Example sentences of "than [pers pn] [vb mod] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , most people do n't think much of Liverpool as a place to work and live in , though I think it 's fantastic and I live in greater style — in the wing of a large Victorian house — than I could in the South . |
| 2 | I 'm going to adopt the editorial " we " and you may then pay more attention than you would to the burblings of a recent graduate . |
| 3 | Believe it or not , it can wash ( and dry ) virtually everything to a better finish than you can in the sink . |
| 4 | If today we can see better than we could at the time the agonized grandeur of the figure of Pope Paul , the one almost ‘ liberal ’ pope of modern times , we can also see how deeply uncertain was the Church he left behind him and — after twelve years — we begin too to be able to assess in its very different character the pontificate of John Paul II . |
| 5 | There 's another public site at Hinksey Hill , which is very new , where they 've settled well , and there is about to be a private site out at Frilford , and that site will allow the Vale to be designated and that means that people who are encamped illegally in laybys and bridleways and grass verges can be moved on much more quickly than they can at the moment erm and if we 're not careful they 'll all be moving into West Oxfordshire . |
| 6 | The snag today is that those black sheep will create much bigger problems than they could in the past . |
| 7 | They can far more readily appreciate the meaning of the data relationships illustrated in a tabular form than they could in the file and record specification forms of conventional systems analysis . |
| 8 | An award of damages will no more be denied to a person vulnerable and predisposed to mental illness than it would to the victim of physical injury with an eggshell skull . |
| 9 | So maybe it took one minute more than it should as the crow flies . |