Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] [adv] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | By invention I mean behaviour , values , beliefs , and so on , that come at out through ‘ internal ’ processes of thinking and working out rather than through imitating or mechanically responding to external stimuli . |
| 2 | It had fewer reporters , fewer offices and relied more heavily than did the Times on official press releases from the Government and its news agency , ZANA . |
| 3 | De Gaulle 's suspicion of political parties was explicitly anti-parliamentarian : ‘ it is from the head of state , placed above parties and elected more widely than just by Parliament that executive power must proceed ’ . |
| 4 | Last year alone they had over 400,000 winners and paid out more than £40 million . |
| 5 | Forester 's fiction is as meticulous in detail and as active in plots as that of O'Brian , yet the Hornblower novels are basically romantic adventures , built on sentiment as much as on action and answering more directly than the Aubrey tales to the simplest conventions of the adventure story . |
| 6 | The modern tail and underwater shapes will enable you to make progress in stronger wind and sail far quicker than if you use a wide square-tailed board with a flat bottom . |
| 7 | Some wheats require a period of cold weather and short days if they are to yield well ; these are autumn sown , stand over winter and ripen much earlier than spring-grown varieties . |
| 8 | In many cases a group would divide into sub-groups and work on more than three at a time . |
| 9 | A NINE-year-old boy who went on a six-month crime spree and carried out more than 50 thefts , went back to school yesterday after police were forced to let him walk free . |
| 10 | For example , borrowings under the compensatory finance facility have to be repaid in quarterly instalments beginning three years and ending not later than five years after the date of the borrowings , whereas the enlarged access repayments are required twice a year beginning three and a half years and ending not later than seven years after the date of the borrowings . |
| 11 | For example , borrowings under the compensatory finance facility have to be repaid in quarterly instalments beginning three years and ending not later than five years after the date of the borrowings , whereas the enlarged access repayments are required twice a year beginning three and a half years and ending not later than seven years after the date of the borrowings . |
| 12 | There is a clear sense of recession , with paler tones dominating at the top of the canvas and appearing further away than the more densely coloured foreground . |
| 13 | MND kills three people a day in the UK and strikes more often than better known diseases such as multiple sclerosis . |
| 14 | Both plays tell the universal and timeless tale of family relationships and how , when supposedly they are a place of union , harmony , love and protection , they are in fact in reality a source of discord and suffering more often than not . |
| 15 | They have a pleasant , slightly sweet flavour and cook more quickly than other dried beans . |
| 16 | Salaries were now arranged in a more systematic hierarchy and paid more regularly than in the past . |
| 17 | In a union in which both the lobon-gur solution and the rice-salt solution had been taught , LGS was also preferred over the rice-salt therapy , despite the recognition by the mothers of the fact that children treated with the latter recovered from diarrhoea and vomiting more quickly than those treated with LGS . |
| 18 | The birds do n't help themselves because when they are frightened they fly into the air and circle around rather than head for the trees . |
| 19 | It generally has more impact on debtors and moves along faster than the County Court . |
| 20 | What we have done is we have erm been able to utilise some A C T capacity or generate some A C T capacity within one of the subsidiaries within the group um the reason for highlighting it highlighting it is not particularly to make a song and dance about it but is particularly to say that on the cash flow statement there is this in-flood and it is a one off in-flood we 're not going to be seeing that being brought forward every year , but basically what it is is we have profits in previous elements of the group which enabled us to generate A C T capacity enabled us to off set this A C T which we paid on dividends and bringing forward earlier than we would otherwise have done . |
| 21 | In her view , women in rock fought against male supremacy and got little further than choosing their earrings , with the moneymen conspiring to craft an image suitable for their market . |
| 22 | But this peripheral vision processes input very fast , with visual information reaching the brain and mind more rapidly than from the binocular area . |
| 23 | Unless you have to use PostScript for typographic reasons , you 'll find that TrueType fonts are every bit as good as PostScript ones and print much faster than PostScript , especially to a LaserJet . |
| 24 | Moving into summer , he took advantage of the dry weather and lived more outdoors than in , drawing the same subjects repeatedly if they appealed to him , toiling incessantly in an effort to improve himself . |