Example sentences of "[vb infin] more [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ What is happening in Great Britain should perhaps show Mrs Thatcher and Chancellor Lawson that they should act more quickly than anticipated in terms of bringing the currency into the EMS . ’ |
| 2 | Pierre Beregovoy , the Finance Minister , told a business meeting : ‘ What is happening in Great Britain should perhaps show Mrs Thatcher and Chancellor Lawson that they should act more quickly than anticipated in terms of bringing the currency into the EMS . ’ |
| 3 | Now he knows I am here he may be more careful , or he may act more quickly than he had planned . ’ |
| 4 | He had been immersed in the clean up work for nearly a month and he wanted to be with friends who restore and collect aircraft and who could empathise more fully than most with him about the size of the task and who also might offer some constructive ideas ‘ At first I was in shock , it was too much to comprehend ’ , shared Kermit . |
| 5 | The climate is crucial , because a reactor compartment exposed to dry air will rust more slowly than one buried in soil or sunk at sea . |
| 6 | If anything we will specialise more rather than become more generalised . |
| 7 | Like her , the General had prayed and hoped for the violet 's return , and now it had come and it would surely blossom more gloriously than ever before . |
| 8 | In practice this means they can borrow more cheaply than banks and thrifts which , being unable to compete with them , have increasingly decided to join them . |
| 9 | The Government is the most credit-worthy ( ! ) body in the country and so can borrow more cheaply than any other institution . |
| 10 | Can we not do more even than we 're doing at the moment to restore to the centre of the life of the church the glorious concept of a team of pastoral care and a high command of power strategy in which dominance by ministers will be reduced to the minimum in order that together we may be ready to let the lifeblood of Christ flow through us in such a way that we will be better able to welcome the twenty first century in his name . |
| 11 | Those issues all interact , of course ; like those fiendish three-dimensional puzzles that children can often do more easily than adults , the pieces have to be put together simultaneously , or the whole thing falls apart . |
| 12 | or they may grow more slowly than the rest of the body , and so decrease in relative size , which is negative allometry . |
| 13 | In the 1990s the number of people of working age will either fall or grow more slowly than over the past two decades in all the big industrial economies , which should help to reduce dole queues . |
| 14 | Resources : The Ninth Five-Year Plan ( 1971–75 ) stipulated that light industry would grow more quickly than heavy industry ; nonetheless , the opposite took place . |
| 15 | When Japanese demand picks up again , imports will grow more quickly than in past recoveries . |
| 16 | And if the food is at 10°C , Listeria will grow more rapidly than any other organism |
| 17 | You 'd think more so than a big Tesco 's because you would n't think lots of people |
| 18 | Now one of the things that sex one of the consequences of sex is that a population which reproduces sexually can evolve more rapidly than a population erm which reproduces asexually . |
| 19 | The overweight people would eat more rapidly than the slim people . |
| 20 | After a more detailed and refined analysis of their results , Brown and Levin concluded as follows : ‘ The evidence clearly suggests , therefore , that the aggregate effect of tax on overtime is small ; it may perhaps add about 1% to the total hours worked , since , on balance , tax has made people work more rather than less overtime . ’ |
| 21 | If its Secretariat 's proposals are agreed to , " farming will become more rather than less intensive , global brands will erode local foods and developing countries ' food self-reliance will be undermined " . |
| 22 | Glass and enamel tesserae , for , are uncommon in Britain — although they do occur more frequently than is sometimes suggested ( Boon 1974 , 345 ; Neal 1976 , 243 ) . |
| 23 | As we have seen , some genetic change may not take place at random , or events may occur more quickly than Darwin believed . |
| 24 | In effect , this is a small boiler which will run more cheaply than an electric one and will reduce dependence on a single fuel . |
| 25 | Most countries had objected that they would be forced to rely on each other 's trade statistics , that exporters would face more rather than less paperwork at national borders , and that the potential for fraud would increase . |
| 26 | Particular parts may move more slowly than others . |
| 27 | This strategy recognizes that different pollution sources have different marginal costs of control , that some can control more cheaply than others , and that there would be net savings to society if some plants reduced emission to a greater and others to a lesser extent . |
| 28 | But Basil encouraged and even found some tiny portion of my painting which could be developed though he agreed that I might copy more easily than imagine and he gave me a mounted butterfly to draw . |
| 29 | Glass , like other substances , contracts as it cools and if the outer parts of the glass be cooled and hardened before the inner parts then the outside will , of course , contract more initially than the inside but , since the inside is still soft , it will yield in the early stages of cooling . |
| 30 | We can only hope that common sense will prevail more quickly than it did in the previous instance . |