Example sentences of "[adv] than [adv] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 At the Cabinet level there were embarrassing signs of the Prime Minister being less than fully in control of events .
2 However , care must be exercised in the analysis of unfamiliar languages , as demonstratives are often organized with respect to contrasts between participant-roles rather than simply to distance in concentric circles from a fixed deictic centre ( the speaker 's location at CT ) .
3 The fact that such grammatically incorrect combinations are frequently systematic ( Berko 1958 ; Ivimey 1975 ) suggests that children are organising their utterances on the basis of a knowledge of rules , rather than simply in response to environmental contingencies , and that such rules are , at least to some extent , generated spontaneously .
4 The design is produced by threading the weft strands through a number of the warp strands , rather than directly from edge to edge , and then looping them back around the last warp thread used .
5 We might be tempted also to say that other benefits of depreciation accounting would ensue , such as producing a charge in revenue accounts for the use of assets , rather than as at present for the financing of assets .
6 The difficulty with this relief is that , throughout the period beginning when the employee acquires his shares and ending on the date on which the interest is paid , Newco must be a trading company or the holding company of a trading group , rather than merely in existence for one of these purposes .
7 The starting point was the issue of the opportunities offered to socialists by the current form of capitalist property in Britain , and my conclusion is that the socialised deployment of the personal sector financial surplus would permit a greatly accelerated rate of productive investment , yielding dividends in terms of socially useful output and employment , provided that the deployment of funds be carried out according to fairly well-defined criteria of rationality rather than merely in response to ad hoc political pressure .
8 This conclusion was suggested by the finding that evidence on the elasticity of demand for public services at state and local levels was not consistent with the prediction that a budget-maximizing agency will always increase the budget more than proportionately in response to a fall in cost .
9 The two control sample carers ( Mrs Mitchell 's daughter and Mrs Wilkins ' nephew ) were both still quite definite about wanting to see their relative in institutional care ; Mrs Mitchell 's daughter said that she was becoming more and more anxious about her mother being at risk at home ; and Mrs Wilkins ' nephew saying that she was more than ever in need of care , and the strain upon him of having to cope with her difficult personality was making him wish even more acutely for institutional care .
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