Example sentences of "than [pron] [verb] [prep] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think maybe I have more ill effects than I imagined from last night … ’ |
| 2 | Again , you will probably need more than you think at first reckoning , so there is no harm in thinking ambitiously from the start . |
| 3 | But in spite of facing ever-deepening mystery and pressure , you 'll find you have far less to worry about than you think by next weekend . |
| 4 | Based on a household with two adults — assuming no rebates or transitional relief — people in Lothian living in property valued at 58,000 and above will pay more under the Council Tax than they did under last year 's Community Charge . |
| 5 | This is a more generous protest even than it seems at first sight , for Jacob 's possessions include Esau 's birthright , and Isaac 's blessing that had been meant for him . |
| 6 | The debate about using readmission to measure quality of care is obviously much more complex than it seems at first sight . |
| 7 | For example , as we noted , the definition of pragmatics as concerned with encoded aspects of context may be less restrictive than it seems at first sight ; for if in general ( a ) principles of language usage have as corollaries principles of interpretation , and ( b ) principles of language usage are likely in the long run to impinge on grammar ( and some empirical support can be found for both propositions ) , then theories about pragmatic aspects of meaning will be closely related to theories about the grammaticalization of aspects of context . |
| 8 | Set against the background of inflation this rise is less impressive than it looks at first sight . |
| 9 | Looking at her more closely , he realized she was much older than he had at first thought . |