Example sentences of "[adv] than [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would occupy a fairly modest 2U of rack space , larger perhaps than a couple of its contemporaries , but it has the advantage of a distinctly uncluttered look about it . |
| 2 | In comparison , she herself would look little better than a sack of potatoes on horseback . |
| 3 | Much better than a line-out with them throwing-in on half-way . |
| 4 | A forty-year-old today looks a lot better than a forty-year-old of twenty years ago . ’ . |
| 5 | Indeed , the ILEA , precisely because its schools operate in such widely differing circumstances , has published a ‘ league table ’ of 16-plus examination results adjusted for intake factors , which shows that schools with a disadvantaged intake can do relatively better than a school with an advantaged intake . |
| 6 | Oh , that is kind — much better than a visit from me . |
| 7 | Better than a view of cardboard panes and the next-door privies . |
| 8 | There 's nothing they 'd like better than a drama like this just before the race , and do n't think Dara or her escort will have kept their mouths shut ! ’ |
| 9 | Manager Chris Winter said : ‘ I think we 're doing better than a lot of other shops because customers can spend as little as £2 on a gift . |
| 10 | Er so I mean they were in use more or less all the time but er it was it was n't , it was n't too bad , better than a lot of hospitals had . |
| 11 | To herself she added silently , But better than no proposal at all . |
| 12 | Eden , the British foreign secretary , declared that non-intervention , ‘ a leaky dam , but better than no dam at all ’ , prevented the outbreak of a general war . |
| 13 | The frames of the furniture were sound , a lot better than the kind of stuff they manufactured nowadays . |
| 14 | Although it has disadvantages , it is a great deal better than the kind of society in which there is no free press , or in which the press is gagged by more and more complex and frequently unworkable rules . |
| 15 | He is lasting as good as , if not better than the rest of the side . |
| 16 | ‘ The North-East has done better than the rest of the UK under Conservative policies . ’ |
| 17 | First and foremost everyone present at an event must be able to see and hear , and the press must be able to see and hear slightly better than the rest without getting in the way of the guests . |
| 18 | Thayer ( 1986 , 1989 ) , for example , has shown that self-report measures of how peppy , active or vigorous a person feels correlate well with a broad range of physiological measures of arousal , usually better than the intercorrelation of such measures with one another . |
| 19 | Where better than the south of France , which she knew like the back of her hand ? |
| 20 | Comparing television with the press , for example , the public rated television a full 1.0 marks better than the press for providing issue-information , and 0.7 marks better on providing leader-information , but only 0.3 marks better for helping viewers and readers decide how to vote ( Table 6.9 ) . |
| 21 | Their wives were chic , exquisitely dressed — far better than the majority of women in post-war Paris . |
| 22 | To put it crudely , the experts may ( perhaps ) have done better than the widow in Boise , Idaho , would have done for herself , but still a lot worse than using a pin . |
| 23 | Now called Poreć , this cathedral was built in 535–43 and displays a high standard of design and craftmanship in its layout , carving and mosaic , all of which are well up to Ravenna standards and better than the work at Grado or Aquileia . |
| 24 | Even man understands his fellow humans better than the language of the animals and other creatures . |
| 25 | If Ballesteros was partially responsible for the all those individual successes , then Jacklin may deserve the credit not just for the Ryder Cup but for demonstrating that inspirational leadership , combined with an infinite capacity for detail , can produce a team better than the sum of its parts . |
| 26 | In any case , the continuation of the war was forcing the revolution to dig much deeper than the topsoil of reforms . |
| 27 | If the foliage was closely arranged around the figure this would allow for the cutter 's inability to carve deeper than the distance between its projecting edge and the body of the angle grinder that powers it . |
| 28 | A stubbornly reactionary tsar might conceivably have delayed the measure , but the key to the decision to emancipate lies considerably deeper than the mind of Alexander . |
| 29 | One comes from revelation and inspiration , and is guided by a light higher than the light of human understanding , and a truth deeper than the truth of outward existence and accepts a changing reality that ultimately leads to freedom . |
| 30 | On record at least , it is largely choirs that have waved the flag on behalf of Byrd 's forgotten motets , none more valiantly than the Choir of New College , Oxford , directed by Edward Higginbottom . |