Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [adv] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | A single comment by an official or letter to the newspaper may have reflected the perspective of the writer more accurately than reality , but when hundreds of such comments from different districts and time periods are examined , chronological and geographical patterns may be discerned . |
| 2 | At officer level , the Cambridge Board through Hickson and Pateman not unreasonably argued that its initiatives in rural areas had been successful ; not least because of the financial support received from LEAs who were prepared to grant-aid provision of liberal adult education by the Board more generously than that provided through the District . |
| 3 | Queen Elizabeth is already the longest-serving monarch of the twentieth century , and may possibly be on the throne even longer than Victoria . |
| 4 | This subtle strategy would depend on other judges following the new rule when murderers appeared before them claiming inheritances , rather than themselves deciding whether the murderer would spend the money more usefully than the residuary legatees . |
| 5 | This feedback shall be made available to the Programmer not later than four weeks after receipt of the draft version of the Program . |
| 6 | I hope that that will be the case not later than April ; it may well be a good deal earlier . |
| 7 | This is the case where more than two thirds of the Community turnover of each party concerned in the merger is in one and the same Member State . |
| 8 | None put the case more forcibly than the Parliamentary Correspondent of Cooperative News : |
| 9 | Turning to the full three equations , the instability condition becomes This condition , derived in 1964 by Korobkin and others { 16,25 } is termed the " bad cavity " requirement , since it demands that cavity loss damp the field more strongly than the damping of either the polarisation or the population . |
| 10 | The branched design utilizes the interactive capacity of the computer more fully than the simpler linear mode ; , |
| 11 | As the figure shows , the subjects came to respond only when the tone was on , but they formed the discrimination less rapidly than control subjects that had not received pre-exposure . |
| 12 | She was accustomed to exercise for , each morning for the past two weeks , Sharpe had saddled her at three o'clock , then ridden her south to watch the dawn break over the Sambre valley , but this morning , hearing the crackle of musketry to the east , he had ridden the mare much further than usual . |
| 13 | Despite being hit by the recession slightly later than their auditing colleagues , the recruitment market for general taxation specialists has now been stagnant for a good 12 months . |
| 14 | This has helped it manage the recession more successfully than would otherwise have been possible . |
| 15 | He added that while ICI 's vigorous reshaping programme last year helped the company weather the storm slightly better than some of its rivals , the recession still remains its greatest problem . |
| 16 | Macintosh software is also generally cheaper than its PC counterpart ; both Word and WordPerfect are over £400 for the PC yet less than £300 for the Macintosh . |
| 17 | He chooses to tap his fag packet round and round on the tabletop again rather than speak to me , so I say , ‘ Well , I 'm not sure about that , but it 's certainly somebody who knows me ; I mean , I think that card with my writing on it proves that . |
| 18 | Consequently , in order to assert its prevalence , the Court of Chancery began to issue common injunctions which , although directed at the litigant personally rather than the common law courts , had the effect of limiting common law jurisdiction … |
| 19 | Another American firm , McDonnell Douglas , has a smaller product range , and by the mid-1980s was wondering whether to get out of the industry entirely rather than compete in the next generation of civil airliners . |
| 20 | Conditions were far from ideal for batting , with the light never better than moderate : there were two interruptions during the stand ; one for lunch and a second , lasting 27 minutes , for rain . |
| 21 | Hopefully the initial push towards the enemy will ensure that the Fanatic hits the enemy more often than he hits his mates … but you can never be sure . |
| 22 | The summons shall be issued not less than seven days before the date upon which attendance before the court is required unless the judge or district judge otherwise directs and shall be served on the witness not less than four days before the date upon which attendance before the court is required unless the judge or registrar otherwise directs . |
| 23 | Men teachers claim to understand what was required for the review slightly better than women , to experience slightly more preliminary discussion about the review and to take more part in staff questionnaires as a review strategy . |
| 24 | Their problems are so deep and the solutions will take so long that it will hold back political and economic progress in western Europe if we insist that they are brought into the fold sooner rather than later . |
| 25 | Both were typically unificatory as well as emancipatory , though in the latter case the reach exceeded the grasp more frequently than in the earlier . |
| 26 | He has summed up the issue much better than I could . |
| 27 | But nothing would settle the issue more abruptly than a DoH response to a challenge issued by Pam Charlwood who , when Institute of Health Services Management director , demanded the government ‘ sort out the differences between social and health care ’ . |
| 28 | This one act of his expelled him into the wilderness more forcibly than any other , just as it did the novelist George Gissing in England . |
| 29 | But like most families while father appears to be the boss more often than not it 's mother who usually has the last word . |
| 30 | It seems to me that all of us in this chamber have at one time or another , wanted to actually spend money erm it comes programme of committees , I do n't think it 's behoved upon me at the moment to transgress on what programme committees are actually er but to predict exactly where they will want their expenditure to go but I do know is that there is a huge backlog of member generated aspirations in terms of the environmental improvements , traffic calming facilities , particulary which I suspect were actually generated mildly in excess of the figures which we have before us tonight which is why we clearly leave open that further bids against capital can be made in the course of the next three years , erm which will be assessed against the overall financial position of the council and I think the council much more than that . |