Example sentences of "[verb] than the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the drought he had experienced on his last visit , Gould wrote that , ’ It is easier for the imagination to conceive than the pen to depict the horrors of so dreadful a visitation . ’ |
| 2 | The United States found the implications of these new political realities harder to accept than the rest of the international community , which had almost unanimously welcomed the PLO 's clarified accommodationism . |
| 3 | The only statistically significant difference between the groups was for the presence of blood in the stool ; 5-ASA patients had significantly less blood reported than the bismuth group . |
| 4 | Taking steps to ensure that Queen Victoria was informed of Leopold 's candidature while ignoring Napoleon III was in itself an insult , for France was certainly more directly concerned in the matter than England and the Emperor had better need than the Queen to be told directly . |
| 5 | He kissed me again , a different , unanguished sort of kiss which was somehow much more difficult to bear than the other . |
| 6 | As the troubadour Pous de Capdeuil put it , " What more can kings desire than the right to save themselves from hell-fire by mighty deeds of arms ? " |
| 7 | Additional information can lead to better odds and bigger returns but if the information costs more to obtain than the increase in returns the result is a net loss . |
| 8 | Aditional information can lead to better odds and bigger returns but if the information costs more to obtain than the increase in returns the result is a net loss . |
| 9 | Better to run and be caught than the other , because the other is fourteen years of failure . |
| 10 | For men on beach reconnaissance had further to go than the saboteur or the raider bent on mere disruption : the reconnaissance report had to reach the main force . |
| 11 | Timid , fastidious and conservative in his dress , he was given to silences of legendary proportions and to a strict working routine more befitting the clerk he never became than the artist he was . |
| 12 | To be sure there were important differences : the male was more perfectly developed than the female because hotter ; but these were differences conceived on a hierarchical , teleological model of sexual development . |
| 13 | That type of structural error is rather more difficult to diagnose than the type where the results are always bad . |
| 14 | The receiver is not , however , obliged to fulfil existing contracts and because of this it is claimed that in this regard he is better placed than the company which of course must stand by its contracts . |
| 15 | In his well-known ‘ boutades ’ against politicians Pétain appeared to fear no one ; to Poincaré he once remarked acidly that ‘ nobody was better placed than the President himself to be aware that France was neither led nor governed . ’ |
| 16 | There are , however , other factors that suggest that management and shareholder interests are more closely aligned than the managerialist thesis assumes . |
| 17 | It is a fact of life that a client who spends real money will be better treated than the rabble that does n't . |
| 18 | I do remember saying that we 'd go somewhere quiet so we can talk without any interruptions , and what better place to choose than the house ? ’ |
| 19 | No illusion is more stubbornly upheld than the sovereignty of the mind . |
| 20 | The physical barriers that prevent some members of the public reaching a CAB are perhaps easier to tackle than the image barriers . |
| 21 | It was urged that , if this construction were adopted , a solicitor would have a shorter time during which he may abstain from bringing his action for work done than the rest of Her Majesty 's subjects . |
| 22 | Lilian Hatton was an easier nut to crack than the girl who called herself Nora Fanshawe . |
| 23 | ‘ The box took longer to design than the board . ’ |
| 24 | He also had to show that he would suffer more harm if the interim remedy were not granted than the defendant would suffer if it was ( the ‘ balance of convenience ’ ) . |
| 25 | Being only marginally better looking than The Farm does n't excuse instant capitulation when it comes to performing , and tonight , apart from Andy 's caged pussycat prowling , mostly lost in dry ice , they might as well have pulled the curtains . |
| 26 | Of the finer grades of debris , the silt fraction is more readily moved than the clay , because it is less cohesive . |
| 27 | Its advantage is that it allows a far deeper and richer assessment to be made than the pen and paper exercise . |
| 28 | If I could afford it , I would buy some of their shirts and casual clothes , because often they 're much better made than the stuff for girls . |
| 29 | Such a figure was the perfect model for the everyman figure seeking the meaning of salvation for both individual and society that Langland depicted in the weary , wet-shod Will , so vibrantly aware of the gap between the final metaphysical realities of heaven and hell and the immediate beguiling preoccupations of the field full of folk , for whom hot pies seemed more sustaining than the bread of life . |
| 30 | Their architecture , their courtliness , their ceremony were famous — but , like a profile miniature portrait , the result was one-dimensional : the jewels , the fineness of the turbans , the swirling details of the drapery — all were more lovingly and clearly drawn than the man inside ; the sitter 's thoughts and feelings , his character and emotions remain relatively opaque : unfathomed and incomprehensible . |