Example sentences of "than a [adj] person " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example there is a higher chance of a white woman attaining professional or executive position ( even if on the lower rungs and with less promotion chances than white men ) than a black person of either sex . |
| 2 | A phantom is bound to have longer legs , a sexier smile and better bedroom manners than a real person . |
| 3 | As a result , an accused person in Dorset ( for example ) is 10 times more likely to be remanded in custody than a similar person in Bedfordshire . |
| 4 | It is the person towards whom the words or conduct are directed — an actual rather than a hypothetical person — who must be likely to believe that the violence will be used , either against himself or another . |
| 5 | Dahl points out that a person with a low income faces greater difficulty in fighting a campaign than a wealthy person but that money is not the only factor when it comes to winning an election . |
| 6 | Police say the attacker 's probaby disturbed and travelling , rather than a local person . |
| 7 | Store detectives will watch a Black person more than a white person . |
| 8 | A report prepared by the Australian Institute of Criminology published on Oct. 23 , 1989 , showed that an Aboriginal was 28 times more likely to be sent to prison than a white person . |
| 9 | A team of nine is far more effective than a single person in making contact with schools . |
| 10 | No one can make a dead duck go ‘ quack ’ any more than a dead person can be made to speak . |
| 11 | It begins strong , and louder than a sick person could make ; the second cry is lower , but not less doleful but rather more so ; the third yet lower , and soft , like the groan of a sick man almost spent and dying . |
| 12 | ‘ … no person other than an authorised person shall issue or cause to be issued an investment advertisement in the United Kingdom unless its contents have been approved by an authorised person ’ . |
| 13 | Section 57(1) of the FSA stipulates that no person other than an authorised person may issue or cause to be issued an investment advertisement in the UK unless its contents have been approved by an authorised person . |
| 14 | Which was their sort of way of making fun of you because you were showing off which is what a native Orcadian thinks any of his contemporaries talking in English to anyone other than an English person . |
| 15 | Direct discrimination against a married person occurs where a married person is treated less favourably on the grounds of marital status , than an unmarried person of the same sex would be in the same or not materially different circumstances . |