Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that parts of Poland were virtually indistinguishable from parts of Germany in terms of social complexity , levels of absolute poverty and economic success , that the Polish szlachta and the German Junker had more in common with each other than they did with either Berliners or Warsawians , that the average Polish and German smallholders and peasants had more in common with each other than they did with their social betters and political masters — all this meant nothing , except perhaps to make the Germans more convinced that the Poles would eventually drag them down to the Polish level of degradation . |
| 2 | She had not the least idea of what she should do next , other than perhaps to fasten the strange garment about her waist . |
| 3 | This seems particularly objectionable when pleasures and pains prevented come into account , for one may well think it worse in an action to produce pain than merely to hinder a corresponding amount of pleasure occurring . |
| 4 | This is carried out in relatively modern mercury and diaphragm electrochemical cells and consumes huge amounts of electricity — more than enough to power the city of Liverpool . |
| 5 | Then again , addictions to substances that affect different types of synapse can be quite similar — and some people seem to be prone to addiction per se , rather than just to have a weakness for a particular substance . |
| 6 | Doubly authentic , because I have often observed that where , these delicate questions are concerned most listeners are more inclined than not to accept the most improbable of two or three possible explanations for the vagaries of a person 's conduct . |
| 7 | Better to have a go and fail than not to have a go at all . ’ |
| 8 | Comments that the ‘ recession is bottoming out ’ seem more often than not to have a hollow ring about them . |
| 9 | Throughout the 1340s and 1350s the king played on the commons ' fear of a French invasion of England : the threat that the French might ‘ destroy the English tongue and occupy the realm of England ’ was used more than once to persuade the commons to grant money for the war , and the discovery at the sack of Caen of a French plan for the invasion of England in 1339 was a gift to royal propaganda . |
| 10 | There were several riots , and local Ethiopian troops opened fire more than once to quell the angry refugees . |
| 11 | He began to tell me the difficulties of his life at home , and finally he told me that he had tried more than once to find a home with another brother or sister , but they had persuaded him to return to Cis and Elfed . |
| 12 | The harmony between Europe 's big six — VW , Fiat , PSA , Renault , GM and Ford — looks more likely than ever to persuade the commission to go for a transitional period longer than three to five years . |
| 13 | " I just hope you two girls have got more sense than ever to set a foot out there . " |
| 14 | For example , it has become more difficult than ever to reconcile the proprietary brand of ‘ backbone of the nation ’ style racism , with the aggressive body politics of the ‘ territorial armies ’ who march under the banner of Millwall or Manchester United . |
| 15 | It will be more difficult than ever to see the composer as he really was , and is . |
| 16 | With premiums on many cars set to double AGAIN this year it 's more important than ever to find a way to cut costs on cover . |
| 17 | It is therefore more important than ever to reject the ‘ primordialist ’ theory of ethnicity , let alone of national self-determination . |
| 18 | ‘ Ah yes — it 's becoming more difficult than ever to achieve a balance . |
| 19 | Newspapers and magazines are more eager than ever to get the shots that count . |
| 20 | In a culture more and ore unified by the mass media , it is more absurd and anachronistic than ever to separate the middle-class from the working-class , the potentially academic and scholarly from the rest , in terms of the teaching they will receive at school . |
| 21 | If the mens rea principle and the principle of proof are objectives worthy of a rational and humane system of criminal law they ought to be used critically to assess the achievement of the total system rather than circularly to select an acceptable portion of the criminal law . |
| 22 | The petition calls on the watchdog to ‘ force Welsh Water to take action sooner rather than later to upgrade the sewage works . ’ |
| 23 | We shall have even less time than before to enrich the curriculum with a range of imaginative exploratory activity . |
| 24 | The excellent weather had brought out more sun-seekers and it was harder than before to find a parking space in Nice . |
| 25 | Was it better fitted than before to handle the increasingly complex business of the sixteenth-century state ? |
| 26 | The tomato soup was lost , and there can be no greater crime on a mountain than wilfully to destroy the tomato soup . |
| 27 | Their imaginations are eager to go rather more than half-way to meet the audacious writer . |
| 28 | So it 's from a guarantee point of view rather than how to compile the stats ? |
| 29 | Integration in its widest sense is about how to fit special education into mainstream education rather than how to devise a single system of education which creates equal access to education for all — a common policy for education ( Warnock , 1988 ) . |
| 30 | She was delighted rather than otherwise to have an extra visitor , and she chattered throughout the excellent dinner , preventing Robbie from concentrating on the fascinating conversation going on between Fen and the rector . |