Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [verb] [adv] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here the wheel is mounted horizontally rather than vertically and the spokes are bent up at the ends to form a cup shape . |
| 2 | The student population at polytechnics is growing much faster than that of universities . |
| 3 | ‘ What you observe there is that in the battleground seats , the seats where this election will be determined , Labour is doing even better than we are in the national , overall polls , ’ he said . |
| 4 | The alternative is to manage reactively rather than proactively . |
| 5 | Review is related more closely than in the orthodox model , to the state of the system , particularly to whether change is proposed or rapid . |
| 6 | Also VDEW ( Vereinigung Deutscher Elektrizitatswerke ) , the association of German utilities , points out that electricity is gradually increasing its share of the industrial market and total consumption is growing more quickly than energy consumption . |
| 7 | According to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders , Rover is doing slightly better than many competitors . |
| 8 | The rise in long-term unemployment and the increase in child poverty since the mid 1970s is likely to mean that the health of the lower social classes is improving more slowly than it should and would have done , rather than that it is getting worse . |
| 9 | They appear to show that , at least in the richest countries with the toughest environmental standards , municipal waste is growing more slowly than the economy as a whole . |
| 10 | Examples of the contrast most commonly given use relative clauses as in ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) , containing a restrictive and a non-restrictive relative , respectively : ( 1 ) silk which comes from Thailand is taxed more heavily than Malaysian silk ( 2 ) silk , which is a natural fibre , incurs less tax than artificial fabrics There are , of course , certain linguistic devices in English which can help to indicate which interpretation is intended ( though surprisingly few , given that the difference in effect can sometimes be considerable ) . |
| 11 | He said , in an unusually wan way , ‘ The crux of this business is hidden far deeper than I imagined . |
| 12 | A similar effect is seen with the sequence ( AT ) 15 GG(AT) 6 ( Figure 2f ) in which the first ApT site on the 5'-side of the central GG is cut less well than most of the other ApT sites . |
| 13 | SOUTH AFRICA is calling up more than 20,000 mainly white army reservists to stamp out violence threatening its transition to democracy and to protect civilians from marauding gunmen . |
| 14 | The slight variation of the longitudinal velocity in Fig. 21.19(b) , as indicated by the spacing of dye patches , implies that fluid close to the wall is moving much faster than average . |
| 15 | On a VOR let-down , the Missed Approach Procedure is commenced not later than the expert of the final approach time , ie the time from the final turn , or from the final approach fix , to the threshold . |
| 16 | Jo 's talking even faster than usual , shows she 's still feeling a bit down . |
| 17 | The structural explanation of social problems is pursued more thoroughly than in a developmental model . |
| 18 | For most companies , the practice in the UK is to report much sooner than the publication period permits . |
| 19 | You can , of course , say that a certain bait catches more bream than any other , but what you really mean is that a certain bait is used more often than any other on the waters with which you are acquainted . |
| 20 | The company now has 260 employees , up from 170 at its birth and has won Borland International Inc chief Phillipe Kahn over — ‘ Technically , it 's brilliant and Taligent is running much faster than I expected ; instead of being bogged down by the bureaucracies of its two large parents , Taligent seems to have taken the best of each company , ’ Kahn commented to the Journal , which notes that Wordperfect Corp and and Novell Inc are doing applications . |
| 21 | That is not just because inflation is raging less fiercely than it was in the early 1980s , but also because of improvements in the way the labour market works . |
| 22 | Increasingly , the process of clearing is done electronically rather than manually , the information to debit or credit individuals ' accounts being sent down the line to the various branches by computer . |
| 23 | Moreover , the overhang of unsold properties is evaporating much faster than expected . |
| 24 | In other ways , however , the pattern is becoming less rather than more linear . |
| 25 | A fifth of England could be built on by the middle of the next century , according to a report from the Council for the Preservation of Rural England ( CPRE ) , which finds that countryside is disappearing much faster than official figures suggest . |
| 26 | The velum develops from the same embryonic segment as the mandibular arch , and part of its skeleton is located more medially than that of subsequent arches . |
| 27 | Here the tournament is lost more often than it is won . |
| 28 | This means the cutter hood is positioned further forward than normal rear-mounted cutters , says the firm . |
| 29 | Further , if the transformation of the array is effected accidentally rather than deliberately , then the young child 's construal of the context might differ . |
| 30 | The fact that the GAL4-Jun derivative is phosphorylated more efficiently than the GAL4 derivative is presumably due to the presence in the extract of kinases , such as MAP kinases , that phosphorylate the N-terminal region of Jun . |