Example sentences of "than [adv] [prep] [noun] " 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 | As far as informal carers are concerned , the evidence that families may be unable to take on extra responsibilities , and the less certain evidence that elderly people may prefer care by professionals , with help and support from the family , rather than entirely by kin , are conveniently ignored . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 : |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Certainly Verbivore is characteristic of its cybernetic times in that it is more ‘ user-friendly ’ than much of Brooke-Rose 's previous work . |
| 11 | The remote island of Pantelleria , off the coast of Sicily and more than halfway to Tunisia , produces a superb dessert wine . |
| 12 | Grain went from Rumania to Danzig by sea , all the way round Europe , and still cost 30 per cent less than overland by rail . |
| 13 | Broader than all over Europe . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | More than enough in fact . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The same section of the population remarked in November ‘ that the Führer had spoken more than normally about God ’ , that ‘ apparently even among the old Nazis there 's nothing more doing without God ’ , which accorded badly , however , with the way the Party was treating the Church . |
| 18 | ‘ The wind of change ’ , that phrase coined by Harold Macmillan in 1960 , grew to have amore general application than just to Africa , or just to politics . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | I showed that instead the symmetry would have broken everywhere at the same time , rather than just inside bubbles . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This consists more often than not in impairement of prolonged voluntary anal contraction . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The chief minister , 70-year-old Krishnan Nayanar , claims that because people are literate , Kerala has less crime and alcoholism than elsewhere in India . |
| 30 | He says the fans are rather less impassioned than elsewhere in Italy , although I had to tell him that once , when Trevor Francis missed a penalty for Sampdoria , his car was bombarded and his son , Matthew , was struck by a stone . |