Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | employees think the scheme is unfair , lacks objectivity , is meant to catch them out rather than develop them |
| 2 | Modern linguistics is a field full of conflicting theories , and an external observer would be hard put to accept one as better than the rest . |
| 3 | Metal type wears out , and new ‘ founts ’ ( complete sets of a single design ) are expensive — so the best printer in the world is not going to replace them more often than absolutely necessary . |
| 4 | Cut out and send with your entry to Mr Greg Rigby , Managing Director , Pendle Consultants Ltd , Pendle House , Long Preston , North Yorks BD23 4PU ( 072 94615 ) to reach him not later than Monday October 16 . |
| 5 | What we sought to do , in terms of Community competence , in the discussions was to extend it in areas where we thought it was appropriate and to define it more adequately than it has been defined in the past in order to prevent , as far as it is possible to prevent it , that element of creeping competence that so offends many people in this country . |
| 6 | Such anger and defensiveness is commonplace and understandable because our society is accustomed to the stereotype pictures of alcoholism and drug or other addictions as disorders of weak-willed and immoral people who need to be taught firm lessons on how to behave themselves properly rather than as ill people who need to be helped to become well . |
| 7 | When you 've completed the grid , send it with your name , address and phone number ( if possible ) to EVERTON COMPETITION , C/O Dept M , Daily Post , PO Box 48 , Old Hall Street , Liverpool , L69 3EB , to reach us not later than first post , Friday November 12 . |
| 8 | When feminist psychologists examine areas of specifically female experience , they manage to value them more positively than the traditional psychology of women does . |
| 9 | Once given those powers they must be seen to exercise them , and to exercise them impartially rather than idiosyncratically . |
| 10 | I start to hear everything much better than I normally do . |
| 11 | This style allowed other-worldly figures to express themselves more naturally than in classical ballet where technical precision and command over conventional gesture were necessary . |
| 12 | Summer 's here , hemlines are high : it 's time to put your best foot forward and show off your perfectly dressed legs — and no-one knows how to flatter them more perfectly than Pretty Polly . |
| 13 | For that reason if for no other it was essential to draw him out rather than subject him to interrogation . |
| 14 | The pair will meet again today and Mr Taylor said : ‘ We want to dot the I's and cross the T's on a whole range of issues — and we want to do it sooner rather than later . ’ |
| 15 | If insufficient attention has been devoted to the design of this and also the related access procedures the symptoms are a plethora of documentation which no individual entirely understands , the temptation to do it again rather than waste time finding out how something has already been done and too much reliance on the human memory . |
| 16 | I try to do it in less than ten minutes , timing myself for practice , ’ said the 43-year-old bachelor . |
| 17 | Erm he is obviously aware that er by not having the vehicle taxed it 's going to cost him considerably more than if he had er taxed the vehicle at the right , correct and proper time . |
| 18 | Erm he is obviously aware that er by not having the vehicle taxed , it 's going to cost him considerably more than if he had er taxed the vehicle at the right , correct and proper time . |
| 19 | But there can be no real doubt that it was on medical advice that Law resigned , for he was advised that only a complete break would save him from total breakdown , and he was actually suffering from the disease that was to kill him in less than three years . |
| 20 | The UFC tried to get universities bidding against one another for student allocations , by offering to educate them more cheaply than the competition . |
| 21 | Bitrex is the bitterest non-toxic substance known , and even a tiny drop will encourage children to spit it out rather than swallow it . |
| 22 | You 've , you 've got you 've got a video which is scheduled for one thirty because you 've got something else at two o'clock , but you can have it now if you prefer to have it now rather than one thirty |
| 23 | I make the point because , in the report that we are debating , we make several recommendations and we wish the Government to take them more seriously than those that we made in the past . |
| 24 | She was not content to be insulted in cafés by waiters more rude than any to be found in Northam ; she could not accept the lowliness of her status , for it seemed to pain her more abroad than it had done at home , and she felt that she should somehow have escaped it , that she should have been changed , somehow , into something new . |
| 25 | Well the shop 's closed , but erm , he might be able to tell you somewhere nearer than |
| 26 | If there was an assassin about , he reassured himself , best to confront him now rather than be taken in the dead of night . |
| 27 | You 'll have to dig it over more than once . ’ |
| 28 | Unless the system can be shown to reproduce it more efficiently than any existing system it is probably not worth considering . |
| 29 | On 4 July they entered London , although the authorities there were able to reassert themselves more rapidly than in 1381 . |