Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] than [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That opportunity arose sooner than expected in the Autumn of 1927 , when twelve cars were obtained in good condition from Croydon Corporation . |
| 2 | When Cook made his first exploratory voyages to the South Seas between 1768 and 1771 , that figure had more than doubled to 450,000 tons . |
| 3 | This decision started rather than ended the controversy about united action . |
| 4 | For example British Aerospace has more than doubled to 375p this year . |
| 5 | ( The value of such trade had more than doubled between 1988 and 1990 , to a record US$705,000,000 , as US firms sought to capitalize on Cuba 's need for new financial partners . ) |
| 6 | PERSONAL debt has more than doubled under the party of thrift and fiscal discipline . |
| 7 | The first of the new spreadsheets , called Improv , which builds spreadsheets using simple English commands rather than manipulating clumsy grids of rows and columns , should sell 500,000 copies before June , when the price goes up from an introductory $19 to the full $195 . |
| 8 | Despite an undoubted attempt to enlarge rather than curtail the sphere of effective papal control — an attempt that on the surface at least succeeded again and again in particular areas from Holland to Brazil — the wider agenda was seldom set in Rome . |
| 9 | Ministers argue that the total expenditure on legal aid has more than doubled in five years , from £49 million in 1987 to a forecast total this year of £104 million . |
| 10 | By using the tilt it is possible for a white water race , for example , to steer down a rapid whilst still using powerful forward strokes rather than having to use slower sweep strokes . |
| 11 | If there is an existing pipe organ and it is of good quality , it may prove to be more economical in the long run to restore rather than replace it . |
| 12 | I shoulda known better than to send two dumb clucks like that . ’ |
| 13 | Certainly , the majority of today 's cars need far less skill to drive quickly than did their predecessors of the sixties and early seventies . |
| 14 | accept the counter-examples and alter the tripartite analysis to suit rather than adding anything to it . |
| 15 | The effect of high interest rates and a ‘ petro-pound ’ was to strengthen sterling ; the consequences were for exports to sag and for inflationary pressure to increase rather than diminish . |
| 16 | It was France 's inexplicable failure to do better than draw with Cyprus in Limassol that helped Scotland to qualify for Italia '90 ahead of Michel Platini 's team . |
| 17 | Cases of malignant melanoma have more than doubled in the last 10 years in countries with a fair-skinned population . |
| 18 | Within two decades the number of cases reported each year has more than doubled to at least 3,000 . |
| 19 | Thus the implantation of the intendant system weakened rather than strengthened the hold of metropolitan Spain , by ending corrupt practices that had allowed creoles control of their own affairs , and by creating bitter rivalries between the new officials and their subordinates . |
| 20 | Consequently such apparently irrational attribution of responsibility exhibited by criminal law strengthens rather than weakens the claim that criminal law may be understood as positive morality . |
| 21 | For many of us , working as a group to make the East End Open Studios even a success has been a rare chance to cooperate rather than compete with other artists . |
| 22 | Other ideas such as the problem posed by third world economic development and Douglas 's fears of new technology destroying rather than creating employment were used to justify such policies . |
| 23 | Is it not always a ‘ benefit ’ to a contracting party to have the other party perform rather than default ? |
| 24 | The insight that references to the outer world encroach upon , or are necessarily " always already " in the figure of metaphor — that metaphor works metonymically — is offered in support of the conclusion that the figural dimension subverts rather than co-operates with Marcel 's valorisation of the inner world . |
| 25 | Burger was very thin and very tall ; he sat back in his armchair , his bony frame draped rather than clothed by a grey light-weight suit . |