Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Miss Kenton , if you for one moment believe I have time on my hands , that displays more clearly than ever your great inexperience , I trust that in years to come , you will gain a clearer picture of what occurs in a house like this . ’ |
| 2 | This goes much further than the recommendations of the Royal Commission . |
| 3 | While this development must take the majority of any forthcoming Sports Council funding , it is obvious that many of the existing facilities need to be dramatically expanded and the MCofS will endeavour to ensure this happens sooner rather than later . |
| 4 | ‘ My priority had always been to get back into the Irish side , and I was never prepared to look any further than that . |
| 5 | This takes much longer than one thinks — at least 5 to 10 minutes depending on amount of meat . |
| 6 | No one in the Labour Party seems prepared to consider why more than 14 million people , including many of the very poor , voted Tory . |
| 7 | To no one does this apply more aptly than to Paul Nizan . |
| 8 | This consists more often than not in impairement of prolonged voluntary anal contraction . |
| 9 | But this went much further than healthy scepticism . |
| 10 | This took no longer than a couple of seconds to see and understand , a near-abstract image accompanied by a few words . |
| 11 | First , the curt instruction to make a mayonnaise ‘ a la main ’ , though this proved much easier than expected when Eric started us off with three egg yolks and a healthy dollop of strong French mustard ( tip of the year for this amateur chef ) before adding the first drop of oil . |
| 12 | This union has got a long history of , this union 's got a long history of amalgamations , some conducted more successfully than others . |
| 13 | Morale among the Party faithful declined more slowly than among the rest of the population . |
| 14 | These include : the postmodern as a tendency within the modern ; a notion of the ‘ sublime ’ and postmodernism 's related freedom from dependence on the concept of totality ; a distinction between the postmodern conceived in terms of the externalised and impersonal as against a view of the modern as characterised by the internal and ‘ impressionist ’ ; and a claim that it is the characteristic of the postmodern to signify figurally rather than discursively ( ? ) . |
| 15 | However logical may be the derivation of Protoctista as the name for a kingdom , I wonder if it is more likely to catch on now than it was in 1861 . |
| 16 | Raw materials amount to almost 50 per cent of costs , but suppliers will be lucky to pass on more than 5 per cent , Jim Leng believes . |
| 17 | Royal involvement in episcopal appointments suggests that the kings and their bishops were likely to work together rather than in opposition . |
| 18 | These show not more than 15 occurring in the county in any winter in the period 1962 to 1976 ; in many winters only one or two are seen . |
| 19 | So , another possible explanation is that in a polygynous society , the parallel cousins will be much more likely to grow up together than the cross-cousins . |
| 20 | He shook his head , unperturbed it seemed , not in the least put out yet altogether immovable , a man whose quiet strength struck Daniel suddenly as impressive , a steadily burning , dogged persistence which would be likely to endure far longer than his own vivid bursts of fire . |
| 21 | In general , those leisure activities that are more popular among middle-aged and older groups as well as those aimed at the higher socio-economic groups are likely to hold up better than those aimed at the more financially stretched groups . |
| 22 | An apple tree is likely to live considerably longer than the person who plants it , so it is worth careful siting with good soil . |
| 23 | The Rachmaninov Op 19 , too , begins with questions , these posed more boldly than Beethoven 's and answered in a first movement of easy confidence . |
| 24 | If the purpose of teaching is to expedite learning , then a person who is taught is likely to learn more effectively than one who is not . |
| 25 | Are your needs likely to change over the next few years-will you have children to cope with ; are you likely to entertain more often than you do at present ? |
| 26 | Research into crime is likely to take comparatively longer than into other areas of social behaviour . |
| 27 | For collectors and aviation enthusiasts the early autumn of 1992 produced no less than four major auctions with an accent on matters aeronautical . |
| 28 | Unions put out newspapers , many put out more than one . |
| 29 | I was much too shy ; they could all draw far better than I could . |
| 30 | Although they 're among the poorest people in the community , many feel better off than they 've ever been — they 've got money , time and friends of their own for the first time . |