Example sentences of "than [adv] before [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More patients are being treated in more specialities and with more up-to-date methods than ever before a reflection of the hard work and high levels of professionalism of the staff who serve the people of Darlington and Teesdale . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ More than ever before the beer drinker and pubgoer needs a watchdog to protect their interests . ’ |
| 3 | I believe that the maintained grammar school offers the best hope at present of making accessible to a larger population than ever before the best of the qualities and habits of which it somewhat accidentally finds itself the custodian : respect for learning , the encouragement of deep and strenuous thought , a regard for style , and the tacit assumption of contracts of mutual responsibility between individuals and between an individual and his society . |
| 4 | Crossing for the last time that stretch of dusty plain which lay between Krishnapur and the railhead , the Collector experienced more strongly than ever before the vastness of India ; he realized then , because of the widening perspective , what a small affair the siege of Krishnapur had been , how unimportant , how devoid of significance . |
| 5 | Alone with Henrietta , the woman he came closest to loving , Minton must have confronted more forcibly than ever before the nature of his condition . |
| 6 | The new conditions of service spell out much more explicitly and exhaustively than ever before the duties , and the working time , of teachers at all levels . |
| 7 | In many cases , the pursuers will have proceeded this far on the basis of evidence ingathered before the Summons was served and if settlement can be achieved now rather than immediately before the Proof , significant savings in costs may be achieved . |
| 8 | The intention was not to show the Alien at full length , if possible , and indeed he is scarcely seen more than fleetingly before the end , when he is ejected from the shuttle craft of the destroyed Nostromo by its last survivor , Ripley ( Sigourney Weaver ) . |