Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] [verb] [adv] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here the wheel is mounted horizontally rather than vertically and the spokes are bent up at the ends to form a cup shape . |
| 2 | ‘ What you observe there is that in the battleground seats , the seats where this election will be determined , Labour is doing even better than we are in the national , overall polls , ’ he said . |
| 3 | The alternative is to manage reactively rather than proactively . |
| 4 | Review is related more closely than in the orthodox model , to the state of the system , particularly to whether change is proposed or rapid . |
| 5 | Also VDEW ( Vereinigung Deutscher Elektrizitatswerke ) , the association of German utilities , points out that electricity is gradually increasing its share of the industrial market and total consumption is growing more quickly than energy consumption . |
| 6 | They appear to show that , at least in the richest countries with the toughest environmental standards , municipal waste is growing more slowly than the economy as a whole . |
| 7 | He said , in an unusually wan way , ‘ The crux of this business is hidden far deeper than I imagined . |
| 8 | The slight variation of the longitudinal velocity in Fig. 21.19(b) , as indicated by the spacing of dye patches , implies that fluid close to the wall is moving much faster than average . |
| 9 | On a VOR let-down , the Missed Approach Procedure is commenced not later than the expert of the final approach time , ie the time from the final turn , or from the final approach fix , to the threshold . |
| 10 | You can , of course , say that a certain bait catches more bream than any other , but what you really mean is that a certain bait is used more often than any other on the waters with which you are acquainted . |
| 11 | That is not just because inflation is raging less fiercely than it was in the early 1980s , but also because of improvements in the way the labour market works . |
| 12 | Increasingly , the process of clearing is done electronically rather than manually , the information to debit or credit individuals ' accounts being sent down the line to the various branches by computer . |
| 13 | In other ways , however , the pattern is becoming less rather than more linear . |
| 14 | A fifth of England could be built on by the middle of the next century , according to a report from the Council for the Preservation of Rural England ( CPRE ) , which finds that countryside is disappearing much faster than official figures suggest . |
| 15 | The velum develops from the same embryonic segment as the mandibular arch , and part of its skeleton is located more medially than that of subsequent arches . |
| 16 | Here the tournament is lost more often than it is won . |
| 17 | This means the cutter hood is positioned further forward than normal rear-mounted cutters , says the firm . |
| 18 | Further , if the transformation of the array is effected accidentally rather than deliberately , then the young child 's construal of the context might differ . |
| 19 | The fact that the GAL4-Jun derivative is phosphorylated more efficiently than the GAL4 derivative is presumably due to the presence in the extract of kinases , such as MAP kinases , that phosphorylate the N-terminal region of Jun . |
| 20 | And the plane 's going slightly faster than the Hercules or Andover . |
| 21 | THE man from the Pru is shelling out more than £10 million a DAY on insurance settlements and maturing savings plans . |
| 22 | Many people know , for example , that alcohol taken on an empty stomach is absorbed more quickly than alcohol taken with food . |
| 23 | They hope the deficit will anyway shrink rapidly , and they have reason to think so : unemployment is falling more quickly than in previous recessions . |
| 24 | Is it not the case that his departmental budget is increasing less quickly than that of any other major spending Department ? |
| 25 | There are signs that the current-account deficit is growing more slowly than last year . |
| 26 | But the city this year is handing out less than $1 billion directly for recipients to spend . |
| 27 | We must realize that time is running out faster than we think . ’ |
| 28 | The number of new words entering the English language is rising faster now than at any time in history . |
| 29 | And , just like a spent rocket , the plummet to earth is happening even faster than the upward rise . |
| 30 | It is interesting to note that the GpC step is cut less well than any of the GpT steps and that cleavage is greatest towards the centre of each ( GT ) n tract . |