Example sentences of "than [verb] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The officer was than joined from the next flat by security guard Christopher Coyle , 39 . |
| 2 | The first point is that they were largely developmental rather than research in the accepted sense . |
| 3 | It has been much easier to give an overdraft than to go through the whole process of studying a plan for the business and coming up with longer term loan financing . |
| 4 | As a consequence , greater virulence should be favoured if enough offspring of other wasps can be infected to more than compensate for the subsequent loss of extra offspring from the current host . |
| 5 | These should more than compensate for the natural decline in other more mature fields . |
| 6 | Even before 1905 , a solidly-based mass press had come into being , and in the last decade of the Empire there was an explosion in the publication of newspapers , while the number of books appearing more than trebled in the first decade and a half of the century . |
| 7 | Rather than wait for the groaning lift , I use the stairs . |
| 8 | Maybe send them out rather than wait till the next meeting , aha |
| 9 | In 1977 , the Labour Health Secretary David Ennals said : ‘ In the present economic climate the Government can do little more than provide for the increasing number of old people , leaving a small margin for improvements in method of treatment . ’ |
| 10 | Registration figures went down when the poll tax was introduced , but — at least nationally — they staged a marked recovery in 1992 , more than compensating for the 1989 drop . |
| 11 | From about 1940 to the 1970s , in this picture , both solar and volcanic influences were acting to cool the Earth , more than compensating for the rapid buildup of carbon dioxide , even with the standard greenhouse effect numbers . |
| 12 | In his second oration against Verres Cicero describes hypocrisy in terms which sound like a scenario for Iago 's undermining of Othello : In the Academica he attacks the simulatio of virtue which is assumed not out of duty but in pursuit of pleasure , and in De Finibus he denounces those whose actions are motivated by personal desire for pleasure rather than respect for the moral law . |
| 13 | In discussing the interactions of mental illnesses and brain failure Gray and Isaacs ( 1979 ) showed that illnesses such as depression , psychosis and neurosis do continue to occur in old age but are more likely to recur than appear for the first time . |
| 14 | Survival curves were identical for patients who were and were not operated on and were only slightly worse than expected for the general population matched for age . |
| 15 | A district with a high under 75 years standardised mortality ratio will tend to have people dying earlier than expected in the younger age groups , and applying national average rates of use of service to those groups will underestimate its relative need for health services . |
| 16 | I would have expected Esquire to be a little more imaginative than to jump on the anti-Essex bandwagon and to realize that you do n't have to be brainless to live in Braintree . |
| 17 | It addresses both health and social services but is disappointing in treating both in traditionally separate fashion ( see Twigg 's section on mainstream services ) rather than grappling with the emerging picture of multi-disciplinary support teams and the strengths and dilemmas of interagency working . |
| 18 | By reducing the tax distortion and increasing the amount of work a lot , lower taxes would be more than compensated by the extra work and incomes to which the tax rates were applied . |
| 19 | At all times one is aware that the artist is also a composer — the conviction with which she untangles some of the more complicated , almost obscure pieces , has an unquestionable authority ( the enormous B flat minor Fugue from Book Two instantly comes to mind in this connection ) , whilst the famous pieces are often presented in a totally different manner — the A minor Prelude and Fugue ( Book One ) will surprise many as the Prelude is fearful and serious ( rather than light with the usual staccato touches ) , whilst the Fugue has clipped articulation at the end of each subject entry . |
| 20 | Because of the changed security situation and that type of er conflict not being envisaged in the same way now , what we felt was important was to be able to operate er apart from main operating bases , but also from sort of general purpose erm strips , flying clubs and those type of smaller airfields and therefore rather than looking at the damaged runway situation , we looked at the smaller strips and took a length that we could sensibly operate from erm and took that as the yardstick but clearly notwithstanding that , there is the prospect of damaged runways and therefore the slight relaxation would also apply to damaged runways but perhaps damaged to a lesser extent . |
| 21 | She could still hear the pounding of the waves on the rocks below , but felt lulled rather than threatened by the muffled boom , accepting it as an inescapable sound on an island surrounded by the Atlantic ocean . |
| 22 | The horror stories of Eastern Europe can be more than matched from the Third World . |
| 23 | It was quicker than pushing through the front door and round to the side again . |
| 24 | Or , if they did , they knew better than to remonstrate with the grim-faced man behind her . |
| 25 | Gross profit margins were lower than budget though , he said , which resulted in a ‘ less than satisfactory return on sales ’ — high sterling levels during most of 1992 and higher costs than anticipated during the early development phases of Series 3 had a negative impact , while modest sales levels to the traditionally lucrative UK corporate market meant that margins were below expectations . |
| 26 | Developing the thought into consideration of wickedness , Johnson 's one-two punch summarised the presence and shape of evil within the human spirit , and he returns , if obliquely , to his recurring theme of the difficulty in being good , rather than succumbing to the natural animus all humans share . |
| 27 | These tenants included a higher proportion in the age-groups 74–79 , 80–84 and 85 and over than occurred in the general population . |
| 28 | In absolute terms , there were three extra households for every extra member of the population over this period , generating a very much higher level of new housing need than reflected in the overall population figures . |
| 29 | But Hilary Witt , head of Cambridgeshire 's catering service , admits : ‘ The trouble is , going into a school hall for dinner is less exciting than going into the Wimpy bar . |
| 30 | ‘ The British diet has started to change , but a far greater rate of progress can be achieved if we now shift to a positive message about what to eat , rather than going down the old road of saying do n't eat certain foods . |