Example sentences of "[verb] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were to discover , however , that a barely literate populace found the abstract word far more difficult to absorb than more concrete visual images , for as one Henrician reformer had earlier noted : ‘ into the common people things sooner enter by the eyes than by the ears . ’ |
| 2 | Carpenter and Just [ 1983 ] showed that syntactically ambiguous words take longer to process than syntactically unambiguous words , indicating that the reader is trying to determine the syntactic role of the ambiguous word while fixating it . |
| 3 | If a man who is a diabetic and who has arterial disease to the extent that this plaintiff had , is severely injured so that life is much more difficult to bear than otherwise it would have been , a defendant is in my view , quite unable , with justification , to say that a reduction in damages should thereby be brought about . |
| 4 | A much broader common core has been designed than just that experienced in a formal group setting . |
| 5 | Although divorce is now much easier to obtain than ever before , legislation has since 1963 encouraged efforts at reconciliation . |
| 6 | McCullough 's silver medal in Barcelona was harder earned than even he was aware of . |
| 7 | The system is much better organised than before . |
| 8 | If you can accept the interpretative stance ( and it is growing on me ) , I simply ca n't imagine it being better realised than here . |
| 9 | They also make a specific suggestion that causally connected episodes will be better recalled than temporally connected episodes . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , there is a specific prediction to be examined and that is whether causally connected episodes are better recalled than temporally connected episodes . |
| 11 | Although this approach may be more ambiguous and more difficult to implement than more common practices , it seems to result in services that are more fluid , creative , and egalitarian and potentially more responsive to client and community needs . |
| 12 | More attention is given than perhaps ever before to the child as creator . |
| 13 | Inside the objects and figures the planes begin to be opened up into each other more fully and are less clearly differentiated than hitherto . |
| 14 | This page and Outlook , page 27 Investor fears : Institutional investors fear share prices have further to fall than yesterday 's 28.2 point drop in the FT-SE 100 index . |
| 15 | The writer ventures to think , for instance , that the final chord of the 1st movement of Tchaikovsky 's ‘ Pathetic Symphony ’ would be more satisfactory if arranged than thus |
| 16 | Health Education may be less formally treated than previously , with activities woven into other subject syllabuses and stressed as part of the school programme as a whole ( Ghana ) . |
| 17 | This was welcomed by the head of the Open Software Foundation in Japan , Dr Rob Morel , who ventured that possibly the Foundation was better positioned than before as a ‘ truly independent standards organisation ’ . |
| 18 | Mr Ruddick said more plants had been exhibited than ever before from former Eastern bloc countries , including the Commonwealth of Independent States and Czechoslovakia . |
| 19 | Yet far from cowing the Poles , the Commission had made them more nationalist and more determined to resist than ever . |
| 20 | All patients ate normal food , but some reported more thorough mastication and slower swallowing than before . |
| 21 | There has probably never been more choice for places in which you can invest than now . |
| 22 | Improved Windows printer driver support is highlighted as well and overall WordPerfect says the package is now easier to install than before . |
| 23 | If there was a long line of people number of seven for the seven dwarfs and they were all standing there side by side and they had their hands over there face like so and the altogether , at the same time , in unison they parted the hand to reveal the facial expression that is more of a dramatic experience to people looking than just by standing here . |
| 24 | I was less moved than ever by M. Chaillot 's little lecture on his responsi-bilities to the public purse . |
| 25 | These should be harder to reverse than purely domestic initiatives . |
| 26 | The police were far better organized than ever before , with the National Reporting Centre to co-ordinate police movements and intelligence and a high degree of latitude given to police in the handling of pickets , however violent the methods used . |
| 27 | A new and distinctive chapter was opening in relationships between the masses , more numerous , more literate , and better organized than ever before , and middle-class organizations and agencies who were realizing more urgently than ever before that new initiatives were needed to bridge the great abyss of class . |
| 28 | The house would go more to rack than ever and serve no purpose but to make everyone concerned more miserable than they are already . ’ |
| 29 | With the range of scientific dating methods now available , archaeologists are better equipped than ever before to construct a reliable sequence of dates . |
| 30 | The House is aware of a number of recent announcements , particularly for new equipment , to ensure that our forces , though smaller , will be more flexible , more mobile and better equipped than ever before . |