Example sentences of "than [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The flier had been briefed to say a few things like a parrot , but had no deeper understanding of war , or peace , or politics than that bird . |
| 2 | The entrances can be defined as those holes exhibiting quantities of scraped-out sand or soil around them , whereas a bolt or exit hole is simply that , a hole in the ground with no other clue to its whereabouts than that hole . |
| 3 | Hey , darlin' , do n't you fancy me more than that nigger ? |
| 4 | And probably neater than that hedge trimmer of yours . ’ |
| 5 | I think I love better than that blackcurrant mm . |
| 6 | It 's better than that junk she 's got on the lower level . |
| 7 | ‘ It would be better than that stuff . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Tea 's better for you than that stuff , ’ she said pertly , as pert as the chit Angela Macleod had called her . |
| 9 | Better than that doxy you replaced . ’ |
| 10 | It is more likely that the accounts in Matthew and Luke are shortened versions of Mark than that Mark has expanded one of theirs . |
| 11 | I 'm writing this without any knowledge of the Leeds line-up other than that Mac and Strach played . |
| 12 | Oh I had one bloody customer see if I can quote him to a complete relocate , it was only a bloody er systems , probably no taller than that speaker |
| 13 | ‘ You know me better than that Ma , ’ he laughed . |
| 14 | In order that it should be possible to assert correctly " This tree is taller than that tree " it must be possible to assert correctly " This is a tree " and " That is a tree " . |
| 15 | Similarly , the Government Actuary reported that current expenditure on retirement pensions was already higher than that part of the insurance contribution assigned for the purpose ( HMSO 1954 : para. 161 ) . |
| 16 | If a tenant takes only an upper floor of a building and has no more than a right to use the entrance hall for the purposes of approaching the property demised he must stipulate for the right to put a nameplate outside the property ( other than that part demised to him ) if he desires this convenience ( Berry ( Frederick ) Ltd v Royal Bank of Scotland [ 1949 ] 1 KB 619 per Lord Goddard CJ at 621 ) . |
| 17 | It is impossible to imagine that there is any purpose to life that makes any sense at all other than that life is to be enjoyed . |
| 18 | By the end of 1978 , the ayatollah had come to be seen , by many of these Western intellectuals interested in Iran , as a saintly old man who was determined to establish a far more just , democratic and 'spiritual " regime than that run by the cruel , corrupt and despotic Shah . |
| 19 | ‘ What could be less noble in reason , ’ he wrote , ‘ less infinite in faculty , than that man , despite his potentialities , should have fallen into such error in the use of himself , and in this way brought about such a lowering in his standard of functioning that in everything he attempts to accomplish , these harmful conditions tend to become more and more exaggerated . |
| 20 | Davidson Davidson kind of claims this in semantics in natural languages which I suggested that you read , but Davidson puts the claim the other way round , that is there 's no more syntax than that structure needs in semantics and that 's just false , that 's just false because you 're not going to account for all the data I 've been talking about , about verb phrases . |
| 21 | If you balance , tape recordering , but , but you notice one particular piece that you would rather do an essay on rather than that bit there . |
| 22 | Cos I well I frequently come across insists on parking his car less than that distance |
| 23 | Much worse than that girl had said . |
| 24 | An American study from the University of Oregon showed that housewives had a 54 per cent higher incidence of cancer than the female population as a whole and 157 per cent higher than that portion of the female population who work outside the home . |
| 25 | No clear motive was reported for the attack other than that Alfonsín had strongly criticized the government 's Dec. 29 pardoning of eight former high-ranking military officers imprisoned for masterminding the " dirty war " of the 1970s [ see p. 37913 ] , and had denounced ultra-right civil and military groups as " public enemy number one " . |
| 26 | However , phonetically , the point at which they converge is further back than that characteristic of older middle-class speakers . |
| 27 | Many RSC actresses removed their clothes , and it cost a lot less to make than that year 's high-brow smash , Brideshead Revisited . |
| 28 | Rather , an enlightened dualist will search for some significance , which we may call STYLISTIC VALUE , in a writer 's choice to express his sense in this rather than that way . |
| 29 | Our aim so far has been to show that the " stylistic variant " view of style , which supports the dualist 's conviction that style can be distinguished from message , can lead to a more precise understanding of what it means for a writer to choose this rather than that way of putting things . |
| 30 | Rather than that way round . |