Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] than [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arnold Schwarzenegger and Alan Sugar show rather better than Prince Charles , Ben Elton or Mick Jagger . |
| 2 | Some were critical of this orthodoxy and — behind the scenes — nobody more effectively so than Toby Weaver , the most powerful civil servant of his generation in the formulation of educational policies . |
| 3 | Dr Smithson told me it was perfect , much better than Herr Speich 's or even poor Mr MacKenzie 's . ’ |
| 4 | Mr G Douglas Vaisey also suggests that others should start setting the comps : ‘ I 'm sure we [ we ? ] can do much better than Katie Mallett . ’ |
| 5 | He had read many of the books in the library , and knew exactly where every one was , much better than Mr Crangle . |
| 6 | Apart from Fulk le Réchin , the other counts of Anjou are portrayed ( albeit less colourfully than Geoffrey Grisegonelle ) as pious and valiant defenders of their inheritance . |
| 7 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that the need for a review in London goes back much further than Lord Ennals ? |
| 8 | The former Home Secretary took common ground with Mrs Thatcher in opposing a Brussels-dominated and economically illiberal ‘ Fortress Europe ’ and went much further than Mr Lawson or the pro-European cabinet majority in calling for a central bank on the looser American rather than Bundesbank model . |
| 9 | The failure of the programme of 1918 stemmed above all from the lack of real agreement at the time ; despite the negotiations , the coalition 's electoral manifesto and campaign of 1918 went little further than Lloyd George 's letter to Bonar Law . |
| 10 | De Choiseul recognised , even more acutely than de Broglie , that no invasion was possible without defeating the Royal Navy . |
| 11 | More importantly , they adapted to the conditions far more effectively than Gavin Hastings ' band of teetotallers . |
| 12 | And no-one entertained more lavishly , more sumptuously , more successfully than Mrs Katherine Lundy . |
| 13 | At the time no one denounced it more fiercely than Ayatollah Khomeini , whom the Shah had exiled in 1964 for his fierce opposition tot he Pahlavi regime . |
| 14 | Though Clinton may have clinched most of the Jewish vote with his down-the-line promise to treat Israel more gently than President Bush does , the irony is that , for Jews and gentiles alike , his blatant Big Apple vote-seeking has done nothing to make him look principled or even presidential . |
| 15 | Whatever his standing with Catholics ( and for a short time it was high ) , he was set on a collision course with the representatives of traditional unionism and with no representative more so than Ian R. K. Paisley . |
| 16 | I think that 's the trouble ; I 'm very recognisable ; much more so than Paul McCartney walking through Soho in a beard . ’ |
| 17 | Mwangaza seemed dedicated , even more so than Mambo Leo , to opposing the nationalists . |
| 18 | ‘ In the 55 years I 've been at Paramount we 've lost a lot of giants , none more so than Hal Roach , ’ AC Lyles said in a tribute to his old friend . |
| 19 | Some corners missed part of it altogether , none more so than Low Birk Hatt Even during the last decade before the dawn of the twenty-first century , the prospect of water on tap there was still problematical . |
| 20 | The leaders , men-at-arms and levies of the lords and knights chafed sorely at this delay , none more so than Will Douglas . |
| 21 | Local centre events were often challenging as well as rewarding and perhaps none more so than South Cumbria 's ‘ Operation Isolate ’ . |
| 22 | The committee did sterling work on the hospitality front , and one more so than Gill Weymouth and the Social Committee who organised a credit trivia quiz . |
| 23 | The futility of war is thought about by everyone , but none more so than Wilfred Owen . |
| 24 | None more so than captain Graham Gooch who , although he could not deliver the Government the fillip of a World Cup win , appeared alongside another cricket-loving leader , John Major , at one of his election rallies . |
| 25 | The team that was made up of the remnants from Roxburgh 's original squad — and three of those conscripted to compensate for nine weekend call-offs — distinguished themselves at Ibrox and none more so than Duncan Ferguson , of Dundee United . |
| 26 | And I also thought to myself and I 'm probably going to move a lot further away than Fenn Lane . |
| 27 | Lydia lies more comfortably than baby Hoskins , the angle of the corpse vis-à-vis the pillow being less exaggerated . |
| 28 | Why are discount stores able to sell goods more cheaply than High Street retailers ? |
| 29 | Today he was wearing a clerical collar , as was , more often than Canon Wheeler , his habit . |
| 30 | Jim Baxter 's name would crop up more often than Ronnie Biggs . |