Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much worse to begin too soon and realize one is inadequately prepared than to begin too late and realize one is over-prepared . |
| 2 | The development of this northern suburb is better understood than its southern counterpart , because enough small-scale excavation has taken place to elaborate the information from the aerial photographs . |
| 3 | External trade is better documented than internal . |
| 4 | What any German industrialist will tell you is that his workforce is better trained than the UK 's . |
| 5 | However , there has been a considerable improvement in that club 's cash flow and its level of indebtedness is better supported than it appeared to be at the time of last year 's review . |
| 6 | 13 , where Pericles , self-imputed capacity to ‘ understand what was needed and to expound it ’ ( ii.60 ) is better illustrated than anywhere else in Thucydides . |
| 7 | The author of this memoir , while an undergraduate , once borrowed fourteen books about history from Edward Wynn and , on the way to return them , inadvertently dropped them all into the River Pem — and so is better placed than anyone to testify how good a man was Edward Wynn . |
| 8 | But now , with hopes of success in both Guineas races in two weeks ' time , and the renaissance of Manton under his trainer Peter Chapple-Hyam , the leading British owner-breeder is better placed than at any period in the past decade . |
| 9 | Underpinning government faith in UDCs is the belief that a single-minded agency with limited objectives , using streamlined administrative procedures and free from political ambiguity is better placed than local authorities to turn round a closely defined area ( Adcock , 1984 ) . |
| 10 | As basses gain more strings and bassists push playing horizons further and further apart , Hartke 's technology is better placed than most to take advantage of the situation , especially as they reinforce this tonal definition with their use of smaller drivers . |
| 11 | The receiver is not , however , obliged to fulfil existing contracts and because of this it is claimed that in this regard he is better placed than the company which of course must stand by its contracts . |
| 12 | If the early nineteen nineties are as testing a time for U S and U K markets as many people predict I 'm nonetheless confident that Pearson is better placed than most companies to withstand this . |
| 13 | Although cerebral organisation in adolescence may be characterised by greater functional plasticity than is the case among adults , the picture after left hemispherectomy is essentially one of gross linguistic impoverishment in which comprehension is better preserved than expressive speech . |
| 14 | It is better manned , it has more resources and it is better equipped than any police force in British history . |
| 15 | Of course , Thomas Luis de Victoria is better known than Juan Gutièrez de Padilla but , as Bruno Turner points out in his informative programme note , he is ‘ undoubtedly the finest composer of the colonial period to come from Old Spain and spend nearly all his productive life in the New Spain ’ . |
| 16 | Faith is better caught than taught and the example of a parent is a strong influence even while teenagers seem to be rejecting what you taught them . |
| 17 | When one of these is better researched than the other such judgements may be distorted . |
| 18 | This would of course be analogous to the typical von Restorff effect in which a single distinctive item is better remembered than the rest of a list . |
| 19 | for physics there is only one true measurement from any one position , and it can be more accurate than ever before ; writing and painting communicate look and feel from a viewpoint with more sophistication than ever before ; with a Cubist vision which constructs reality from the different facets exposed from different angles one is better orientated than ever before . |
| 20 | Broadly speaking , it is easier to obtain funding for explanatory research that seems to provide guidance to policy-makers than for purely academic research , and for research that is statistically based than for research that is more qualitative in its approach . |
| 21 | A concept which is more encompassing than organised religion is spirituality ( Labun , 1988 ) interpreted as a ‘ search for meaning ’ in one 's life and encompassing theistic and non-theistic approaches , which applies to agnostics and atheists as well as followers of a recognised religious persuasion . |
| 22 | A horse 's degree of willingness , cooperation in learning new things , agreeableness in doing what we ask of it , are most important traits in a horse 's temperament if we wish to enjoy riding it ; yet it is an aspect of the horse that is more overlooked than any other when someone is thinking of buying or breeding a horse . |
| 23 | Continuous cardiotocography is more restricting than intermittent auscultation , although the method of fetal monitoring is less important to women than the support they receive from staff or companions . |
| 24 | ‘ Get a ticket , not a criminal record , ’ the ads urge you ; but this is easier said than done . |
| 25 | That is easier said than done . |
| 26 | Of course , this is easier said than done , but it is thought that up to 50% of births of this type could be prevented by better standards of care . |
| 27 | This is easier said than done . |
| 28 | ‘ They make you think of birdies , ’ says Les Jones , the club 's pro for 38 years , ‘ but getting them is easier said than done . |
| 29 | But this is easier said than done . |
| 30 | This is easier said than done . |