Example sentences of "[adv] than [art] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More to him perhaps than the relief afforded by the crude sex was the fact that he woke up in the meagre home of a real working woman , warm like a picture by Chardin ; ‘ a wooden floor with a mat and a piece of old crimson carpet , an ordinary kitchen stove , a chest of drawers , a large simple bed . ’ |
| 2 | Would you not think a statute prohibiting abortion except in the case of rape distinctly better than a statute prohibiting abortion except to women born in one specified decade each century ? |
| 3 | The final text leaves this clash alone , free to speak for itself in a world where the reader believes he understands Stepan better than the narrator does . |
| 4 | A generous Dalglish said : ‘ Watford played better than the score suggests , but obviously we are pleased to see a few goals go in . ’ |
| 5 | The computer must , therefore , produce a final printout which is equally as good , if not better than the hand copied finished piece . |
| 6 | There was no such difference on a recognition memory task where , if anything , the control group did a little better than the group given distinctiveness training . |
| 7 | James had said that John Stewart the pedlar had seemed frantic that night — more so than the emergency warranted ? |
| 8 | The R A F base at Brize Norton provides many of the backup services vital to the airforce , none more so than the air refuelling squadron which keeps the jets going . |
| 9 | The amount of tar in cigarettes is also important but less so than the number smoked or duration of smoking . |
| 10 | It took the company less than a year to roll out their prototype DHC–2 — and it was a runaway success right from the start . |
| 11 | Moreover , among persons of working age in Kosovo , less than a quarter have jobs in the social sector , because there are many small peasant households ( with very low incomes ) and a high level of unemployment . |
| 12 | Even among those who stated their overall dissatisfaction , when asked to indicate their reasons , less than a quarter cited high charges as the reason ( service or errors made racked up a much higher 38 per cent ) . |
| 13 | Typewriter script , which became the world 's most familiar type-face between 1867 and 1985 , will have taken less than a decade to change from a staple into a mannerism . |
| 14 | The proposed ‘ poll tax ’ will supposedly , be a fairer system for those who live alone , since they will pay , overall , less than a family living in a similar property . |
| 15 | Donors pledged US$170,000,000 in drought aid , US$100,000,000 less than the amount requested by the Banda regime . |
| 16 | The increase is 1.1pc less than the maximum permitted by national price control formula . |
| 17 | But police say the IRA message gave them less than an hour to respond . |
| 18 | It is best lubricated with wax , rather than a water misting system . |
| 19 | But the Royal Navy , which was geared up to fight the Soviet Union rather than a country operating Western weapons , had not reprogrammed the computer to register Exocet as being hostile . |
| 20 | It was the first time that an organization rather than a country had been allowed to join a UN organization . |
| 21 | Integration of primary and secondary care is central to an internal market driven by primary care and should encourage a needs led rather than a service dominated approach . |
| 22 | The Cobol approach to object-oriented programming will mainly be one of incremental re-engineering of venerable applications rather than a rush to write new programs , hence the need to retrofit new Cobol into old code . |
| 23 | The other available forms of pre-testing for print ads by means of survey research are all elaborations of the folder test — for example , an ad can be inserted into an actual magazine rather than a folder to provide something nearer to the real world . |
| 24 | The heroes of Under the Net and Lucky Jim follow a broadly similar path , bemused at lit by false starts and coming by the end to see the social world as it is : various , unstereotypable , kaleidoscopic and as fast-shifting as the shades of an opal , but in the end a place to settle into and improve rather than a system to defy . |
| 25 | She was the ‘ mad ’ one , rather than a person trying to get him to hear . |
| 26 | In so far as cost-of-funds matters lead to Japanese competitive advantage , it is more likely to be due to their willingness to take greater risks because of the low relative cost reported by Prowse ( 1986 ) and confirmed by Hodder ( 1986 ) , rather than a propensity to disregard DCF . |
| 27 | " Problem solving " was also referred to as a more global idea , or a process which prompts active thought rather than a question designed to initiate rote-learning techniques . |
| 28 | Surely confusion in the minds of the leading Protestants , pushed down strange paths by the increasing pressure of religious and political tensions , rather than a determination to rush upon revolution . |
| 29 | The analytical method , which has also been taken from Dicey , and forms part of this orthodoxy supposedly separates fact from value ; parliamentary sovereignty , for example , is viewed as part of ‘ the order of things ’ rather than a concept derived from a particular political theory . |
| 30 | Ballater sensed obstinate refusal rather than a willingness to bargain . |