Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adv] [adj] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As in other Western societies , the use of the cycle has been negatively affected by the rise of the car , but the Dutch reaction to this problem has been more positive than elsewhere . |
| 2 | In California the advance towards a new ‘ post-industrial ’ society has been more rapid than elsewhere and according to Bradshaw and Blakeley ( 1979,6 ) the four distinguishing characteristics of this ‘ prototypical advanced industrial society ’ are : ( a ) high technology ( for example , the explosive growth of microcomputers in the hitherto rural ‘ Silicon Valley ’ ) ; ( b ) up to 70 per cent employed in the service ( tertiary ) sector and only 5 and 25 per cent respectively in the primary ( agriculture ) and secondary ( manufacturing ) sector ; ( c ) the intense rate at which knowledge is generated and transmitted ; and ( d ) increasing interdependence between places for goods and services . |
| 3 | But the relations that developed were much more than simply instrumental ; when families did survive it was more than a product of what Stone called , for an earlier period , ‘ psychic numbing ’ . |
| 4 | The CBI points out that UK dividends , as a percentage of post-tax profits , have been consistently higher than elsewhere , reaching more than 70% last year , compared with 54% in the US and under 35% in Germany and Japan . |
| 5 | But over the summer women have been more visible than ever . |
| 6 | ‘ And you have been more quick-witted than even I expected . ’ |
| 7 | I enjoyed that drive , and when it ended was more anxious than ever to shake some sense into Margaret . |