Example sentences of "[verb] in [adj] [noun] than [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ministers could probably make the privatisation scheme work , if necessary , by pumping in higher subsidies than they are prepared to give BR , but that would be politically embarrassing . |
| 2 | The balance sheets and the functions of various financial intermediaries are examined in more detail than they are here in Carter and Partington ( 1984 ) and Struthers and Speight ( 1980 ) . |
| 3 | Oh right , you mean it 's broken in more ways than we previously thought . |
| 4 | Predicated themes are more marked in Brazilian Portuguese than they are in English : |
| 5 | Companies are merely voluntary associations of individuals joined together by contract , and correspondingly the state has no greater standing to intervene in corporate affairs than it has in the individual affairs of the citizens who make the company up . |
| 6 | ‘ I probably committed more fouls in that game than I have throughout my entire career — I was that determined to do well . ’ |
| 7 | These next few pages are the reactions of one who went to the Centre , came away evangelical and kept saying to himself , ‘ All shipshape and Bristol fashion ’ , only to fall from the crest into the deepest trough , but thankfully to climb up again to a sensible plateau and finally discover that he had been fortified in more ways than he had expected . |
| 8 | I 've fought in more battles than you 'd be likely to believe . ’ |
| 9 | They would not let her speak at table and made her wear a white canvas apron and a short gown ‘ so that she should be held a fool ’ ; but , said Margery with unholy self-satisfaction , ‘ she was held in more worship than they were , wherever they went ’ . |
| 10 | But the public still had a good deal of confidence in the armed forces and the police , although both were held in less regard than they were ten years ago . |