Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [adv] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | He s doing better now than Speed did in the side when he first came in — Speed tended to be rather anonymous ( something Wilko actually said too ) , but he had the potential to ‘ have people leaving the ground saying ‘ That No. 11 was a good little player ’ ' , those were Wilkos very words . |
| 2 | The sum of the probabilities for space to which records have not been allocated , P EMPTY , is : The rest of the total file area must therefore hold home records , i.e. ( Note : The proportion of the file area that contains home records is calculated indirectly rather than directly , because the sum of home record probabilities is made up of an infinite series , while that of the empty positions is finite , as is clear from equation ( 6.13 ) . ) |
| 3 | He said , in an unusually wan way , ‘ The crux of this business is hidden far deeper than I imagined . |
| 4 | Caught here by Peter Chick on September 11 , despite its age it is faring much better than the much younger , but cocooned , Citation executive jet behind ! |
| 5 | Gloucestershire is faring much better than many other parts of England . |
| 6 | For most companies , the practice in the UK is to report much sooner than the publication period permits . |
| 7 | The effect of the proposed addition to Article 93 would be to require the Company to include in the Notice of the Annual General Meeting , free of charge , any notification made by shareholders of their intention to propose a person for election as a Director , provided it is received not less than 70 days before the meeting . |
| 8 | Claims lawyer Leslie Perrin is wading through more than a hundred cases of people who say they 've fallen victim to the virulent chryptosporidium bug and he believes that 's just a small percentage of the number who could eventually seek damages . |
| 9 | In other ways , however , the pattern is becoming less rather than more linear . |
| 10 | The water from the lower source is emitted sufficiently faster than the main flow that it forms a turbulent jet . |
| 11 | The structural explanation of social problems is pursued more thoroughly than in a developmental model . |
| 12 | The velum develops from the same embryonic segment as the mandibular arch , and part of its skeleton is located more medially than that of subsequent arches . |
| 13 | And , just like a spent rocket , the plummet to earth is happening even faster than the upward rise . |
| 14 | Many people know , for example , that alcohol taken on an empty stomach is absorbed more quickly than alcohol taken with food . |
| 15 | Alcohol in fizzy drinks is absorbed more quickly than alcohol in still drinks . |
| 16 | The sound in " key " is said further forward than that in " car " , but the difference is not contrastive , i.e. the words could never mean anything else if you should happen to use the " wrong k " . |
| 17 | It is more generally understood as pain that is made worse rather than better by increasing doses of morphine . |
| 18 | This means the cutter hood is positioned further forward than normal rear-mounted cutters , says the firm . |
| 19 | Review is related more closely than in the orthodox model , to the state of the system , particularly to whether change is proposed or rapid . |
| 20 | My personal preference and practice — but it has to be supported by very fertile conditions — is to prune much harder than many think that a rose can stand ( remember , do n't be afraid of the knife , to three or four buds as necessary to find the outward pointing direction from the previous years prune . |
| 21 | It is priced more reasonably than some of its fellows , Quintus says , beginning at $25,000 ( or $1,500 a seat ) for 16 users and running up to $100,000 ( generally about $350 a seat ) for unlimited users . |
| 22 | Examples of the contrast most commonly given use relative clauses as in ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) , containing a restrictive and a non-restrictive relative , respectively : ( 1 ) silk which comes from Thailand is taxed more heavily than Malaysian silk ( 2 ) silk , which is a natural fibre , incurs less tax than artificial fabrics There are , of course , certain linguistic devices in English which can help to indicate which interpretation is intended ( though surprisingly few , given that the difference in effect can sometimes be considerable ) . |
| 23 | Increasingly , the process of clearing is done electronically rather than manually , the information to debit or credit individuals ' accounts being sent down the line to the various branches by computer . |
| 24 | Chairman if it 's possible for the , for the pelican crossing to be , to be moved from one place can we ask Mr if it 's going to help the local neighbourhood in any way , we ask Mr if that is done yesterday rather than a review and then coming back to us in due course , let's get on with it if it can be done . |
| 25 | Within these oppositions , one is rated more highly than the other : in this case , masculinity and science . |
| 26 | Describing the market as ‘ unquenchable ’ , UK managing director of Precision Visuals , Nick Lewis , says the European market is growing proportionately faster than that in the US . |
| 27 | The student population at polytechnics is growing much faster than that of universities . |
| 28 | There are signs that the current-account deficit is growing more slowly than last year . |
| 29 | They appear to show that , at least in the richest countries with the toughest environmental standards , municipal waste is growing more slowly than the economy as a whole . |
| 30 | Also VDEW ( Vereinigung Deutscher Elektrizitatswerke ) , the association of German utilities , points out that electricity is gradually increasing its share of the industrial market and total consumption is growing more quickly than energy consumption . |