Example sentences of "[adv] than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But at last there was a kind of to and fro between them , more like a tennis match perhaps than a genuine conversation , with words being patted back and forth , but Rose at least was grateful for it . |
| 2 | The Tory party was more loosely structured : there were tensions between the Highflyers and the more moderate wing that emerged under Anne , and which came to be led by Robert Harley , whilst even the High Church chieftains — the Earl of Rochester , the Earl of Nottingham , and Sir Edward Seymour — worked much less closely together than the Whig Junto . |
| 3 | In the same way , they took care to spend no more time together than the daily round of school life made appropriate , but the simple knowledge that there was now one person in the small , enclosed community who cared for him healed Richard 's wounded spirit . |
| 4 | So I would like to leave you with this suggestion that art , better than a scientifically-constructed computer , is a useful analogy for the brain , and that the more that can be found out about the workings of memory , the more usefully shall we be able to understand the links between them . |
| 5 | Although , as we have seen , it is possible to step outside this framework , and find an alternative that seems to fit the life style of the person who has died better than a traditional church funeral , in practice it is extremely difficult to do this . |
| 6 | So far in this chapter , I have described some of the plainer basic shapes , for often it is the less complicated shapes that work better than a contrived design . |
| 7 | There was nothing he liked better than a good puzzle . |
| 8 | ‘ You deserved better than a one-night stand , Kate . |
| 9 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that our talented children deserve better than a Labour council , let alone a Labour Government ? |
| 10 | But she still laboured under the apprehension that she had to prove herself better than a famous opponent who has been more successful than any other English singles player of the decade . |
| 11 | The reported recurrence risk ratios ( λ R ) , which are defined by the risk to a relative of class R ( K R ) divided by the population prevalence ( K p ) , fit a multifactorial model better than a monogenic model for both ulcerative colitis and Crohn 's disease ( see table ; note that recurrence risks corrected for sex and age are not available to permit rigorous analysis of these data ) . |
| 12 | Furthermore it is possible for a high degree polynomial to be only slightly better than a low degree one ( even a straight line fit ) , whereas the higher degree fit will certainly require much more effort . |
| 13 | You better than a sleepin' pill . ’ |
| 14 | Much better than a long piece of string ! |
| 15 | It has thus fared better than a small party could expect , maintaining a PS almost equal to its PV and even on occasion slightly in excess of it . |
| 16 | This may suit your needs better than a permanent move . |
| 17 | ‘ Hey , there 's nothing I like better than a slow cruise off the Spanish Main , a cool drink , and a little hot music . |
| 18 | If this looks likely , you have to be absolutely certain they 're going to achieve your objectives better than a human being ! |
| 19 | After being a highly-prized mistress she was now little better than a common prostitute , and her owners were now interested only in squeezing the last drops of revenue from her tired body . |
| 20 | It may be argued that fundholding allows us to discharge these responsibilities ourselves in respect of our own practice population , and that we are capable of doing the job better than a large purchasing authority . |
| 21 | He liked the forked lightning better than the zig-zag kind and now he was gratified by a second many-branched display that seemed to spring and grow from the river itself , blossoming in the sky above the Kingsbrook meadows . |
| 22 | Best Group Video : Even Better Than The Real Thing — U2 . |
| 23 | ‘ Ultra Violet ( Light My Way ) ’ was one of the highlights , ‘ Even Better Than The Real Thing ’ kicked hard , ‘ One ’ was scintillating and ‘ Love Is Blindness ’ hypnotic and powerful against a backdrop of city lights in black and white on the video screens . |
| 24 | Much better than the quoted loss projected of £12,728 . |
| 25 | Even the gourd comes off better than the poor whale , who is no more than a floating prison where Jonah spends three days purging his contempt of court . |
| 26 | Zambia was wearing some of Tammuz' clothes and Roirbak thought the khaki and green suited hir far better than the dusty black SHe usually favoured . |
| 27 | Much better than the other night when my leg was so bad . |
| 28 | ‘ Better than the other way about , Mrs Markham . |
| 29 | Women … had to be a little better than the average man in order to stay equal . |
| 30 | It is notable that all of the groups defined as ‘ non-standard ’ , and a number of those entering on the basis of other qualifications , perform better than the average level of achievement for A-level entrants . |