Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] than [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So rather than use the other terms which have been suggested to describe this variety , such as " black Cockney " , " black London English " , " British Black English " , which suggest a specifically black " ethnolect " , Hewitt prefers to talk of the " local multi-racial vernacular " . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been using a Les Paul Gold Top for a long time — a ‘ 59 reissue with P-90s — but I 've got this unfortunate habit of getting pissed off onstage and tossing the odd guitar , so rather than risk the Gold Top any more I 've bought one of these new Hamers , which is styled after a '50s Les Paul Special . |
| 3 | So rather than produce a simple double sided sheet or |
| 4 | With this in mind , a less visually seductive format might well have allowed a more readily comprehensible layout ; serious readers do not object to all illustrations being bound together rather than fragmenting the text in this way . |
| 5 | Should the latter ever happen , it is best to land ahead regardless rather than attempt a circuit . |
| 6 | And it would be another 55 years before an Australian team paused much longer than to browse the bazaars , while the nations have met just once in Test cricket on the island , in 1983 . |
| 7 | The young man lying there was short of stature , blond , and though he had been in the ground much longer than Erceldoun the body , though swollen and green-tinged , had hardly begun to decompose . |
| 8 | It had been said in the past that there was a convention that the House of Lords would not pass amendments calculated to alter the kernel of a bill approved by the Commons , but in recent years amendments have gone much further than altering the fine details of the Bill . |
| 9 | There is less here than meets the eye . |
| 10 | To Marmeladov , Raskolnikov , and the underground man , I now add Svidrigailov , because the chief enormity which is being confessed , or merely admitted to , or flaunted , or feigned , binds Stavrogin to the America-minded debauchee no less tightly than does the boredom theme of the ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ chapter . |
| 11 | Such ‘ elastic ’ connection lines make drawing box charts such as flow diagrams , hierarchy charts , PERT diagrams etc. much easier than using a normal drawing package . |
| 12 | Saying this is , of course , much easier than persuading an employer to agree to it . |
| 13 | After discussions between Bond , the Shrewsbury board and Burnley police , he agreed to stay away rather than run the risk of provoking incidents on the terraces . |
| 14 | Thus rather than adopting the language of coercion and hence drawing parallels between corporate officials and , say , soldiers at the front in World War I compelled to go over the top at dawn to meet the German machine-gun bullets or be shot as ‘ deserters ’ , it might be more realistic to argue that corporate officials are frequently placed in a position where they are required to choose between impairing their career chances or being a loyal organizational person . |
| 15 | By the time the children have grown up , the marital relationship can be very empty , often extending little further than sharing the same house . |
| 16 | This chapter is relatively succinct and goes little further than identifying the major ideas concerning classification theory that have emerged during the twentieth century and before , and indicating their applications . |
| 17 | ONE OF Czechoslovakia 's most prominent dissidents , Stanislav Devaty , has gone underground rather than face an appeal hearing which could have confirmed a 20-month jail sentence . |
| 18 | Rather oddly , in the context of a crisis in which the abolition of the House of Lords was under consideration , it seems to have been assumed that this reservation would present a realistic safeguard against a majority party in the House of Commons seeking to keep its government in power indefinitely rather than face the country . |
| 19 | It was true that Hassan had managed to balance the often conflicting pressures more successfully than had the Shah . |
| 20 | However , the tally of six underestimates the total effect because some MPs unsympathetic to Left-wing ideas may have decided to retire a little early rather than face a battle for re-adoption . |
| 21 | In 1987 BTR launched a bid for Pilkington , the world 's leading manufacturer of flat and safety glass , which presented the arguments about conglomerate mergers even more starkly than did the Hanson bid for Imperial . |
| 22 | Very often , with the benefit of hindsight , people can look back on their lives and identify stressful times more easily than identifying the present stresses that may surround them . |
| 23 | Each piece , given space , will grow much more quickly than leaving the budded offset attached to the base of the main stalk . |
| 24 | I doubt whether the working party will get any further than recommending the status quo , because I 'm absolutely sure in my own mind , that it is a duty that this council has to support village schools , where the parents support them , and where they 're educationally beneficial , to support them in the village communities , because they are , they have other importance than just education . |
| 25 | Pound wrote to Frank Morley in 1937 , but for all his growing concentration on European civilization , Eliot saw more clearly than Pound the dangers of Fascism . |
| 26 | No group in society , however , symbolized the alienation of key institutions from the government more clearly than did the university teachers . |
| 27 | Sony , the system 's developer , reckons that pictures carry more efficiently than print the increasing weight of information people have to assimilate . |
| 28 | Members of the jury , it is clear that there is more here than meets the eye and I call on you to reach the only verdict that matches the evidence ; |
| 29 | However , it must be stressed at the outset that we can do no more here than to indicate the basic principles involved , and give illustrations of a few of the almost innumerable variants of basic methods that exist . |
| 30 | In other respects as well , choice theories confine the scope of legal liability more narrowly than do the ‘ harm to interests ’ theories . |