Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | This should ensure it rides more comfortably than its Japanese rivals on the road . |
| 2 | It enacts , subject to limitation , that a homosexual act in private shall not be an offence , but it goes no further than that … |
| 3 | However , where the transfer includes goodwill and/or know-how , a non-competition clause will be permissible provided it goes no further than is necessary to protect the value of the business transferred . |
| 4 | It goes even deeper than that . |
| 5 | Does as it wants to do when it goes outside rather than inside . |
| 6 | It goes significantly further than others in detailing long-term expenditure , projected land/building values , future developments , running costs , occupation costs , depreciation , performance assessments , information technology systems , and so on . |
| 7 | It goes back more than 200 years and forms an enormous resource for those studying the history of the Commonwealth . |
| 8 | But it goes back further than that . |
| 9 | I think the basic problem is erm it goes back further than that and it comes down to the organisation that my colleague here belongs to . |
| 10 | In the nineteenth century it provided little more than ten per cent of government revenue . |
| 11 | To this day , it signifies almost better than any other building the Victorians ' love of spectacle and sentiment and their confidence that a new world order could be created out of a massive syncretism . |
| 12 | Although it occurred more slowly than for subjects given non-reinforced pre-exposure , loss of the OR occurred in control subjects too , a result consistent with the view that α will decline when the CS predicts a consistent consequence and that the OR reflects the value of α . |
| 13 | There is undeniably some truth in that but , when you look in any detail at Montgomerie 's so-called failures since he won the Scandinavian Masters in 1991 , it has more often than not been less a question of his losing the tournament than of someone else winning it . |
| 14 | At least it starts more often than not , on the whole . |
| 15 | Otherwise he 'll keep the work in house , arid get it done more cost-effectively than by using any sub-contractor . |
| 16 | He added : ‘ It happens more often than people realise that children do not want to live with their parents . |
| 17 | Installed at a Boston residential club by the American publishers Houghton Mifflin , he wrote the account in six weeks ; it came out less than three months after the sinking it describes , and has been reprinted at intervals ever since . |
| 18 | She hopped down to the floor , but it seemed further away than she had expected and now suddenly it was rising up crazily to meet her . |
| 19 | Chaired by Michael Julien , it meets not less than three times annually to review the adequacy of the Group 's systems of internal control including those concerning the Group 's pension arrangements , the scope and findings of the external and internal auditors ' work , the half and full year financial statements prior to their submission to the Board , and the application of the Group 's accounting policies and any changes to financial reporting requirements . |
| 20 | But it paid out more than £440,000 in two years , and now the kitty is running dry . |
| 21 | Heath did not indicate a time scale for unification , but appears to have seen it materialising even sooner than Wilson . |
| 22 | In the 1970s it turned over more than £50 million , but it sank last year after an unsuccessful relaunch . |
| 23 | Kurt Weinburg 's evacuation began disastrously but , thanks to his headmaster ( who had already proved his sensitivity by introducing Kurt on his first day to the only other Jewish boy in the school ) , it turned out better than he expected : |
| 24 | Although Chancellor Kohl later agreed to an apparent compromise it was clear even then — how much more so now — that West Germany had killed the programme , and it had done so because it sensed far better than any of its Nato partners how completely President Gorbachev had changed the situation in Europe . |
| 25 | It polled comfortably more than 50% in a number of areas where it will be looking for parliamentary gains at the next general election . |
| 26 | Does it perform sufficiently better than Soviet equipment to warrant the hard currency expended upon it . |
| 27 | Therefore if the council is going to give some money , you would prefer it to give less rather than more . |
| 28 | If you use too high a concentration , it irritates and it stains even more than the dilute stuff does . |
| 29 | The programme carried a myriad of possibilities — although it promised more than it delivered on more than one occasion . |
| 30 | This suggested a hung parliament with Neil Kinnock leading a minority government , and Tory campaigners are furious that the BBC did not mention the party 's share of the vote , which would have shown it performing much better than predicted . |