Example sentences of "than [pron] [verb] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I felt less affection and respect for you when I said it then , than I do at this minute , when I ca n't honestly say it . |
| 2 | Mind you , my elder daughter takes a lot more responsibility for herself than I did at that age . ’ |
| 3 | Feeling closer to him than she had at any time since her mother 's death , Rory hid her face against his shoulder . |
| 4 | She was sitting back relaxedly and looking more contented than she had for some time . |
| 5 | Never in her life had she felt less like eating than she did at this moment . |
| 6 | Just as many children score lower on a word-recognition reading test than they ought , because the words have no context of meaning , so she may be able to spell better than she demonstrates on this test . |
| 7 | I tell you , Dr. Briant , you 've unleashed a hell of a lot more than you realize with this project of yours . |
| 8 | Section 2(4) of the Act provides … any enactment passed or to be passed , other than one contained in this Part of this Act , shall be construed and have effect subject to the foregoing provisions of this section … " |
| 9 | ‘ We have a much higher profile abroad than we do in this country , ’ said Patrick . |
| 10 | Surely no civil servant had more unique or peaceful surroundings in which to work than we did on this day . |
| 11 | We should warn you that next March 12th another police constable will be on foot duty in Convent St. , and should he notice a repetition of your behaviour , we shall have to consider the possibility of taking even more stringent action than we have on this occasion . |
| 12 | Well , he 'll be tried by a higher court than we have in this life . |
| 13 | We 'll not be building any more than we intended for this year — well , a house or two more , maybe , but nothing beyond . |
| 14 | The debates will turn out to be less clear and clean than they seem in this outline . |
| 15 | The answer is simple ; there need be no judge and no moral dilemma if parents and doctors accept that they have no more right to end the life of a handicapped child than they do for any child which enters this world . |
| 16 | Divorced couples often end up feeling more bitter about their lawyers than they do about each other — Laurence Marks . |
| 17 | Equally the nature of the various styles , high , middle and low , needs more elucidation than it gets in this book ( cf. pp. 70 – 71 ) if it is to form a central plank of the discussion of lexis . |
| 18 | not apply , any more than it does to all garden plants , There are certainly some , the Mediterranean group for example , which includes oregano , lavender , rosemary and thyme , that grow in this sort of environment , but there are many more which need such conditions as shade , moisture , plenty of food , or deep soil , or they may want varying combinations of these , or any of them combined with their opposites . |
| 19 | Well it must get hotter than it does in this house for a start ! |
| 20 | But the horizon no longer has any black skies , and it looks more forgiving than it has at any point until now . |
| 21 | Before the right hon. Gentleman goes into overdrive , perhaps he will confirm that , in the past three months , industrial production has fallen faster in Germany , faster in France , faster in the United States and faster in Japan than it has in this country ; and that , if we take the last year as a whole , industrial production fell more in Japan , and more in Germany , than in the United Kingdom . |
| 22 | These days he felt happier than he had at any time in his life . |
| 23 | Bigwig was racing back across the field , looking more agitated than he had at any time since the encounter with Captain Holly . |
| 24 | A little over an hour later , Harry felt more in control of events than he had at any time since Heather 's disappearance . |
| 25 | He had always considered Sir John a portly , self-indulgent toper , but at this moment the coroner seemed more at ease , sword and dagger in his hands , fighting for his life , than he had at any time since they had met . |
| 26 | They will make less than he does of that part of Eliot which was a ‘ good ventriloquist ’ . |
| 27 | Had the house actually left the ground , he knew that he could n't have felt more strange than he did at this moment , or more afraid : there was someone here . |