Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [det] [noun] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you read any report that comes out from the government , any report that comes out from Shelter you will find that in fact private sector housing , your house , my house , our houses are subsidised twice as much by this government than so called public . |
| 2 | It would have been unlikely were it not for the introduction of the microcomputer , and in the UK the installation of microcomputers in large numbers of secondary schools has stimulated perhaps more of this work than anywhere else . |
| 3 | Yet it often happens that when a new kung fu student enters a kwoon , with pre-conceived ideas about fighting , and is shown basic techniques that look as though they were aimed at primary school level , he looks for more in those techniques than there actually is . |
| 4 | Now what we have to do however is look at it in more in more detail than just simply the age of people . |
| 5 | In some ways mixed ability , with its orientation towards individual approaches to learning , provides the possibility of focusing more on those children than even was possible in the streamed situation . |
| 6 | Now there is more to this passage than either the story that it heralds , poignant and memorable though that is , or the condescending tone of the last sentence , for the innocence Davin embodies brings to Stephen as a brute fact from the real world the missing half of a truth which Stephen has known but so far been unable to admit even to himself , and which will go on mattering to Joyce for many years . |