Example sentences of "[verb] be [adv] than " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In game shooting , some people consistently shoot badly because they always shoot at where the bird has been rather than where it has got to . |
| 2 | and er , I get on the courses is the fact that that is very good attendance sort of thing for you to see T N T Express has been rather than a depot . |
| 3 | Indeed , the relationship has been more than mere friendship , but one of familial depth . |
| 4 | Any disappointment he may feel over the delay has been more than compensated for by the news that tickets for this year 's event are already selling fast . |
| 5 | Certainly in recent years Pound 's interest in mystery-cults has been more than antiquarian ; in ‘ was Erigena ours ? ’ he asks whether the philosopher Scotus Erigena was one of the Eleusinian brotherhood , and ‘ ours ’ can be given full weight — Noel Stock goes so far as to claim ( op. cit. p.22 ) that some of the obscurity of these later Cantos is deliberate and arcane — ‘ he writes about them as an initiate in words that are both ‘ published and not published ’ … ’ . |
| 6 | However , the physician which has been more than happy to dish out expensive advice to clients on how they they should deal with their own ills , has been unable to heal itself . |
| 7 | IN HIS unorthodox pilgrimage there has been more than a normal share of ill-will , resentment and litigation . |
| 8 | The 3 = 10 9 years since the origin of life has been more than sufficient for this number of generations . |
| 9 | Thus there has been more than enough time for selection to generate specific DNA sequences of the required length . |
| 10 | The unhygienic situation described above has been more than enough reason for diarrhoeal diseases to become widespread . |
| 11 | The Iveco cuts — at Langley , Berks — will mean the hourly-paid workforce has been more than halved to 660 since June , 1990 , union chiefs said . |
| 12 | Since the press seem to take any and every chance they can to doubt his ability to play , this article , and indeed all your support over the last few months , has been more than a pleasure to read . |
| 13 | THOUGH it has been more than 30 years since Jim Chilchutt last cut a rug at a high-school dance , he recaptures his lost youth every weekend , cruising the streets of Ventura behind the wheel of a 1948 Studebaker . |
| 14 | As you know there have been the history of it is , is well known to most commissioners I 'm sure , there have been m there has been more than one attempt in the recent , in the last decade to bring something to the assembly er along these lines . |
| 15 | The growing weakness of local government in terms of making decisions has been more than counterbalanced by the increasing weight of government departments and the influence of civil servants . |
| 16 | Increased rents has also tipped the balance in favour of purchase , although this has been more than outweighed , at least in the short term , by increased interest rates . |
| 17 | Since the mid-1960s the growth rate of Eurodeposits has been more than double that of the world money supply and London has emerged as the major centre for Eurocurrency business . |
| 18 | ‘ Wait but a few moments here for me , ’ she said more gently , ‘ for I must make my farewell to the Lady Percy , who has been more than kind to me . ’ |
| 19 | Why is the worst record in Scotland that of the Forth Valley health board area — which includes the constituency of the Minister of State — where the increase has been more than 24 per cent ? |
| 20 | The hon. Gentleman has been more than usually maladroit in his choice of example . |
| 21 | Estate duty reliefs carried forward to CTT include freedom from tax where an interest in settled property comes to a end during the settlor 's life and the property then reverts to him ( unless , of course , the reverter is by reason of his purchase of the reversionary interest ) ; and an allowance analogous to the old Quick Succession Allowance where within four years there has been more than one chargeable transfer il which the value transferred has been determined by reference to the value of the same settled property in which an interest in possession subsists . |
| 22 | Activity at the quasi-governmental level , like the UN and OECD , has been more than paralleled by a plethora of unofficial pressure groups that monitor the activities of the TNCs , wherever they may be . |
| 23 | The price of low category security has been more than some inmates wanted to pay at Springhill Prison in Buckinghamshire . |
| 24 | Basing themselves at York might have suited their training schedules and their travel arrangements , but it has been less than ideal for their public relations . |
| 25 | As numerous objectors pointed out , the amount spent annually by the government on research into renewable energy has been less than a tenth of the spending on nuclear research . |
| 26 | The actual rate of completion per annum over the last 27 years has been less than one half of one percent … thus even at several times the projected rate of progress , the great bulk of the conservation task will be incomplete at a time when the most vigorous additional demand is placed on land from massive upsurge of population . |
| 27 | Why do many people stay on the farms , with the result that this migration has been less than normal for the UK ? |
| 28 | San Jose , California-based Cypress Semiconductor Corp claims performance leadership in the Sparc world with its superscalar HyperSparc , but has been less than successful in gaining design wins against the Texas Instruments Inc SuperSparc — and Cypress has now decided to give up on the unequal struggle . |
| 29 | The variation in salinity at a depth of 1,600m has been less than standard deviations from the 1975–78 mean . |
| 30 | San Jose , California-based Cypress Semiconductor Corp claims performance leadership in the Sparc world with its superscalar HyperSparc , but has been less than successful in gaining design wins against the Texas Instruments Inc SuperSparc — and Cypress has now decided to give up on the unequal struggle . |