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 | But they seem more alive than me in here . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Dot knew it was more dangerous than anything in London , even during blackout and raids . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | However , nothing can be crueller and more oppressive than one without love . |
| 9 | Ben Johnson improved in four years from being a skinny undersized 15-year-old to running the 100 metres in 10.25 and becoming one of the world 's leading juniors — on nothing more exceptional than plenty of food , regular training and competitive instinct . |
| 10 | Critics of the firm as a cooperative family have produced a more penetrating assessment of Japanese industrial relations which shows them to be less unique than they at first appear . |
| 11 | We did not believe that any of these should be the subject of charity or whim on the part of people more privileged than ourselves in this society . |
| 12 | A dedicated cook with a demanding job outside the home will probably need their kitchen to be that much more functional than someone with more leisure to shop — at least in the sense of providing good storage and extra quick cooking facilities , such as microwave oven and a freezer . |
| 13 | One reason why the shift in emphasis to the broader question of determinism is less helpful than it at first appears is that ‘ the problem of determinism ’ itself lacks a clear formulation , and the difficulty of saying exactly what it consists in is reflected in attempts to relate it to holism . |
| 14 | I am not claiming that meat is indispensable for good health ; it is only necessary to show that a diet to which it contributes can be no less healthy than one from which it is excluded . |
| 15 | They talked freely together about everything , about her sad life , her worries , her bad health , about how foul the world was , and it was more illuminating than plenty of conversations he had had with educated folk . |
| 16 | Because the different zones of the sea are so interlinked — many creatures making use of several in the course of their lives — the ocean environment is far more vulnerable than it at first appears . |
| 17 | Some " birds " nests are hemispherical , but only on the inside ; you must cut a honeycomb with a sharp knife if you want to see the accurate hexagons of its construction ; the geometry of spiders ' webs is astonishing but much less regular than it at first appears . |
| 18 | In view of the overwhelming Palestinian demographic preponderance , this arrangement was a good deal less equitable than it at first seems . |
| 19 | Rollover risk , though now small , is therefore less implausible than it at first appears . |
| 20 | Furthermore , even if a surplus of wool was produced , there was perhaps more hope of selling it to the developing cloth industry than of disposing of grain which was not required , as a demand for clothing can be more flexible than one for food when men have additional purchasing power ( 59 ; 62 ) . |
| 21 | He lives down near the bottom of Wind Street , got a shop he has , a well-to-do sort of man , better off than me at any rate . ’ |
| 22 | If the hon. Gentleman goes to France — a country he seems to admire more than ours — he will find that it has introduced a price formula that is far less tough than ours on BT because it knows that its nationalised industry would find it difficult to match the performance of BT . |
| 23 | Not only is she pretty ; she has a reputation for being more of a Socialist than her husband and far more level-headed than he about the trappings of prime ministerial power . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's Love ’ , for example , glides on harmonies huger and more beautiful than anything on Brian Wilson 's comeback album . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's Love ’ , for example , glides on harmonies huger and more beautiful than anything on Brian Wilson 's comeback album . |
| 26 | The most consummate Kapellmeister could not be more profound than he in the science of harmony and of modulations … |
| 27 | The young private threw up on the spot — somehow that unblemished body was more disturbing than one with an obvious cause of death . |
| 28 | Here and elsewhere we have been more committed than he in the interests of clarity of exposition . |
| 29 | If I were Mrs Douglas and had put up with years of a philandering , self-important husband I think I might consider I was more deserving than him of the luxury away-from-it-all fortnight 's vacation . |
| 30 | This made the plight of the refugees more desperate than anyone in London could imagine . |