Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [adv] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now he knows I am here he may be more careful , or he may act more quickly than he had planned . ’ |
| 2 | He said : ‘ What is happening in Great Britain should perhaps show Mrs Thatcher and Chancellor Lawson that they should act more quickly than anticipated in terms of bringing the currency into the EMS . ’ |
| 3 | Pierre Beregovoy , the Finance Minister , told a business meeting : ‘ What is happening in Great Britain should perhaps show Mrs Thatcher and Chancellor Lawson that they should act more quickly than anticipated in terms of bringing the currency into the EMS . ’ |
| 4 | Due to the very nature of vigilance , the tests to measure it must take much longer than is required for the other tests above . |
| 5 | The definition implies that the tendency must go much further than merely shocking or disgusting readers . |
| 6 | The pomp of Parks , Thompson and Dexter must seem further away than ever for a club that has now failed to progress beyond the group stages in 12 of the 21 Benson & Hedges Cup . |
| 7 | To achieve this necessarily takes time and it is thus the means and goals which we should examine today rather than the setting first of arbitrary ( financial ) parameters . |
| 8 | The results of production should increase more quickly than expenditure upon it . |
| 9 | or they may grow more slowly than the rest of the body , and so decrease in relative size , which is negative allometry . |
| 10 | The person who creates a crisis in a relationship which is not going well such that the two part company and he or she is able to establish a more suitable and rewarding partnership may do much better than the person who avoids crises and settles for a far from ideal partner . |
| 11 | Do n't get me wrong , I 'm not saying that companies should n't sponsor ballet or opera , but I think they have to not lose sight of sponsorship potential with the disadvantages as well as the anonymous giving branch , because small amounts of money to some organizations may do disproportionately more than the Scottish Opera |
| 12 | Universal and Paramount may do less well than last year . |
| 13 | We fought for them to come to the Assembly , where they could speak their minds and meet the Africans they never meet , and together listen to the Almighty Who might know better even than they what is best for the country . |
| 14 | At least you 'll know exactly rather than sort of saying well |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't need it but I 'll do much better than that . |
| 16 | Such is the experience of most of us when we go to bed late : we might sleep slightly later than usual but rarely long enough to compensate completely for the late night . |
| 17 | But Basil encouraged and even found some tiny portion of my painting which could be developed though he agreed that I might copy more easily than imagine and he gave me a mounted butterfly to draw . |
| 18 | May I als also ask her to bear in mind that none of us are in a great hurry to go through again the expense and the dislocation of the relocation of the British Library , and if this land is not made available to the Library , that might happen rather sooner than we wish . |
| 19 | I figured I might have rather less than ten seconds to beat the ascending Mamba to the balcony , from there I 'd take the door which leads to the vast western attics and unexplored spaces beyond . |
| 20 | Having come so far in just 3 years , the suggestion is that success might come sooner rather than later . |
| 21 | I hope it 'll crash less often than the index . |
| 22 | ( This process , incidentally , may begin much earlier than many secondary teachers suppose . |
| 23 | As we have seen , some genetic change may not take place at random , or events may occur more quickly than Darwin believed . |
| 24 | You 'd think more so than a big Tesco 's because you would n't think lots of people |
| 25 | He had been immersed in the clean up work for nearly a month and he wanted to be with friends who restore and collect aircraft and who could empathise more fully than most with him about the size of the task and who also might offer some constructive ideas ‘ At first I was in shock , it was too much to comprehend ’ , shared Kermit . |
| 26 | All right for Jazz , cap or not , for his dark body had a natural grace and he could swim far better than anyone had suspected . |
| 27 | ‘ If we could get some discounts an' look at what we 're buyin' I fink we could do even better than we 're doin' now . |
| 28 | If you are elderly or widowed , organisations like Age Concern and CRUSE will actually help you with the practical details and , if not in either of these categories , you could do no better than go to your nearest Citizens ' Advice Bureau for some help . |
| 29 | Hedonists seeking the perfect golfing weekend could do no better than tackle these two majestic courses , using the Thorpeness Club Hotel as a base . |
| 30 | On a new ultra-smooth track , and in a race which began with a multi-car shunt at the start , he drove an absolutely perfect race , while Niki got himself held up in traffic by the inexperienced Mauro Baldi and could do no better than finish fourth . |