Example sentences of "not [verb] [adv] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the illusion is well and truly shattered and the only reason the share price has not plunged much further than it has is the hope that some brave soul will put the group out of its misery with a takeover . |
| 2 | It can not do any better than this since this is the iso-vote line which is tangential to the relevant Phillips curve . |
| 3 | On a more phenomenological level , if we wanted some visual analogue to the associationist view of mental life we could not do much better than think of one of those ‘ psychedelic ’ slide-shows popular in the late 1960s , in which lights were projected through oil , producing coloured globs which met , merged and repelled in a series of kaleidoscopic patterns . |
| 4 | Despite all their expectations ( and ample campaign funds ) they did not do much better than the GCP in 1954 . |
| 5 | Can we not do more even than we 're doing at the moment to restore to the centre of the life of the church the glorious concept of a team of pastoral care and a high command of power strategy in which dominance by ministers will be reduced to the minimum in order that together we may be ready to let the lifeblood of Christ flow through us in such a way that we will be better able to welcome the twenty first century in his name . |
| 6 | A cap on interest charged on misdeclarations , so that assessments of interest will not date back more than three years . |
| 7 | With so many difficult decisions to be made , ‘ Jacki ’ is happier than most players to accept his manager 's warning not to look further ahead than the next game . |
| 8 | For when I plead with him he says , ‘ I 'm not going any slower than this . |
| 9 | Erm we are not going any further than that erm we the debate this morning erm we were looking at the differences between ourselves and then for example Selby District of what what they would like to see which was er certainly more than growth oriented the County Council 's proposals are . |
| 10 | Although not used more often than once a year in autumn , this tool saves all the hard work involved in scarifying ( breaking up and loosening the surface of ) a lawn by hand with a lawn rake . |
| 11 | In any event , in colonial Vietnam reformists did not fare much better than revolutionaries . |
| 12 | However , Lambarde 's marriage to Sylvestre was not to last much longer than his first , for after bearing him four children she died two weeks after the birth of twins on the 1st September 1587 , scarcely 4 years after marrying him . |
| 13 | Since trust in Hitler had owed a great deal to the belief that he would lead Germany to a rapid and glorious peace , since despair of an early end to the war was the essential reason for the waning morale , and since the failure of the Blitzkrieg in the USSR and the declaration of war on the USA made it difficult in logic to hold anyone other than Hitler responsible for the prolonging of the war , it is worth enquiring why the ‘ Hitler myth ’ did not collapse more quickly than was evidently the case . |
| 14 | Several attempts , he wrote , had been made by " former prospectors " to sink upon this lode " but it is heavily watered that they could not go down more than 3 or 4 fathoms deep " . |
| 15 | ‘ I have not gone any further than the evidence allowed , ’ Boaz said . |
| 16 | He did not feel so hostile to them as he did to the ravens , and merely ignored them , overflying them if they came too close but not behaving more aggressively than that . |
| 17 | NORWICH need to find their touch in front of goal or their Premier League lead might not last much longer than the New Year celebrations . |
| 18 | I am satisfied that the promise was understood by all parties only to apply under the conditions prevailing at the time when it was made , namely , when the flats were only partially let , and that it did not extend any further than that . |
| 19 | His ‘ vulgarity ’ did not extend much further than a quotation from Dryden , but he spoke with gusto and good humour . |