 | Better than billed |
| 10 | Pearson finance director James Joll said that trade in the UK , although better than feared , had been tough throughout the year , until December brought some welcome relief . |
| 11 | Mr Blum tried his supporters saying they had done better than predicted . |
| 12 | This suggested a hung parliament with Neil Kinnock leading a minority government , and Tory campaigners are furious that the BBC did not mention the party 's share of the vote , which would have shown it performing much better than predicted . |
| 13 | Mikhail Shchadov , the Minister for Coal , told the Trud newspaper yesterday that so far this year , deliveries were 18.5 million tonnes less than planned , while 35 million tonnes of mined coal was lying at pitheads for want of freight rolling-stock . |
| 14 | +The GDR 's lowest growth rate in the decade , 1.7 percentage points less than planned . |
| 15 | It 's taken 14 weeks less than planned . |
| 16 | You will know how many rows there should be to the inch ( centimetre ) , all you need to do is to work a number of rows less than given in the instructions before finishing the sleeve . |
| 17 | JOHN MAJOR 'S famous opt-out on the Maastricht social chapter may help British firms less than advertised . |
| 18 | This trend continued in succeeding years so that during the three-quarters of a century between the first ( 1719 ) and the fifth ( 1795 ) official censuses , the Russian population of Siberia increased by almost two and a half times , from 169,000 adult males to 412,000 , at a time when the population of the empire as a whole less than doubled . |
| 19 | A weight loss of only 1 lb ( 0.4 kg ) in the previous week ( less than expected for the effort put in ) . |
| 20 | Industrial production , he said , had grown by 5.5 per cent in 1989 , less than expected because of interrupted production in the second half of the year due to sabotage of power transmission lines to Maputo from South Africa . |
| 21 | It is the process of trying to persuade by substituting power for reason — the power being the ability to walk away from the deal and leave the other person stranded , the power to give the other person less than required — and sometimes nothing . |
| 22 | On the other hand , the Diary was less than impressed to get such a list from one of Scotland 's newer agencies detailing containing one horrendous spelling error . |
| 23 | This was not only because I would rather have won than lost anything , but also because , winning being unlikely , I would rather have opted out altogether than lost . |
| 24 | In most of the territories they occupied , the Prussians , by putting pressure on the peasantry to Germanise themselves , concentrated rather than diluted a Polish identity . |
| 25 | However , if the old debt is left in place rather than replaced by new money , ss 238 , 239 and 245 of the Insolvency Act 1986 need to be considered . |
| 26 | For them culture is there to be converted rather than replaced by something entirely new . |
| 27 | In other words , if fewer teeth were filled to begin with , and more worn fillings were repaired , rather than replaced , their owners would have less need for crowns , dentures , root-canal therapy and dental implants over the long haul . |
| 28 | Eva Mertz-Fairhurst , a dentist at the Medical College of Georgia , in Augusta , has shown that old fillings can often safely be repaired rather than replaced , providing that the decay is not too extensive . |
| 29 | In discussing the " Wagnerian " aspect of the book , we should in any case remember that during the later part of 1871 Nietzsche actually reduced the extend of Wagner 's presence in it , rather than increased it . |
| 30 | The examination , therefore , can now be seen as the culmination of the course rather than viewed as an unwelcome intrusion as it was previously . |