Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | If people can see that you know your job , that you work probably harder than they do , that you communicate with them and tell them what you 're doing , they will respect you . |
| 2 | At some point the size of the enterprise may dictate that you think commercially rather than in terms of self-reliance . |
| 3 | Sometimes , though , we can be so afraid of what other people think that we shut up rather than speak up . |
| 4 | And that 's why your idea that I think it does have to be a very gradual process where we learn to trust each other , we learn to live by our decisions that we make together rather than separate decisions . |
| 5 | ‘ I am determined that we build solidly rather than build fast . ’ |
| 6 | Of course this 6000 includes some individuals that we picked up more than once ; but by marking the toads we ensured that we counted each one only once each year , and standard marking and recapture techniques enabled us to estimate the size of the population , and the annual rate of mortality and recruitment of newly matured adults to the breeding population . |
| 7 | Even if , at first reading , you find them formidable , when you come to answer them you will be surprised that they become much easier than you had imagined . |
| 8 | She watched the keys fall , noting that they fell more slowly than they would have done on the Earth . |
| 9 | The questions are themselves tentative ( and surely incomplete ) but they are questions of a different order in that they look forward rather than backward . |
| 10 | I kept a log , naturally , and therefore have it recorded that it took no less than thirty-seven of these supposed flight experiments before my trusty long-handled trowel , in biting the Skull Grounds ' earth skin , struck something harder than the sandy soil , and I finally knew where the dog 's bones were . |
| 11 | They ought to suggest also that he thought more deeply than his critics have ever recognised about just those issues he is commonly alleged to ignore : the processes of temptation , the complex nature of good and evil , the relationship between reality and our fallible perception of it . |
| 12 | But much of his work was done in minor cricket , and , for instance , in the seasons 1848–51 it has been calculated that he took no less than 1,307 wickets , including 455 in forty-one matches in 1851 . |
| 13 | Nesri qualifies this with " in the beginning of [ Mehmed II " s ] sultanate " but joins Molla Yegan with Molla Husrev ( d. 885/1480–1 ) , Molla Zeyrek ( d. 879/1474–5 ? ) and Hocazade ( d. 893/1488 ) in the sentence so that the possible inference that he died earlier rather than later in Mehmed II's reign is rendered doubtful at best . |
| 14 | I believe that he understands more clearly than before the minimum nature of our deterrent — and that we intend to keep it . |
| 15 | He found that he did just better than his predecessor and was pleased . |
| 16 | ‘ I told Jim to believe that he competes significantly better than most players . |