No Sooner --Than /Hardly --- When / As Soon As

There is a social practice much older and much more sacred than any law.

There is no other law as old and much sacred as a social practice  

The law is not as old and much sacred as a social practice  

There is law as old and much sacred as a social practice  

6] With old people he was as considerate as a son.

Ans: With old people, a son was not more considerate than he

7] With children as solicitous as a father.

Ans: With children, a father was not more solicitous than he

1] There are few things more catching than (like) bad temper (mood स्वभाव) and bad manners.

pass  the  ‘examination  of life’  which  was   far  more  important  than  just  passing IIT examination.

my  friends  were not  only  more  intelligent  than  me.

Walking alone in a jungle needs more alertness (continuous attention) than walking with a companion.

,  my  friends  were not  only  more  intelligent  than  me,

Degree

1] He knew no more of what was going to happen to others than he knew what was going to happen to himself next minute.

Ans: He knew as much of what was going to happen to himself next minute as he knew what was going to happen to others

2] He was as much a stranger to the stars as were his innocent customers.

Ans: His innocent customers were not more a stranger to the stars than he was.

3] It was as much an honest man’s labour as any other.

Ans: No other thing was more an honest man’s labour than it.%%% No other was more an honest man’s labour than it.

4] Bad manners probably do more to poison the stream of the general life than all the crimes in the calendar.

Ans: All the crimes in the calendar probably do not do as much to poison the stream of the general as bad manners.

5] The law is a necessary institution for as society that is still some-what lower than the angels.

Ans: The angels are not a necessary institution for as society that is still some-what as low as the law

6] The policeman is a necessary symbol lower than the angels.

Ans: The angels are not symbol as low as the policeman.

7] His revenge was much more sweet than if he had flung the fellow into the mud.

Ans: if he had flung the fellow into the mud was not as sweet as his revenge.

1] Bad manners probably do more to poison the stream of the general life than all the crimes in the calendar. For one

2] The law is a necessary institution for as society that is still some-what lower than the angels.

The angels are not a necessary institution for as society that is still some-what as low as the law

3] The policeman is a necessary symbol lower than the angels.

The angels are not symbol as low as the policeman.

4] His revenge was much more sweet than if he had flung  the fellow into the mud.

if he had flung  the fellow into the mud was not  as much sweet as his revenge.

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