Example sentences of "[adv] than [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A highly motivated individual , it is argued , will perform better than one with a low level of motivation . |
| 2 | I emphasize ‘ in my view ’ because not everyone will agree , and of course a very small telescope is a great deal better than nothing at all . |
| 3 | Well , better than nothing at all ! |
| 4 | With his great hands , Jimmy returned the fast serve better than anyone in the history of the game . |
| 5 | Alcock , the man with the astronomical memory , probably knows the sky better than anyone in the world , possibly in history . |
| 6 | Forster once wrote to me that he knew Ivy 's characters were good as well as clever ; they are a great deal better than anyone in his books . |
| 7 | I mean , you know me better than anyone in the world , you probably love me better than anyone in the world , but you still never know another person one hundred per cent . ’ |
| 8 | I mean , you know me better than anyone in the world , you probably love me better than anyone in the world , but you still never know another person one hundred per cent . ’ |
| 9 | Gabriel would never understand nor Charley offer an explanation except to say , ‘ Better than sex , Gaby , better than anything except creation . |
| 10 | ‘ I love you better than anything in the world . |
| 11 | ‘ I love you better than anything in the world . |
| 12 | Very very much more effective , perhaps more so than we at first realize , although it is almost obvious when we reflect further . |
| 13 | Moreover , Hahnemann discovered that if a patient needed a particular remedy he or she tended to be very sensitive to it — much more so than someone for whom it was not indicated . |
| 14 | He came to understand the need to settle for half a loaf rather than nothing at all ; he recognized the need to negotiate with legislators while he also discovered how to bring them into line by going over their heads to the people . |
| 15 | Professionals segregate according to expert criteria , but ‘ what is it to be human ? ’ sounds like a philosophical question — in which case it is also a political one — rather than something for experts to decide . |
| 16 | Rather than something to be relegated to nothingness , like we find today . |
| 17 | He asked if I had enough of those for a whole album , because he felt it would make quite an original debut , to do only music taken from other instruments , rather than something from the standard guitar repertoire . |
| 18 | In particular data being used by the dual processors must be stored on the the processors have to be attached to a IBM 9333 high performance disk system , shared data must be capable of storage on raw disk configurations rather than something like the the AIX Journaled File System and software must be specifically configured to work with the HACMP/6000 Distributed Lock Manager . |
| 19 | This is usually alongside a lawyer from the children 's panel , rather than one with experience in criminal cases . |
| 20 | OF 2 , for instance , has six more AOs ( four valence-shell orbitals on each fluorine , rather than one for each hydrogen in H 2 O ) and hence six more MOs . |
| 21 | I have not noted any particular problems with C cells ; this is because they are usually installed side by side , rather than one above the other . |
| 22 | If the process of nursing is seen as a problem-solving activity in which the nurse acts on her own initiative generating her own solutions , rather than one in which she repeats ready-made solutions ; and if the reasoning of the cognition theorists is accepted as valid ; then the teaching of nursing should be organised in such a way that the student not only acquires the necessary knowledge and skills , but does so in such a way that they develop in her flexible cognitive structures . |
| 23 | In that sense it is , like Dennett 's , a picture-cum-flow-chart view , rather than one in terms of processes . |
| 24 | For preference , choose one that is on its own in a hedgerow rather than one in a wood with many other trees , as single trees tend to have more galls on them . |
| 25 | Thus , for example , if an electron is in a state of definite momentum p ( rather than one in which its momentum might be found to take one of a possible range of values ) then that state is an eigenstate of the momentum operator with eigenvalue p . |
| 26 | On Dec. 22 the North grudgingly gave way to the South 's proposal for two secretariats ( based in Seoul and Pyongyang , the North Korean capital ) , rather than one in Panmunjom ( in the Demilitarized Zone ( DMZ ) constituting the border between North and South Korea ) , and for a single team leader from the side fielding the most athletes instead of joint leaders . |
| 27 | This has led to waste and inefficiency since the definition of a good hour of work is one that can be charged to the contract rather than one in which some progress has been made . |
| 28 | The history in this case describes a conflict between neighbours rather than one against the state . |
| 29 | Then he stared at the phone rather than me for about a minute until the door opened . |
| 30 | The Latin pauper means a person of modest means rather than someone without food , roof , or clothing ; Ovid defined him as ‘ a man who knows how many sheep he owns ’ . |