Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] than " in BNC.

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1 BBC network television has gone a step further and introduced a sexual harassment hotline , which , though it sounds like one of the services advertised in David Sullivan 's tabloid journals , is intended to root out rather than promote unwanted lubricity .
2 The trip is expected to last even longer than the seven-month record set by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Anatoly Berezevoi in December .
3 The association of thrust faulting on the margins of the Tibetan Plateau with normal faulting in its highest regions has been interpreted as suggesting that it has attained its maximum elevation , and that consequently it is tending to grow outwards rather than increase in altitude .
4 You could make them the same overall diameter , you could even get the tensions to be the same , but when you play those strings they 're going to feel completely different because a string with a thin core and a heavy wrap is going to move more freely than one with a heavy core and a thin wrap .
5 ‘ It is going to cost far more than £5,000 they are playing it down , ’ he said .
6 Microsoft claims Windows NT is certified to run on more than 1,000 hardware platforms , including 25 symmetric multiprocessors , supports 650 printers , 50 SCSI peripheral devices , 25 network adapters and 12 different types of display adapters for VGA , SuperVGA and XGA video modes .
7 The professor is required to retire not later than the 30 September immediately preceding the 66th birthday , except that , if the successful candidate can establish a vested interest , as defined in the University 's statutes ( details available on request ) , in retirement at age 67 or later , then the date of retirement will be not later than the 30 September immediately preceding the 68th birthday .
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