Example sentences of "[adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Larry Parks is remembered for being one of the first to inform on his Communist friends before the committee , better remembered perhaps than he is for impersonating Al Jolson in two films which made him , at that time , a star . |
| 2 | More impressive perhaps than the Bambino 's wardrobe is the glorious cabinet he is in . |
| 3 | Then on 21 May , while Gandhi languished in jail , one of the great set pieces of the civil disobedience movement , more successful perhaps than any other in arousing world-wide sympathy with the Indian cause , took place at the Dharsana salt works . |
| 4 | It would occupy a fairly modest 2U of rack space , larger perhaps than a couple of its contemporaries , but it has the advantage of a distinctly uncluttered look about it . |
| 5 | Surrounded by its great park and built in brick , it was a new venture , half-way towards an elegant country house , the home of a new breed of magnate , more gentleman perhaps than knight . |
| 6 | ‘ When somebody is going through a crisis they are opening up to you and a deep bond does develop , more perhaps than you would have with a doctor . |
| 7 | More to him perhaps than the relief afforded by the crude sex was the fact that he woke up in the meagre home of a real working woman , warm like a picture by Chardin ; ‘ a wooden floor with a mat and a piece of old crimson carpet , an ordinary kitchen stove , a chest of drawers , a large simple bed . ’ |
| 8 | But he went down to Suffolk very often , much more often perhaps than he would have done had Wyvis Hall been destined to pass back to the Berelands or on to one of those cousins in the United States . |
| 9 | Only a total abolitionist , like Clark , Linzey , or Regan , opposed to any killing of animals for human purposes ( other perhaps than in self-defence ) , could have serious objections to it . |
| 10 | Hundreds of journalists were tried in the purges — ‘ l'épuration ’ — that followed the Liberation : more perhaps than any other profession , journalists paid the price of collaboration . |
| 11 | Then in her full , sad , serious voice , ‘ Perhaps I shall regret it , more perhaps than you will ever know , you foolish girl . |
| 12 | More fruitful perhaps than such broad categorizations is the implication of Figure 2.1 that it is better to think of disciplines as occupying a certain space in a universe of knowledge , rather than a certain level in a hierarchy or place on a map . |
| 13 | Less practical perhaps than spices , but also commanding the highest prices in the auction houses of Europe , were the precious shells which came from the Moluccas — named after " molluscs " . |
| 14 | I suffer more from a feeling of guilt , perhaps than men do . |
| 15 | ‘ Not in the least ’ , he told me , ‘ In fact , it lets us off the hook and will enable us to have more freedom perhaps than before ’ . |
| 16 | It follows from this that there has never been , and never could be , an empirical human society of other than miniscule size in which all the individuals were , even approximately , " equal " , other perhaps than in the theological sense of " equal before God " . |
| 17 | So again perhaps tied in our prices , it might be that we 've assumed that we 'd do more , perhaps than the other groups . |
| 18 | At least once in their lives , most of these men would have met Thorfinn : more perhaps than had come face to face with King Duncan in the six years of his reign and before , when he had been prince of Cumbria in the shadow of Malcolm his grandfather . |
| 19 | Between it and the boundary of the Howardian Hills area of outstanding natural beauty at Foston Bridge , the distance is only three and a half kilometres , just over two miles , there is therefore a narrow corridor not designated either as greenbelt or A O N B , which naturally er comes under rather heavier pressure perhaps than er areas round it might . |
| 20 | Erm , it 's a matter of choice a free choice within the present laws of this country er , even more important perhaps than that , that it really is up to the hunts to convince those farmers that the , that the farmers want them . |
| 21 | The male sex drive being what it is , the chances of his being able to stop are less perhaps than she realizes . |
| 22 | But at last there was a kind of to and fro between them , more like a tennis match perhaps than a genuine conversation , with words being patted back and forth , but Rose at least was grateful for it . |
| 23 | Apart from Fulk le Réchin , the other counts of Anjou are portrayed ( albeit less colourfully than Geoffrey Grisegonelle ) as pious and valiant defenders of their inheritance . |
| 24 | The bank had ‘ provided earlier and more prudently than others and slimmed down quicker ’ , Mr Thomas added . |
| 25 | Evidently Celia suffers more terribly than Mira , though the poet identifies with her . |
| 26 | Now , about to cross , she saw that it was swirling much more swiftly than when she had crossed before and fallen in . |
| 27 | Experience had taught them that nothing alienated support within their districts more swiftly than bombs which killed or injured Roman Catholics and that nothing reduced the inflow of money from Irish American sympathisers more drastically . |
| 28 | Officials are surely deluding themselves if they imagine that they can respond to the misalignment of a currency more swiftly than the markets . |
| 29 | ‘ Some , like the osprey and the peregrine falcon , which flies even more swiftly than we do , almost died out . |
| 30 | The progressive dismantling of regional development policy since 1979 has moved more swiftly than steps aimed at deregulating the housing sector . |