Example sentences of "than [adv] in [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | More than enough in fact . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This consists more often than not in impairement of prolonged voluntary anal contraction . |
| 8 | The chief minister , 70-year-old Krishnan Nayanar , claims that because people are literate , Kerala has less crime and alcoholism than elsewhere in India . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Reasons of this sort dictate that the political impetus accompanying Ministers on arrival at their departments after an election is usually a good deal less noticeable at the Home Office than elsewhere in Whitehall . |
| 11 | Here , more than elsewhere in Soho , the atmosphere was tough and testing , with rudeness and wit the norm . |
| 12 | UK television advertising is also regarded as more sophisticated and predictable than elsewhere in Europe , making it an appealing source of revenue . |
| 13 | Although the furore about asylum has been more recent in Great Britain than elsewhere in Europe , it has on occasion been as fierce , particularly as orchestrated by parts of the right-wing tabloid press . |
| 14 | His old friend , the abbot of St Peter 's Abbey in Salzburg , noted that Leopold had been a man of ‘ much wit and wisdom ’ , whose talents went far beyond those of music alone , yet he had ‘ had the misfortune always to be persecuted ’ and was consequently held in less esteem in Salzburg than elsewhere in Europe . |
| 15 | On the other hand , Muscovy 's social élites did suffer from weaknesses which made them much less independent and their property much less secure than elsewhere in Europe . |
| 16 | Ms Harman said the gap between men and women 's wages is wider in Britain than elsewhere in Europe because of the lack of a minimum wage . |
| 17 | bill is higher than elsewhere in relation to DSS payments . |
| 18 | The whole cathedral shows a greater French influence than elsewhere in Belgium . |
| 19 | These administrative arrangements broke down some of the barriers in co-ordinating services , but grassroots co-operation has not appeared to be necessarily easier than elsewhere in Great Britain . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Ours are just figureheads and that shows more than ever in wartime . ’ |
| 22 | It was in the reign of ‘ Farmer George ’ that drainage became more than ever in vogue , ‘ improvement ’ being all the rage . |
| 23 | Now , from the mid-seventeenth century onwards , they were more than ever in evidence , as pamphleteers and propagandists ready to justify them grew in numbers . |
| 24 | ‘ In a year which has seen more investment than ever in drama on S4C , it is wonderful not only to have audience acclaim in Wales but critical acclaim of professional peers in the RTS. ’ he said . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The two control sample carers ( Mrs Mitchell 's daughter and Mrs Wilkins ' nephew ) were both still quite definite about wanting to see their relative in institutional care ; Mrs Mitchell 's daughter said that she was becoming more and more anxious about her mother being at risk at home ; and Mrs Wilkins ' nephew saying that she was more than ever in need of care , and the strain upon him of having to cope with her difficult personality was making him wish even more acutely for institutional care . |
| 27 | Dunwoody 's day started badly with a fall on Gambling Royal and , setting out on Remittance Man for the Mumm Melling Chase , he must have had the fences more than usually in mind . |
| 28 | Nesri qualifies this with " in the beginning of [ Mehmed II " s ] sultanate " but joins Molla Yegan with Molla Husrev ( d. 885/1480–1 ) , Molla Zeyrek ( d. 879/1474–5 ? ) and Hocazade ( d. 893/1488 ) in the sentence so that the possible inference that he died earlier rather than later in Mehmed II's reign is rendered doubtful at best . |
| 29 | The fact that such grammatically incorrect combinations are frequently systematic ( Berko 1958 ; Ivimey 1975 ) suggests that children are organising their utterances on the basis of a knowledge of rules , rather than simply in response to environmental contingencies , and that such rules are , at least to some extent , generated spontaneously . |
| 30 | This conclusion was suggested by the finding that evidence on the elasticity of demand for public services at state and local levels was not consistent with the prediction that a budget-maximizing agency will always increase the budget more than proportionately in response to a fall in cost . |