Example sentences of "[adj] than [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Big Apple 's the location for a special programme where inventions are even wackier than here in the UK . |
| 2 | ( BBC 1 , 7.30pm ) THE Big Apple 's the location for a special programme where inventions are even wackier than here in the UK . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , there is no doubt that Guevarism and other currents of thought have been influential in forcing established Communist parties to rethink their role and recognise the need to be far more responsive than hitherto to the specific circumstances of their own country . |
| 4 | The Northern Foods shares are lower than they should be , because the stock market has got it into its head that competition is tougher than ever in the food business . |
| 5 | The salute and stamp of boot on bare floor were smarter than normally as a consequence . |
| 6 | The colour flooded her face , then receded , leaving her paler than ever beneath the surface tan . |
| 7 | She looked around for somewhere to sit , but the bed looked bigger than ever in the cramped room and his jacket lay discarded on the only chair . |
| 8 | In frightening contrast fitzAlan looked tough and completely immovable , and bigger than ever in the confined space of the alehouse . |
| 9 | But at least she did not squint and his cast seemed more noticeable than ever in the morning , as if sleeping refreshed it . |
| 10 | In general , racist jokes and asides amongst skinheads are no more numerous or self conscious than elsewhere in the broader streams of white working class speech . |
| 11 | We are more conscious than ever of the need to take positive steps to promote the full access of girls and women not only to full educational opportunities but also to the whole range of community resources and services , including employment , leisure , housing , social security and the right to property . |
| 12 | Their second defeat in four days by a London club means that a quick return to the present Second Division is more likely than ever for the First Division 's bottom team . |
| 13 | The application of monoclonal antibody research in medicine is more widespread than just in the treatment of cancer . |
| 14 | He seemed larger than ever under the low ceiling , and when he strode out through the street door , the saloon bar seemed quite empty without him . |
| 15 | It was better late than never for the 12 lucky winners of a tennis holiday at the Sport Hotel in Eilat , Israel |
| 16 | It may perhaps be objected that the distance may prevent the pupils of the Hospitals from attending the Lectures of the Veterinary Professor — I will first answer to that — that it would be dangerous for the progress of the Veterinary science to give them too free admission into the College — because it might give a disgust to the residing pupils from their application to the Veterinary Medicine and many of them would change their mind and apply themselves to the anatomy of the human body , thinking that it would be more honorable for them to cure the human species than Animals , this happened in France and the best Veterinary pupils are now Physicians and Surgeons to the human species — this prejudiced ideal would inculcate itself into the minds of young men , the more so as the Veterinary Science is still in its Infancy in this Country , and in an abject state , for this reason it would be equally dangerous to permit residing pupils to attend medical or anatomical lectures , of the human body , or to frequent Hospitals : Therefore a certain distance from the Town would be more useful than otherwise for the progress of the Veterinary Science . |
| 17 | In that sorry , in agriculture when there was a good harvest , prices would fall more than proportionately to the change in quantity . |
| 18 | In many instances this does not matter at all , because the full screen , ungridded printout will serve more than adequately as a reminder of the actual design which is stored in the Me \ directory computer memory . |
| 19 | The population of Portadown increased more than tenfold in the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | If she looked a bit to the right , northward , rather more than half-way into the forest , it was often there . |
| 21 | The very fact that there are bodies in existence whereby such matters can be mulled over , experiences exchanged and ‘ fixes ’ established bodes more than well for the safe operation of such aircraft . |
| 22 | Because cervicitis , cervical erosions , and discharges are so common in sexually active women , none of these features help more than indirectly with the diagnosis . |
| 23 | He thus revealed that he was out of touch with contemporary reality and that the complex dynamics of civilian society were more than ever beyond the grasp of his mechanistic , military mind . |
| 24 | As the 21st century approaches , solicitors are more than ever at the forefront of commercial and community life . |
| 25 | It was unshakable in its main bastion , Britain , and elsewhere the prospects of social revolution paradoxically seemed to depend more than ever on the prospect of the bourgeoisie , domestic or foreign , creating that triumphant capitalism which would make possible its own overthrow . |
| 26 | ‘ More than ever before the beer drinker and pubgoer needs a watchdog to protect their interests . ’ |
| 27 | With her bouffant hair , her crimson lips , her plump raincoated figure hour-glassed by a tight belt , she looked more than ever like a matryoshka , a Russian doll . |
| 28 | She suddenly recollected that she was now the wife of the director of a large company , and drew herself up with what she hoped was some dignity ; but she only succeeded in looking more than ever like a pouter pigeon . |
| 29 | He looked more than ever like a baby blackbird , rakish , half-strangled and very dear to me . |
| 30 | In the half-light of the editing suite his face appeared more than ever like a mask , the nose attenuated , the skin smooth and polished . |