Example sentences of "and [adv] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Note the crucial word here is the and rather than a but in the middle . ) |
| 2 | The profit and loss account is here called a ‘ revenue ’ account ; and rather than a cash flow statement we have a set of capital accounts . |
| 3 | For most of the 1780s it numbered , apart from the secretary of state himself , merely an under-secretary and less than a dozen clerks . |
| 4 | The Tottenham manager had said that his team would be tougher than the ones that were overturned by Port Vale and Bradford in notorious FA Cup defeats , and better than the one that struggled against Southend in an earlier round of this competition . |
| 5 | Bigger and better than the old one . |
| 6 | The roar beats toward Keith , unleashed fifteen-year-old energy , suddenly let out , wild , the crowd joyous to find themselves together braver and better than the individuals had imagined themselves to be . |
| 7 | So I think that er to put parental investment theory centre stage is more reliable and better than the rather old-fashioned biological approach which in talking about sex emphasise things like sex chromosomes and hormones , so that a sex chromosome in a mammal for instance was something that a male had but a female did n't and this gave rise to hormonal effects like those of testosterone erm which are thought to be very important . |
| 8 | Now called Poreć , this cathedral was built in 535–43 and displays a high standard of design and craftmanship in its layout , carving and mosaic , all of which are well up to Ravenna standards and better than the work at Grado or Aquileia . |
| 9 | This country faces an enormous crisis which stretches wider and deeper than the recession . |
| 10 | Braver and deeper than the evangelical adventure the minister promised to the Christian . |
| 11 | The Welsh wanted none but valuable prisoners , and had no interest in killing the others , since they would surely leave this place more nimbly and rapidly than the English survivors , and be as inaccessible as the stars by the time another force looked for them . |
| 12 | Whichever way I turned looked bigger and wider and further than the other . |
| 13 | The single Recent genus scarcely reflects the diversity attained by the group in Palaeozoic seas , and more than a hundred different genera have been described from the Lower Palaeozoic alone . |
| 14 | but now and they have dispensed with that a hundred years later and more than a hundred years . |
| 15 | And more than a thousand security men guarding the outer shell alone . |
| 16 | His prolific career covered half a century , sixty plays , and more than a dozen films . |
| 17 | He was enormously prolific ; Alberto Ghislanzoni 's thematic catalogue enumerates 263 solo cantatas , canzoni , and arias , and more than a hundred more for two or three voices . |
| 18 | In 1710 Prince Eugene ordered that all soldiers found more than a hundred paces from his army on the march and more than a thousand from it when it was in camp should be hanged . |
| 19 | Thirteen people have been killed and more than a hundred and seventy injured in race riots in Los Angeles . |
| 20 | More than thirty people have died and more than a thousand injured in the Los Angeles riots . |
| 21 | Since Swales took over at Maine Road 20 years ago , City have won only the League Cup and more than a dozen managers have come and gone , including Peter Reid who was sacked last month . |
| 22 | th th the building went ahead and people every year or two sometimes twice in a year get flooded and they get sewages the the sewer with the volume of rain water they ca n't otherwise get away , but it brings to light what happens i i i in the ditches and , and the waterways that are spread across the direction of Airport and then out into the river when the tide is low because the switches close when the tide comes in and basically er and this is up to date information the information that I have is that the channels are the responsibility of the er you know responsibilities are either kept cleared or not clogged up and in connection with the , with the incident I , I did hear it said that in , in a place where once said it usually counts that possibly and more than the that the first flood was due because the drains and the ditches could n't take the volume of water after they were cleared and things have been pretty reasonable erm since that time , so it would seem to confirm what , what I have to say about keeping clear erm but it may be that authorities that were n't responsible had the job of cleaning them , I do n't know . |
| 23 | My future husband was becoming to me my whole world , and more than the world , almost my hope of heaven . |
| 24 | And harder than the first months are the first weeks . |
| 25 | And harder than the first weeks are the first days . |
| 26 | Your behaviour is extremely important in that it conveys your attitude much more effectively and directly than the words you use . |
| 27 | I would see the South as having developed much more quickly and differently than the North . |
| 28 | He was a very radical conservative , more genuinely radical than many or the rabble-rousers who had monopolized the term , and even than the members of the intelligentsia who claimed to have the ‘ workers ’ interests at heart . |
| 29 | The carbonaceous object , stronger and slower than the comets , penetrates more deeply , but also explodes at too high an altitude . |
| 30 | Not only is the Newton St. Loe pavement dated a good 30-40 years earlier than has been suggested above , the Withington mosaic is later than the former and earlier than the Barton Farm and Woodchester examples ( as an increasing elaboration of design is accepted as the criterion by which these developments are best understood ) . |