Example sentences of "than [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lutyens 's ideal of an orderly life run by efficient , invisible servants is more than realised in this immaculately appointed domain . |
| 2 | Rath rather than competing against each other to develop basically their products have got ta be ab able to work with each others machines . |
| 3 | As luck would have it , my best friend is the most wonderful cook in the world , and her contributions to any cottage holiday more than compensate for those who come with a tin of sardines in tomato sauce and a Pot Noodle . |
| 4 | But the promotion of Gillian Shephard to the Cabinet should more than compensate for any misgivings ’ , Sangster said . |
| 5 | SEP had simply assumed that expenditure on upkeep would more than compensate for any deterioration of its warehouses ’ . |
| 6 | Rather than pandering to these fading fans ( and perhaps building up false expectations ) , the good Dr David Marsh has opted for the cattle-prod technique beloved of third division no-hopers . |
| 7 | Everyone in this part of the world had obviously been fighting against either the Russians or the Yugoslavs , but the devil of it was that they were prepared to do anything rather than surrender to either of these armies . " |
| 8 | In terms of note issue , for instance , its volume was more than equalled by that from country banks , although this in part reflected its own increasing specialisation in discounting . |
| 9 | Rather than compromise on these principles , he preferred to withdraw from the scene and wait out his opponents . |
| 10 | It would , in my opinion , in many ways be more logical for an application to be released from custody on the ground of non-service or delayed service of a committal notice to be made to a first instance judge rather than direct to this court . |
| 11 | I 'd rather work in a place like that , where we can face problems and move them on and develop things carefully , than to work in some places in the country where things are so far off agenda , as it were , as to be impossible . |
| 12 | Yet the total cost , all-inclusive Moscow to Moscow , was just 42,000 a head — far cheaper than climbing in any other 7,000 metre peak range anywhere . |
| 13 | I sit on the side of the bed and decide maybe Rachel is right : I 'd be better off between the sheets than listening to this dross . |
| 14 | It would probably be more fun than listening to some self-deceiving gilgul spin her miserable yam . |
| 15 | It seems likely that improvements in the health and work capacity of the elderly population over the last eighty years have more than compensated for any putative increase in the physical and mental demands of employment ; if so , rising retirement rates may reflect a decrease in the demand for the labour of elderly workers over a period in which their employment capacity has risen . |
| 16 | An answer to this depends on a correct definition of human uniqueness rather than looking at those features Man shares with animals . ’ |
| 17 | The number of private homes more than tripled in that period , so that by 1986 over 52 per cent of all residential homes were in private hands . |
| 18 | Less embarrassing than shouting at each other in front of all these people . ’ |
| 19 | I 'd rather the mountain killed me than die in some hospital . ’ |
| 20 | More than a hundred Unionist MPs were usually away from the House on military service , and 125 Unionist agents served in the trenches ; the party organization was used in the war effort at no cost to the country ; every local party was decimated by volunteers who joined up in the first rush ; and at every level , the number who joined up was more than matched by those indirectly involved through recruiting , raising money , running war charities or breeding remounts . |
| 21 | The process of ( a ) searching the index to find the address of the required record , and then ( b ) going directly to that address , will be considerably faster than searching through all the records on a sequential file . |
| 22 | Laing acknowledges that the up-and-coming generation of managers are faced with a much faster-paced world than operated in most of his life , but he is not convinced it is any more difficult to be an executive today than in the past . |
| 23 | Surely it has better things to do than worry about such matters , and Professional Conduct Committees and indeed , the Joint Monitoring Unit , should be concentrating on cases of misbehaviour or improper conduct by its members . |
| 24 | Mustelids are intermediate between categories 2 and 3 ( Table 3.13 ) , with only 24 per cent of the incisors digested but the degree of digestion is heavier than seen for most category 2 predators ( Fig. 3.24 G ) . |
| 25 | In rainy weather , they sometimes concentrate on the less nutritious foods rather than search for more fruit , but in fruiting trees seem not to pay much attention to other frugivores though they eat most , and that wastefully . |
| 26 | Rather than stick to these ‘ origination ’ strengths , however , BZW has tried to build the kind of corporate-finance department long boasted by old-established merchant banks that advise on mergers and acquisitions . |
| 27 | I think his er the best thing to do would be simply to acknowledge at that stage , as Bill did , yeah that is an important area erm say yeah that 's something we can help you on , indeed it 's something many of my clients erm have found that Friends Provident is really very good at organizing , we 've got plans specifically designed for that but rather than look at that now , let's look at the overall picture |
| 28 | ‘ He married Diana and he should have made much more of an effort with her rather than turning to another woman for support , ’ she said . |
| 29 | Bringing about community participation in forestry programmes would usually require a more equal pattern of land ownership and control than exists in most LDC 's , that is , require redistributive land reform . |
| 30 | This approach does however force the wireframe modeller to work at a higher level of understanding than exists in most present systems . |