Example sentences of "[verb] than [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because the truth was that this evidence of care and tenderness was harder to bear than any neglect , for it threw into question the whole basis of their lives together . |
| 2 | The contradictions between the Criminal Justice Act and the Children Act are no more accurately highlighted than this example . |
| 3 | As for the will to be a nation : paradoxically , the Thatcherite decade of celebrating the international market over notions of the national good , of decentralising the national interest into five million privately-owned share packages , did more damage than any amount of scheming from Brussels . |
| 4 | The district judge in Hong Kong was far better placed than this Board to make such a judgment , as part of his assessment of the situation as a whole . |
| 5 | However , English solicitors are best placed to take advantage of the market that the 1992 provision will offer ; the profession is arguably better placed than any other to advise international clients on the legal aspects of doing business in the ‘ global village ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ The artist has commenced his Description at Coniston Water , and pursued a line which he thinks will have less to be retraced than any other he could have chosen . ’ |
| 7 | Between them , they are better equipped than any group has ever been to combat the plague that affects eight women in ten . |
| 8 | A horse 's degree of willingness , cooperation in learning new things , agreeableness in doing what we ask of it , are most important traits in a horse 's temperament if we wish to enjoy riding it ; yet it is an aspect of the horse that is more overlooked than any other when someone is thinking of buying or breeding a horse . |
| 9 | One or two of Miss Loren 's films have been more notable for the depth of cleavage displayed than any profoundness of plot . |
| 10 | They mounted a wide staircase , more brightly lit than any place Lucien had yet visited . |
| 11 | If you make apple wine you may find it takes a little longer to clear than some flower wines . |
| 12 | Much of Europe now has its champion to watch on that famous , treacherous stretch ; and to many , the champion is better known and better loved than any politician . |
| 13 | … the profound darkness of every part of the city in which there are not shops illuminated by the owners with gas … there is not a little country town in England which is not incomparably better lighted than any street in Paris which depends for its illumination upon the public regulations of the City . |
| 14 | Many RSC actresses removed their clothes , and it cost a lot less to make than that year 's high-brow smash , Brideshead Revisited . |