Example sentences of "[adv] than [pers pn] be [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , in 1993 and beyond , the double-up Championship Series will also be in the open market far more blatantly than they are at present and ( at the other end of the scale Challenger tournaments can include some players ranked between 10–50 — and presumably get away with paying appearance money too — ) then the long term life expectancy for World Series tournaments ) which for middle-range players are their bread and butter in addition to a stepping stone from their first step on the ladder to fame and hoped for fortune — can not be improving . |
| 2 | Centralized government , Whitehall as the founder of all regulation and one party in perpetual power is an obvious recipe for incompetence , even more than it is for tyranny , although bureaucratic tyranny and arrogant assumptions of having no need to listen do produce threats of tyranny . |
| 3 | So what if I am an even worse footballer now than I was at school . |
| 4 | ‘ Life for these people is worse now than it was under slavery , ’ says Wilson Furtado , of the agriculture federation in Bahia state , Brazil . |
| 5 | I 'm more comfortable here than I am on holiday . |
| 6 | In fact Tod tends to be more upbeat with them here than he is at home ( at home , in slippers and dressing-gown , longsufferingly shuffling ) . |
| 7 | I can recall the phrase ‘ being left behind ’ ( whatever it meant ) being used far more frequently than it is at present . |
| 8 | prisoners whose character and record render them suitable … should be released from prison earlier than they are at present . |