Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] than [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will have noted that this has more than doubled between 1983 and 1984 , and increased again in 1985 . |
| 2 | Orton 's camp is indeed constituted by playfulness and it acts as a solvent of morality — but it does this to provoke rather than disarm moral indignation . |
| 3 | Most burglars will flee empty handed rather than risk a confrontation . |
| 4 | I think that may be easier to do rather than do them in situ , you know ? |
| 5 | I 'm sure many of you would prefer to get your weekly social started rather than listen to me . |
| 6 | By 1979 this had more than doubled ( Social Survey Division , OPCS , 1981 ) . |
| 7 | Completion of the eastern counties railway network removed the last barrier ; now labour was prepared to move rather than tolerate chronic want . |
| 8 | During 1930 the total of unemployed had more than doubled to 2,600,000 . |
| 9 | She must know that , by any standards , the number of people in London who have been impoverished since 1979 has more than doubled . |
| 10 | When is it appropriate to tell rather than ask ? |
| 11 | likely to increase rather than reduce the rate of inflation . |
| 12 | Market forms of supply are likely to increase rather than reduce the maldistribution of wealth . |
| 13 | Children soon take advantage of this inconsistency and the ensuing reward not only negates any potential influence of the punishment ( misbehaviour is likely to increase rather than decrease ) but debases the currency of the parent 's words and deeds . |
| 14 | Workers who have adapted to tedious and undemanding jobs and therefore have no desire to enhance their skills and knowledge are , it is suggested , likely to resist rather than welcome jobs with the suggested core characteristics . |
| 15 | Once Smith finally began to criticise union influence in the party and voiced his preference for an electoral college composed solely of MPs and individual members , Gould penned a letter to the Guardian promising to strengthen rather than loosen union links . |
| 16 | Therefore , the sort of person attracted to work in the bureaucracy on the implementation of such programmes was likely to be sympathetic to them and their commitment to the programmes was likely to grow rather than diminish with time . |
| 17 | In the General Staff 's view , instabilities in Britain 's overseas territories were likely to grow rather than decline as Sandys hoped . |
| 18 | This somewhat idiosyncratic interpretation is no doubt coloured by the specificities of French history , yet there is little doubt that the British police system is also a political construction of the nineteenth century , created to contain the potential in the newly urbanized working classes for mob disorder , which the excesses of the military had seemed likely to exacerbate rather than disperse . |
| 19 | Even such a sensitive cultural critic as Steven Marcus in The Other Victorians relies on a Freudian explanation , which by and large distorts rather than clarifies . |
| 20 | The tangled web of committees seemed to him likely to retard rather than accelerate development , and he hoped that clearer BEA responsibility would , as their headquarters staff were built up , lead to quicker progress . |
| 21 | Repeated applications add to the costs but , unlike broad-spectrum insecticides , pheromones are more likely to complement rather than interfere with the biological control of the pests . |
| 22 | Irving has demonstrated the tendency of investigators to employ interrogation techniqes likely to accentuate rather than ameliorate these and other distorting factors . |
| 23 | But when you think if you go to your corner shop and you , you do n't want a lot it 's cheaper to go there than to get in a car |
| 24 | There 's the often quoted comparison with our compatriots overseas that it 's cheaper to go overseas than stay at home , but I think , you know , with the range of accommodation , with the range of holidays now available in this country , I think the industry itself is competing very well and that the more and more people who find that they have n't yet discovered Britain will do so this year . |
| 25 | One of his shakier concerns was an air-taxi service with which he scared the wits out of travellers too innocent to know better than to fly with him . |
| 26 | The figure for 1992 has more than doubled to 1,100 . |
| 27 | US and Mexican anti-drug officials suggested that the army was present to protect rather than to detain the drug shipment . |
| 28 | STAYING awake proved harder than staying out in front for American superstars Fred Couples and Davis Love at golf 's World Cup in Madrid yesterday . |
| 29 | When not pressed too hard , the former prefer to disbelieve rather than believe and the latter to believe rather than disbelieve ; but both feel extremely uncomfortable if their tested . |
| 30 | Differences in status , promotion , salaries , perks , all divide rather than encourage teams . |