Example sentences of "than [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I do n't want your sympathy , and I do n't want you as a sister — I already have more than I can handle in that department , thank you . ’ |
| 2 | It 's more than I can get from any other job in Oklahoma . |
| 3 | We all ended up happy , anyway , which is more than I can say for most marriages . ’ |
| 4 | The reasons behind thousands upon thousands of black kids immersing themselves in sport may stem from basic inequalities which I find unacceptable , and , indeed , immoral , but I can not affirm that sport is some device for the perpetuation of these inequalities any more than I can agree with some critics , such as Paul Hoch , that sport is a mere instrument of capitalist domination designed to slough off energies or divert them into meaningless channels ( 1972 ) . |
| 5 | Images scanned and printed on a 300dpi system using 32 levels of grey look surprisingly good ; better than you might expect at any rate . |
| 6 | They show more respect for OUR national anthem than you would find at any soccer match . |
| 7 | Much cleverer man than you would imagine by that livid green ’ — and then she would sail on , followed by Constance who , because she had rather liked the green , never forgot the name . |
| 8 | Shaw , then , was alive when he lived , which is more than you can say of some people . |
| 9 | And that 's a whole lot better than you could expect from any petrol-engined BMW in this bracket . |
| 10 | It is offering double the usual trade-in credit for customers turning in a System/36 or 38 in exchange for an AS/400 9404 or 9406 F model — and for the first time , the credit is more than you could get for most of the System/36 models on the used market . |
| 11 | Especially in the early 1930s , notwithstanding the pay-cuts , police officers in the city had a job secure from redundancy — which was more than you could say for most of those they policed . |
| 12 | Nothing more than you 'd get with any married couple . |
| 13 | Here mercury levels are one thousand times greater than one would expect in such a remote area . |
| 14 | By comparing objects in museums with those mentioned in inventories or seen in old drawings and photographs , we expect to get a fuller picture of domestic life in Scotland than we can find in any one source alone . |
| 15 | Markets allow individuals greater freedom of choice as producers and consumers than they can experience in any system of central planning . |
| 16 | Moreover farmers , at least , continue to appreciate the skills of farm workers , so that the latter obtain much higher esteem from their employers than they can expect from many newcomers . |
| 17 | ( a ) where the market in the target 's shares is very liquid , offering the market price offers shareholders nothing more than they could get in any event . |
| 18 | When the Civil War broke out in England in the 1640s , it could be taken calmly enough in most of the American colonies because the colonists had no particular desire for changes ; in Maryland the Protestants did want changes , and by 1655 they had taken power from the Catholic minority , though the new government was never completely in control of the situation and Catholics maintained a more satisfactory position than they could have in any other territory under English rule at the time . |
| 19 | The chain of volcanoes which girdles the Pacific is known appropriately enough as the ‘ Ring of Fire ’ , and although it 's a much more complex , disjointed affair than it may seem from this brief summary , it is unquestionably one of the Earth 's greatest physical features , and contains a large proportion of all the world 's volcanoes . |
| 20 | In fact , that situation is even more confusing than it may seem from this account because a third cultural trauma , this time representing the change from cultivation ( of plants ) to herding and pastoralism also occurred and brought with it a great intensification , not of weaning as happened with cultivation , nor of the phallic mutilations which accompanied hunting , but of toilet-training . |
| 21 | However , as currently drafted it does far less than it should to contribute to that solution . |
| 22 | However , as currently drafted it does far less than it should to contribute to that solution . |