Example sentences of "[adv] than [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | We must be better off together than that . |
| 6 | We spend more time together than many married couples . ’ |
| 7 | The tsar , however , believed he had found a better way to knit his territories together than any conceived by his predecessors . |
| 8 | Just as the members of the harmonic series come at closer and closer intervals as the series ascends , so will the notes of a well-sounding chord be arranged with the notes which make up the top half closer together than those of the bottom half , and a clear octave should be left at the extreme bottom of the chord . |
| 9 | Taff approached them with the remark , ‘ You will have to do better than that , Boyos . |
| 10 | He did even better than that . |
| 11 | While publishing Dawson on ‘ Religion and the Totalitarian State ’ , he selected for notice in the 1934 Criterion a book highlighting persecution of European Jews ; he wrote to Pound speaking of his offence at Pound 's antisemitic remarks ; with regard to the Vichy government in 1941 he wrote in The Christian News-Letter of his ‘ greatest anxiety ’ at news ‘ that ‘ Jews have been given a special status , based on the laws of Nuremberg , which makes their condition little better than that of bondsmen . ’ |
| 12 | Mind you better than that is a loaf of bread . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't need it but I 'll do much better than that . |
| 14 | You 'll have to do better than that , son . ’ |
| 15 | He deserved better than that . |
| 16 | Know you better than that . |
| 17 | In our experience dogs manage the loss of a front leg slightly better than that of a back leg . |
| 18 | Well , better than that , and one of the best things about it is the fact that so few people , except the French themselves , bother with it . |
| 19 | But he had to do better than that . |
| 20 | Warming to his theme , Salisbury presents evidence to show that the quality of education , judged by performance , is as good as if not better than that in larger schools . |
| 21 | Such a wage would have been comparable to or even slightly better than that paid to other craftsmen in the area . |
| 22 | He 'll have to learn to judge better than that in life . ’ |
| 23 | You can do better than that . ’ |
| 24 | Nails liked her company better than that of his father ; his new way of life gave him considerable satisfaction . |
| 25 | Certainly better than that young idiot Lapointe . |
| 26 | We really could do better than that and began rehearsing the ‘ Messiah . ’ |
| 27 | We need to do better than that , and we can . |
| 28 | ‘ You know me better than that Ma , ’ he laughed . |
| 29 | Not a bit of it — do not know if W. J. Jakimiuk who was responsible for the Chipmunk 's lovely qualities also devised the Beaver 's agile handling , but I should not be surprised if he did , for it flies like a smaller aeroplane , with light forces and a roll-rate much better than that long high-aspect-ratio wing might suggest . |
| 30 | On the ground the aircraft has a nose-down stance providing an unobstructed view ahead , better than that of most touring singles , and this must be appreciated before smooth landings become the norm , otherwise , the result is slightly firm but still wellcontrolled arrivals . |