Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These tutors are to be empowered with greater responsibility than previously when new membership standards are instituted . |
| 2 | Mr Langdale added : ‘ He is quite clearly a ruined man — ruined in more senses than just one . |
| 3 | Shafts are being manufactured to closer tolerances than ever before and are being produced in ever widening ranges to meet the differences among players . |
| 4 | Yet this behaviour was related to wider trends than simply social class ; it concerned the balance between closeness and distance , and the nature of support networks . |
| 5 | H. L. Gee knew it when he said that Edinburgh is ‘ perhaps never seen to greater advantage than late on a midsummer evening , the stones crimson in the setting sun , western windows ablaze with fire ’ . |
| 6 | She added that the festival had been attended by more people than ever before , and that by celebrating it in a smaller town , away from the more sophisticated attractions of Bogotá , the festival had a more genuine , grassroots character . |
| 7 | More beds are being used in real terms than ever before … ‘ |
| 8 | There may be more early-music ensembles of international repute based in Southern England than anywhere else in the world . |
| 9 | The fact that French academies are relatively expensive should come as no surprise : this style was much more developed in eighteenth-century France than elsewhere , namely by Boucher and Greuze . |
| 10 | One traditionally impoverished group — women — have become more represented in this offence than elsewhere in criminal statistics . |
| 11 | He was even more of a Catholic fanatic than Charles had been , and under his rule , the persecutions against the Nonconformists were continued with greater vigour than ever . |