Example sentences of "[adv] than [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ourselves have found that if a patient goes on to a diet which is relatively free from pesticides , herbicides and chemical additives , then often the homoeopathic remedies work much better than if the patient continues to eat an additive and junk-food-laden diet . |
| 2 | Even he got a few of the good lines , none better than when a malingerer produced a succession of ‘ chits ’ excusing him one arduous duty after the other . |
| 3 | I did , in fact , feel better , certainly better than when the X-rays had been taken , and much better than the period immediately before that . |
| 4 | But work is a firm bonder , and never more so than when a task is both fascinating and absurdly difficult . |
| 5 | He 'd always admired his superior and never more so than when a victim of his contempt . |
| 6 | His character was , however , memorably impassive — never more so than when the chokingly tearful Miss Bergman purrs , ‘ Oh , Victor , please do n't go to the underground meeting tonight . ’ |
| 7 | BRITISH painting has always had a tendency to look in upon itself , but never more so than when the Napoleonic wars rendered travel on the Continent impossible . |
| 8 | The advantage of using the computer is that the answers are confirmed immediately rather than after the whole passage has been completed . |
| 9 | If the objective of a democratic legislature is to inform the public about issues , to let them know what pressure groups are saying and to allow the civil service to assess public reaction before rather than after the government is committed to a line of action , then pressure groups should address Parliament . |
| 10 | It is interesting that the Treasury was only willing to publish the White Paper in the autumn of each year after rather than before the hard decisions fur the third year had been taken , and made no commitment to publish the Medium Term Economic Assessment , actually refusing to do so in 1971 . |
| 11 | If it is true that verbal questions primarily engage the left hemisphere while spatial questions tap the functions of the right hemisphere , it might be predicted that responses to such questions will be optimal when the appropriate hemisphere is activated rather than if the opposite hemisphere is aroused . |
| 12 | They have failed because of the tyranny which stems from a narrow curriculum rather than because the curriculum has been too broad or too diffuse . |
| 13 | Where a statement does cause the relevant belief or attitude in a hearer , it is because he has some reason to think the speaker 's beliefs on that topic are likely to be true , or his attitudes ones he is likely to find , on enquiry , reason to share , rather than because the mere words have any great hold over him . |
| 14 | The negative externality in this case arises either because the market rewards only those who are first ( rather than rewarding films on the basis of their R&D inputs ) , or because the market rewards product innovations which cannibalize existing products ( rewarding the innovator at the expense of rivals rather than because the innovator 's efforts have expanded the market ) . |
| 15 | ( 84 ) The tune was heard to come from no further away than where the track slings around the shoulder of the hill . |
| 16 | Perhaps nothing would embarrass God more than if every one of His creatures took His Word literally and to heart . |
| 17 | Families were linked by marriage alliances , and the determination of fathers to make these locally is nowhere shown more clearly than when the son of one gentleman of the shire was betrothed to the daughter of another , but the particular daughter 's name was left blank in the bond of betrothal . |
| 18 | Employment levels at Shorts are higher now than when the company was privatised . |
| 19 | Rose shared those sort of days with him even more extravagantly than if the days had been her own . |
| 20 | Often we may equate them with more formal partnerships which fall by the wayside after only a short existence ; except that in their breakdown the feelings of guilt , humiliation and bitterness may occur even more strongly than when an " honest " attempt is felt to have been made . |
| 21 | Throughout the pamphlet Hic Mulier seems to be in sympathy with this remark of Montaigne 's , but nowhere is her appropriation of the idea more challenging than in the way she dissolves both law and ideological fixity into a celebration of change and transformation , and , by implication , a celebration of her potential rather than her fixed nature : ‘ Nor do I in my delight of change otherwise than as the whole world does ’ ( sig . |