Example sentences of "[adj] than [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Northern Foods shares are lower than they should be , because the stock market has got it into its head that competition is tougher than ever in the food business . |
| 2 | The salute and stamp of boot on bare floor were smarter than normally as a consequence . |
| 3 | The colour flooded her face , then receded , leaving her paler than ever beneath the surface tan . |
| 4 | But at least she did not squint and his cast seemed more noticeable than ever in the morning , as if sleeping refreshed it . |
| 5 | We are more conscious than ever of the need to take positive steps to promote the full access of girls and women not only to full educational opportunities but also to the whole range of community resources and services , including employment , leisure , housing , social security and the right to property . |
| 6 | The application of monoclonal antibody research in medicine is more widespread than just in the treatment of cancer . |
| 7 | It may perhaps be objected that the distance may prevent the pupils of the Hospitals from attending the Lectures of the Veterinary Professor — I will first answer to that — that it would be dangerous for the progress of the Veterinary science to give them too free admission into the College — because it might give a disgust to the residing pupils from their application to the Veterinary Medicine and many of them would change their mind and apply themselves to the anatomy of the human body , thinking that it would be more honorable for them to cure the human species than Animals , this happened in France and the best Veterinary pupils are now Physicians and Surgeons to the human species — this prejudiced ideal would inculcate itself into the minds of young men , the more so as the Veterinary Science is still in its Infancy in this Country , and in an abject state , for this reason it would be equally dangerous to permit residing pupils to attend medical or anatomical lectures , of the human body , or to frequent Hospitals : Therefore a certain distance from the Town would be more useful than otherwise for the progress of the Veterinary Science . |
| 8 | In that sorry , in agriculture when there was a good harvest , prices would fall more than proportionately to the change in quantity . |
| 9 | In many instances this does not matter at all , because the full screen , ungridded printout will serve more than adequately as a reminder of the actual design which is stored in the Me \ directory computer memory . |
| 10 | If she looked a bit to the right , northward , rather more than half-way into the forest , it was often there . |
| 11 | Because cervicitis , cervical erosions , and discharges are so common in sexually active women , none of these features help more than indirectly with the diagnosis . |
| 12 | He thus revealed that he was out of touch with contemporary reality and that the complex dynamics of civilian society were more than ever beyond the grasp of his mechanistic , military mind . |
| 13 | As the 21st century approaches , solicitors are more than ever at the forefront of commercial and community life . |
| 14 | It was unshakable in its main bastion , Britain , and elsewhere the prospects of social revolution paradoxically seemed to depend more than ever on the prospect of the bourgeoisie , domestic or foreign , creating that triumphant capitalism which would make possible its own overthrow . |
| 15 | ‘ More than ever before the beer drinker and pubgoer needs a watchdog to protect their interests . ’ |
| 16 | With her bouffant hair , her crimson lips , her plump raincoated figure hour-glassed by a tight belt , she looked more than ever like a matryoshka , a Russian doll . |
| 17 | In the half-light of the editing suite his face appeared more than ever like a mask , the nose attenuated , the skin smooth and polished . |
| 18 | She suddenly recollected that she was now the wife of the director of a large company , and drew herself up with what she hoped was some dignity ; but she only succeeded in looking more than ever like a pouter pigeon . |
| 19 | He looked more than ever like a baby blackbird , rakish , half-strangled and very dear to me . |
| 20 | Feeling more than ever like a cur , Neil turned the pages — but it was all of her that was left to him — and , he told himself firmly , he would read just enough to discover the truth about her … and why she had hoarded the cuttings . |
| 21 | Managers are more than ever in the public eye ; the scientific approach , in tactics , medical treatment , ground improvements , is commonplace ; floodlighting , numbered players , the ten-yard semi-circle are taken for granted . |
| 22 | Cut off more than ever from the society of my peers , I fell back on my mother . |
| 23 | She saw more than enough in the guilt and pleasure on his face to make questions redundant . |
| 24 | It 's irritatingly easy to crash at first , as the pushscroll is only activated when you 're more than halfway across the screen , giving you little time to see and avoid hazards . |
| 25 | How would you feel if someone flew more than halfway around the world to say to you , ‘ I am at a loss . |
| 26 | In particular , appealing to the transactions costs involved in buying and selling securities is of limited use as transactions costs are fixed costs which if anything rise less than proportionately to the size of the deal . |
| 27 | Schools in mid , north east and north west Essex resort to excluding pupils far less than elsewhere in the county . |
| 28 | Less than half-way through the document is the paragraph headed ‘ The Republican Sunday ’ : |
| 29 | Heavy Wealden clay made wet-weather travel an unenviable experience , but it was often little worse than much of the rest of England . |
| 30 | Yet since 1987 , the level of child sexual abuse diagnosed in Cleveland has been shown to be no higher than elsewhere in the country , and an increasing number of people locally take the view that she should be treated in the same way as myself — allowed to return to work as a paediatrician in Cleveland , but restricted from working in child abuse for the time being . |