Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the shire districts , the spectacular advances which enabled Labour to claim more than 50% of the vote in many authorities lend a further twist to the puzzle of why the party has not been able to match consistently good local results in these areas with comparable general election support . |
| 2 | But the Public Order Act of 1986 goes further than either Lord Scarman or Sir Robert Mark had envisaged by giving new powers to the police to impose conditions on public assemblies as well as on processions . |
| 3 | In the long run it may be possible to go further than this , to appropriate in the form of tax revenue a large part of the income which workers would otherwise have put into long-term savings schemes , and to expand commensurately the socialised provision for retired workers ( state pensions plus appropriate social amenities ) . |
| 4 | In the library context it should be possible to go further than the catalogue to establish relevance , i.e. , to go beyond the question put to the catalogue and include the user 's relevance judgements after examining the actual documents on the shelves . |
| 5 | ‘ Depardieu junior made more than 15 trips to Holland recently , ’ said a police spokesman . |
| 6 | On agriculturally unimproved moorlands it is not easy to exceed the maximum stocking density ( 6 sheep/hectare ) for HLCAs because it is often not possible to support more than 2 per hectare . |
| 7 | Margaret Thatcher and Ruby Wax tie for bottom place ; neither musters more than 1% support as sex objects . |
| 8 | Neither side should be afraid to instruct more than one doctor when the plaintiff suffers multiple injuries giving rise to a variety of symptoms . |
| 9 | Some communicate better than others . |
| 10 | In addition the external examiners review and comment on examination papers , moderate coursework where this constitutes more than 50 per cent of the assessment of a module , review other coursework if necessary , viva students if required , recommend awards , write annual reports and advise staff on the delivery of the course . |
| 11 | To herself she had to admit that she would have been willing to go further than talk . |
| 12 | You may not need to yet but it 'll be easier to plan now than when you 're under pressure . |
| 13 | As has consistently been the case , Paisley and other DUP politicians were prepared to go further than the Official Unionists and the provincial leadership of the Orange Order . |
| 14 | Pollitt , at the Seventh World Congress of the Comintern , was prepared to go further than the ILP . |
| 15 | This represents less than 5 per cent of the issued ordinary share capital as at 24 March 1993 and is in line with guidelines issued by the Investment Protection Committees of the Association of British Insurers and the National Association of Pension Funds . |
| 16 | You will have noted that this has more than doubled between 1983 and 1984 , and increased again in 1985 . |
| 17 | Orton 's camp is indeed constituted by playfulness and it acts as a solvent of morality — but it does this to provoke rather than disarm moral indignation . |
| 18 | The French charged sooner than we thought . |
| 19 | Yeah because this one because it 's easier to write on than er than a wooden . |
| 20 | Each circuit can feed up to 12 lighting points , but in practice it is wise to restrict this to a maximum of eight , to allow for some to contain more than one bulb . |
| 21 | Some earn more than £500,000 . |
| 22 | Within this cohort 22 consumed more than 20 units of alcohol a week . |
| 23 | The clocks are very expensive — some costing more than ten thousand pounds , but even in the depths of a recession the firm thought it had enough work to keep it ticking over . |
| 24 | Of the world 's 250 major industrial products , just 12 consume more than 70% of the energy used by the entire industrial sector . |
| 25 | One noticeably in excess of the standards ( 30 BOD rather than the 20 of the Royal Commission , 40 solids rather than 30 ) is ‘ harmful ’ and requires ‘ improvement to be carried out ’ . |
| 26 | While most people regularly watch both BBC and ITV news , few read more than one morning newspaper . |
| 27 | For example , an employer who envisages having to slim down his work-force in the future , perhaps after introducing new technology , may offer those who are prepared to resign rather than to wait to volunteer for redundancy a financial inducement , perhaps exceeding state redundancy pay . |
| 28 | Most burglars will flee empty handed rather than risk a confrontation . |
| 29 | They are much easier to fit earlier than later ; wires can be more easily concealed and circuits worked out at the start of kitchen planning . |
| 30 | This includes more than 1m council tenants in England who have exercised their right to buy . |