Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But , from personal experience , done properly it 's a hell of a lot better than walking out ignored and hard not to respond honestly to . |
| 32 | There was nothing Oz liked better than finding out how to do some new thing . |
| 33 | Better than finding them in a flap and fearing higher rates , as they were a week ago . |
| 34 | Over all , you 'd have fared much better than keeping your money in a bank or building society . |
| 35 | Quigley ( 1969 ) did find the Rochester Method ( fingerspelling with lip-reading ) better than the oral method and also better than signing for producing success in English . |
| 36 | It was better than walking , better than fighting the tangle of woodland , but whether it was better than lying in the clearing , I could n't decide . |
| 37 | It was pretty cool , certainly better than working . |
| 38 | It is an elegant way to travel , much better than waiting for the buses which , at this time of year , seem to come every other Tuesday . |
| 39 | Babyish even for nine year olds perhaps , but better than waiting until they are teenagers . |
| 40 | Flying was even better than she had hoped : better than skiing , better than driving a sports car . |
| 41 | But changes in attitude go a lot deeper than watching the pennies . |
| 42 | He told himself that he was the last man who could reasonably be expected to advise or reassure on the problems of pregnancy and he sensed that Rickards 's unhappiness at his wife 's absence went deeper than missing her company . |
| 43 | She believed in love , but she had been too impatient , her eagerness to experience it persuading her to believe that what she had felt went deeper than liking and a mild physical attraction . |
| 44 | ‘ You know , Frank , ’ she said , ‘ I 'm going to take a great delight in telling her , much more so than facing up to the big boy himself , because she it is who has paved the way for all this . ’ |
| 45 | It may be painful , but a lot less so than failing miserably when your presentation ‘ goes live ’ . |
| 46 | BELVILLE : I had rather so than perfecting my Pamela in it . |
| 47 | But Neptune and Uranus may well create rather more chaos than anything else so you must be careful with your spending , and anything but trusting of other people 's interference : in fact less than trusting with anything to do with borrowing or lending . |
| 48 | The report explains ‘ It would cost five to ten times less than building conventional power stations to meet demand , and it would have a significantly lower environmental impact ’ . |
| 49 | It 's a pity in a way that we did n't have this discussion before , because I do think it 's important and I think parties these days , goodness knows what we 're matching is to , should be a bit and they want more , sort of less than putting in less fifty percent . |
| 50 | Perhaps if colouring the fish does not sell them , this cruelty will stop . |
| 51 | Yet Boswell and other Johnsonians report that , long before the pension , Johnson wondered aloud if holding up his right hand would have secured victory for the Stuarts at Culloden to Prince Charles 's army , he was not sure he would have held it up ; so little confidence had he in the right claimed by the house of Stuart , and so fearful was he of the consequences of another revolution on the throne of Great Britain' . |
| 52 | He issued a stern warning that western allies could intervene militarily if fighting resumes and humanitarian relief efforts are thwarted . |
| 53 | The overall change in the contribution of these causes to mental handicap could be considerable , but only if screening techniques were widely employed and acted upon . |
| 54 | Such a threat is credible only if carrying it out would impose little loss on the person terminating the contract . |
| 55 | It will carry out commercial work for example using the Dounreay Fuel Plants only if doing so uses facilities important for the government work and also reduces the net cost to Government . |
| 56 | However , any final decision on holding an inquiry for the compulsory purchase order can be made only if planning consent for the scheme is given . |
| 57 | But , when you do check , make certain that you have maintained straight and level flight just previously , and that you continue to do so if re-setting the DI . |
| 58 | But this could not be so if calling these things ‘ good ’ were just to reiterate that they promote the survival of the species . |
| 59 | I 'm not , I must admit I do n't think about it now , so if wearing it puts you off . |
| 60 | They can be territorial , so if keeping several specimens in the same aquarium allow plenty of hiding places . |