Example sentences of "[pers pn] than [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it no more obliges me to apply without question your standards to you than mine to myself . |
| 2 | Vegetables , seeds , and some nuts are all much better for you than anything like biscuits or cake . |
| 3 | She had found a man who meant more to her than anything in the world and he was of another world , as he had told her . |
| 4 | And William began to run from the approaching cart , which was piled high with the bodies of the plague victims , and as he ran the streets became the familiar streets of his childhood and he knew that all the time he was running from the terrible cart he was getting closer and closer to the dark house by the railway embankment with its shuttered windows and its locked door , and that this was more terrible to him than anything in his history books . |
| 5 | Do you not agree that you writers have had an easier time of it than we in the West , in a closed society where your cultural values are protected , albeit at a price ? |
| 6 | They were acutely conscious of how unbelievable it was and felt that an Ulster MP would be more likely to credit it than one in Scotland . |
| 7 | ‘ Clothes make man ’ said the German proverb , and no age was more aware of it than one in which social mobility could actually place numerous people into the historically novel situation of playing new ( and superior ) social roles and therefore having to wear the appropriate costumes . |
| 8 | Does n't it ever strike you as faintly ludicrous — the pursuit of happiness by a species that is less equipped for it than anything in nature ? ’ |