Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Many people spend money chronologically rather than strategically , with the result that they run out before they 've done everything . |
| 3 | She was accustomed to exercise for , each morning for the past two weeks , Sharpe had saddled her at three o'clock , then ridden her south to watch the dawn break over the Sambre valley , but this morning , hearing the crackle of musketry to the east , he had ridden the mare much further than usual . |
| 4 | Arcadelt was more successful than Verdelot in catching Italian dolcezza e soavita , particularly in such pieces as ‘ O felici occhi miei ’ , although of course less so than the native Italians : for instance , Festa in ‘ Cosi suav' è'l; foco et dolce il nodo ’ , and Domenico Ferrabosco , earliest of a whole dynasty of musicians , in his very popular setting of Boccaccio 's ‘ Io mi son giovinetta ’ . |
| 5 | As the figure shows , the subjects came to respond only when the tone was on , but they formed the discrimination less rapidly than control subjects that had not received pre-exposure . |
| 6 | Bérégovoy had let the budget deficit rise alarmingly rather than raise taxes , which he feared would have cut both demand and the Socialists ' vote . |
| 7 | They take the stranger to their heart less easily than the familiar friend . |
| 8 | A Cambridge mathematician , Michael Behrend , derived an ingenious formula which shows that sites will align by change much more than one would expect . |
| 9 | The classic response to this situation is to take from the rich and to give to the poor on the grounds that the poor spend their money much faster than the rich . |
| 10 | He was n't to know that the journalist he was expecting had opted to take the longer route overland rather than to fly out on Thursday . |
| 11 | As you know Mr Mayor , we are inside the chamber , do n't believe in spending any more than is absolutely necessary in any part of any budget so rather than spend any extra money we are proposing an extra twenty thousand be taken out of the public conveniences budget . |
| 12 | While publishing Dawson on ‘ Religion and the Totalitarian State ’ , he selected for notice in the 1934 Criterion a book highlighting persecution of European Jews ; he wrote to Pound speaking of his offence at Pound 's antisemitic remarks ; with regard to the Vichy government in 1941 he wrote in The Christian News-Letter of his ‘ greatest anxiety ’ at news ‘ that ‘ Jews have been given a special status , based on the laws of Nuremberg , which makes their condition little better than that of bondsmen . ’ |
| 13 | Certain matrices have properties which make reciprocation rather easier than would otherwise be the case . |
| 14 | ‘ The lad was in non-League football little more than 12 months ago . |
| 15 | Intentions are infamous for getting put into action less frequently than plans simply because intentions leave a yawning gap which only plans can bridge . |
| 16 | Inside each brown case waited the empty skull-face , folded flat , with a flappy rubber nose and hard cylindrical snout , though they frightened Dot less now than they used to . |
| 17 | It is impossible to describe in a few words , but one thing that many knitters do not realise is that it can be worked from either left or right and that some people find one side much easier than the other ( not necessarily related to whether you are right or left handed either ! ) . |
| 18 | A figure much better than the 100,000-plus constantly bandied about by some financial commentators . |
| 19 | Consequently , in order to assert its prevalence , the Court of Chancery began to issue common injunctions which , although directed at the litigant personally rather than the common law courts , had the effect of limiting common law jurisdiction … |
| 20 | Another American firm , McDonnell Douglas , has a smaller product range , and by the mid-1980s was wondering whether to get out of the industry entirely rather than compete in the next generation of civil airliners . |
| 21 | Local education authorities query this pattern of study less often than they used to as principles of credit accumulation percolate through to town halls . |
| 22 | Their problems are so deep and the solutions will take so long that it will hold back political and economic progress in western Europe if we insist that they are brought into the fold sooner rather than later . |
| 23 | The petition calls on the watchdog to ‘ force Welsh Water to take action sooner rather than later to upgrade the sewage works . ’ |
| 24 | Also higher property transfer taxes and commision rates make selling a house a much less attractive option in Europe so people tend to treat a house as a long term home rather than as an investment . |
| 25 | In combination with his ardent desire to improve the living standard of the British working man , this made for a potent brand of imperialism ; few politicians took the Dual Mandate more seriously than Ernest Bevin . |
| 26 | Singers are called upon to exercise this talent more often than instrumentalists but Mr Cliburn realised that his success depended in large part on boyish charm . |
| 27 | Although that would reduce the union block vote more drastically than other options , it would also give both sides a veto . |
| 28 | Paul ‘ popped round ’ for tea more frequently than was decent for a visiting lecturer , and he seemed to get on very well with everyone . |
| 29 | Hopefully the initial push towards the enemy will ensure that the Fanatic hits the enemy more often than he hits his mates … but you can never be sure . |
| 30 | The descriptive aspect of the analysis does however appear to reflect administrative practice more accurately than the ideal of rational decision-making . |