Example sentences of "[det] than [pron] [vb base] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in Bangladesh boys are already producing more than they consume by the age of 10 and have repaid their parents ’ investment in their upbringing by the time they are 15 . |
| 2 | ‘ Tata 's two assistants know everything there is to know about the trade , and I suspect you 'll know even more than they do within a few months . |
| 3 | Better by far to tackle equity withdrawal on big loans , where better-off house-buyers borrow £20,000 more than they need for a house-purchase , to buy that flashy car they have always wanted . |
| 4 | She blames the manufacturers for the poor design of the container : probably deliberate , she reflects , probably calculated to make people splurge out far more than they need of the stuff . |
| 5 | The inward Life Force , surrounded by innumerable sheaths and finally by a patterning of the subtle physical tattwas , creates a form or body of the same essential patterning , which is most wonderfully intricate , dynamic and complex , far more than we observe in a stone , in water or in the relatively simple molecular structure of the air . |
| 6 | It was thought to be efficient to increase the yield to produce more than we need at a price which is more than we can pay and then dump the surplus on the world market , leaving the farmer with nothing . |
| 7 | If we could answer these , I feel we should know a lot more than we do about the earliest history of the place and the way it has grown . |
| 8 | Harmony is compromise in many cases , some countries doing far more than we do in the UK — full-range blood tests , for example . |
| 9 | ‘ There 's no-one in the world that thinks more than I do about every goddam f—ing thing that happens with us . ’ |
| 10 | Clearly I can not get along entirely on factual information , any more than I infer from the mere facts how to act here and now . |
| 11 | No more than you get on the planes . |
| 12 | More than you put into an A Level subject ? |
| 13 | Remember , these are rest days in your training , so you can always do less than I recommend in the specific schedules . |
| 14 | His dilemma lay ‘ in always having rather less than you need by the standards to which you are brought up ’ . |