Example sentences of "than [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh we well we enjoyed you being here , Maggi , we enjoyed your company I 'm happy now that was much better than my the one I did last week . |
| 2 | ‘ Shelley understood better than you the passionate quest for truth which overrides any other considerations in the heart of those who would open the secrets of nature , whether scientists or poets . |
| 3 | Who knew better than her the strength of William Ash 's bullying personality ? |
| 4 | And she said she said I am not having you putting down the value of my house and having yours higher than mine the value of my house . |
| 5 | However , MPs who wish to satisfy their constituency parties could vote Smith-Prescott and still retain some left-wing credibility , while ordinary party members understand better than anyone the need for an organisational shake-up . |
| 6 | Yet he was more alive — more vividly alive — than anyone the T'ang had ever met . |
| 7 | No man knew better than he the value of a generous gesture . |
| 8 | So we are looking at creating a society with our rich peasants who are going to own significantly more than whatever the average is going to be , and significantly more than middle peasants . |
| 9 | Very heavy Syrian casualties would apparently have been deemed a lesser price to pay than the probable failure of anything less than what the general 's men say was planned : a full-scale armoured and infantry assault involving 40,000 men on five main axes along a 50-kilometre front . |
| 10 | You want something better , slightly more complex , and longer-lasting than what the average diet has to offer . |
| 11 | The Commission took a far stricter view of what the Drinking Water Directive meant than what the UK felt it ought to mean . |
| 12 | It has been accused of actually making policy itself , pronouncing on the basis of what it thinks the law should be rather than what the law is . |
| 13 | At Keswick and Ambleside private ( costs for ) lodgings are much higher than what the same conveniences could be had for in London , Liverpool or Manchester ’ . |
| 14 | The ability to hear what you hoped you 'd hear rather than what the other person is saying . |
| 15 | But the pittance they would pay him meantime might be no better than what the Professor offered , and at least the occupation of reading would be more satisfactory than dry law . |
| 16 | It is important that the counsellor , observing the problems and deprivations within the group , does not fall into the trap of being more concerned with what he or she can do for the group than what the group can do for itself . |
| 17 | This was n't ‘ supposed ’ to happen ; it was much more exciting than what the textbook had promised ! |
| 18 | Even though ‘ OSF/1 is a strange strategy , ’ IDC says users at the top-end of the market are less interested in what operating system their boxes run than what the box can do . |
| 19 | Even though ‘ OSF/1 is a strange strategy , ’ IDC says that users at the top-end of the market are less interested in what operating system their boxes run than what the machine can do . |
| 20 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 21 | Fortunately the building suffered more injury than what the men did , thankfully , but obviously of course the building by insurance it would still , it was still a nasty shock for the owner occupier of the house . |
| 22 | Many firms using the bubble policy have found that the resulting pollution was less than what the law allows , a circumstance that grants them a credit towards added pollution in the future . |
| 23 | In a number of cases since the 1960s , which have involved a variety of circumstances ( demonstrations , deportations and publications ) , judges in the United Kingdom have refused to accept that ‘ national security ’ can mean anything other than what the government of the day says it means . |
| 24 | Although I 've not been down a mine since then , er the German mines to my er estimation were far more advanced than what the British mines were . |
| 25 | And that was the traditional sort of way in Galashiels , it was rather more like the rural areas than what the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow are , the toilets were just outside where the old dry toilets had been . |
| 26 | And she 's , well the effect that you 're gon na put on him , is probably better than what the , the others that are sitting the S A T S course . |
| 27 | They should be seeing what they can offer in the modern world rather than what the law does and how it links to the client . ’ |
| 28 | There will be more coverage of what the industry is doing , rather than what the HCIMA is doing , although we will tell you what we , as the professional body of the industry , think about it . |
| 29 | Erm , so I was constantly getting rises , less my service pay and erm it got to a state there where sometimes my service pay was more than what the erm salary I would have got at home was and my wife had to pay to keep my superannuation live . |
| 30 | The educated are imagined as those who read and study something different , more advanced , than what the masses do . |