Example sentences of "than [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Superpower involvement has raised the stakes rather than lowered them . |
| 2 | The disorder that had seemed to him for decades to determine the course of events regrouped itself like a pile of iron filings suddenly organized by a magnet , and he had a flash of optimism when it appeared quite possible that men in the days to come might wish to find out more than concerned them at the moment . |
| 3 | More than doubled what he 's got . |
| 4 | And er we got the results now and er we more than doubled it . |
| 5 | I was bewitched by her , I think to be freer than became me , though I had no intention to carry the jest further . |
| 6 | They than asked what he had done to the police that they had it in for him . |
| 7 | Since 1985 , Heidrick and Struggles in London has more than tripled its number of consultants — from five to fifteen — most of them at first new to search and comparatively young . |
| 8 | In elections to the Landtag ( provincial parliament ) in Upper Austria on Oct. 6 the extreme right Freedom Party of Austria ( FPÖ ) more than tripled its share of the vote , winning 17.7 per cent ( 5 per cent in the last Upper Austria provincial elections in 1985 — see p. 34110 ) and 11 seats ( three hitherto ) . |
| 9 | Between 1970 and 1986 the Ivory Coast , often regarded as one of Africa 's success stories , more than tripled its cereals imports , its external debt rose more than thirty-fold , and food production per capita barely kept up with population growth ( World Bank , 1988 , Tables ) . |
| 10 | But there were also a lot of people who felt that the presence of er of police in twos and threes , actually inflamed problems in the flats rather than cooled them down . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , KIO seems to have cost jobs , rather than created them . |
| 12 | In its external elements then , the war widened the Unionists " confidence and appeal rather than created it , lining up the nation with the party rather than the reverse . |
| 13 | I swam through events now , rather than surveyed them . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's still forgery , ’ said Sergeant Joe , although it amused him rather than troubled him , this gainful exercise of his talents . |
| 15 | While switching towards Europe ( where 31 per cent of US direct investment was located in 1970 as compared to 15 per cent in 1955 ) from Latin America ( where the share fell from 38 per cent to 19 per cent ) and from mining and petroleum to manufacturing ( 32 per cent in 1950 , 41 per cent in 1970 ) , on average US overseas investment more than financed itself . |
| 16 | Their 10-wicket trouncing of England in the deciding Cornhill Test at the Oval yesterday more than confirmed they are not just the world 's one-day cricket kings . |
| 17 | He waited until the coastguard officer had got well ahead , than followed him along the path back the way they had come . |
| 18 | In fact though , we have merely halted the trend of increasing deficits rather than reversed it , and the deficit for the current year is three hundred and forty four thousand . |
| 19 | She felt rather than heard him say her name . |
| 20 | It was a fair way off , but those who sensed it rather than heard it , those whose eyes became suddenly afraid , knew that two more would follow . |
| 21 | And he bent his head so that his mouth was hidden in the folds of my skirt , and said so softly that I could hardly hear it , but I felt it more than heard it , through the red material , murmured against my leg : " I love you . " |
| 22 | He sensed , rather than heard it , as if it and the all-pervading light were one and the same . |
| 23 | She felt , rather than heard herself moan , as they went down . |
| 24 | That so far the outlaws had left them alone and kept out of sight troubled them all , this was so unexpected that it increased their fears rather than diminished them . |
| 25 | She felt rather than saw him gazing round , trying to work out what had happened . |
| 26 | She heard rather than saw him dive into the water and a moment later he surfaced beside her . |
| 27 | Her new role may , in fact , call for a much wider range of skills , both mental and physical , than did her previous one ; but however well she develops them , they will go largely unnoticed by society . |
| 28 | After thirty years of marriage to Tom McBride , Beryl McBride sounded more Irish than did her husband . |
| 29 | Hopefully , the year ended in better spirits than did its finances , for bond and loan interests and fees were waived yet again . |
| 30 | The 19th century English ocean bill of lading was considerably less abstract and incorporated or merged fewer possessory rights than did its 20th century American counterpart . |