Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After considerable discussion Mr Jones accepted the possibility that Olwyn perhaps did need love and attention but that it was just as likely she needed it because she behaved badly rather than the other way round . |
| 2 | The terms ‘ stiff-necked ’ , ‘ tight-lipped ’ , ‘ pain in the neck ’ and so on are part of common everyday usage , and indicate something rather deeper than a simple muscle tension problem . |
| 3 | But the issue penetrates , or ought to , rather deeper than the fine weave of legal technicality . |
| 4 | After being a highly-prized mistress she was now little better than a common prostitute , and her owners were now interested only in squeezing the last drops of revenue from her tired body . |
| 5 | Women … had to be a little better than the average man in order to stay equal . |
| 6 | The ‘ original ’ actually fits Taylor , Walton and Young 's argument rather better than the amended version they quote above which implies at least the possibility of poverty as a cause of ‘ rational ’ crime . |
| 7 | It is a success story , however , based on all-consuming fitness , perhaps rather than the individual brilliance of the aforementioned tour candidates . |
| 8 | Consequently , in order to assert its prevalence , the Court of Chancery began to issue common injunctions which , although directed at the litigant personally rather than the common law courts , had the effect of limiting common law jurisdiction … |
| 9 | Grip is n't merely better than the old car 's , it 's of a different order . |
| 10 | Much better than a long piece of string ! |
| 11 | Much better than the quoted loss projected of £12,728 . |
| 12 | Much better than the other night when my leg was so bad . |
| 13 | I felt comfortable and relaxed , much better than the previous day when I had n't slept at all , worried about whether my injury would stand up , whether I had come all this way for nothing . |
| 14 | But to the rescue came P&O , on their fine ship we had to go ; This was a blessing in disguise , much better than the old cat 's eyes ; P&O you are the best — 100pc in the test . |
| 15 | The South Atlantic region ( Delaware , Maryland , Virginia , West Virginia , North and South Carolina , Georgia and Florida , plus the District of Columbia ) performed much better than the national average , especially in the first two decades when growth rates were half as large again as those for the United States as a whole . |
| 16 | One implication of revisionist work is that the root cause both of the fall of tsarism and of the failure of the liberals and moderate socialists lies much deeper than the liberal interpretation would have it . |
| 17 | The average depth of the sea is 12,430 feet — much deeper than the average height of the land , a mere 2,760 feet . |
| 18 | Even the ticking-over rate of about 10 pulses per second is probably quite costly , but much less so than the maximum rate of 200 per second . |
| 19 | This English gate into Shrewsbury was guarded less stringently than the Welsh bridge on the further side , and therefore used more freely , and the drawbridge was lowered from earliest dawn . |
| 20 | In Spain , linear state subsidies for building led to meandering lines ( Carr 1982 : 266 ) with the result that today , railway routes are often appreciably longer than the competing road route . |
| 21 | They take the stranger to their heart less easily than the familiar friend . |
| 22 | NORWICH need to find their touch in front of goal or their Premier League lead might not last much longer than the New Year celebrations . |
| 23 | Separate maintenance contracts , much longer than the minimum term of the lease , mean paying for maintenance after the machine has been returned . |
| 24 | I wonder how many of you battled on for much longer than the allocated time or got demoralised and gave up ? |
| 25 | Microwaves have wavelengths much longer than the thermal IR . |
| 26 | Cos in a very profound sense this is true , and I was so glad that it was I think a very serious part of the flow of Dr Stuart 's report that he mentioned that the er s sense of the ministry of the whole people of God as being much more than a distant objective for us , but something of absolutely essential , vital importance to the whole life and service and outreach of the church . |
| 27 | I think British artists , much more than the general public , British artists are pretty aware of what 's going on on the Continent . |
| 28 | So the divorce of sex from reproduction which is erm a very common and even fashionable view in the later twentieth century and of course is one very much facilitated by modern birth control technology and things like that this , this divorce of sex and reproduction is in a way you could say a characteristically male way of looking at things if the male 's er contribution to offspring does n't go much further than the initial fertilization . |
| 29 | Losers will be those groups whose incomes rise less rapidly than the general price level : examples include workers who are not represented by unions or who are only weakly unionised but face strong employer resistance to wage claims . |
| 30 | The Tutworker could have a reasonable income which was more or less guaranteed ; the Tributer was more in a position of winning or losing ; the Day Workers , with the lowest wages , were only hired as required but even so were better off than the local farm labourer ; bearing in mind that the mine was not a particularly unhealthy one . |