Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or will they attempt to funnel more business through their factoring subsidiaries on the grounds that they are better placed than the local branch managers to monitor the banks ' exposure to risk ? |
| 2 | An in-house lawyer is usually better placed than an outside lawyer to give the advice which will most benefit his client ; he should have sufficient knowledge of his employer 's structure , resources and commercial objectives to enable him to give advice geared specifically to his client 's needs , which will not always be the same as the ‘ standard ’ legal advice . |
| 3 | The parameter values of the QPO feature are much better constrained than the red-noise part . |
| 4 | Er , we had been at legislation inspection of becoming an , a costly service in terms of gross expenditure , and therefore we need to look for savings from those areas where we actually spend money , erm , and the belief was , the policy thought was that as our own homes were subject to our own direct management , to inspection by members , to both internal and external audits , erm , they were therefore better inspected than the independent sector , certainly more widely inspected , and therefore the least risk , in terms of any reduction on registration inspection would apply in that area . |
| 5 | She was content to let it wash over her , occasionally noticing , like someone with a different first language , the way they laughed at things she did n't see the humour of , were made angry by perfectly innocent-sounding newspaper articles , discussed people she had never heard of as if they were better known than the Royal Family . |
| 6 | Curiously enough , the Locks at Foxton are much better known than the Inclined Plane . |
| 7 | What was always striking was the emotional undertow to Taverner 's polyphonic writing , more obviously involving than the ethereal Palestrina . |
| 8 | This additional activation of cat might cause the logogen for cot to be more highly activated than the correct logogen for cot : cot would be incorrectly identified as cat . |
| 9 | They may have proved naive on the field of play but , says JOHN ROBBIE , the two emphatic defeats did the Springboks less harm than the myopic selection of the old guard to manage the coming tour to Europe . |
| 10 | It seems likely that the Vatican was much better informed than the official collection of documents , Actes et Documents du Saint Siége , would have the world believe . |
| 11 | These posts take longer to arrange than a full term pregnancy : a cot death could therefore also deprive a mother of her domestic commitment before her job has finally been arranged . |
| 12 | Less stringently regulated than the Official List operated by the Stock Exchange and open to smaller , less well-known companies , the USM is intended to promote and accommodate growth and vigour in the corporate sector of the economy . |
| 13 | Male Sterilisation is technically simpler than female sterilisation because the vas deferens is more easily reached than the fallopian tube . |
| 14 | Those who passed out successfully had as broad a range of social backgrounds as the original list of applicants — certainly more broadly based than the parliamentary party . |
| 15 | After all , a large screen TV showing video in a 16 per cent window will be more easily viewed than a small screen television showing full frame video . |
| 16 | Multiple hard stones , greater than 1 cm in diameter , each requiring lithotripsy and removal piecemeal , took much longer to remove than a solitary stone of less than 1 cm in diameter . |
| 17 | Note that this may conflict with requirements of efficiency given above for example , a chain of subroutines takes longer to obey than the expanded code and the liberal use of remark statements to aid readability uses up a lot of valuable memory . |
| 18 | The war had no sooner ended than a Mass Observation report Puzzled People ( 1947 ) described how ‘ the explosion or disintegration of orthodox beliefs has left a vacuum ’ , and as early as 1950 the ‘ quest for a post-war purpose ’ was being anxiously scrutinised in a study of young people 's lives . |
| 19 | This type of question provides scope for responses which are more discursive than short answer but less open ended than the extended response variety . |
| 20 | Yesterday morning at Masham there was more to report than the poor reversing . |
| 21 | She started to think that she had a vocation for taking heroic decisions , but it was really nothing more sustaining than a rabid kind of recklessness that erupted suddenly and then left her feeling bleak and inept . |
| 22 | This series , set in a Boston bar , had become the most popular television comedy of recent years ; and no character was more loved than the mop-headed Norm , whose seat at the corner of the bar seemed the only home he knew . |
| 23 | As the Audit Commission said , it will cost considerably more to collect than the net yield to the Treasury . |
| 24 | In both saloons moveable dining-room chairs were used and the tables also were made moveable , so that the interior of the saloons could be more easily and thoroughly cleaned than the old style of car with the fixed and upholstered furniture . |
| 25 | The female tuxedo is leaner and more finely honed than the male version , with slim-fitting , narrow-shouldered jackets . |
| 26 | Other work in progress has examined this issue in one district where it seems that the other community services are so much less well organized than the special service that managers have found it impossible to prevent that service being undermined by lack of staff , continuity , training , and good practice leadership . |
| 27 | This is much less well known than the standard image of Poland as a nation constantly overrun by hostile forces . |
| 28 | Since HWIM 's grammar was far less tightly constrained than the finite state grammar used in HARPY , the system hypothesised a considerable number of words at the beginning of an utterance . |
| 29 | The prescription of a conflicts rule , though more readily agreed than a substantive rule , is very much the second best solution . |
| 30 | The later Range Rover , although slightly higher geared than the old model and quite a lot heavier , should do more than 50 mph in third . |