Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1991 , Motability provided more than 43,000 vehicles . |
| 2 | ICI has more than 40 chemical plants on Teesside . |
| 3 | Mona and Sheila rose earlier than usual the next morning . |
| 4 | Bonn 's roll of 36 000 is by no means untypical : Munster has more than 40 000 ; Aachen 's technical university nearly 32 000 : Koln nearly 40 000 . |
| 5 | The pile-up on the M4 near Swindon involved more than 50 vehicles . |
| 6 | The poets Czeslaw Milosz and Donald Davie have been bothered by the insufficiency and irresponsibility of the lyric genre , and it could be felt that Kundera goes further than they do in denouncing the lyric , and fares worse . |
| 7 | Orton goes further than Laing , for his plays transgress accepted norms at every point yet refuse to replace them with ‘ our true potentialities ’ ; Laing is still preoccupied with the authentic self , the repressed human essence . |
| 8 | Travis recovered quicker than she , thrusting her away . |
| 9 | erm Magistrates only send people to prison because they feel the circumstances of the case justify it and erm I think in the public mind erm the criticism is more often the reverse , that Magistrates are too soft , and I 've heard Lord Hailsham say more than once that if we do pay a price for the lay magistrate system it is leniency because what happens , and the difference between the lay magistrate system and the stipendiary system or the Crown Court system is that Magistrates do sit in threes , and what that tends to do is lead to compromises in sentence because discussion between three people irons out extreme views and you do tend to end up with a very well considered compromise view , which probably does tend to be more lenient than a sentence imposed by any one person who might himself take a very serious view of the circumstances . |
| 10 | A very large economy such as the U.S.A. has more than 100 million workers , the large European countries have about 25 million workers . |
| 11 | In time of crisis , the United States has more than once confronted the ‘ all or nothing ’ choice of military intervention or abandoning its client . |
| 12 | A generous Dalglish said : ‘ Watford played better than the score suggests , but obviously we are pleased to see a few goals go in . ’ |
| 13 | They have an estimated 343m shares worth £1.7bn and last year the wealthier David received more than £30m in dividends alone . |
| 14 | Perhaps this was because Richard paid better than all rival employers , but over so long an association other bonds must have developed . |
| 15 | There was a continuous , low rumble , which Bernice sensed rather than heard . |
| 16 | There was a time , let it ever be remembered , only about 400 years ago , when our fathers were ruled over and tyrannised and when men like Calvin , Knox , Cranmer , Ridley and Latimer broke rather than bend for the Gospel and liberty . |
| 17 | Lloyds generated more than £450m . |
| 18 | KEVIN KEEGAN and Glenn Hoddle took more than 28,000 fans on a trip down quality street yesterday . |
| 19 | Bernice felt rather than heard the two explosions , like a double heartbeat , and then the corridor was filled with flames . |
| 20 | The woman that she 'd seen last night at the top of the stairs was nowhere around , and Lucy knew better than to ask . |
| 21 | The real Erik died more than 1,000 years ago , but he was recently resurrected on the big screen by Terry Jones . |
| 22 | Nowhere else except in France , Belgium , Saxony , Prussia and the United States did more than one in ten of the population live in cities of 10,000 and over . |
| 23 | The CPCz did better than expected , becoming the second largest force in the Federal Assembly and in the Czech National Council . |
| 24 | Candidates endorsed by the republic 's nationalist Popular Front-style organization Adradzhenne did better than expected , despite alleged official harassment during the campaign , but compared with the other two Slav republics there were no spectacular upsets . |
| 25 | The TEC had more than 100 contracts with training providers , and it would not be in their interest to have such details publicly disclosed . |
| 26 | IASC received more than 160 comment letters on the proposals . |
| 27 | Only Mark Hawes made more than 20 . |
| 28 | Liverpool University student Christopher Powell plunged more than 100ft to his death from a Scottish road bridge over the Inverness Firth . |
| 29 | Brazil produced more than 50,000 tonnes of tin in 1989 . |
| 30 | The Maccabees fought rather than acquiesce in the placing of a statue of Zeus in the Temple . |