Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Humour is very subtle in ‘ Great Expectations ’ as more often than not Dickens will just use parts of the language wittily rather than the obvious physical humour surrounding Pumblechook . |
| 2 | Creating a climate of trust and reliability within staff groups and between staff and senior staff , where management can be experienced as a kind of co-operative bank to draw on rather than a persecutor to defend against , will be a central task . |
| 3 | Now multiply that by two then er , zero on rather than the two . |
| 4 | Yes , that 's right , I 'd like to raise a separate point on that later on rather than the accuracy ones for this , do the accuracy ones first . |
| 5 | After considerable discussion Mr Jones accepted the possibility that Olwyn perhaps did need love and attention but that it was just as likely she needed it because she behaved badly rather than the other way round . |
| 6 | I like the books , the original books that I had when I was a little rather than the new books . |
| 7 | The terms ‘ stiff-necked ’ , ‘ tight-lipped ’ , ‘ pain in the neck ’ and so on are part of common everyday usage , and indicate something rather deeper than a simple muscle tension problem . |
| 8 | But the issue penetrates , or ought to , rather deeper than the fine weave of legal technicality . |
| 9 | I have seen cross-breed exotic Goldfish that are cute , but rarely better than the original parents . |
| 10 | DAVID went to sea and rose to command a naval ship ; after losing an arm in a naval battle , he was offered but refused a knighthood ; in his book Memorials of Ochiltree , David Ramsay says that when David 's brother James Tennant asked why he had refused the honour , he replied , ‘ Deed , Jamie , I just considered it little better than a nickname . ’ |
| 11 | But Alice 's mood : little better than a sulk , and behaving as if it were everyone 's fault but her own … |
| 12 | After being a highly-prized mistress she was now little better than a common prostitute , and her owners were now interested only in squeezing the last drops of revenue from her tired body . |
| 13 | ‘ You accused me of being little better than a thief , a cheat , as though I 'd masterminded it all just to hurt you . |
| 14 | This means that a 50MHz 486 performs only a little better than a 16MHz 286 if you are only doing simple word-processing . |
| 15 | How dare you , miss , turn the Feathers into little better than a bawdy-house ? |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll feel stronger a damn sight faster if I move around a bit , ’ he threw at her in a voice little better than a snarl . |
| 17 | In comparison , she herself would look little better than a sack of potatoes on horseback . |
| 18 | There was no such difference on a recognition memory task where , if anything , the control group did a little better than the group given distinctiveness training . |
| 19 | Only 77 per cent of children enrolled in the first grade ( Standard Sub-A- SSA ) in 1985 survived into the second year ( Standard Sub-B — SSB ) , little better than the 74 per cent of 1966 . |
| 20 | Women … had to be a little better than the average man in order to stay equal . |
| 21 | The city 's newer pillars , especially the regulators and fraud-busters , have fared little better than the old . |
| 22 | First published in 1962 and now in its 4th edition ( 1980 ) , this fulfils a role as a reference text rather better than a student text , in that it has hundreds of references but no problems . |
| 23 | Hardly a welcome comment on the mentality of this nation 's youth who , no doubt , understood Morrissey 's ambiguous lyrics rather better than the tabloids . |
| 24 | The ‘ original ’ actually fits Taylor , Walton and Young 's argument rather better than the amended version they quote above which implies at least the possibility of poverty as a cause of ‘ rational ’ crime . |
| 25 | Like the scouts at the TT races , it seems , the Japanese studied their subject , and now work the system rather better than the natives do . |
| 26 | He 'd known Leverrier rather better than the other masters ; they had shared a common interest in botany . |
| 27 | and it was in this field that the pluralists most persistently attempted to combine empirical methods with assumptions which , if they were not entirely Madisonian , at least fitted prevailing norms rather better than the emerging stark elitism . |
| 28 | I remember the name Hulterstad rather better than the place . |
| 29 | Parapets gradually grew lower and lower until the trench became little deeper than a roadside ditch . |
| 30 | However , much of the fall was due to share prices being marked down rather than a flood of selling and trading volume at just under 500 million shares was little above normal levels . |