Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | R. R. Dale 's ( 1969 , 1971 , 1974 ) three-volume study focuses mainly on the social advantages , and it is possible in any case to challenge the nature of the superior social development of girls which is argued to accompany mixed rather than single-sex schooling , since one of the things it may involve is breaking down girls ' resistance to the imposition of various stereotypes of femininity to a greater extent than is found in single-sex schools . |
| 2 | It is acknowledged that other circumstances might exist in which , although aggressive behaviour might be anticipated , joint judgement may be exercises to allow the worker to go supported rather than accompanied . |
| 3 | The team at SAUS is collaborating with a team at the University of Bath in a study of Swindon , an expanding town on the M4 which is thought to have received more than its share of the benefits of economic change . |
| 4 | Since Jan. 17 the allies were estimated to have flown more than 110,000 sorties and to have lost 36 aircraft in combat ( USA 27 ( plus one helicopter ) , UK six , Kuwait one , Italy one , Saudi Arabia one ) . |
| 5 | Furthermore , although he was believed to have committed more than one murder , he enjoyed a surprisingly mild and genial reputation . |
| 6 | Fighting around Kupres , in which Yugoslavian federal fighter jets have been used to attack Croat positions , is thought to have claimed more than 100 lives , although there has been no independent confirmation . |
| 7 | Apart from guiding the Steelers to four Super Bowl titles , he became one of the elite group of coaches to have won more than 200 games in the NFL 's 73-year history . |
| 8 | Each of the bombs is believed to have contained less than 1lb of explosive but caused panic and paralysed Central London . |
| 9 | The Crankos seem to have included more than their share of wanderers . |
| 10 | Rober Mazur can reasonably claim to have done more than anyone else to bring down the Bank of Credit and Commerce International . |
| 11 | I can not understand why he referred to poor growth performance in the 1980s unless he thinks that it is poor to have grown faster than France and Germany . |
| 12 | DOZENS of boastful French romeos who claimed to have bedded more than 1,000 women , when quizzed by researchers , later admitted the true figure was in single figures . |
| 13 | They expect to have sold more than a million IQs worldwide by the end of 1991 . |
| 14 | A map of the London camera sights is said to have sold more than fifty thousand copies , but Thames Valley police refused to tell the publishers where their own cameras are . |
| 15 | Two leaders of the Reform Circle movement , Csaba Tabajdi and Ferenc Gazso , are missing from the new line-up , while the People 's Democracy Platform , the reformists ' left-wing allies , seemed to have got more than their share of the leading places . |
| 16 | They are the least likely to have had between 1 and 4 partners and the most likely to have had more than 30 . |
| 17 | These men are most likely to have sex every day and to have had more than 30 sexual partners . |
| 18 | By the time the last display is over on Sunday the RAF hope to have raised more than a quarter of a million pounds for their benevolent fund . |
| 19 | According to a spokeswoman for the Fraud Squad , he is alleged to have stolen more than £130,000 from the Inland Revenue over a four-year period . |
| 20 | The only restrictions on purchasers were not to have owned their own home during the previous three years or to have spent more than $100,000 on their prospective North Side home . |
| 21 | Microsoft claims to have shipped more than 10,000 NT developers ' kit in the month since they were first put out . |
| 22 | His fleet is said to have numbered more than 200 vessels and his army had grown even larger since leaving France . |
| 23 | ‘ Latterly , the Admiral had a habit of working down there on papers and one might have expected him to have arrived earlier than indeed he did , in order to do his homework for the committee meeting . ’ |
| 24 | Random inspections undertaken in England and Wales last year were said to have found more than half the sample failing to comply with statutory requirements . |
| 25 | The charges against Swinderby reveal him to have taught characteristic Wycliffite doctrines concerning the eucharist , absolution , tithes , preaching , and ecclesiastical temporalities ; he seems to have gone further than some Wycliffites in urging the spiritual incompetence of clerics in mortal sin . |
| 26 | It might be said to have gone further than Scandinavian legislation in distinguishing the position of the wife from that of her unmarried counterpart , since it would arguably have denied her equal access to the law . |
| 27 | Fraud appears to have increased rather than decreased , and it can not be argued that this is merely a matter of greater success in detection , as many of the frauds only come to light when investors find that they are unable to obtain their funds ( or the directors of the institution are found to be in sunny climes abroad , with little intention of returning to the UK ) . |
| 28 | Thus only cause seems appropriate in the uses given below : ( 142 ) … moved the governor 's race forward a few months , causing the campaigning to get started earlier than usual . |
| 29 | Clausthaler , which claims to have taken more than half of the sizeable German nablab market , stresses the premium element in its latest advertising and uses the line ‘ Its strength is its taste ’ . |
| 30 | By the end of the third day Iraqi resistance appeared to be collapsing , with the allies claiming to have taken more than 30,000 prisoners and to have destroyed over 2,000 tanks . |