Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | The firm is well known for its painstaking research , which may mean that assignments are completed less quickly than by rival headhunters , but they are certainly carried out more thoroughly . |
| 2 | Where disabled persons are treated less favourably than others because they can not comply with a requirement with which a substantially higher proportion of non-disabled persons can comply , and the requirement is not justifiable in the circumstances , indirect discrimination will arise . |
| 3 | I think the way things are going now the Black people in South Africa are treated much better than they were before , but they used to be treated terribly , and after all it was their country . |
| 4 | In the case of Penge , apart from one low and narrow railway bridge , there was no difficulty with narrow roads , since Penge had been developed much later than Croydon and its main roads were of ample width . |
| 5 | It is so much easier to understand detailed and complicated financial figures when they are explained graphically rather than as a mass of figures on a piece of paper . |
| 6 | Here , relationships are prescribed formally rather than informally , thereby strengthening a manager 's capacity to control the behaviour of others . |
| 7 | Furthermore , in the case of the Netherlands , von Beyme ( 1980 ) sees the tendency towards decentralisation in the early 1970s as a reaction to the failure of attempts to promote a central incomes policy — which had been pursued more strongly than in other countries . |
| 8 | The only difference is that fixed pairs are attested more often than non-fixed pairs . " |
| 9 | He added : ‘ All the changes I have made to the course are straightforward and have really been designed visually rather than penally — in other words , if someone is playing well , they will be rewarded . ’ |
| 10 | Nemesis had been wounded more severely than the others . |
| 11 | The Balakovo reactors are regulated by a pressurized water system and are considered much safer than the older type of reactor installed at Chernobyl , the site of the world 's worst nuclear accident in 1986 . |
| 12 | Dr Kenneth Kirk offered this criticism years ago , that some people are moved more easily than others by suffering and death . |
| 13 | In principle any shoe can be resoled , but track shoes are done less frequently than road , fell or cross-country shoes . |
| 14 | In few periods in early Ottoman history can that need have been felt more strongly than in the years following Ankara . |
| 15 | Carbohydrate foods rich in fibre are absorbed more slowly than those from which the fibre has been stripped . |
| 16 | If the island did become detached in the way he suggests , then the mountainous regions in the south would have been separated far longer than the northern parts . |
| 17 | One has to be extremely cautious about interpreting past usage of terms like " women " , " girls " , " ladies " and " females " , but it certainly seems to be the case that " females " and " girls " — precisely the terms with either derogatory or patronizing over-tones — are used more frequently than " women " , while " ladies " is generally used if the speaker wishes either to be polite or ironic . |
| 18 | Video recordings are used more frequently than audio tape in the investigation of child abuse . |
| 19 | The birth of sociologie religieuse and the initial contributions of catholic institutions both in Europe and the USA to the founding of departments of sociology are rooted here rather than in the work of the founding fathers of the discipline , though clearly there are links between de Bonald , Maistre , and Durkheim on the nature of social solidarity and the concept of society , and authoritative Roman catholic social theorists . |
| 20 | They were often made from bone and antler , although wood may have been used more often than is now apparent because it rarely survives . |
| 21 | The shadow budget was also politically inept , although its positive features could have been defended much better than they were . |
| 22 | Amongst users they are assessed more positively than traditional residential areas by non-motorised users , but not by motorists . |
| 23 | Molecules of carbon dioxide in the solid phase are packed more closely than in the liquid phase . |
| 24 | Some words occur in natural language more often than others , and these high-frequency words are recognised more readily than others , according to a number of measures . |
| 25 | The electronic publishing market is no exception to this process but does seem to have been affected rather faster than most . |
| 26 | Orthographically irregular words are pronounced more slowly than regular words ( Baron and Strawson , 1976 ; Underwood and Bargh , 1982 ) , indicating that they are treated differently in some way when they are read . |
| 27 | A smooth curve of accesses in which some records are updated more regularly than others . |
| 28 | Experience to date has shown that dates for Proofs under the Optional Procedure are allocated much quicker than for an ordinary action . |
| 29 | However , a report in Le Monde on April 16 alleged that the group had actually been seized much earlier than originally thought , probably during 1986 , and not by the FRC , but by the Libyan Navy . |
| 30 | It is true that the carefully authentic material has to be explained more fully than it had to be for readers of Marryat 's day , who could be supposed to possess a modicum of previous knowledge of naval affairs . |