Example sentences of "than [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sidney Bludman , of the University of Pennsylvania , argued in Brighton that the turncoat neutrinos suggest that GUTs come into the picture at lower energies than are normally expected . |
| 2 | The proposals sensibly resist any temptation to over-egg an already rich international pudding by staging more one-day internationals than are presently staged in England . |
| 3 | There are clear technical issues such as the data transfer and memory implications of addressing much higher levels of display definition than are generally required today , particularly , of course , in consumer environments . |
| 4 | Prior to running Update Baseline , the user must identify which modules within a specified approved package structure ( baseline ) have later approved versions than are currently referenced and which need to be embodied in order to generate a new baseline . |
| 5 | Steering File Name A file containing the list of modules which exist in LIFESPAN at later approved versions than are currently referenced in the package structure . |
| 6 | Calls for the increased ‘ internationalization ’ of the economy , of society and of political attitudes suggest that many of the postwar changes may be less substantive than are often imagined . |
| 7 | Programme related announcements , claimed as one of the attractions of RDS , even when scrolled require displays with more alphanumeric elements than are usually fitted at present . |
| 8 | More projected mergers fail to materialise ( even at the eleventh hour ) than are actually completed and the reason will invariably be the discovery of some basic incompatibility between the practices involved or their respective partners . |
| 9 | The breakthrough follows research into so-called neural networks , in which ordinary computers are instructed to behave like the human brain , enabling them to be ‘ taught ’ to solve problems , rather than be laboriously programmed . |
| 10 | Yeah but as they become more influential and er basically he talked about the erm demonstration on the anniversary of the October revolution , erm and then victories of the northern expedition and , and et etcetera and various victories erm I do n't , you , you know , there is a the idea that , you know , the tu the tu er tide is turning erm you know they ought to join now rather than be firmly left behind |
| 11 | The creation of the enterprise culture in deprived areas of the North and the ‘ inner cities ’ is fundamentally about the creation of jobs at lower wages than were previously viewed as acceptable and reducing entitlement to benefit and levels of benefit in order to increase the incentive to take on these jobs . |
| 12 | Experts at the institute say that this year 's figures , which include 6,700 more Warsaw Pact tanks than were previously thought to exist , mark the high tide of eastern bloc military might . |
| 13 | Other demographic factors which have a considerable influence on household formation are less easy to predict — one is marriage : for example , the 1978-based official population projections expected two-thirds more married men in the 20–24 age band than were actually found in 1985 ( Population Projections 1978–2018. 1980 ; Sparks , 1986 , p. 24 ) . |
| 14 | More were needed for this task than were ever recruited to work underground , and many Cornish youths who worked at the tin " stamps " as " buddle boys " never became adult miners . |
| 15 | Though he was an adequate mariner , he was by no means an expert fisherman , being the sort of man who makes more conversation than profit from his catches ; but after a trip across to Plymouth early in the new year , he returned looking exceedingly pleased with himself , dressed in finer clothes than were often seen on the Polruan side of the Fowey , and full of the news that he intended to commission John Knollys to build him a bark of a hundred tons . |
| 16 | On the other hand many urban areas have sizable gardens and so may attract a greater number and/or diversity of common passerines than were once found here . |
| 17 | Indeed , it floats about in fluid so its physical position varies , but every location along the chromosome is precisely addressed in terms of linear order along the length of the chromosome , just as every location along a computer tape is precisely addressed , even if the tape is strewn around the floor rather than being neatly rolled up . |
| 18 | Perhaps because Christianity has no law as such , the concept of purity became veiled behind ideas of spiritual goals rather than being simply defined by physical states . |
| 19 | It will take time and sensitive marketing to ensure that the housing market recovers progressively rather than being artificially injected with activity . |
| 20 | But I do not believe that H. Ward Marston 's transfers are surpassable , and am grateful that the surface noise of the original discs remains intact rather than being artificially eliminated . |
| 21 | Rather than being closely correlated with any absolute level of poverty , unrest has generally been sparked by a decline in living standards or by the disappointment of rising expectations . |
| 22 | The local density in our galaxy could be a million times higher than this figure if primordial black holes were concentrated in the ‘ halo ’ of galaxies — the thin cloud of rapidly moving stars in which each galaxy is embedded — rather than being uniformly distributed throughout the universe . |
| 23 | The impression is given that , rather than being positively valued for its autonomy , housework is negatively valued as a retreat from a disliked alternative — employment work . |
| 24 | If the changes in connectivity which form the memory are localized to a particular small set of cells and their connections within the brain , rather than being widely diffused , then removal of the set of cells should also remove the memory — or prevent it from being formed . |
| 25 | Once , she did slide just the briefest look that way — to find Matthew , rather than being happily engrossed in entertaining his giggly companion , staring blackly right at her . |
| 26 | It is possible , of course , that the depression or anxiety is felt in response to the physical symptoms — rather than being directly caused by the food itself — or that the person experiences certain mental responses to certain foods simply because they expect to do so . |
| 27 | The increased number of urinary tract infections seen in uncircumcised young children may be due to ‘ hospital strains ’ of uropathogenic P-fimbriated Escherichia coli acquired in the unnatural environment of modern obstetric units rather than being directly related to the foreskin . |
| 28 | The wavenumbers of the unstable modes are determined by the considerations leading to ( 23.20 ) rather than being directly related to the layer depth ( as they are in ordinary Bénard convection , Section 22.2 ) . |
| 29 | but it 's not television , i i it 's , it 's Doctor Who and , and Prisoner and , you know er very interesting and very easy for enthusiasts to direct a lot of their time and energy to maybe I do n't maybe there was a increased pressure to work and study which was erm self motivated rather than being externally imposed , maybe he maybe there was a fundamental lack of enthusiasm in him for what is described as the hardware of computing , the , the , the , the , the instruments , the machines maybe there was a less than comprehensive understanding of what is known as the firmware , that 's to say I mean operating systems that are built into the thing to make it work , you 've got to understand the firmware because otherwise you do n't understand what the machine will think you mean and what that will do and I would have thought that whereas superficially you can ignore the firmware , it 's all in there , it understands as you , I would have thought , grew into a er a graduate computer scientist you 've got to have some idea about that . |
| 30 | It healed better that way , than being constantly dressed and |