Example sentences of "[adv] than the " in BNC.
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| 1 | More impressive perhaps than the Bambino 's wardrobe is the glorious cabinet he is in . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | So again perhaps tied in our prices , it might be that we 've assumed that we 'd do more , perhaps than the other groups . |
| 4 | Officials are surely deluding themselves if they imagine that they can respond to the misalignment of a currency more swiftly than the markets . |
| 5 | In the same way , they took care to spend no more time together than the daily round of school life made appropriate , but the simple knowledge that there was now one person in the small , enclosed community who cared for him healed Richard 's wounded spirit . |
| 6 | So , another possible explanation is that in a polygynous society , the parallel cousins will be much more likely to grow up together than the cross-cousins . |
| 7 | The values in the first column of P 3 ( 0.58 and 0.44 ) are closer together than the corresponding values in the matrix P 2 ( 0.65 and 0.37 ) and much closer than the values in column one of matrix P ( 0.77 and 0.24 ) . |
| 8 | The Tory party was more loosely structured : there were tensions between the Highflyers and the more moderate wing that emerged under Anne , and which came to be led by Robert Harley , whilst even the High Church chieftains — the Earl of Rochester , the Earl of Nottingham , and Sir Edward Seymour — worked much less closely together than the Whig Junto . |
| 9 | Another consequence of the labelling of Impressionism and other groups by critics was that some artists naturally decided that they themselves could do the same job better than the critics . |
| 10 | On a purely practical basis , the paintings in this instance work better than the camera lens . |
| 11 | The final text leaves this clash alone , free to speak for itself in a world where the reader believes he understands Stepan better than the narrator does . |
| 12 | Triumph did develop the Stag a little , but not enough to make the last of the series significantly better than the first . |
| 13 | With most agents in agreement that the top end of the market has held up better than the bottom end , this widening differential between the values of prime and mass-market housing is likely to increase . |
| 14 | Comparing television with the press , for example , the public rated television a full 1.0 marks better than the press for providing issue-information , and 0.7 marks better on providing leader-information , but only 0.3 marks better for helping viewers and readers decide how to vote ( Table 6.9 ) . |
| 15 | The Bolsheviks proved in the Civil War that they could defend the minorities just as well , or indeed better than the Tsarist regime had done in the Great War . |
| 16 | But for the whole economy the increase is only 1.9 per cent , better than the 1970s but lower than the 1960s . |
| 17 | Since I 've understood what management was about — I suppose that must have been back in the early 1950s — I 've had the philosophy that if I go into a job I must do it better than the bloke who 's been doing it before me . |
| 18 | It is also very good with a buoyant or pop-up boilie set-up and for long range work casts slightly better than the side-hooked option . |
| 19 | Gudgeon are the chief target as they certainly weigh better than the little perch and tiny silver fish , ’ said Steve . |
| 20 | The Vauxhall 's ventilation system offers a plentiful supply of air — better than the Corrado 's — provided the fan is switched on . |
| 21 | Grip is n't merely better than the old car 's , it 's of a different order . |
| 22 | He liked the forked lightning better than the zig-zag kind and now he was gratified by a second many-branched display that seemed to spring and grow from the river itself , blossoming in the sky above the Kingsbrook meadows . |
| 23 | Much better than the quoted loss projected of £12,728 . |
| 24 | It was a drab light and there was no great cheer in it , but it was , at least , better than the dark . |
| 25 | We are not just talking power-dressing for women ; Armani makes men look even better than the fairer sex in a way that 's so thoroughly macho it 's no wonder the world 's aggro merchants have taken him to their hearts as eagerly as Hollywood 's glitterati . |
| 26 | Another influence was The Girls ' Own Paper , which he liked much better than the Boys ' Own version . |
| 27 | The Tottenham manager had said that his team would be tougher than the ones that were overturned by Port Vale and Bradford in notorious FA Cup defeats , and better than the one that struggled against Southend in an earlier round of this competition . |
| 28 | Unskilled workers tend to do better than the professionals , enjoying the advantages of a free market for the first time in their lives . |
| 29 | These are relatively cheap , the games come on easy-to-load cartridges and are , on average , better than the home computer versions . |
| 30 | To which the best answer is : a lot better than the first person in any queue organised by Mr Kaufman . |