Example sentences of "[adv] than [noun prp] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether Tendulkar rather than McDermott will be the best bet in that direction remains open to question . |
| 2 | Unanimity was less marked in the scramble for office after Asquith 's departure ; " the three Cs " , Curzon , Chamberlain and Cecil , managed to keep official party interests to the fore by ensuring that Curzon rather than Carson should join the war cabinet — disloyalty might be useful but it should not be seen to pay . |
| 3 | Exile from the West Country was to last far longer than Coleridge can have expected . |
| 4 | Maybe the Emp was further away than Biff could imagine . |
| 5 | Such accusations may not " stick " ; and the suspicion that money collected in England in 1200 for the Holy Land would get no further than Rome may be groundless . |
| 6 | They will not win the World Cup , but going further than England would be the next best thing . |
| 7 | But the idea that all the extraordinary activity in the sky could in any way be on their account was more than Allen could attempt to suppose . |
| 8 | But a confrontation with him now was more than Lisa could handle . |
| 9 | It was more than Ken could take . |
| 10 | It was more than Phil could bear to think that he would never again be there to make Christmas sparkle for her . |
| 11 | Harwell had much more sophisticated neutron detectors on site , able to measure energies with better precision even than Jones could . |
| 12 | No novelist writing earlier than Dickens would , for example , have concentrated on a boarding house — not that fictional characters do n't stay in them occasionally , but they are not seen from the landlady 's ( or boarding house 's ) point of view . |
| 13 | Money was falling from the sky quicker than Fielding could catch it . |
| 14 | About 10,000 people are leaving each month in this way , and the government is granting exit visas faster than America can admit them . |
| 15 | The idea is to move faster than London will ever dream we could . |
| 16 | Guido was deliberately going faster than Ronni could comfortably keep up with and she was being forced to run to avoid being left behind . |
| 17 | The pace of change that arms control has to match in Eastern Europe can not be predicted , but it shows every sign of moving far faster than Nato can respond . |
| 18 | The Mimosa is going down the pan faster than Dynorod could . |
| 19 | Her intention had been to move nowhere — that everything necessary would be said here , and then she 'd back off and disappear faster than Joe could follow . |