Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clothes can be costumes , and for some young women , walking down the street with bleached hair or a biker 's leather jacket says more about them than a thousand words . |
| 2 | They 're kept warm When you saw those little babies last week that were born very , very premature , apart from being very small , if you looked at those arms and legs and their bodies what was the noticeably different about them than a full term baby ? |
| 3 | Our survey shows that highbrow readers rated their papers no more useful for them than the lowbrow papers were for their readers ( Table 6.11 ) . |
| 4 | Poverty is a more pressing problem for them than the greenhouse effect . |
| 5 | Because their reading skills are poor too , many reports end up in the waste bin — which is a better place for them than the filing cabinet . |
| 6 | To those observers looking on it seemed hard to believe that the average IQ of the room 's inhabitants was 149 , and that they had more honours between them than a collection of top class civil servants — and to think that they had been reduced to such a pitiful state as this . |
| 7 | Finally I went to the Principal of the college , a sympathetic dame whose ear I have for any amount of services rendered , and told her I had decided that term must end slightly earlier for me than the others . |
| 8 | It 's probably easier for me than the other three , but then they are such good players . ’ |
| 9 | T. Behrens gives the impression that he has more to say about himself than the progress of this mad love — to which he did not stand all that close at the time , brother as he was — has allowed him to come up with . |
| 10 | However , he looked rather bemused when Mr Bell started ad-libbing that if the Sunday Times wanted to pen a profile of the self-styled King of the Corner Shop then ‘ for God 's sake get a better picture of me than The Northern Echo is using . ’ |
| 11 | Their pay and conditions are miserable and there are far more of them than the army can usefully employ . |
| 12 | More er and more in a month some of them than the others did in a year . |
| 13 | Was it any more true to our ideas of ourselves than the one we bear now ? |
| 14 | I know I 'm too old for you , but believe me , I 'll take more care of you than a younger man would . |
| 15 | It must always have been a real hope on Wilfrid 's part that a king of Northumbria from another branch of the royal family or from a noble line claiming royal descent would be more favourably disposed towards him than the descendants of Oswiu . |
| 16 | Instinctively she had sensed that Delaney would demand more of her than a passing gratification . |
| 17 | More horror of him than the shit of the pit . |
| 18 | He was forty-seven , too old for military service yet young enough to feel that something more was required of him than the life he had hitherto led . |
| 19 | If Tim had been Czar of Russia he 'd have made a better job of it than the nincompoops that were . |
| 20 | Everyday is election day in politics and few governments have been more aware of it than the Westminster ones since the beginning of the ‘ Ulster troubles ’ . |
| 21 | Two people can read the same magazine article and one of them will get far more information out of it than the other . |
| 22 | Indeed , one of them may get more information out of it than the author realised he was putting into it . |
| 23 | Margaret Cullinane will be team chasing for the UK ( page 21 ) and the Wimpey cricket team ( same page ) will be hoping to make a better fist of it than the British squad . |
| 24 | The linguistic acrobatics these words perform in Rusty 's mind and the various interpretations which might be attributed to the results are of less consequence in and of themselves than the fact that this performance demonstrates verbal operations of a logic other than that attributed to the rational mind . |
| 25 | Anybody who 's anybody knows that a pair of brand new trainers — bright laces undone , tongues out , displaying that all important brand name — says more about you than a wallet full of gold credit cards ’ , you know it 's time to leave the country and live on a desert island in your bare feet or search the loft for your ex-issue Diadora Borg Elite or Stan Smiths . |
| 26 | A walk before breakfast every day or exercise done after work every day — say a fifteen-minute run , a game of tennis or another walk — is very much better for you than a game of rugby once a week and nothing else . |
| 27 | This gradual slimming — based on a sensible and varied diet , ideally accompanied by an hour of regular exercise two to three times a week — is far better for you than the more drastic 500–800 calorie regimes advocated by some diet gurus . |
| 28 | You will find that all of these will help , but perhaps one of them will have better results for you than the other two . |
| 29 | a young black male ( aged between twelve and fifteen ) is twenty-two times more likely to have a violent crime committed against him than an elderly white woman ( over 65 ) and seven times more likely to have something stolen from him . |
| 30 | I 'd study too , so that I knew more about everything than the cleverest professors . |