Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strictly on P P G two terms er because of the effect er on the greenbelt , but I would n't want to go any further than that , that 's my impression , Mr Curtis will undoubtably correct me if I 'm wrong . |
| 2 | But if , if we , if w we accepted the moral economy , which was that the peasant has a , a view of what is right and fair and once that fairness is established for him , that 's it , he does n't want to go any further than this . |
| 3 | As regards the timing of the announcement , the Directors , in consultation with Unions and personnel professionals , decided that those affected would want to know immediately rather than wait until after the Christmas holiday to be told . |
| 4 | With all of the GDR 's western frontier open , the Wall is the most convenient crossing point only for those who want to go no further than the Kurfurstendamm . |
| 5 | Noel Littlefair , the centre 's chairman , said : ‘ We want to go further afield than just Morningside . |
| 6 | Example 3:1 Limitation on liability of original tenant ( 1 ) in this clause " the original tenant " means the said … only and this clause applies to any period after the term hereby granted ceases to be vested in the original tenant ( 2 ) if and so often as the tenant fails to pay the rent or any other sum properly due under this lease or commits any breach of covenant known to the landlord then the landlord shall forthwith notify the original tenant of that fact ( 3 ) the landlord shall not be entitled to recover from the original tenant any arrears of rent or other sums payable under this lease where the rent or other sums claimed became due earlier than three months before the original tenant was notified under sub-clause ( 2 ) above ( 4 ) the original tenant shall not be liable for any arrears of rent or other sum falling due after the date upon which this lease is expressed to expire or any breach of covenant committed after that date Example 3:2 Limitation on liability of tenant ( 1 ) In this clause ( a ) " the original tenant " means only ( b ) " the original assignee " means a person to whom the original tenant lawfully assigns this lease ( 2 ) upon a lawful assignment of this lease by the original tenant the original tenant ( a ) shall be released from further personal liability for any breach of any of the tenant 's obligations under this lease occurring after the date of the assignment but ( b ) shall guarantee performance by the original assignee of those obligations until the expiry or other determination of the term or ( if sooner ) a lawful assignment of this lease by the original assignee Example 3:3 Restriction on landlord 's ability to sue original tenant at any time after the lawful assignment of this lease by [ name of original tenant ] the landlord shall not be entitled to enforce against him the tenant 's obligations under this lease unless the landlord shall have first ( 1 ) recovered judgment against all other persons against whom the landlord is or has become entitled to enforce those obligations either as principal or surety and ( 2 ) attempted to levy excution upon such judgment and upon payment by [ name of original tenant ] of any sum due under such judgment the landlord shall assign to him the benefit of it Example 3:4 Definition clause making tenant liable for rent during holding over period " the term " includes not only the term expressed to be granted by this lease but also any period after the date on which the term is expressed to expire during which the tenancy continues under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 Example 3:5 Clause making the tenant liable to pay rent and interim rent promptly to pay the rent reserved by this lease without any deduction or set-off and any rent substituted for it either as a result of a rent review under this lease or the agreement or determination of a rent payable by virtue of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s24A |
| 7 | Although Britain 's output of services is almost three times its manufacturing output , recorded exports of services are only half those of manufactures — and in the past 30 years , Britain 's share of world trade in services has fallen slightly faster than its share in manufacturing . |
| 8 | I believe it is a hundred times better to have a leader who wants to go forward rather than one who retreats towards the hills when the going gets rough . |
| 9 | Different rates of use are expected of ‘ serious , and ‘ recreational ’ fiction — and within these groupings certain types of works ( e.g. Bulgarian novels in translation ) must be expected to issue less frequently than others ( e.g. novels by Graham Greene ) . |
| 10 | In most countries , the governmental and political concern with the environment has come somewhat later than that of scientists or concerned lay people : the early development of the Green Party in the Federal Republic of Germany is something of an exception . |
| 11 | Traffic has grown steadily rather than spectacularly during the twenty-nine years the preservation company has been operating . |
| 12 | The evolution of the philosophy behind family planning during the last twenty years has moved rather quicker than that of soil conservation so that the present thinking and problems may indicate that in general terms , this critique of conservation policy is not new , but the transfer of ideas merely overdue . |
| 13 | The progressive dismantling of regional development policy since 1979 has moved more swiftly than steps aimed at deregulating the housing sector . |
| 14 | The build-up of ozone-destroying chemicals has slowed more rapidly than expected , even before international agreements to phase them out took full effect . |
| 15 | Such an equivalence suggests , perhaps wrongly , that most candidates in comprehensive schools will be expected to do no better than score an F or a G in their GCSE . |
| 16 | The trip is expected to last even longer than the seven-month record set by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Anatoly Berezevoi in December . |
| 17 | ‘ OUP has spent considerably more than £100,000 adapting its computer system to cope with the new requirements . |
| 18 | The government has spent more heavily than its predecessors on promoting its policies . |
| 19 | Of that number , none has spoken more strongly than Earth Dances , the largescale orchestral work which Birtwistle composed in 1986 . |
| 20 | Secondly , he must be ‘ absolutely assured that the High Command was in a position to furnish us with the necessary men and material for the continuance of the offensive , and that not by driblets , but on a large scale ’ Thirdly , the campaign should be halted the moment ‘ we ourselves were losing more heavily and becoming exhausted more rapidly than the enemy ’ . |
| 21 | Well to make that sort of revenue they will actually need to fly rather more than two million passengers a year , and in the present state of the world aviation market I reckon that 's quite a tall order , in fact if they fell short of it by five percent in a particular year that would be capable of using up the kind of capital and reserves which we 've been talking about . |
| 22 | Our business investment has increased more rapidly than in any other major economy except Japan . |
| 23 | I have been lucky that my condition has progressed more slowly than is often the case . |
| 24 | The United States of America has progressed much further than the United Kingdom has in determining this question but the basic legal principles are the same : copyright protects expression but not idea . |
| 25 | ONE OF Czechoslovakia 's most prominent dissidents , Stanislav Devaty , has gone underground rather than face an appeal hearing which could have confirmed a 20-month jail sentence . |
| 26 | Goldman believes Sun 's financial model may need to change more quickly than the company can realise . |
| 27 | Both Salomon Brothers Inc and more importantly Goldman Sachs & Co have moved Sun Microsystems Inc shares off their recommended buy lists : basically Goldman thinks Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT and Intel Corp 's Pentium are going to be more than Sun can handle , hurting its ability to improve earnings on a sustained basis over the next year or so and impeding its gains in market share ; Goldman believes Sun 's financial model may need to change more quickly than the company can realise ; the long-term judgment is based on Goldman 's view of Sun 's business as 80% to 85% client side where it thinks Windows , especially NT , will dominate in client-server systems , even where high-performance client products are needed . |
| 28 | Joyce Tapsall who 's sixty-eight has lived alone longer than most widows — her husband died when she was twenty-nine . |
| 29 | Much worse to begin too soon and realize one has begun too soon than to begin too late and realize one has begun too late . |
| 30 | Much worse to begin too soon and feel one has begun too soon than to begin at the right time and discover one has nothing to begin . |