Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [adv] [adj] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WITH THIS week 's hike in interest rates , homebuyers should be more careful than ever about advertisements for mortgages with seemingly low rates of interest . |
| 2 | The range of subject matter suitable for updating knowledge and skills could be more limited than above , e. g. high tensile fencing ; new machines , particularly tractors , and changes in materials and techniques . |
| 3 | I am less sure about the Andantino grazioso , which could be more relaxed than here ; it 's as if the performers are anxious that this longish ( and to be honest , maybe too long ) movement should not outstay its welcome , and even here it lasts getting on for three minutes longer than either of the others . |
| 4 | There are several approaches which are helpful , given that , as described already , elderly people 's hearing , eyesight , and memory may be less active than previously and their responses may be marginally slower . |
| 5 | The new restrictions have been triggered by further studies of survivors of the Hiroshima explosion , which have revealed that long-term radiation hazards may be more serious than previously thought . |
| 6 | Toumanoff explains that , for the ‘ hot meal and shelter form of in-kind transfer ’ ( p. 445 ) , the in-kind transfer may be more efficient than hitherto considered . |
| 7 | At the lower end of the scale the items may be far shoddier than even the cheapest village or nomadic rug ; at the higher end , one can find work of the most outstanding calibre and sophistication . |
| 8 | Concern has been expressed over the accuracy of death certificates in general , and certification of death from asthma in particular , but my study suggests that the inaccuracy may be much greater than previously realised . |
| 9 | It may perhaps be objected that the distance may prevent the pupils of the Hospitals from attending the Lectures of the Veterinary Professor — I will first answer to that — that it would be dangerous for the progress of the Veterinary science to give them too free admission into the College — because it might give a disgust to the residing pupils from their application to the Veterinary Medicine and many of them would change their mind and apply themselves to the anatomy of the human body , thinking that it would be more honorable for them to cure the human species than Animals , this happened in France and the best Veterinary pupils are now Physicians and Surgeons to the human species — this prejudiced ideal would inculcate itself into the minds of young men , the more so as the Veterinary Science is still in its Infancy in this Country , and in an abject state , for this reason it would be equally dangerous to permit residing pupils to attend medical or anatomical lectures , of the human body , or to frequent Hospitals : Therefore a certain distance from the Town would be more useful than otherwise for the progress of the Veterinary Science . |
| 10 | After last night he would be more anxious than ever to have their journey over . |
| 11 | They will be less available than previously to sit on appointment panels and may have to limit themselves to advising on senior posts only . |
| 12 | If it transpires that there 's been no real change the detractors will be more vociferous than ever . ’ |
| 13 | McCoist and Hateley 's marvellous talents will be more invaluable than ever as Rangers once again try to overcome their massive injury problems . |
| 14 | With Winifred as Chair , and Diane as Vice Chair , the working party has received evidence from over fifty people , as well as conducting its own survey of trustees and management committees , with a tighter framework of regulation resulting from the charity bill , it will be more important than ever , that trustees are aware of their very considerable responsibilities , and well equipped to take them on . |
| 15 | It will be more difficult than ever to see the composer as he really was , and is . |
| 16 | This year 's Sixteenth Biennale Internationale des Antiquaires , to be held in the Grand Palais in Paris from 18 September to 4 October , will be more theatrical than ever thanks to Italian stage designer Pier Luigi Pizzi who has been hired to create a neo-classical Italianate mise en scène for participants to show off their wares . |
| 17 | for physics there is only one true measurement from any one position , and it can be more accurate than ever before ; writing and painting communicate look and feel from a viewpoint with more sophistication than ever before ; with a Cubist vision which constructs reality from the different facets exposed from different angles one is better orientated than ever before . |