Example sentences of "than [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deep division within the provinces of the former Empire meant than no-one had sufficient forces to root out the Beastmen . |
| 2 | Now they had less than nothing to lose she felt an ancient pugnacity stirring within her . |
| 3 | Yes , I mean they 've got , they 've probably got less than nothing have n't they ? |
| 4 | Will you find it easier than me to say , what their . |
| 5 | Just because you 're older than me does n't mean you know everything . |
| 6 | we get more of you than me get plenty of me on these . |
| 7 | Because if I want to change a business rule , rather than me visiting every single client on the network and upgrading that code I will re revisit it once on the server . |
| 8 | than me having half |
| 9 | ‘ Or , ’ he demanded harshly , ‘ do you have someone other than me lined up to pay your mortgage ? ’ |
| 10 | I 'd rather have the doctor saying that I ca n't go home rather than me signing myself out . |
| 11 | But it would have taken more than me to convince Harold Wilson that this was so and that conspiracies were not afoot . |
| 12 | The nomes exchanged meaningful glances , and the kind of meaning they were full of was : She 's fooling herself , but it 'd take a braver nome than me to tell her . |
| 13 | so I thought while he 's up there rather than me walking up and walking back , cos that would be too much exercise |
| 14 | and er , it 's simpler than me doing it anyway in the |
| 15 | And do it now rather than them pounce on you later and accuse you of hidin' her . |
| 16 | When I was working at British Airways we used to do a lot of technical training and erm it was sort of on er airline regulation , stuff like that and you could always tell the activists cos they did n't really want to all they wanted to do was to get on the computers and actually trying out things out themselves , they piece of furniture the activists do n't want to read the instructions , they want to start putting it together and then they 'd learn from actually putting it together rather than them reading the instructions and regulation training you could always tell the activist cos they sort of always like chopping every bit , they just want to they just want to get on the computers and start inputting numbers and they 'll actually learn , they , they prefer to do that and then somebody can come round and help them out when they get into trouble rather than some of the other which perhaps like to more up front and that 's the activist . |
| 17 | He had hoped that the project would foster greater continuity between children 's experience of learning in primary school , and their experience in the comprehensive : I want to get away from [ a didactic approach ] , to the pupils taking more responsibility for work they produce and being more autonomous in the way that they do it and hoping to create more responsibility in them rather than them seeking the teacher all the time for information ; and thinking that all knowledge and information and values have to be teacher judged … |
| 18 | ‘ Yer gettin' worse than them poncin' polecats , Carrie , ’ he complained . |
| 19 | We go to the people … rather than them coming to look for us ! ’ |
| 20 | From my point of view , if someone was totally pissed and just got off with you and really embarrassed about it and thought , you know , oh my God how could I go for her I think that 's , do you think that 's worse than them saying , than it being a bit of a joke ? |
| 21 | Yet bigger men than them have learned to their cost that no one can behave like that . |
| 22 | But it 's n I still ca n't reconcile why it was kept secret cos surely this is a fundamental point cos it is because they ca n't openly declare that how that they are moving away from the United Front , but if they 're trying to show that they 're moving in line with the peasants ' demands surely they want to show that to the peasants an so there , there 's it 's more that how th the Party cadres have been acting out of step rather than them making it clear to the peasants . |
| 23 | Because it was the women themselves who were organizing it because they felt part of it they did n't see it as some sort of other people that were more politically motivated that than them giving them something to keep them out on strike , which by its very nature could could have been something that the people would have accepted for a while and then not accepted . |
| 24 | It 's more like a luxurious rest-home for geriatrics , except rather than them paying the club , the club is essentially paying them . |
| 25 | Indeed the overall triumph of art in this case is that the novel walks out into our fact rather than ourselves entering its fiction : a very primitive and absolute form of consumer capitulation . |
| 26 | Since then a number of people a great deal abler than ourselves have worked on the problem but , because of the sheer labour of handling the algebra they were forced either to assume that the crack tip was infinitely sharp , that is had zero radius , or else , with a finite tip radius , to use very approximate methods , or at least to map the stress system only in certain regions . |
| 27 | So , for example , although a family of four will use more water than someone living alone , the costs of providing the water and sewerage services will be almost the same for both households . |
| 28 | For all we knew it could have been 12 feet , since the weather was so bad at the top we could see no further than someone wearing a ski anorak and wellingtons sitting beside us . |
| 29 | Surely someone moving toward the light ought to measure it traveling at a higher speed than someone moving in the same direction as the light ; yet the experiment showed that both observers would measure exactly the same speed . |
| 30 | A reader " trained " in reading according to conventional interpretation ( by means , typically , of an English degree in an institution of higher education ) would probably be more disposed towards resolving invisible metaphors than someone reading simply to pass away a boring train journey . |