Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus a stream of pulses lasting 1 second each and given at 10 second intervals could be the ‘ background ’ ( they could be sound pulses or pulses on a screen , for example ) ; the ‘ signal ’ being sought could be the absence of a pulse , one that was shorter or longer than the standard value or one that appeared too soon or too late . |
| 2 | I would want to argue from this that rather than the combination of gender and text leading to a particular kind of meaning being produced , particular kinds of reading are being used to mark gender difference . |
| 3 | So I think that er to put parental investment theory centre stage is more reliable and better than the rather old-fashioned biological approach which in talking about sex emphasise things like sex chromosomes and hormones , so that a sex chromosome in a mammal for instance was something that a male had but a female did n't and this gave rise to hormonal effects like those of testosterone erm which are thought to be very important . |
| 4 | In a hypothetical life-form with both hands of amino acid it is possible that rather than no helices being created , there would be helical molecules which were true mirror images of one another . |
| 5 | Bigger and better than the old one . |
| 6 | It is both clearer and faster than the question and answer technique which many systems employ , and should be determined by the operation number entered . |
| 7 | So far as the finger-work or typesetting goes , she is as quick or quicker than a man ? — They say she is more deft and better adapted to it " ( a trade unionist ) . |
| 8 | It is more likely that rather than an increase in potency level itself , the large number of succussions produce a lateral intensification or energising of the solution within the confines of the dilution factor — a concept upheld by the LM method . |
| 9 | Braver and deeper than the evangelical adventure the minister promised to the Christian . |
| 10 | The roar beats toward Keith , unleashed fifteen-year-old energy , suddenly let out , wild , the crowd joyous to find themselves together braver and better than the individuals had imagined themselves to be . |
| 11 | Texas Instruments Inc claims a 33MHz SuperSparc is equal or better than a 50MHz MIPS R4000 , and twice the stuff of a 50MHz 80486 . |
| 12 | However reference is also made to the Smithers and Griffin ( 1986 ) study which indicated that nonstandard mature students obtained results that were either as good or better than A level entrants on the same courses and were less likely to fail to complete their courses . |
| 13 | A volunteer 's better than any than a pressed man is n't it ? |
| 14 | Apart from the community stocking budget being spent on just a couple of fish , the upkeep of many of my big fish is actually cheaper and easier than the community systems . |
| 15 | Not only is the Newton St. Loe pavement dated a good 30-40 years earlier than has been suggested above , the Withington mosaic is later than the former and earlier than the Barton Farm and Woodchester examples ( as an increasing elaboration of design is accepted as the criterion by which these developments are best understood ) . |
| 16 | In addition NT has extreme disk space demands for a desktop environment , approximately 50Mb , a severe increase over the 20Mb needed for Windows 3.1 but better than a typical RISC/Unix set-up . |
| 17 | The carbonaceous object , stronger and slower than the comets , penetrates more deeply , but also explodes at too high an altitude . |
| 18 | Whichever way I turned looked bigger and wider and further than the other . |
| 19 | This country faces an enormous crisis which stretches wider and deeper than the recession . |
| 20 | On Thursday we gave our first lecture to a wider audience , and were surprised that more than a hundred turned up . |