Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The confusion of person in the first sentence is understandable as the contract was written out in Old George 's hand ; and as the sole contracting party on one side it was easier for him to write my than the more impersonal , if more accurate , the master 's or some other third person equivalent . |
| 2 | When he spoke , his matter-of-fact tone did more to reassure everyone than the actual words of hope that he spoke . |
| 3 | Leslie Goldberg , a consultant spoke of civil servants in the US Defense Department who took their own personal computers into the office ‘ because it was easier to use them than the department 's system . ’ |
| 4 | By the time he died , childless , at Frascati on 31 July 1807 , aged 82 , England had more pressing concerns to trouble her than a Stuart restoration and , by an agreeable turn of fate , the last of the line was kept alive by a pension from the real King of England . |
| 5 | However , Mill is usually understood as holding that there may be two pleasures of which the less pleasant is the better in virtue of its higher quality , and that it is then morally more important to promote it than the other . |
| 6 | He added : ‘ The kids would prefer to have me than the house and I ca n't afford to play for time . ’ |
| 7 | For at Craigendarroch we have more to offer you than a luxurious weekend break . |
| 8 | But he was soon to find that Tolkien had more to offer him than the chance to learn Old Norse . |
| 9 | It might have cost you more to get it than the gold was worth . |
| 10 | Most macroeconomic data are published fairly quickly , and any delay is often due more to the time it takes to collect them than a strict publication lag . |