Example sentences of "[prep] he than [art] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 More horror of him than the shit of the pit .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Lennox , despite his anti-English position , would find it intolerable to be a member of the Beaton faction ; within a few weeks , he would go over to the pro-English party , his hopes of his marriage to Margaret , daughter of Angus and Margaret Tudor , and of English recognition of him as heir-presumptive , should Arran break with England , weighing more with him than the desire for liberty and honour expressed in the July bond .
6 ‘ He ai n't got no more vocation in him than a blind sparrow , that 's what . ’
7 ‘ He 's a funny old goat , ’ the pilot said , ‘ but he has more goodness in him than the rest of the city put together .
8 The fact that the negative side receives very much more attention from him than the positive side , and that the attack is pressed home on only one of the two experiential explanations , has had the unfortunate result that Wittgenstein can be mistakenly thought to be giving the alternative experiential explanation , in terms of behaviour .
9 ‘ It 's not very clever , because it makes the parents look as if they 're idiots when they 're not — it says more about him than the people he 's speaking about . ’
10 Rory would be nothing more to him than a pleasant extra thrown in for good measure .
11 Slowly Michael Ramsey began to realize that the eternal verities were more important to him than the political excitements .
12 We know the promptings of his soul , and we are closer to him than the vein in his neck .
13 That part of me which , when first we met , I should willingly have made over to Jean-Claude — and which he seemed to make no attempt to acquire — was , of course , no more available to him than the source of his being was to me .
14 There was no offering more gratifying to him than the trust of adolescents .
15 But when the whole sum is due , by no intendment the acceptance of parcel can be a satisfaction to the plaintiff ; but in the case at bar it was resolved that the payment and acceptance of parcel before the day in satisfaction of the whole would be a good satisfaction in regard of circumstance of time ; for peradventure parcel of it before the day would be more beneficial to him than the whole at the day , and the value of the satisfaction is not material ; so if I am bound in £20 to pay you £10 at Westminster , and you request me to pay you £5 at the day at York , and you will accept it in full satisfaction for the whole £10 , it is a good satisfaction for the whole , for the expenses to pay it at York is sufficient satisfaction . ’
16 One of the oncoming dogs was slightly nearer to him than the other , and was leaping high for his throat .
17 But then Barry has more sides to him than the Sunday Football League .
18 The world of the twentieth century was more alien to him than the more recognizable vision of hell .
19 There was more to him than the dying .
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