Example sentences of "than [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first point is that they were largely developmental rather than research in the accepted sense . |
| 2 | It has been much easier to give an overdraft than to go through the whole process of studying a plan for the business and coming up with longer term loan financing . |
| 3 | In many cases the large size of a company , which is the source of its market power , may enable it to make cost savings which , although not fully passed on , more than compensate for the distorting effects of an uncompetitive market structure . |
| 4 | However , most people who join the industry feel that the interesting nature of the work and career opportunities more than compensate for the unusual hours they are expected to work . |
| 5 | As a consequence , greater virulence should be favoured if enough offspring of other wasps can be infected to more than compensate for the subsequent loss of extra offspring from the current host . |
| 6 | These should more than compensate for the natural decline in other more mature fields . |
| 7 | Manucci 's account of Mughal India is as full of gossip as Bernier 's , but the precarious manner in which he chose to live his life meant that his book has rather more action in it : rather than fussing about the relative merits of Parisian and Mughal architecture , he fights as an artilleryman in the Mughal civil war , has his caravan ambushed by bandits , battles with a pressgang and is finally besieged in a fort on an island in the Indus . |
| 8 | But rather than wait for the English to be lured on to these snares , he decided to launch the first attack himself . |
| 9 | Rather than wait for the groaning lift , I use the stairs . |
| 10 | In 1977 , the Labour Health Secretary David Ennals said : ‘ In the present economic climate the Government can do little more than provide for the increasing number of old people , leaving a small margin for improvements in method of treatment . ’ |
| 11 | The point ( compared with cooperative acquisition ) is that all the purchased items are centralized at a site on the University of Chicago , rather than scattered amongst the participating libraries . |
| 12 | From about 1940 to the 1970s , in this picture , both solar and volcanic influences were acting to cool the Earth , more than compensating for the rapid buildup of carbon dioxide , even with the standard greenhouse effect numbers . |
| 13 | In his second oration against Verres Cicero describes hypocrisy in terms which sound like a scenario for Iago 's undermining of Othello : In the Academica he attacks the simulatio of virtue which is assumed not out of duty but in pursuit of pleasure , and in De Finibus he denounces those whose actions are motivated by personal desire for pleasure rather than respect for the moral law . |
| 14 | Survival curves were identical for patients who were and were not operated on and were only slightly worse than expected for the general population matched for age . |
| 15 | Neither Pasok nor Synaspismos seemed capable of capitalizing on the unpopularity of the government 's austerity measures , and the ND did better than expected in the municipal elections of October 1990 [ see p. 37785 ] . |
| 16 | His house in a respectable street in Balham smelt damp and cold , an effect enhanced rather than discouraged by the adopted English cosiness of the decoration : patterned carpets , patterned wallpaper , smoked-glass lampshades and brass knick-knacks on the walls . |
| 17 | I would have expected Esquire to be a little more imaginative than to jump on the anti-Essex bandwagon and to realize that you do n't have to be brainless to live in Braintree . |
| 18 | It addresses both health and social services but is disappointing in treating both in traditionally separate fashion ( see Twigg 's section on mainstream services ) rather than grappling with the emerging picture of multi-disciplinary support teams and the strengths and dilemmas of interagency working . |
| 19 | By reducing the tax distortion and increasing the amount of work a lot , lower taxes would be more than compensated by the extra work and incomes to which the tax rates were applied . |
| 20 | At all times one is aware that the artist is also a composer — the conviction with which she untangles some of the more complicated , almost obscure pieces , has an unquestionable authority ( the enormous B flat minor Fugue from Book Two instantly comes to mind in this connection ) , whilst the famous pieces are often presented in a totally different manner — the A minor Prelude and Fugue ( Book One ) will surprise many as the Prelude is fearful and serious ( rather than light with the usual staccato touches ) , whilst the Fugue has clipped articulation at the end of each subject entry . |
| 21 | Because of the changed security situation and that type of er conflict not being envisaged in the same way now , what we felt was important was to be able to operate er apart from main operating bases , but also from sort of general purpose erm strips , flying clubs and those type of smaller airfields and therefore rather than looking at the damaged runway situation , we looked at the smaller strips and took a length that we could sensibly operate from erm and took that as the yardstick but clearly notwithstanding that , there is the prospect of damaged runways and therefore the slight relaxation would also apply to damaged runways but perhaps damaged to a lesser extent . |
| 22 | She could still hear the pounding of the waves on the rocks below , but felt lulled rather than threatened by the muffled boom , accepting it as an inescapable sound on an island surrounded by the Atlantic ocean . |
| 23 | There is no way out of the Upper Kirk other than scrambling to the left or right on to the higher ground . |
| 24 | It was quicker than pushing through the front door and round to the side again . |
| 25 | Overall , Mr Charkin presented a picture of a man enthralled by present opportunities and future potentialities , rather than yearning for the comfortable certainties of the recent past . |
| 26 | More people were put to death in Ireland than died in the French revolutionary Terror of the time . |
| 27 | Then I went through the samples in my kitchen and realised that , rather than look at the non-mainstream areas , I could look at wines from perfectly accepted areas that broke the usual conventions ; or in one brilliant example , I could see what great traditional winemakers — in this case a pair of Burgundian grandees — could do when they decided to rough it a bit in France 's far south . |
| 28 | This would be asking rather more of the social security system than exists under the present arrangements , for this payment would be made , not on the grounds of ‘ need ’ as with existing Supplementary Benefits ( SB ) , nor on grounds of compensation , as with ICA , nor on the grounds of purchased ‘ rights ’ as in the case of insurance benefits , but on grounds of work carried out . |
| 29 | He commented on the results : Even God came out of the thing with a more credible characterization than offered in the original … |
| 30 | Or , if they did , they knew better than to remonstrate with the grim-faced man behind her . |