Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , in any case , I should have realized that a review of high seriousness like The Criterion , the circulation of which never reached 1,000 copies and I suspect hardly more than 500 , was supported by an intellectual minority whose allegiance did not wane on account of the neglect of a man of whom many may not have heard . |
| 2 | I do n't think the consumer would ev say that and I think sometimes one forgets er people forget the consumer I mean the erm er but obviously by us going onto the Hong Kong route we are going to reduce British Airways and Cathay Pacific 's profits on that route considerably , we we think that because our costs are considerably less than British Airways , and I suspect considerably less than Cathay Pacific , that the player that er could be around in thirty or forty years ' time is Virgin Atlantic . |
| 3 | My son , Robyn visited me and peered with a concerned , academic interest , and we came closer together than ever before . |
| 4 | And we heal farther past than we can see ; |
| 5 | Heilen trout are , in my opinion , some of the most beautiful wild brown trout in Scotland and they fight more furiously than you can ever imagine . |
| 6 | And they go even further than that do n't they ? |
| 7 | ‘ At 15 , he looked more like 12 ; a skinny awkward kid of 93 pounds in tattered black high-top sneakers , he looked slow and he ran even slower than he looked . ’ |
| 8 | The Bible for him , however , contained many truths , and he understood far better than many theologians that you must never tamper with the mythology of scripture . |
| 9 | If you use too high a concentration , it irritates and it stains even more than the dilute stuff does . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , this might come as a surprise to you , but I felt safer here than down there . |
| 11 | Neither of these innovations had much success ; but they showed more clearly than ever how a changed international situation was now being reflected in institutional change . |
| 12 | When occasions have occurred , as they do in all organizations , where it is necessary to take a ‘ big ’ risk on a young man whose experience and background we think inadequate for the task , nine times out of ten not only does he rise to the occasion but he does even better than we would expect . |
| 13 | She hopped down to the floor , but it seemed further away than she had expected and now suddenly it was rising up crazily to meet her . |
| 14 | I would n't say I enjoyed it , but it went much better than I expected and my audience were very appreciative . |
| 15 | It enacts , subject to limitation , that a homosexual act in private shall not be an offence , but it goes no further than that … |