Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fair bit of pressure is needed to get the chips securely seated and a broken motherboard tends to perform rather more slowly than a complete one ! |
| 2 | The men and women of Mandru 's household interacted rather more freely than was common among the upper class of Shanariah . |
| 3 | Pricing restraints are treated much more harshly than non-price restraints . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , most natural populations , at most times , change much more slowly than they would if subjected to strong directional selection . |
| 5 | The rule for raising before velars , however , is strong and active and does not seem to have begun to recede lexically : in word-list style ( which is usually considered to be formal ) it persists much more strongly than post-velar raising ; neologisms undergo the rule , and it affects spelling ( see the discussion of ‘ occasional spellings ’ below ) . |
| 6 | If your crops fail , or grow much less prolifically than your neighbour 's , then it is due to witchcraft . |
| 7 | It was true , of course , that property was dispersed much more widely than in Europe . |
| 8 | Gartner believes that by 1995 ‘ Sun will compromise much more substantially than it previously has , de-emphasizing Sun-specific application programming interfaces and services such as Open Network Computing and Open Look in favour of X/Open , OSF and USL-endorsed interfaces . ’ |
| 9 | It is important to be clear then about our reasons for feeling that we had to explain why women have come so far rather than explaining why there had been so few gains . |
| 10 | There is , therefore , no reason why taxation always encourages people to work less hard rather than harder , as so many have claimed . |
| 11 | There was , however , one man she regarded perhaps more highly than any other , and that was the retiring , talented and very muscular boxer Marcel Cerdan , who unfortunately already had a wife and three sons . |
| 12 | Others look for evidence of rituals and declare that ritualistic and satanic abuse is happening much more often than most people are prepared to believe . |
| 13 | Exercises that increase stamina are those that require you to breath slightly more heavily than usual for a prolonged period of time ( say , an exercise session of thirty minutes or so ) . |
| 14 | The skilled negotiator summarizes ( see page 159 ) and tests understanding far more frequently than the less skilled . |
| 15 | Mainly , the leading eugenists devoted themselves to preparing ‘ pedigree studies ’ of pauper families in order to establish that the residuum was a degenerate sub-species , genetically afflicted by feeble-mindedness , insanity , al holism , venereal disease , criminality , tuberculosis , and infant mortality , which multiplied far more quickly than superior members of the race . |
| 16 | This means that the language of literature is no longer regarded as subordinated to the message supposedly carried by the text , and this emptiness of content illustrates far more powerfully than could anything else the primacy of language itself . |
| 17 | ‘ Of course , Gooseneck did tell me that Fagg suffers from gout and haemorrhoids , which make him behave even more horribly than when symptom-free . ’ |
| 18 | It does seem that photographs of black convicted rapists appear proportionately more often than those of white rapists . |
| 19 | For professional development teachers the result was that they had only been able to learn through personal experience and had thus done so more slowly than was necessary : |
| 20 | Dividend pay-outs are much lower in Japan and Germany than in Britain and America , but this is not the only or even the main source of returns to shareholders : they receive capital gains ( indeed they prefer them in Japan , where dividends are taxed much more heavily than capital gains ) and , especially in Japan , gain business advantages through shareholdings in customers or suppliers , for instance . |
| 21 | Since the stock of dinar assets held by households has risen much more slowly than this , the proportion of household assets held in foreign exchange accounts has steadily grown : while in 1980 this proportion was less than 40 per cent , by the end of 1986 it had reached nearly 70 per cent . |
| 22 | In the fifties and early sixties the cost of imports had risen much more slowly than prices inside the advanced countries . |
| 23 | A side-effect of the right of citizens to make foreign exchange deposits has been that , as inflation has continued and accelerated , the dinar value of these deposits has grown much more rapidly than the value of dinar assets held by households . |
| 24 | If wages had not risen , most of this scrapping would not have happened and productivity would have grown much less quickly than it did . |
| 25 | Part-time enrolments have grown somewhat more rapidly than full-time ones , but the trends in first degrees awarded are more complex , with a slight decline in the universities and a steady increase in the polytechnics/colleges in recent years . |
| 26 | I had started to fear that each of us controls the manner in which we die much more closely than is generally supposed . |
| 27 | In essence , he argues , certain forms of conduct which were once forbidden are now allowed , and are regulated much less formally than they once were . |
| 28 | Each piece , given space , will grow much more quickly than leaving the budded offset attached to the base of the main stalk . |
| 29 | Indeed , they can do so more accurately than traditional methods . |
| 30 | Professional qualifications are stipulated much more commonly than academic degrees . |