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Example sentences of "than [adv] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1	More recently however , Abercrombie has suggested that the theory of ideology could fill a lack in the sociology of knowledge by linking ideology/knowledge with the social process rather than merely with classes or social groups :
2	The City Editor of your sister newspaper showed the greater insight when , in April 1989 , he opined : ‘ It [ the Government ] tries to get us to swallow the ridiculous story that [ water ] privatisation is good for consumers , rather than merely for executives . ’
3	Issues are rarely debated , other than superficially during campaigns , and what the President proposes once he is in office bears no necessary relation to the platform on which he and his party ostensibly fought the campaign .
4	The Liberal Democrats would make education up to 18 compulsory although much of it could be done in the workplace rather than just in schools and colleges .
5	I showed that instead the symmetry would have broken everywhere at the same time , rather than just inside bubbles .
6	It is still much more common than not for teachers to do their teaching behind closed doors , unobserved by another adult , and to feel somewhat threatened on the odd occasion when they are being watched .
7	She gathers that she has been lucky on her journey to avoid the widespread banditry , carried out more often than not by deserters from the army .
8	Moreover , in the interests of trade regulation , thrashed out after many years of conflict between coalowners , merchants , shipowners and government , colliers were loaded in sequence and sailed in convoy , giving even better opportunities than elsewhere for seamen , keel men and others to pressurize their employers by delay .
9	And anyway I 'm going to leave that on one side now because it 's more erm a problem to reconciling Mill 's views about liberty with his views about a proper government rather than directly about governments , so I 'm just going to note that and move on now .
10	The methodology supporting Pareto 's analysis is individualistic , resting on a view of human nature rather than directly on assumptions about society .
11	To opt out , it wants companies to prove their need for an ‘ emergency solution ’ and negotiate with the union rather than directly with workers .
12	It should be noted that , unlike the institutions of the banking sector , OFIs lend primarily by the acquisition of assets , rather than directly by loans and advances .
13	Like the Vicar of Bray , political survivors in Eastern Europe know how to subordinate their policy interests to their own personal cause : venerable figures such as Novotný and Husák of Czechoslovakia , and Olszowski of Poland have migrated more than once between hardliners and soft .
14	She refused to marry the first husband proposed by her father , and ran away more than once with lovers of her own choosing ; when she came home pregnant she was sold off with a dowry to a plumber called William Wright .
15	Gum shields are one thing ( having rattled my teeth on many a South African hard field in bygone days , and having been bitten more than once in scrums , I wish they had appeared long ago ) , but shoulder pads are entirely different and their acceptance could change the game for the worse , in my opinion .
16	Now the country is opening its doors wider than ever to tourists .
17	The whole momentum of the 1984 Act , with its emphasis on detention , interrogation , and confessions , has made the right to silence more vulnerable than ever to allegations that it is out of date , too favourable to criminals , and anachronistic .
18	The Asian , Muslim and Arab communities are now being threatened more than ever with attacks , harassment , detention and deportation .
19	There is more need than ever for employers and colleges to work together to meet the needs of providing sufficient well qualified operatives , supervisors and managers for the industry .
20	As an advocate of the STV has observed , if an MP is " forced by the system to spend his working hours worrying about the number of first-preference votes he will get at the next election , and many of his sleeping hours dreaming about them , he or she will work harder than ever for constituents ' "
21	There is a greater demand than ever for men possessing good judgment , trustworthiness of character and the power of dealing intelligently and thoughtfully with new conditions .
22	It is now more feasible than ever for organisations to switch from their expensive proprietary machines to lower-cost Unix computers .
23	WITH THIS week 's hike in interest rates , homebuyers should be more careful than ever about advertisements for mortgages with seemingly low rates of interest .
24	And belonging together , preferably in groupings with visible badges of membership and recognition signs , is more important than ever in societies in which everything combines to destroy what binds human beings together into communities .
25	Breast , lung , colon and gut cancers will be detected earlier than ever before thanks to the invention , allowing treatment to start more quickly .
26	However , the Liberal backbenches after the election contained a larger number than before of members known to be committed to social reform .
27	The July regulations imposed tariffs up to 20 times higher than before on goods not intended for personal use .
28	The agreement will also result in employers working more closely than before with students and teachers in schools and colleges , to broaden their understanding of the world of work .
29	The agreement will also result in employers working more closely than before with students and teachers in schools and colleges , to broaden their understanding of the world of work .
30	The agreement will also result in employers working more closely than before with students and teachers in schools and colleges , to broaden their understanding of the world of work .