Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] than [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , English solicitors are best placed to take advantage of the market that the 1992 provision will offer ; the profession is arguably better placed than any other to advise international clients on the legal aspects of doing business in the ‘ global village ’ . |
| 2 | If the BBC is to be persuaded to buy more drama from the independent street traders outside the building the merchandise will need to be a little better finished than this . |
| 3 | Again lateral deposition will occur , but this time the sediments will have their diachroneity rather better disguised than that of the near-shore deposits . |
| 4 | TDC officials believe that TDC is less badly affected than other prison administrations with respect to the smuggling in of narcotics and other drugs . |
| 5 | … the profound darkness of every part of the city in which there are not shops illuminated by the owners with gas … there is not a little country town in England which is not incomparably better lighted than any street in Paris which depends for its illumination upon the public regulations of the City . |
| 6 | I 'm much better looking than that . ’ |
| 7 | Second , capitalists and their class allies — the petit bourgeoisie and controllers of labour — are much better organized than proletarian movements . |
| 8 | Differences between the sexes in educational participation and achievement are much better documented than any other dimensions of inequality . |
| 9 | The overall effect is to produce speech which is less richly organised than written language , containing less densely packed information , but containing more interactive markers and planning ‘ fillers ’ . |
| 10 | The story of Ostia is less generally known than that of Pompeii and Herculaneum . |
| 11 | Such hypothetical ‘ heavy ’ ice would therefore take much longer to melt than real ice does . |
| 12 | The patriotism evoked in the Episodios nacionales of Galdós 's is less deeply felt than that of Hardy 's Dynasts . |
| 13 | However , Ordovician strata of the Tywi anticline were less deeply buried than adjacent Silurian strata , suggesting that this part of the Welsh basin is a basement high characterised by low subsidence rates . |
| 14 | The main problem stemmed from the fact that there was an asymmetry of regulation in that recognised banks were less strictly regulated than licensed deposit takers . |
| 15 | The name of Poirot 's occasional assistant is no less carefully chosen than that of Agatha Christie 's main protagonist . |
| 16 | Although there are some good sites , they are limited and , without doubt , the vineyards of Oiry are generally less favourably positioned than those of Chouilly which , unjustifiably , had a lower échelle until they both qualified for grand cru status . |
| 17 | Today , herbivory in the crowns of mature trees in lowland rain forest in geographically distinct regions in the New and Old Worlds leads to 13.8–14.6% tissue loss in the leafy branches of trees , but consistently less in epiphytes , while in Ghana it has been shown that those plants with a rapid flush of leaves are consistently less severely attacked than those with a slower leaf production . |
| 18 | A school enjoying high status compared with its neighbours , located in a solid middle-class area , housed in relatively new buildings and already in receipt of other resources ( e.g. Technical and Vocational Education Initiative ( TVEI ) ) would be felt to have so much going for it already as to be less sympathetically considered than other schools . |
| 19 | Thus , capital income is typically less accurately reported than other items of income ( such as earnings ) , and consumption is not reported in the tax data , so an extraneous source ( the consumption survey ) has to be employed . |
| 20 | Irene looked less sleekly groomed than usual . |
| 21 | The process of recruiting support may be much more subtle and less consciously planned than this . |
| 22 | However , as noted in passing in the case of fishes , conditions in the oceans are likely to have been less drastically affected than those on land . |
| 23 | Elected by the students for a term of several years , rectors have been less exclusively drawn than most other senior officers of universities from ‘ establishment ’ circles : they have included a communist trade union leader and several television personalities , such as Malcolm Muggeridge , John Cleese and Muriel Gray . |
| 24 | Wagenaar ( 1986 ) also found that memories rated as unpleasant at the time were less well recalled than pleasant ones ( for durations of up to two years ) , despite this , events with higher emotional involvement ratings ( ‘ moderate ’ to ‘ extreme ’ ) were generally recalled better than those with lower ratings ( ‘ nothing ’ or ‘ little ’ ) at all retention intervals studied , though again this was a relatively small effect , r(1603)=0.07 . |
| 25 | Senior pupils were considered to be less well served than any other group and almost one half of all secondary schools were not satisfied that the needs of these pupils were being met . |
| 26 | Examination of the bibliographies and handbooks on user education reveals that evaluation is less well documented than other aspects , for example , Lockwood 's 1979 bibliography on library instruction has separate headings for ‘ Planning a library instruction program ’ and for 12 types of ‘ Teaching methods and formats ’ yet no separate heading for evaluation . |
| 27 | In all of this , older people , less well educated people , people without bank accounts , those in lower socio-economic groups , West Indians ( probably not Asians ) , and to some extent women rather than men tend to be less well informed than average , and to make even less rational choices when they buy credit . |
| 28 | With different degrees of success , two articles venture upon ground that appears to be substantially less well worked than that already considered . |
| 29 | Branching corals seem to be less adversely affected than massive corals . |
| 30 | Their voices are much higher pitched than those of Orcs , and they are extremely noisy and garrulous where Orcs are inclined to speak slowly and infrequently ( considering the determined glare and comparison of fangs to be sufficient communication in most situations ) . |