Example sentences of "[adj] than [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No one ever gave me the slightest inkling that they thought any different than me at the recording sessions and things like that . |
| 2 | The indictment of British nostalgia is more amiable than sharp , and the ideas are much less interesting than anything in Mackendrick 's films . |
| 3 | quicker than anybody with a key ! |
| 4 | Liz Taylor 's courage in playing a woman older and ( then ) fatter than herself in Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? ( 1966 ) was enough in itself to win her an Oscar . |
| 5 | A seven-member Asset Verification Committee ( AVC ) headed by former Interior Minister Gen. Sitthi Jirarote was appointed on Feb. 25 to investigate politicians who were " wealthier than anyone with an honest profession could be " . |
| 6 | But they seem more alive than me in here . |
| 7 | Carried out nationally , this showed that almost ten per cent of urban African households now possessed radio sets ; in the rural areas , the audience was far more scattered and the figure lower than one in fifty . |
| 8 | They claim to be nearer than us to the European consensus , but they are as far from reality as they ever were . |
| 9 | I 'd rather have that than nothing at |
| 10 | I think one can put forward fairly persuasive arguments that there are no life forms a good deal more advanced than ourselves in our galaxy , simply because I believe that social and environmental and sort of curiosity value factors would have led them to reveal their presence in various ways . |
| 11 | The latter need not wait for a change of heart on the part of the Prime Minister , or the election of a new government , before translating guilt about the condition of those less fortunate than themselves into action . |
| 12 | Dot knew it was more dangerous than anything in London , even during blackout and raids . |
| 13 | ‘ If anybody in the jury can explain that letter , ’ said Alice ( she was not afraid of anything now , because she was much bigger than everybody in the room ) , ‘ I 'll give him sixpence . |
| 14 | ’ Bigger than lots of things . |
| 15 | However , a combination of the limestone subsoil and the profusion of rivers , canals , lakes and reservoirs reduces Champagne 's water requirement ( due to low evaporation ) , making 662 millimetres of rainfall relatively heavier than it at first appears . |
| 16 | The second wife and her two daughters hated Vasilissa because she was so pretty and obedient , because her father loved her best , and , above all , because she was much more skilful than they at making lace , at spinning , and at knitting stockings . |
| 17 | They were much taller than me with long brown arms covered with green leaves . |
| 18 | I was taller than him in those days , would you believe . |
| 19 | He was taller than she by only a few inches , and slenderly built , an athletic lightweight in a heather tweed sportscoat and grey cords . |
| 20 | She was taller than he by at least four inches , and , even though he outweighed her , it was all gut and no muscle . |
| 21 | Obviously a point with a higher weight is brighter than one with a lower weight . |
| 22 | When people ask me about the deeds of some of our very great airmen , and I go right throughout the war on both sides , there are shining examples brighter than anything in the constellation that come to mind ; I think of Cheshire 's 100 sorties and , no less important , Fraser Barron — a little Kiwi not yet 21 with two DSOs , two DFCs and a DFM — Pathfinder squadron commander , killed with his deputy Master Bomber on one of the interdiction targets before the Invasion , and a host of others , I can think of half-a-hundred , but I have never met anyone — In fact I have never walked in the shadow of anyone — braver than Buster . |
| 23 | However , nothing can be crueller and more oppressive than one without love . |
| 24 | I think this woman with the three grown-up sons is not younger than me at all , but almost certainly older . |
| 25 | some of you are a lot younger than me of course , it could be a lot smaller , but er er showing this to teenagers , if you work out what age a teenager will be in the year twenty forty , they 'll be about er in their mid sixties so this period of time , basically , is the time over which our present er generation of schoolchildren will have their adult life . |
| 26 | One rejoinder to this would be to cite cases like : ( 35 ) our new neighbours said they had had their old house painted mauve where it is perfectly possible that the house is much younger than anybody in the family . |
| 27 | She told the junior Health Minister , Mr Roger Freeman , who was attending the fellowship 's conference in London , that since 1971 more than 50,000 mental hospital beds have been lost ; fewer than one in ten have been replaced by residential places in the community . |
| 28 | Fewer than one in one hundred families with dependent children with a mother in employment have weekly incomes under £100 , compared to one in ten families with dependent children where the mother was not in employment . |
| 29 | Turnouts of over 50% in individual wards were almost commonplace , and in only one ward throughout the metropolitan areas ( Elswick , Newcastle upon Tyne ) did fewer than one in three of the electorate go to the polls . |
| 30 | While a quarter of men wash their cars once a week , fewer than one in five women carry out the chore . |