Example sentences of "[verb] than [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were to discover , however , that a barely literate populace found the abstract word far more difficult to absorb than more concrete visual images , for as one Henrician reformer had earlier noted : ‘ into the common people things sooner enter by the eyes than by the ears . ’ |
| 2 | Carpenter and Just [ 1983 ] showed that syntactically ambiguous words take longer to process than syntactically unambiguous words , indicating that the reader is trying to determine the syntactic role of the ambiguous word while fixating it . |
| 3 | They also make a specific suggestion that causally connected episodes will be better recalled than temporally connected episodes . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , there is a specific prediction to be examined and that is whether causally connected episodes are better recalled than temporally connected episodes . |
| 5 | Although this approach may be more ambiguous and more difficult to implement than more common practices , it seems to result in services that are more fluid , creative , and egalitarian and potentially more responsive to client and community needs . |
| 6 | These should be harder to reverse than purely domestic initiatives . |
| 7 | Balbazian steel is a rarity , because its about three hundred times harder to make and costlier to buy than even high-tech accelsteel . |
| 8 | However , in order to make meaningful comparisons more is needed than merely comparative information , since within any field of study theory is necessary both to provide a framework for the systematic analysis and accumulation of the existing stock of knowledge and to serve as a guide for the selection of research problems . |
| 9 | As we have seen , the decisions of the Roman Council of 1059 , which were more widely distributed than almost any others in the century , never mentioned the decision about the Eucharist . |
| 10 | The discreet field of African art , which escaped art market speculation and has always been a strong point at the fair , will be better represented than ever this year by six dealers , two of them newcomers — Meyer and Ratton , both from Paris . |
| 11 | WADDON MANOR is more perfectly proportioned than almost any house I have ever seen . |
| 12 | ‘ Square ’ stones are more difficult to remove than more rounded ones . |
| 13 | The renewed popularity of British music in America only made Branson more determined than ever that Virgin should , once again , have their own operation in the States . |