Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] than " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Paul ‘ popped round ’ for tea more frequently than was decent for a visiting lecturer , and he seemed to get on very well with everyone . |
| 2 | Management is described in terms of change more often than in terms of standstill or consolidation . |
| 3 | DUAL LIFTS — There is an increased risk of damage whenever more than one crane is used to lift a single item . |
| 4 | Arcadelt was more successful than Verdelot in catching Italian dolcezza e soavita , particularly in such pieces as ‘ O felici occhi miei ’ , although of course less so than the native Italians : for instance , Festa in ‘ Cosi suav' è'l; foco et dolce il nodo ’ , and Domenico Ferrabosco , earliest of a whole dynasty of musicians , in his very popular setting of Boccaccio 's ‘ Io mi son giovinetta ’ . |
| 5 | Local education authorities query this pattern of study less often than they used to as principles of credit accumulation percolate through to town halls . |
| 6 | Would you not think a statute prohibiting abortion except in the case of rape distinctly better than a statute prohibiting abortion except to women born in one specified decade each century ? |
| 7 | For instance , the censuses of 1971 and 1981 investigated country of origin more fully than had been done previously to extend knowledge about the immigrant population . |
| 8 | As a result , the gain on the original shares fell out of charge entirely rather than merely being deferred . |
| 9 | In the hon. Gentleman 's constituency of Bolsover no less than 5.3 per cent . |
| 10 | A review carried out last year showed that there was in increase in the number of inshore fishing vessels seeking assistance , and modern navigational equipment and greater speed may be tempting this type of vessel further offshore than is sometimes prudent . |
| 11 | If they have n't remained constant over our sampling period , right , then there 's no point in making our sample predictions , alright , we 've got to have at least the confidence that our model is re relatively stable over our small sample , right , in order to make any sort of predictions about the behaviour of the dependent variable that we are looking at and the parameter of interest out of sample more often than not when we have parameter instability that does n't always signal a change in government policy , it often signals the fact that you 've got a very poor model , a model er is mis-specified and so if we detect a structural change in our model , we first of all try and explain why it may come about |
| 12 | The council are considering asking the Southern Water Authority to impose restrictions on use of water now rather than wait until matters become really serious . |
| 13 | Women feel the effects of alcohol more quickly than men do . |
| 14 | He played the role of bodyguard more visibly than any of his predecessors , to such an extent that Minton began to complain his sex life was ruined . |
| 15 | Gnostic teachers claimed that their dualism explained the origin of evil far better than the orthodox church 's view that the created world comes from a perfectly good and all-powerful God . |
| 16 | The hearing was told Miss Dixon was bound by a grievance procedure at the home which meant she must raise matters of concern internally rather than go to an outside body . |
| 17 | After a while she emerged , quite unchastened , and went on running her House of Music more successfully than ever . |
| 18 | I take exception to the fact that the people who are deciding matters at intergovernmental conferences want to force the issue of unification far faster than I would wish . |
| 19 | She may know that she is not going to recover from the blow of widowhood any sooner than other women do , many of whom at least have a large legacy of happy memories upon which to draw in the years ahead of them . |
| 20 | Five ‘ O ’ Levels , including English Language , was the normally acceptable minimum , though popular subjects , universally taught in secondary schools , could expect that most students would offer a level of qualification rather better than that . |
| 21 | The government also planned to distribute areas of forest to families among the Thai and Hmong hill tribespeople in order to encourage them to farm one area of land continuously rather than using traditional " slash and burn " methods . |
| 22 | When the turbulent motion is occurring in a flow with a large mean velocity , it is possible for the turbulence to be advected past the point of observation more rapidly than the pattern of fluctuations is changing . |
| 23 | Hedgerows all over the Richmond constituency seem to be sprouting a new form of vegetation even faster than in the 1989 by-election . |
| 24 | Pieces of material much longer than the vice jaws should be gripped between two wood strips and held in the vice with the addition of a G-cramp or screw at each end ( fig.2 ) . |
| 25 | Indeed Shanghold et al ( 1985 ) believe : ‘ pregnancy is hard work , and a woman who is fit can do the work of pregnancy more easily than a woman who is not fit ’ . |
| 26 | Charles was thus able to mobilize French resources for war more effectively than his predecessors , and to pay his troops more regularly . |
| 27 | So you 're looking for attention probably more than anything . |
| 28 | These include : Proposed revisions to market hours in order to make official dealing times , mandatory quote periods and Seaq dealing times overlap more closely than at present . |
| 29 | Intentions are infamous for getting put into action less frequently than plans simply because intentions leave a yawning gap which only plans can bridge . |
| 30 | The programme 's aim is to help people into work sooner rather than later . |