Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | Their pay and conditions are miserable and there are far more of them than the army can usefully employ . |
| 11 | More er and more in a month some of them than the others did in a year . |
| 12 | I know I 'm too old for you , but believe me , I 'll take more care of you than a younger man would . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Instinctively she had sensed that Delaney would demand more of her than a passing gratification . |
| 15 | More horror of him than the shit of the pit . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If Tim had been Czar of Russia he 'd have made a better job of it than the nincompoops that were . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | Two people can read the same magazine article and one of them will get far more information out of it than the other . |
| 20 | Indeed , one of them may get more information out of it than the author realised he was putting into it . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | You will find that all of these will help , but perhaps one of them will have better results for you than the other two . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | but now they 're all set up and I 'm left alone and the children , three of them , have n't got time to look after me to give me what I , what I need and especially one in the truth , that one is less getting in touch with me than the ones that told me the truth , boys ring me , twice , three times a week , Julia rings every , every night , but Ted rings twice or three times a week , three times I could go , the one |
| 28 | The chicks are only a few days old , but these parents are obviously more relaxed with them than the Barnys were with any of their offspring . ( ) |
| 29 | Apparently the herdsman is coming back tomorrow , and he 's probably gentler with them than the relief milker , and when the cows get used to their new surroundings the milk yield will return to normal . |
| 30 | 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 . |