Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [adv] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | With all of the GDR 's western frontier open , the Wall is the most convenient crossing point only for those who want to go no further than the Kurfurstendamm . |
| 2 | Noel Littlefair , the centre 's chairman , said : ‘ We want to go further afield than just Morningside . |
| 3 | They cross roads diagonally , walk in front of parked cars and forget to look in more than one direction at junctions . |
| 4 | Obviously there are many sports that involve moving around faster than normal . |
| 5 | As we tend to look inwards rather than outwards maybe the boundaries really lay in a shared level of ignorance about the outside world . |
| 6 | They begin to look back rather than construct a future for themselves . |
| 7 | Mat-forming plants like pinks seem to develop more freely than in conventional borders and , since there is gravel between them , you can walk among your treasures without having to tread on bare soil . |
| 8 | Of course , if the linker needle is bent the same applies , but machine needles get bent more frequently than the linker needle , the weighting needs to be correct . |
| 9 | I my personal opinion a Sloth might be a good analogy although they have been know to get down quicker than John ( i.e falling out of the tree ) |
| 10 | What I feel goes much deeper than that . |
| 11 | Some children become institutionalised more quickly than others , and she still had a bit of fire left in her when I went to the orphanage for her . |
| 12 | Men and women in the higher social classes , for example , tend to marry rather later than those in lower social classes . |
| 13 | Glass and enamel tesserae , for , are uncommon in Britain — although they do occur more frequently than is sometimes suggested ( Boon 1974 , 345 ; Neal 1976 , 243 ) . |
| 14 | In another premature general election in June 1989 Fianna Fáil performed less well than in 1982 and Haughey was obliged to form a coalition government with the Progressive Democrats [ see pp. 36739 ; 36820-21 ] . |
| 15 | If Europe 's governments choose muddling through rather than such reform , then that achievement , as well as the ERM itself , will remain at risk . |
| 16 | And they 've given far more than but you or I will ever contemplate doing for God ! |
| 17 | I prefer to go up rather than down , do n't you ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Actually , you 've done far better than I expected . |
| 19 | They 've had far more than what we 've ever had |
| 20 | Soon , however , you learn to caress the throttle and avoid pouring in more than 100 per cent torque . |
| 21 | Experience shows that dieters very often prefer to eat alone rather than at the family table contrary to the exhortation ‘ make this for the family too ’ beloved by diet experts . |
| 22 | Strange as it may seem , we 've lived rather longer than you , we do know what 's — ’ |
| 23 | I 've lived here longer than you . |
| 24 | My advice , if it did , would be to bear in mind that ridicule works best better than invective . |
| 25 | Left to themselves , without adult interference , groups of children tend to become more rather than less aggressive as time goes by . |
| 26 | We Westerners find it hard to understand or admire the growth and success of Islamic fundamentalism , but the traditional Muslims have realised far better than the ‘ progressives ’ that if you want to resist consumerism and individualism then you have to capture the public ground and control the country from the centre . |
| 27 | ‘ I have persecuted more furiously than Paul … . |
| 28 | Last year they won the premier award at the Welsh Festival of Light Opera , and have carried off more than 60 awards from the World Famous Waterford International Festival of Light Opera . |
| 29 | Detectives have carried out more than 800 separate inquiries and taken over 170 statements killer . |
| 30 | The city 's newer pillars , especially the regulators and fraud-busters , have fared little better than the old . |