Example sentences of "in a [adj -er] [noun] than [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Persecution had also brought many of the dissenting groups together in a greater unity than they had experienced before the troubles began . |
| 2 | And he , erm , in fact puts in a greater investment than she does because he has to do the transportation , protection and everything . |
| 3 | Lou was everyone 's idea of the cockney sparrow let loose to fly in a wider world than she had once ever known existed . |
| 4 | It should complement the Bishop 's Park which by then , it is hoped , will be kept in a better state than it is at the moment . |
| 5 | The communists had never been in a better position than they were in in , in nineteen forty eight , the civil war was , was clearly going in their favour erm they were to achieve power within eighteen months and at precisely the point where they had everything going for them , they are adopting the most moderate policy . |
| 6 | I think probably the County Council are in a better position than me er to advise you as to whether that thirty one thousand commitment figure is true of not , but if it were the case , then I think , Yes I would agree that erm the train would stop very quickly , and in view of the situation that we 're now in , there would have to be a degree of future flexibility to allow for phased reduction in development over future years . |
| 7 | In the judgment of the Vice-Chancellor , at p. 102 , ‘ its purpose is not to put the company in a better position than it would have enjoyed if liquidation or administration had not supervened . ’ |
| 8 | In my judgment its purpose is not to put the company in a better position than it would have enjoyed if liquidation or administration had not supervened . |
| 9 | This would put the vendor in a better position than it would have otherwise been in had the sale not taken place . |
| 10 | Greg Downs says the club is in a better position than it 's been for eight or nine years and if they can play as well as last year they 've got a good chance |
| 11 | ‘ You 'll never be in a better position than you are now , ’ Justin Ostro , union vice president , told a rally of 30,000 machinists earlier this week in Seattle , Washington , the site of Boeing 's headquarters and main production facility . |
| 12 | However , given that the disclaimer of responsibility is valid under the UCTA , it is hard to see why such a solution , which puts the buyer in a better position than he would have been in if no express remedies were available , should fall foul of the UCTA . |
| 13 | in taxation but that still the peasant was , even though this might seem like quite a bit , the peasant was still in a better position than he had been previous because rents were at least thirty percent . |
| 14 | There are a number of good reconstruction drawings of them and a clear idea of their appearance can be gained from the sixteenth century measured drawings by Renaissance architects like Palladio which were made when the remains were in a better condition than they are now . |
| 15 | The net result may be neutral as Mr Lamont claims , but it does not look that way to the casual viewer who may as a result end the day in a gloomier mood than he began . |
| 16 | That would leave them in a worse position than they began , because all the T'ang can offer them is money . |
| 17 | He was obviously in a worse state than I had imagined because to Toby a bar invariably meant a sponsor 's tent where the booze flowed like water , and at no expense to the consumer . |
| 18 | Vermuyden had been occupied with rebuilding the Thames flood defences at Dagenham , which , according to an inquiry of 1623 , he left ‘ in a worse condition than it was before ’ . |
| 19 | " Scores of men are in a worse plight than they have been for thirty-seven years past " , admitted Harry Orbell , " The pawnshops are glutted . |
| 20 | But I do not think any traveller has ever been in a worse situation than I was then . |
| 21 | ‘ Back to bed , Julia , ’ he said in a kinder voice than she was used to in Venice . |
| 22 | In a kinder way than you lot did . ’ |