Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantage of the hybrid model is that the courts retain some control over the regulatory rules in the sense that they are not bound to give effect to them rather than the general law if they are considered unreasonable . |
| 2 | I myself feel that the cat and the dog who live in the same house with me are fellow members of my family circle , closer related to me socially than the human neighbour next door whom I know only by sight and name , and infinitely closer than some odd Brazilian or Melanesian , with whom my only connection is that we are fellow men . |
| 3 | But that ‘ phone call was going to cost me more than a Big Mac . |
| 4 | ‘ I think the way people wear their clothes bothers me more than the actual style of them . |
| 5 | Remember that a complementary practitioner will be treating you rather than a single symptom . |
| 6 | You better than a sleepin' pill . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It 'll cost you more than a bloody ticket to get me to vote for you lot , ’ replied the fan . |
| 8 | The problem is , the supermodel 's new exercise video could give you more than a bruised ego . |
| 9 | It is funny , painful and moving , and although it is rooted in the detail of individual lives , it says far more about the way we live than the windy bellicosity of much of Brenton 's previous work . |
| 10 | Benjamin just stared fascinated and I studied him rather than the condemned man for , as I have remarked before , Benjamin had a horror of public executions . |
| 11 | The approach would have to come from they rather than the other way around . |
| 12 | Turn left or right towards the RC needle to offset it less than the previous allowance . |
| 13 | From Miss Eaglen I have not yet experienced that personal involvement with what she sings which would make it more than an impressive exercise . |
| 14 | A horse naturally shifts from a walk to a trot , and then to a gallop , Taylor 's team found , at the speed where each pace begins to cost it more than the minimum amount of oxygen . |
| 15 | ‘ We have been trying to raise the profile of the SGU and nothing , as far as I am concerned , raises it more than the Scottish Club Championship , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Turn left or right towards the RC needle to offset it more than the previous allowance . |
| 17 | Something that bonded them closer than a shared hatred for Communism and the Soviet Union . |
| 18 | The public simply wo n't come to us rather than a Russian company . |
| 19 | ‘ Without a trade , without a craft , without any values — scrap iron that does not count , rubbish fit only for the waste heap ’ is how Canon Henry Scott Holland summed up the problem : ‘ We the public have used him up : he is no more to us now than a squeezed orange . ’ |