Example sentences of "[adv] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | More impressive perhaps than the Bambino 's wardrobe is the glorious cabinet he is in . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | So again perhaps tied in our prices , it might be that we 've assumed that we 'd do more , perhaps than the other groups . |
| 6 | Officials are surely deluding themselves if they imagine that they can respond to the misalignment of a currency more swiftly than the markets . |
| 7 | The interior , although fairly basic in its design , is roomy and much better screwed together than a few years ago . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Some stress has been thrown thus far on modernism and its advocacy , but a traditional critic may write as well or better than a modernist . |
| 13 | And yet this creature who so violates the natural order and traditional gender divisions by dressing as a man also does things better than a man : ‘ I should draw first and prove the quicker man ’ , she says ( iv . |
| 14 | But she still laboured under the apprehension that she had to prove herself better than a famous opponent who has been more successful than any other English singles player of the decade . |
| 15 | You better than a sleepin' pill . ’ |
| 16 | Better than a poky little office in a characterless building on the South Bank — and meeting after meaningless meeting ! ’ |
| 17 | Better than a view of cardboard panes and the next-door privies . |
| 18 | Although , as we have seen , it is possible to step outside this framework , and find an alternative that seems to fit the life style of the person who has died better than a traditional church funeral , in practice it is extremely difficult to do this . |
| 19 | If this looks likely , you have to be absolutely certain they 're going to achieve your objectives better than a human being ! |
| 20 | ‘ Better than a funeral . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ But they realise that a partnership government would be better than a Labour government , and much better than a minority government of either party . ’ |
| 22 | He was led to believe that he would receive better than a university education with Mr. Wickstead as his personal tutor . |
| 23 | ‘ Hey , there 's nothing I like better than a slow cruise off the Spanish Main , a cool drink , and a little hot music . |
| 24 | First published in 1962 and now in its 4th edition ( 1980 ) , this fulfils a role as a reference text rather better than a student text , in that it has hundreds of references but no problems . |
| 25 | A forty-year-old today looks a lot better than a forty-year-old of twenty years ago . ’ . |
| 26 | DAVID went to sea and rose to command a naval ship ; after losing an arm in a naval battle , he was offered but refused a knighthood ; in his book Memorials of Ochiltree , David Ramsay says that when David 's brother James Tennant asked why he had refused the honour , he replied , ‘ Deed , Jamie , I just considered it little better than a nickname . ’ |
| 27 | Better than a turntable ? |
| 28 | Much better than a long piece of string ! |
| 29 | Tighter , sweeter , better than a woman any day — that was what they said . |
| 30 | A man 's voice will be heard better than a woman 's voice . |