Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [verb] [adv] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will mean that funding will go where it is most needed locally rather than according to a set of priorities determined in Whitehall . |
| 2 | The top executive who is constantly looking ahead rather than backwards will rarely steer his company into a tight corner , in Laing 's view . |
| 3 | What does n't show in these Council papers is that in my budget next year I 've got another three hundred thousand pounds worth of Home Care service growth , so if I get two hundred thousand from income from the Home Care , the Council is still putting in more than it 's receiving , if you see what I mean . |
| 4 | In fact it 's probably used more now than it was when it was a school . ’ |
| 5 | Whatever is thought masculine is also valued more highly than whatever is considered feminine . |
| 6 | Prosperity is now spread more widely than ever before . |
| 7 | But the inward drift slows slightly as the extra dissipative losses are more than compensated for by the energy and angular momentum which the bar pumps in at this point — recall that the bar is here going around faster than the gas , so it has a tendency to spin the gas up as well as a tendency to cause it to radiate vigorously . |
| 8 | This is nowhere seen more clearly than in comic books , which have long provided adults and children with an outlet for their imagination . |
| 9 | Families were linked by marriage alliances , and the determination of fathers to make these locally is nowhere shown more clearly than when the son of one gentleman of the shire was betrothed to the daughter of another , but the particular daughter 's name was left blank in the bond of betrothal . |