Example sentences of "than [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That we will keep all information of a confidential nature about [ ] Plc and [ ] Plc 's business and financial affairs which come to our knowledge during negotiations for the sale of the Shares to you confidential and accordingly we will not disclose any such information to any person or use any such information other than wholly in connection with such negotiations except to the extent that it is , already when we receive such information , or becomes thereafter , public knowledge through no fault of any of us . |
| 2 | While both initiatives are seen as bringing about a closer link between assessment and teaching and learning , and place a greater emphasis than hitherto on teacher assessment , Broadfoot points to various tensions and contradictions between these systems of assessment . |
| 3 | We are now at a point in this evolution where , I believe , the climate is more favourable than hitherto to cooperation between linguists and educationalists . |
| 4 | Far be it for me to say that this is the sort of budget that conservatives ought to applaud because it is after all , a budget that is guided by a feeling that councils should provide services and they should orientate their services to the least communities , to be guided by equal opportunities and by egalitarians and that 's what this group has always stood for , this is the budget that we present tonight and I would hope that it would get a far better and far larger measure of support than perhaps of course been the case in the past . |
| 5 | The difficulty with this relief is that , throughout the period beginning when the employee acquires his shares and ending on the date on which the interest is paid , Newco must be a trading company or the holding company of a trading group , rather than merely in existence for one of these purposes . |
| 6 | The starting point was the issue of the opportunities offered to socialists by the current form of capitalist property in Britain , and my conclusion is that the socialised deployment of the personal sector financial surplus would permit a greatly accelerated rate of productive investment , yielding dividends in terms of socially useful output and employment , provided that the deployment of funds be carried out according to fairly well-defined criteria of rationality rather than merely in response to ad hoc political pressure . |
| 7 | Grain went from Rumania to Danzig by sea , all the way round Europe , and still cost 30 per cent less than overland by rail . |
| 8 | Nor , when their parents had already helped them more than enough with furniture and carpets and the like when they had first moved in , did she think she could take any more from them . |
| 9 | More than enough in fact . |
| 10 | Gleneagles , for example , is now open all the year round rather than just in summer and autumn following a major investment in all-weather sport and leisure facilities . |
| 11 | De Gaulle 's suspicion of political parties was explicitly anti-parliamentarian : ‘ it is from the head of state , placed above parties and elected more widely than just by Parliament that executive power must proceed ’ . |
| 12 | A few local unions of an unquestionably bona fide description were founded and survived despite the difficulties of finding competent and incorruptible leaders who could adequately represent the interests of an ill-educated and frequently itinerant membership which was more often than not at sea . |
| 13 | This consists more often than not in impairement of prolonged voluntary anal contraction . |
| 14 | A better balance than elsewhere between industry and agriculture was the advantage she derived from slower industrial growth ; she also owed to it some of her resilience and powers of recovery after two world wars . |
| 15 | bill is higher than elsewhere in relation to DSS payments . |
| 16 | This can be claimed for romantic and romance , but is not appropriate in the case of arable farmer , nor of foreign policy or animate nouns from ( 7 ) , nor of new in ( 17 ) nor naked in ( 18 ) ; and it would clearly not apply for nuclear scientist either ; while there does exist a noun nucleus , which is certainly the etymological origin of the adjective , the scientist is , synchronically and in the usage of the ordinary speaker , to be connected with the indefinite notion of nuclear matters ( where , for example , Latin would have used the neuter plural of an adjective ) rather than directly with nucleus ; one may reasonably guess that many speakers to whom the word nucleus is quite unfamiliar would nevertheless feel they understood quite satisfactorily a headline which read : TOP NUCLEAR SCIENTIST GOES MISSING ! |
| 17 | Much of this would have been intended for re-export , rather than directly for consumption , but as half of England 's total exports by this time were re-exports rather than domestic products the commercial community suffered enough of a loss to show why the English had to be far more concerned about command of the sea than any other country except the Netherlands , and also how fragile that command was before 1700 . |
| 18 | The design is produced by threading the weft strands through a number of the warp strands , rather than directly from edge to edge , and then looping them back around the last warp thread used . |
| 19 | In herbivores particularly , but also in most animals and babies , defecation takes place more than once per day . |
| 20 | Of course , there are other situations when the toughness that accompanies the Rambo self-image is useful in disarming trouble-makers and preventing further crime , as happened more than once during field-work . |
| 21 | The Bax and Bantock have been reissued more than once on LP , but neither has ever sounded so well as on the present reissue . |
| 22 | Yet the physios have been busier than ever on tour . |
| 23 | Reports from Lebanon suggest that British hostages could be closer than ever to freedom . |
| 24 | His security undermined , he was now more vulnerable than ever to Mauve 's voice and its cutting edge , to his cold eyes , the touch of condescension . |
| 25 | Now dad Brian needs him more than ever with Forest taking on Norwich at Carrow Road tonight reeling from three successive defeats . |
| 26 | Yet the way to respond to provocation must be cool and calculated , avoiding knee-jerk reaction and pressing the Government harder than ever for action , rather than words . |
| 27 | But he was concerned to prevent the system becoming a greater burden than ever through malpractice of the sort which the Worcester monk Hemming reports when he says that estates were sometimes taken even when the money due had been paid on time . |
| 28 | With these LM potencies she is feeling stronger than ever without aggravation and is currently taking 0/7 . |
| 29 | I was less moved than ever by M. Chaillot 's little lecture on his responsi-bilities to the public purse . |
| 30 | I am thinking , for example , of the city of Belfast and other urban areas throughout Northern Ireland which in the past year have suffered more than ever from air pollution . |