Example sentences of "than [indef pn] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eunice 's false understanding of the situation adds light humour to the first scenes although we realise that Blanche is trying to already make herself out as someone better than everyone else in the play . |
| 2 | It is still touch and go whether Americans will go into the election feeling better off than four years ago or whether they will still be blaming their President for keeping them comparatively poor — that 's to say , better off on average than anybody else in the world but not by as much as before . |
| 3 | The next day the Prince was leading a small group of businessmen he had brought over from Britain , including Stephen O'Brien , to look at a scheme called the Boston Compact , evidence that the United States had woken up sooner than anyone else to the dilemma of falling educational standards . |
| 4 | The working principle of Balcon 's life was that a ‘ film producer is only as good as the sum total of the colleagues with whom he works ’ , and he understood better than anyone else at the time how to turn the studio into a source of creative energy . |
| 5 | He had a degree in fine arts from the Sorbonne ; he had further training from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London , and the Beaux Arts in Paris ; he knew more about the history of jewellery design in general , and of the de Chavigny company in particular , than anyone else except the man he was going to see now . |
| 6 | But there was one man to talk to in Israel who knew more than anyone else about the land of Palestine . |
| 7 | Reg looked at least three divisions better than anyone else on the park , and many of us thought it incomprehensible of ‘ Bencey ’ to literally drag him off after only five minutes . |
| 8 | That did n't stop him roving , teasing , passing and crossing that bit better than anyone else on the field , a constant delight to the eye . |
| 9 | The line at the Channel 4 press office is that Paul Merton now gets more female fan mail than anyone else on the channel . |
| 10 | Now they will face bigger council tax bills than anyone else in the country . |
| 11 | LONDON soccer fans pay more to see the game than anyone else in the country . |
| 12 | They know less about and watch less television than anyone else in the country . ’ |
| 13 | This is the man , who , more than anyone else in the squad , on current form , we badly need to have inside the tent pee-ing out . |
| 14 | Karl Kraus ‘ whom I venerated more than anyone else in the world , without whose wrath and zeal I would n't have cared to live , whom I had never dared to approach . ’ |
| 15 | It 's more to do with you than anyone else in the world ! ’ |
| 16 | They came almost in ignorance of an often sublime short game — the big attraction was to see him smash a golf ball further than anyone else in the world and their adulation proved his undoing . |
| 17 | It would be a reunion with her lover ; with him she loved better than anyone else in the world . |
| 18 | The acquisition of more power than anyone else in the world . |
| 19 | Britons have a deep-seated belief , fostered by the popular press and some politicians , that they are more heavily taxed than anyone else in the world except perhaps the Swedes . |
| 20 | I love him more than anyone else in the world , more than myself ! ’ |
| 21 | Mr Hellyer knew more about animals than anyone else in the world . |
| 22 | Emmie thought she could probably go to sleep in less time than anyone else in the world . |
| 23 | ‘ She cares about me and Dad more than anyone else in the world . |
| 24 | ‘ Say after me , I love you , Daddy , better than anyone else in the world . ’ |
| 25 | As I said in answer to an earlier question , over recent years we have agreed 19 directives on the social dimension — more than anyone else in the Community — and we have implemented them . |
| 26 | Posh Porky knew exactly when and where she was born and never stopped reminding us all that she was nearly a year younger than anyone else in the class . |
| 27 | Around the titles is built a mystique that implies that this quite ordinary product is somehow different and better than anything else on the market . |
| 28 | In fact , I 'm using the Clapton Strat more than anything else at the moment in the studio . |
| 29 | ‘ My success as a businessman has been based on keeping tight control of financial matters and that is what Newcastle United need more than anything else at the moment . |
| 30 | This parallel economy generates more energy than anything else in the favela . |