Example sentences of "than [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , small flaccid penises tend to expand to a much greater degree than penises that are already quite large when resting , so that both will reach the average erect size of six inches or so . |
| 2 | We supported their case that the future prosperity of the Valleys depends on healing the scars of the past and building a new industrial and commercial base that actually improves and protects , rather than destroys , the environment . |
| 3 | However , it represents a number of practical operating difficulties , mainly because the process converts material rather than destroys it . |
| 4 | Seen from without , the stately building that fronts the open square is sufficiently imposing ; viewed from within , the place more than fulfils the promise of its exterior . |
| 5 | I am advised that it more than fulfils the requirements of the Standing Order , which is the basis on which I have proposed that the environmental impact assessment should proceed . |
| 6 | This show fits into a wider reassessment of Beuys currently taking place in the United States , which , ironically , follows , rather than precedes , the considerable interest already shown in the work of other German artists including Gerhard Richter , Anselm Kiefer and Georg Baselitz . |
| 7 | To a Marxist-Leninist , control of resources is power ; the monopoly of political power follows from this rather than precedes it . |
| 8 | sharpening perceptual skills so that categorization follows rather than precedes the search for clues . |
| 9 | If you are going to stay in business it is important that more comes in than goes out . |
| 10 | I believe we have more in common than separates us . |
| 11 | The overall aim is to ensure that the welfare state encourages rather than penalizes personal initiative . |
| 12 | Second , the expression of aggression and its consequent momentary release of tension strengthens rather than weakens the tendency to behave aggressively ( see page 80 ) . |
| 13 | Consequently such apparently irrational attribution of responsibility exhibited by criminal law strengthens rather than weakens the claim that criminal law may be understood as positive morality . |
| 14 | JOHN SMITHS HAS dominated the Glasgow bookselling scene for even longer than Thins has been preeminent in Edinburgh , but there are differences . |
| 15 | In 1993 , eight years short of its 250th anniversary , and still trading under its original name , it has fewer branches than Thins and a turnover probably around £13m ( Thins is believed to be around £15m ) . |
| 16 | Providing the additional response generated more than covers the cost of the premium and the administration/distribution costs , the promotion will be cost effective . |
| 17 | What this means is that the taking of leisure is self-defeating ; the fact that one is one 's own boss adds to , rather than subtracts from , the psychological pressures to do housework . |
| 18 | And I know many older women who have found the kind of partnership that adds to their life rather than subtracts from it . |
| 19 | Angus Stirling , the National Trust 's director-general , said : ‘ Far more of Uppark and its contents survive than has been lost . |
| 20 | Although Eurotunnel 's attitude to Trans Manche Link , the contractors ' consortium , was more conciliatory yesterday than has been the case , there are still important differences to be settled . |
| 21 | Government , employers and educators alike are now convinced that higher education should be expanded radically during the next decade , to include perhaps twice as high a proportion of school leavers and others than has traditionally been the case in the UK . |
| 22 | On the whole , therefore , researching the RUC has been more difficult than has been the case in most other studies in the sociology of policing ( for an exception see Punch 1989 ) , precisely because of the sensitivity of the topic in its social context . |
| 23 | It came about through a negative way more extreme than has yet been suggested . |
| 24 | One is that the cradle to grave provision of welfare , implicit in the Beveridge proposals , has proved to be too expensive and that the demand for welfare has grown faster than has the national income to pay for adequate comprehensive services and benefits . |
| 25 | Female social participation may have been more widespread than has been realized . |
| 26 | But it is clear that if , as we have said , death from suicide is relatively common in Britain and most funeral services take place within the Christian context , then it would seem that the church needs to look at this whole subject again with a great deal more openness than has been possible up to now . |
| 27 | The shop stocked un-Irish books also , and even the smallest volume was treated and presented with greater care than has ever been known in the bookworm paradises of Charing Cross Road or Hay-on-Wye . |
| 28 | If , however , we wish to prove the existence of ‘ the back of ’ something using quite different criteria of testimony and disallowing all those activities which gave rise to the concept in the first place , then perhaps our proof of the uncertainty of the existence of backs will be less powerful than has been imagined . |
| 29 | With government borrowing having soared to £28 billion this year , and underlying concern that public finances are in a worse state than has been acknowledged , Mr Portillo 's priority will be to curb further increases in public expenditure . |
| 30 | Such a conception allows for a greater fluidity between the two modes than has hitherto been found acceptable . |