Example sentences of "more [adj] then [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The adoption , for instance , of Darwinian views of evolution depended not simply on the intellectual breakthrough of a brilliant mind but on the conjuncture of social movements that made these propositions more acceptable then than they might have been at other periods . |
| 2 | It is all the more remarkable then that at the end of the century it was thought feasible and worthwhile to improve the system by the creation of the inclined plane , that other source of interest and wonder at Foxton . |
| 3 | All the more remarkable then that in 1829 , a born-deaf person with no speech was called to the Bar and became a barrister . |
| 4 | But say the figure had been erm fo he 's travelling at forty eight point three miles an hour , and you want to know how far he 's gone after twenty seven minutes or something , it 's a bit more awkward then so it 'd be easier to look it up on a graph . |
| 5 | Oxford admissions were even more complicated then than now , and the preferred route was by taking scholarship examinations after completing Higher School Certificate . |
| 6 | Things might be even more difficult then than they are now . ’ |
| 7 | All the more surprising then that Jacob should at once comply and give his name , but that is what he does . |
| 8 | Well the miners er were middle of the road , as lots of miners are now , but er probably more middle then because , well , the Colliery Chapel and the Co-op were a way of life . |
| 9 | As for the second charge , that democracy , perhaps like British liberty in the nineteenth century , was parasitic upon empire , A.H.M. Jones points out that it continued to operate in the fourth century , after the loss of empire , and , indeed , was if anything more expensive then than before , since it was then that payment for attendance at the assembly was added to payment for other public duties . |
| 10 | If anything , she looked more attractive then than before . |