Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We made better use of NHS resources than ever before . |
| 2 | It does seem , however , that Roche-lobe overflow is taking place , and that pulsar radiation is responsible and may play a much larger role in determining the evolution of companion stars than previously thought . |
| 3 | ‘ This has developed my liking for theatre and I am much more aware of theatre issues than before . ’ |
| 4 | The control group of non-inflammatory bowel disease patients had a higher carriage rate of E coli than either patients with active colitis or colitis in remission . |
| 5 | With respect to the latter , for example , women are no longer excluded from night duty and they perform a wider range of section duties than before . |
| 6 | That his jacket photograph makes him look more like Norman Bates than ever does n't help . |
| 7 | But more like photo journalism than just taking pictures . |
| 8 | Thus jobs which involve social interaction with other workers are generally more satisfying than socially isolated work ; monotonous , repetitive work is more likely to be linked with job dissatisfaction than more varied work ; jobs which involve responsibility and the ability to organize work time and work methods are generally preferred over those which lack these qualities , and so forth . |
| 9 | Officials report that French farmers mixed far larger quantities of bone meal into cattle food than previously admitted . |
| 10 | This is in spite of the emerging medical consensus that people who drink up to four drinks or so a day live longer and are less likely to suffer from heart disease than either abstainers or heavy drinkers . |
| 11 | Next day they had taken the mirror and the pottery and the porcelain to Long Melford because there were more antique shops in Long Melford than anywhere else they had seen , but £20 was all they got for the lot . |
| 12 | Hunting , then , serves other needs in Shavante society than just dietary ones . |
| 13 | The frugivores seem to have wider ‘ niches ’ in rain forests than elsewhere , but the converse theory that the habitat lends itself to finer division into niches seems to hold for the carnivores . |
| 14 | Staffing ratios were generally better in grammar schools than elsewhere , and even the Burnham system favoured ( as it was meant to do ) schools with a larger proportion of older pupils , especially if they were in those sixth forms which continued to stand at the peak of a meritocratic secondary system . |
| 15 | Although the furore about asylum has been more recent in Great Britain than elsewhere in Europe , it has on occasion been as fierce , particularly as orchestrated by parts of the right-wing tabloid press . |
| 16 | Up the side road at the chapel an old track , walled at first , branches to the left , passes behind the grounds of Whernside Manor and climbs gradually across the lower slopes of Whernside : this is an ancient right of way probably more in use in packhorse days than now . |
| 17 | Despite Mary 's claim in the press , they were allowed more freedom in New York than ever before with their own apartments and telephones . |
| 18 | Library materials , as they include a wider range of formats and a greater proportion of locally produced items planned for the known needs of known students , can make a more varied contribution to student learning than hitherto ; individual study has an increasingly important role in contemporary education , and the new potential of library materials is therefore timely . |
| 19 | ‘ There is more to Operation Blade than simply an amnesty . |
| 20 | It 's a slightly different way of looking at neuron networks than perhaps we 've seen before . |