Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [adv] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | This should ensure it rides more comfortably than its Japanese rivals on the road . |
| 2 | It enacts , subject to limitation , that a homosexual act in private shall not be an offence , but it goes no further than that … |
| 3 | However , where the transfer includes goodwill and/or know-how , a non-competition clause will be permissible provided it goes no further than is necessary to protect the value of the business transferred . |
| 4 | It goes even deeper than that . |
| 5 | Does as it wants to do when it goes outside rather than inside . |
| 6 | It goes significantly further than others in detailing long-term expenditure , projected land/building values , future developments , running costs , occupation costs , depreciation , performance assessments , information technology systems , and so on . |
| 7 | I believe that he understands more clearly than before the minimum nature of our deterrent — and that we intend to keep it . |
| 8 | The Shy One hardly ever speaks , partly due to nerves but more usually because he thinks more slowly than his colleagues , and by the time he has thought out a contribution someone else has already said it . |
| 9 | To this day , it signifies almost better than any other building the Victorians ' love of spectacle and sentiment and their confidence that a new world order could be created out of a massive syncretism . |
| 10 | There is undeniably some truth in that but , when you look in any detail at Montgomerie 's so-called failures since he won the Scandinavian Masters in 1991 , it has more often than not been less a question of his losing the tournament than of someone else winning it . |
| 11 | At least it starts more often than not , on the whole . |
| 12 | He added : ‘ It happens more often than people realise that children do not want to live with their parents . |
| 13 | ‘ I told Jim to believe that he competes significantly better than most players . |
| 14 | If you use too high a concentration , it irritates and it stains even more than the dilute stuff does . |
| 15 | And if a cold-blooded animal is cold , then it metabolizes less rapidly than if it is warm — and so needs less energy , which means less food . |
| 16 | ‘ He speaks more clearly than you do . ’ |
| 17 | This is not neutral — it indoctrinates more successfully than anything else . |
| 18 | When occasions have occurred , as they do in all organizations , where it is necessary to take a ‘ big ’ risk on a young man whose experience and background we think inadequate for the task , nine times out of ten not only does he rise to the occasion but he does even better than we would expect . |
| 19 | No he brings home less than two hundred pounds a week . |
| 20 | Although woman-centred psychology revalues traditional psychological discourses of femininity positively , it fails more conspicuously than egalitarian feminist psychology to challenge their contents . |
| 21 | It demonstrates perhaps better than any other , the changes in medieval military fortification . |