Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [adv] than [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It comprises nearly 150 oil paintings , collages , gouaches and sculptures from all periods of Picasso 's career and is a rich illustration of the opinion advanced by John Richardson in the first volume of his biography of the artist that still-life was a subject which Picasso ‘ would eventually explore more exhaustively and develop more imaginatively than any other artist in history ’ . |
| 2 | However , the latter point fails to take account of the fact that rape is committed even if there is no ejaculation , and even if the woman is infertile , and it has been strongly argued that ‘ penetration involving the penis , vagina or anus is perceived differently and regarded more seriously than other forms of penetration ’ . |
| 3 | Penetration involving the penis , vagina or anus is perceived differently and regarded more seriously than other forms of penetration . |
| 4 | Joyce retired on April 2 after 14 years service and was delighted not only to receive gifts , including a hi-fi system , but also to be wined and dined on more than one occasion before her departure . |
| 5 | They have a pleasant , slightly sweet flavour and cook more quickly than other dried beans . |
| 6 | For example , borrowings under the compensatory finance facility have to be repaid in quarterly instalments beginning three years and ending not later than five years after the date of the borrowings , whereas the enlarged access repayments are required twice a year beginning three and a half years and ending not later than seven years after the date of the borrowings . |
| 7 | For example , borrowings under the compensatory finance facility have to be repaid in quarterly instalments beginning three years and ending not later than five years after the date of the borrowings , whereas the enlarged access repayments are required twice a year beginning three and a half years and ending not later than seven years after the date of the borrowings . |
| 8 | The photography services supplied nearly 3,000 images for use in publications and television programmes , and hired out more than 500 slides . |
| 9 | In a union in which both the lobon-gur solution and the rice-salt solution had been taught , LGS was also preferred over the rice-salt therapy , despite the recognition by the mothers of the fact that children treated with the latter recovered from diarrhoea and vomiting more quickly than those treated with LGS . |
| 10 | A traveller of extraordinary audacity of whom Mitford wrote ‘ Burton had dared and done more almost than any man living ’ . |
| 11 | Shoppers in St Helens cheered and applauded as more than 3,000 protesters , many of them waving banners and placards , marched through the town centre in a bid to save the doomed Parkside Colliery , on Saturday . |
| 12 | Violent abuse , death threats , bomb warnings and evangelical types were also far more common on the phones then , though received Switchboard wisdom says that 's because they have more trouble getting through now and tend to get discouraged and give up quicker than genuine callers . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , she makes up fifty per cent of the cast — the only other character is her master , Uberto — and sings rather more than fifty per cent of the music , so the drawback becomes quite a serious one . |
| 14 | Rye is very tolerant of poor , acid soils , is extremely frost-hardy and ripens much earlier than other cereals . |
| 15 | It was chiefly employed for the production of darker shades of wool as well as for dying silk black , and survived far longer than many other naturally derived dyes . |
| 16 | Her ribs were clear , her hipbones stuck out like mountains on a desert relief map , her thighs were straight and looked even longer than usual . |
| 17 | And I 'd just seen a colleague come and go in less than three months … |
| 18 | Without the leadership of such a party , the proletariat would be subordinate to bourgeois ideology , accept the premises of capitalism , and go no further than trade-unionism . |
| 19 | Some wheats require a period of cold weather and short days if they are to yield well ; these are autumn sown , stand over winter and ripen much earlier than spring-grown varieties . |
| 20 | By abolishing their organs of self-government , attempting to enrol them in secular educational institutions , and trying much harder than earlier legislators to force them out of the countryside into the towns , the Minister of State Properties intensified the subversion of Jewish communal life which had begun when community leaders had to make invidious choices about recruits for the army . |
| 21 | MND kills three people a day in the UK and strikes more often than better known diseases such as multiple sclerosis . |
| 22 | A NINE-year-old boy who went on a six-month crime spree and carried out more than 50 thefts , went back to school yesterday after police were forced to let him walk free . |
| 23 | It is when an outgoing fish ceases to swim with the shoal and skulks , perhaps with fins folded and respiring more rapidly than usual , that something is suspect . |
| 24 | In many cases a group would divide into sub-groups and work on more than three at a time . |